Posted on 04/03/2005 5:25:12 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Salad-dressing thrower a student who reads a lot
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Barbara Walters
The Paw Paw man who threw salad dressing over the head and shirt of the conservative political figure Pat Buchanan at Western Michigan University Thursday makes his living as a prep cook at an "upscale place" in Kalamazoo, he said.
Samuel Mesick, 24, also is a full-time student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College with no declared major, according to school records.
A 1998 graduate of Paw Paw High School, Mesick faces a misdemeanor charge for disturbing the peace when he is arraigned April 14. Western police arrested Mesick after the incident, which occurred at the end of a 45-minute speech by Buchanan. He is free on $100 bond.
Mesick said he openly carried the thick, white Caesar dressing into the WMU Bernhard center in a covered Styrofoam drinking cup. He'd planned the act several days in advance because he considered the timing of Buchanan's visit on Cesar Chavez Day "a slap in the face."
Representatives of student groups who also opposed Buchanan's views condemned Mesick's act, with one calling it "ridiculous and disrespectful."
"I do feel bad hearing about that," Mesick said of the reaction. However, his friends and his employer have been very supportive, Mesick said, as well as his father. His mother is out of town, but he said he is sure she will be supportive, too, when she comes home and finds out.
Mesick said he's unlike many people his age because he doesn't own a television and he reads a lot. His hair style -- a mohawk -- is part of that lifestyle of being different, he said.
"When you look different, it's a way to show you're not part of the mainstream," he said.
Mesick has no prior criminal record, according to Van Buren and Kalamazoo court records.
The consequences of his act Thursday "crossed his mind," beforehand, he said, and he expected to be charged with a misdemeanor. He was, however, also prepared to be charged with a felony, a more serious charge that WMU Associate Vice President Matt Kurz said Buchanan could have requested.
Mesick said he opposes Buchanan because of his immigration views that he said discriminate against Latinos and what Mesick said is Buchanan's "revisionist" position on the Holocaust.
A member of the national Socialist party, he participated in the Million Worker March in Washington, D.C., and in teach-ins about worker causes, he said.
"I don't want to do this as self-aggrandizement," Mesick said. "I want people to think about the cause, not me."
WMU's Kurz doesn't see it that way.
"It was a very diverse, very well-behaved group, by and large, who attended the event," Kurz said. "They gave Buchanan the ability to express his views," even though at least 25 percent didn't agree with his views, Kurz said. Buchanan "made his points in a way that was not inflammatory," and he did not dodge questions, Kurz said.
"So we were very disappointed. He (Mesick) disrupted what had been a very good event, to get his own few minutes in the spotlight."
Oh, he read lot. WTH does that supposed to mean?!
Nazi is a shortening of Nazional Socialisi Deutches arbeietiers partie. or National Socialist German Workers party
Lots of Noam Chomsky no doubt
No wonder you're a 24 year old college student with no declared major and a mohawk. Critical thinking, logical thinking, as in, "If I throw salad dressing on Pat Buchanan, what would be the likely result? Will people think about me or 'the cause'?" obviously doesn't belong to the "lifestyle of being different". What an idiot. His mama should whip his ass, kick him out of the house, and cut off his funding, so he can be free to have the "lifestyle of being different" on his own time and his own dime.
AKA LOSER!
A 1998 graduate of Paw Paw High School
hahahaha
I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh. Afterall, I grew up in East Bumphuck near Intercourse PA.
"Say, Sam. Where'd ya go to school?
"Paw Paw High sir".
Go to college?"
Yes sir, I'm a full time student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College majoring in Mohawks, sir".
Sorry again...somethings are just too funny to pass up on. My apologies to all Michiganers.
FMCDH(BITS)
Just reading the headline gives the impression that this kid is very intelligent. Intelligent people read alot right? I don't like the misleading slanted headline.
It's a lower case "n" - i.e. the nationwide Socialist Party
Some of these folks just need parenting . . . badly.
Yeah, I know that.
My point was that earlier posters read "national Socialist" as "National Socialist" -- i.e., Nazi...
Ha ha ha ha!
Yes, indeed NAZI = NAtional-SoZIalist Party.
Even better, Hitler was a vegetarian who loved animals (more than people!) and banned fox hunting! Typical left-wing moonbat and dangerous to boot!
" Samuel Mesick, 24, also is a full-time student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College with no declared major"
24? Kalamazoo Valley Community College? Obviously, he doesn't read nearly ENOUGH!
Mike Moore, now this guy....thank God my Michigan buddies think right
However, I do agree that it looks like a poorly worded section of the article. I think he is a member of the national (with the word NOT being part of the party name, but rather a description of the party's scope) Socialist party, and not a member of the National (with the word being part of the party name) Socialist party.
In other words, a socialist, but not of the particular stripe known as Nazi.
The tipoff that he is not is that he objects to Buchanan's views on the holocaust for being insufficiently (rather than too) sympathetic to Jews.
what has this idiot been doing for 7 years? He will have been graduated for SEVEN years this June -
Nice his employer and his parents allow this mis-behavior to continue...anyone find out the name of the restaurant, yet???
Ever been to Paw Paw, Michigan? Without migrant workers, their economy would collapse. What's Buchanan have to do with this?
His National Socialist Party must be different from the one that we got rid of in 1945.
I'll bet his mother was real proud even before this incident with the salad drassing. Good thing he wasn't a farm worker dealing with live animals... who knows what he might have used
"Wasn't the NAZI party a National socialist party?"
NAZI = National Socialist Workers Party
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