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Yesterday I told you about a student at Hamline University who was suspended simply because he sent an email in which he stated that perhaps the Virginia Tech massacre could have been stopped if a student with a concealed weapons permit had been carrying a gun. Now this student has been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912856/posts Now we have a group of students who have come up with an idea that is sure to get some thongs in a wad. Here comes The National Collegiate Empty Holster Protest. Next week students at colleges and universities who want...

YANGON, Myanmar - The military government banned assemblies of more than five people and imposed curfews in Myanmar's two largest cities on Tuesday, after thousands of Buddhist monks and sympathizers defied orders to stay out of politics and protested once again. On a day President Bush announced new U.S. sanctions against the junta, truckloads of soldiers converged on Yangon after the monks, cheered on by supporters, marched out for an eighth day of peaceful protest from Yangon's soaring Shwedagon Pagoda, while some 700 others staged a similar show of defiance in the country's second largest city of Mandalay. "The protest...

Two news items passed recently without notice in The Tribune's pages. Separately, each story is troubling enough, but put side by side, the two stories illuminate a terrifying trend. The first comes from Myanmar, formerly Burma, and tells how its military junta has created civilian gangs to solidify power by antagonizing dissent. The second comes from our own country and tells how the Bush administration has also created civilian gangs, called "rally squads," to antagonize protesters and demonstrators. These civilian volunteers stand ready to block protesters' signs and to drown out demonstrators' chants, ensuring that nary a critical word is...

The bad news is that the police ruthlesly crushed a pro-American 9/11 demonstration. The good news is that many in Europe are taking seriously the Islamofascist threat and taking steps to end it.

Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any. A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of "deterring potential protestors" from President Bush's public appearances around the country. Among other things, any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers. Those entering must be screened in case they are hiding secret signs. Any anti-Bush demonstrators who manage to get in anyway should...

NEWARK, July 6 — Four decades later, many people here still cannot agree on what to call the five nights of gunfire, looting and flames that disemboweled the geographic midsection of this city, leaving 23 people dead, injuring 700, scorching acres of property and causing deep psychic wounds that have yet to fully heal. To the frightened white residents who later abandoned Newark by the tens of thousands, it was a riot; for the black activists who gained a toehold in City Hall in the years that followed, it was a rebellion. Those seeking neutrality have come to embrace the...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, March 3 — An unusually large and unruly protest against the government of President Vladimir V. Putin ended here Saturday in clashes with the police and the arrest of opposition leaders. Rally organizers and the police said more than 100 people were arrested after a midafternoon scuffle between marchers and riot police on the main street, Nevsky Prospekt, in the heart of the city’s tourist district. St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, is Mr. Putin’s hometown. The rally was held in advance of local elections scheduled for March 11. Opposition events typically draw no more than several hundred...

Special trains and buses brought in protesters from across Italy Thousands of people have been arriving in the north-eastern Italian city of Vicenza for a march against a planned extension of the US army base there.Organisers say the majority of local people are opposed to US plans. They say Prime Minister Romano Prodi has ignored strong local objections. Thousands of extra police are on duty in Vicenza for what is planned as a peaceful march. There are fears that extremist fringe groups will try to cause violence. Vicenza's mayor fears the march will be infiltrated by left-wing extremists from...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pro-immigration activists took to the streets of Chicago on Friday, in the first of a week of marches nationwide to step up pressure on a returning U.S. Congress to move forward with a stalled immigration overhaul. Dozens of marchers waving U.S., Mexican and other flags set off from Chinatown, at the start of a four-day trek to the district offices in Batavia, Illinois, of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican. Organizers said they planned to make the 50-mile (80-km) trek in stages, holding rallies along the way. They hope to pressure Hastert to push...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) -- A scuffle broke out Thursday between saffron-robed monks and anti-war demonstrators at peace rally in Sri Lankan capital. About six or seven monks from a right-wing Buddhist faction had stormed the stage during a peace rally attended by about 1,000 people in the capital, Colombo, shouting pro-war slogans, an AP reporter at the scene said. A member of Sri Lanka's parliament was addressing the crowd when the monks climbed on stage.

Coalition threatens to harden protest mobilizations Fernández Noroña, spokesman for the For the Good of All Coalition,1 asserts that, if after the meeting of July 30th,2 the PAN Party continues to reject the opening of the electoral packets,3 the coalition will initiate "energetic radical actions." Gerardo Fernández Noroña, spokesman for the For the Good of All coalition, made known that after the protest meeting that will take place Sunday July 30th, "if the PAN Party continues to reject the opening of the packets, we are going to make important decisions for absolutely forceful and energetic radical actions that will not...

