Liberal Mob Storms Minutemen Speech

Posted on October 5, 2006

Hat tip: The Voice
Freedom of speech? Here is a display of the infamous liberal tolerance for other views.

Students stormed the stage at Columbia University’s Roone auditorium yesterday, knocking over chairs and tables and attacking Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the border between America and Mexico.

Mr. Gilchrist and Marvin Stewart, another member of his group, were in the process of giving a speech at the invitation of the Columbia College Republicans. They were escorted off the stage unharmed and exited the auditorium by a back door.

Having wreaked havoc onstage, the students unrolled a banner that read, in both Arabic and English, “No one is ever illegal.” As security guards closed the curtains and began escorting people from the auditorium, the students jumped from the stage, pumping their fists, chanting victoriously, “Si se pudo, si se pudo,” Spanish for “Yes we could!”

Yet of course, the moonbats play the victim:

The following short statement was put together collectively after the event by the audience members who had climbed up onto the stage: We celebrate free speech: for that reason we allowed the Minutemen to speak, and for that same reason we peacefully occupied the stage and spoke ourselves. Our peaceful protest was violently attacked by members of the College Republicans and their supporters, who are the very same people who invited the Minutemen to our campus in the first place. The Minutemen are not a legitimate voice in the debate on immigration. They are a racist, armed militia who have declared open hunting season on immigrants, causing countless hate crimes and over 3000 deaths on the border. Why should exploitative corporations have free passes between nations, but individual people not? No human being is illegal.

So, there you have it folks. Another wonderful moment of lefty, peaceful, free speech.

» Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security, News, War On Terror

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3 Responses to “Liberal Mob Storms Minutemen Speech”

kerwin_brown on October 5th, 2006 4:12 pm

Sounds like the government tolerated it whether it was peaceful of not. That is a good way of encouraging it and worse. There should have been people charged with assault and locked in jail. The fact their were not should draw a protest of government bias.
Jeff Molby on October 5th, 2006 5:26 pm

I watched the video without audio, so I don’t know what the speaker was advocating and I don’t know what the demonstrators were protesting, but I saw no violence.

I saw them take a prominent position on stage and spoke their message loudly. This may be grounds for ejection, but I saw nothing violent about it. It’s possible that violence may have erupted under certain circumstances, but that is pointless speculation.

It looked like a well-organized protest to me.
asher on October 6th, 2006 11:40 am

I can’t help but wonder; when these children join the workforce will their attitudes change as they realize what abuse of our borders by corporate interests means to them as middle class citizens? Through offshoring of intellect based labor and importing of manual based labor I hope that they are prepared to keep waiting tables to try and keep up with rent, let alone their student loans from a school like Columbia.

Good luck kids…

So there you have it, another opinion from another “lefty”.