Tom Tacrendo's speech ended by UNC demonstrators

[citizensoldier16]

Anyone seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7naTR5QCxo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7naTR5QCxo)

So typical of students on this campus...they march for free speech and acceptance, and manage to shoot themselves in the foot in the process. I guess ignorance truly is bliss.

[The_War_Wagon]

Love our basketball team :D - DETEST our campus libs. He should have spoken over at State's campus.

[m4fun]

And we are radical's for buying guns and ammo. So much for the Ammendment #1.
Hypocritical idiot.

[Ridge_Runner_5]

I really miss him being my representative :(

[variablebinary]

You know what, sometimes people just need to be punched in the face...

[Rider79]

I often wonder if any of these students actually know what they're protesting for or against. They cry about getting pepper sprayed, I guess they're all too young to know about Kent State.

[MarkC]

You know what, sometimes people just need to be punched in the face...

Boy ain't that the truth. But lately it seems there wouldn't be time for anything else.

[Ridge_Runner_5]

At TOS' Tea Party thread, there were a bunch of college kids there counter-protesting. One member of the site asked why they were going to college if they wanted to punish the successful people? Lots of blank looks, he said...

[decodeddiesel]

Yeah because those 20 years old punks have got it all figured out don't they. :rolleyes:

[Sudden]

So many of them living on daddy's money think they already live in socialism.

[bkb0000]

So many of them living on daddy's money think they already live in socialism.

you cant know what it's like to work for a living if you've never worked for a living

[citizensoldier16]

I will be sending this letter to Governor Purdue this afternoon. Just thought you all might want to read it.




April 16, 2009


Dear Governor Perdue,

I am writing to you today to express my sincere and heartfelt disgust with the actions of the students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Wednesday with regards to Representative Tom Tancredo. These despicable events have disgraced our state, our university, and our citizens. I truly believe that YOU have a responsibility to the citizens of our State to address this issue PERSONALLY and to demand a sincere and PUBLIC apology from the university president, the student body president, and the UNC Public Safety head.

Rep. Tancredo was invited to speak on campus on behalf of those of us who fundamentally oppose government handouts, especially the granting of in-state tuition to illegal immigrants in our State. UNC-Chapel Hill claims that it is an institution which embraces all points of view, but that has been demonstrated to be blatantly false by the actions of its student body and by the inactions of its administrators. Rep. Tancredo was forced to end his speech in mid sentence by what can be called none other than a “mob veto” which, according to some accounts, was encouraged and even organized and attended by members of the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill including geography professor Alpha Cravey.

It is common knowledge that the student body of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is overflowing with notions of ultra-liberal utopianism and its faculty and administrative staff promote a well-defined and obviously extreme Leftist agenda in their teachings. However, the lack of respect for the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the Untied States by the student body, and a tolerance of such by the faculty and staff, in attempt to silence a speaker who’s views did not parallel their own is atrocious. How can you stand by and allow a mob to have more power than the Constitution of the United States? If the viewpoints were reversed, it is my sincere belief that this demonstration of non-acceptance and violence would not have been allowed to happen.

Furthermore the violence portrayed by this mob in the act of breaking a window indicates to everyone, very plainly, that there is NO tolerance for conservative ideas at UNC-Chapel Hill, and that any voice that offers a conservative viewpoint can be silenced by the breaking of a window and by mob rule. This indication is reinforced quite effectively by the lack of any organized law enforcement response to the incidents that occurred. Elderly citizens and students in attendance were at risk for injury, and not one person was charged, arrested, or taken into custody. This blatant lack of law enforcement is UNACCEPTABLE. Since the university’s administration is unwilling to take action against those students who violated Rep. Tancredo’s 1st Amendment rights, it is YOUR DUTY to see that those students, namely the protest’s graduate student coordinator Tyler Oakley and any faculty involved, are punished to the full extent of North Carolina and Federal laws for violation of Rep. Tancredo’s civil and Constitutional right to free speech.

I respectfully demand that you address this issue publicly via all available media outlets and formally apologize to our State. I also demand that you require the administration of UNC-Chapel Hill and it’s public safety department, including Chancellor Holden Thorpe, University President Erskine Bowles, and UNC Police Chief Wendy Rich-Goldschmidt to formally, effectively, and publicly apologize for the degrading and unconstitutional treatment Rep. Tancredo received at our university.

You may not agree with what Rep. Tancredo had to say, but I would like to remind you that it is your DUTY as our Governor to address and denounce this issue publicly. Voting citizens of North Carolina including myself will be watching how you handle this very closely.



Very sincerely and respectfully,




Jason X. Xxxx

Cc: Senator Richard Burr
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