The rally last December was one of nearly a dozen paid-for protests organized by Russian émigrés in the U.S. in the past two years. They spent $150,000 to $200,000 in some months, accounting records indicate, to rally thousands of demonstrators near spots such as United Nations headquarters and the World Trade Center site. State-controlled Russian television, whose content is closely guided by Kremlin handlers, covered some of the events, often as the only news organ present, showing video of them on the evening news back home. Boris Barshevsky at a pay-for-protest rally in Queens, N.Y., last year. Organizers said the...

Nationwide Rally to Stop Illegal Immigration on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at every City HallOn May 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. On July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally and BoycottRally to stop the invasion by millions of illegal aliens. 1-Day boycott...

There are several main cities involved in protests over the past day or 2.: Tabriz And Tehran. The Tabrizi protests (in the N.W. of Iran) revolve around an offensive cartoon printed in a state-run paper, that insulted the Azeri Iranians. There were reports of the IRGC shooting demonstrators. There were many broken windows, and some fire. Dozens arrested, but no word yet on the number wounded or dead. The crowd in Tabriz was estimated at 10,000 people. There is also another city being reported today as having bigger protest than the one in Tabriz , called Rezaiyeh, which is the...

THE TRESPASSERS ARE STAGING ANOTHER BOYCOTT Again ... they're not immigrants. Immigration is a legally defined procedure. They're trespassers. They're invaders. They're criminals. They are not "undocumented workers." They're illegal aliens, and they're going to show their muscle again on Monday. They plan to flood major U.S. cities on Monday with waves of illegal aliens demanding --- yes, demanding amnesty. That's right. They break our laws, and then they demand that they be excused for their lawlessness. Jorge Rodriguez, a California union official (don't you just love unions!) who assisted in the organization of earlier rallies, says that their goal...

"Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) recommends that the dynamic of applying pressure via massive demonstrations should not be stopped because the reform to the immigration system is at risk of getting stuck in the senate, but he opposes the boycott." Jorge Mederos La Raza In an exclusive interview during a visit to the offices of La Raza, Senator Durbin – a member of the Judiciary Committee – predicted that the issue will not die, but at the same time he warned of new risks of losing the political momentum for approval of a measure with the potential of legalizing some 12...

The "National Day of Action on Immigrant Rights" mobilizes a wide array of marchers in cities across the United States. Hoping the enormity of their numbers will strike a chord of fear, protestors brazenly demand citizen's rights be granted to illegals. The media dance to their drumbeat while ignoring a precarious situation smoldering in Mexico. While focus continues on synchronized national marches and outrageous demands of those who have entered the United States illegally, scant attention is being paid to the potentially disastrous July 2, 2006 Mexican elections. Vicente Fox, the current President of Mexico, is concluding his constitutionally limited...

Ladies and gentlemen, the scope of the out-of-countrol illegal immigration problem is more massive than even those who've been warning about it for years may have realized. The photos on this thread are only a sampling of the hundreds available from yesterday's coast-to-coast demonstrations. They are intended to show -- in stark visual terms -- the scope of what we are up against. I think they also show that, in some respects, we have already lost the arguments so many have been making. We lost with immigration "reform" in the 1960's. More significantly, we lost in 1986 when President Ronald...

LIVE FROM NEW YORK By Michelle Malkin   ·   April 10, 2006 09:12 PM Two correspondents who attended the New York anti-immigration enforcement demonstration have sent reports. MacLachlan snapped photos posted over at his Flickr page and sends these comments: #1,28 - Crying out, "Bandidos para todos los paises" This is the chief reason for the number of flags at the protest #3 - School Bus; don't know if it was picking up or dropping off, City Hall Academy is in the vicinity, but "younger" members of the protest had flyers with walk out information on it. #5,7,8,9,30 - Signs sponsored...

KTAR Airs Historic Program 'Beyond the Border' by KTAR Newsroom As the immigration debate stretches from Capitol Hill to the Arizona-Mexico border, KTAR aired a historic simulcast, "Beyond the Border," with two Spanish-language media outlets to go behind the headlines, provide in-depth analysis, and to foster dialogue and understanding. KTAR's Pat McMahon moderated the program from 9 to 11 a.m., which was simulcast in Spanish on Radio Campesina 88.3 and 620ktar.com. La Campesina host Alfredo Gutierrez, and Univision anchors Karina Coronel and Victor Rodriguez were co-hosts. Audio downloads available NOW in KTAR Audio Photo slideshow available NOW - click here...