Wounded Iraq Vet Gets Heckled During Columbia University Speech

fox ^ | 2/20/11 | New York Post

[Nachum]

Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus.

"Racist!" some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008. Others hissed and booed the veteran.

[Farmer Dean]

Why do these things always seem to happen 500 miles away?I would welcome the chance to be present when some hairhead calls a wounded/recovering Marine a racist.

[barbarianbabs]

It ticks me off that those little nards have the RIGHT TO VOTE. You should be 25 or in the military to be a VOTER!!!!!!!!! [or a landowner]
Those selfish children cancel out my vote.

[Mr. K]

Is columbia the place where they make hissing noises during your speach if they disagree with you?

[hattend]

If I was attending or paying for my kid to attend Columbia, I'd be transferring right about now.

What does it take to embarrass the education staff there? Did they intervene?

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Useful idiots (pssst...it's a volunteer military. Nobody is forcing you to join.)

[Girlene]

From the article,

Several students laughed and jeered the Idaho native, a 10th Mountain Division infantryman who spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington recovering from grievous wounds.

Disgusting.

[nutmeg]

Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus.

"Racist!" some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008. Others hissed and booed the veteran.

How disgusting! (Yet not surprising)

[hattend]

Ahhh... At least some people were embarrassed

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Faculty members are divided.

“Universities should not be involved in military activities,” Sociology Professor Emeritus Herbert Gans told The Post. “Columbia should come out against spending $300 billion a year on unnecessary wars.”

A group of 34 faculty colleagues, including historian Kenneth Jackson and former Bloomberg adviser Esther Fuchs, plan to announce their support of ROTC tomorrow.

José Robledo, 30, a Columbia student who commutes to Fordham University for ROTC coursework, said he found the treatment of Maschek abhorrent.

“The anti-ROTC side has been disrespectful and loud. They hiss and they jeer,” he said. “It’s been to the detriment of the argument.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hero_unwelcome_Zi3u1fwtRpo87vXAiAQfSN#ixzz1EXKvJrif

[mortal19440]

I thought that now that we let Fugepac*ers serve that would convince the Schools to restart ROTC. It appears that they are now trying to say the Military preys on the poor. How many poor atColombia?

[Popman]

"Transpeople are part of the Columbia community," said senior Sean Udell at the meeting, referring to the military's current ban on transgender soldiers.

So first it was DADT that was the issue for Columbia to not have ROTC on campus, now it a lack of "transpeople" allowed in the military???

Seriously you cannot make this chit up

Personally, I did not know their was such a thing as "transpeople" Either you have a set or you don't.

[Yaelle]

Racist for not having trannies in the military?? Oy vey.

I wonder, when Obama was a student there, if he would have been among the hecklers. I’m thinkin’ yes. And now he is the LEADER of our great military.

[NYFreeper]

"War is a terrible thing, but not the most terrible of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

These "students" are the miserable creatures John Stuart Mill aptly describes.

[Conservative4Ever]

Others hissed and booed the veteran.

A pox on all their houses.

[Gene Eric]

Ignorant punks whom would be served well by the harsh realities of a tyrannical state.

Thank you for your service, Anthony Maschek. We are proud of you!

[GnL]

This shite boils my blood. This soldier is a hero, and he is being heckled by a bunch of spoiled know-it-all commie punks. Columbia should be ashamed.

[ReverendJames]

“Oh, So you graduated from Columbia? Sorry, no openings meet our criteria from that school”

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Good thing I wasn’t there..
I’d have done some ass kicking and ended up in jail.

[DeskCaptain]

The professors at these colleges, and the parents of these students, should also be ashamed for instilling these kinds of values. I say that about the students who were booing the veteran. The one who blurted out “racist!” was probably just an average liberal. They have to accuse someone of being racist about once a day just because.

[Salvavida]

Dear Congressman_______________,

In light of the anti-American culture manifested at Colombia University against a brave wounded soldier, I am asking you to propose a bill that withdraws all federal grant money to Colombia and similar universities that bar ROTC programs, or otherwise creates an anti-US culture.

Soldiers should not be forced to bleed for these worthless people, neither the taxpayer should be forced to pay for their miseducation.

Your constituent.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Too bad we don’t have Press Gangs who can round up these leftist idiots and have them wake up in Afghanistan tomorrow.