Thread: Berserk "students" attack Gilchrist on stage in Ne

Don't know if this was posted yet, but here goes.

Link includes video:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/print/015459.php

Last night the Columbia University College Republicans hosted what was to be a speech by Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project. Within moments of Gilchrist taking the podium, however, the event was disrupted by left-wing students mounting a coordinated attack on the stage. Columbia Public Safety stood by and watched. In the YouTube video above, CTV's Natalie Yammine caught the riot on tape. My daughter was also on hand at the event for the New York Sun. Eliana reports:

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!"

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The pandemonium that ensued as the evening's keynote speaker took the stage was merely the climax of protest that brewed all week. A number of campus groups, including the Chicano caucus, the African-American student organization, and the International Socialist organization, began planning their protests early this week when they heard that the Minutemen would be arriving on campus.

The student protesters, who attended the event clad in white as a sign of dissent, booed and shouted the speakers down throughout. They interrupted Mr. Stewart, who is African-American, when he referred to the Declaration of Independence's self-evident truth that "All men are created equal," calling him a racist, a sellout, and a black white supremacist.

A student's demand that Mr. Stewart speak in Spanish elicited thundering applause and brought the protesters to their feet. The protesters remained standing, turned their backs on Mr. Stewart for the remainder of his remarks, and drowned him out by chanting, "Wrap it up, wrap it up!" Mr. Stewart appeared unfazed by their behavior. He simply smiled and bellowed, "No wonder you don't know what you're talking about."

"These are racist individuals heading a project that terrorizes immigrants on the U.S.-Mexican border," Ryan Fukumori, a Columbia junior who took part in the protest, told The New York Sun. "They have no right to be able to speak here."

The student protesters "rush to vindicate themselves with monikers like ‘liberal' and ‘open-minded,' but their actions, their attempt to condemn the Minutemen without even hearing what they have to say, speak otherwise," the president of the Columbia College Republicans, Chris Kulawik, said. On campus, the Republicans' flyers advertising the event were defaced and torn down.

The Columbia Spectator has more here. Michelle Malkin has more here. Public discourse at Columbia is for now in the hands of intellectual savages. Does the university have the wherewithal to restore the conditions of freedom? It prominently advises students:

The Rules of University Conduct (Chapter XLI of the Statutes of the University) provide special disciplinary rules applicable to demonstrations, rallies, picketing, and the circulation of petitions. These rules are designed to protect the rights of free expression through peaceful demonstration while at the same time ensuring the proper functioning of the University and the protection of the rights of those who may be affected by such demonstrations.

The Rules of University Conduct are University wide and supersede all other rules of any school or division. Minor violations of the Rules of Conduct are referred to the normal disciplinary procedures of each school or division ("Dean's discipline"). A student who is charged with a serious violation of the Rules has the option of choosing Dean's discipline or a more formal hearing procedure provided in the Rules.

There appears to be no shortage of evidence on which to predicate disciplinary proceedings against any number of students caught on tape last night. Columbia is now presented with the opportunity of demonstrating who is in charge of the zoo. As they used to say, the whole world is watching.
Posted by Scott at 05:29 AM

...Ryan Fukumori, a Columbia junior who took part in the protest, told The New York Sun. "They have no right to be able to speak here."

Government is a required course. I think they need to review his grade because this guy should not have received credit for the corse.

Dixie

When I went to college we had alot of different speakers come in. They were INVITED in. You could attend or not. There's no excuse for this behavior from these students. They have the right to be there, the students have the right not to go or challenge the speaker with questions, but not this nonsense.

This will be on the O'reilly show tonight on Fox

They lack the intellectual ability to argue with the speakers, so they act like bad little monkeys...

Gilcrest should have thrown BANNANNAS!!

It works for ME!!! :P

I shudder to think these are the future leaders of our country. Anyone who does not believe our schools have been turned into indocrination centers from kindergarten on up just needs to watch this.

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Campus protesters quash Minuteman speech
Storm stage in near riot, forcing security to whisk away founder Gilchrist

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Posted: October 5, 2006
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Protesters storm stage at Columbia University (WND photo)
Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist was attacked by angry, violent protesters last night who stormed the stage during his speech at Columbia University in New York City, forcing an abrupt end to the event.

An African-American member of the Minuteman board who spoke prior to Gilchrist was taunted with the "n-word," according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.

Corsi had been scheduled to follow Gilchrist with a speech of his own, but after university security personnel whisked the Minuteman leader offstage, the New York Young Republican Club meeting was shut down.

A video of the chaos at Roone Arledge Auditorium, shot by Columbia University Television, can be seen here. http://www.ctvnewsonline.com/

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Gilchrist told WND the "violent outburst is yet another indication that those who support illegal immigration are happy to use communist tactics in their intolerant determination to prevent the Minutemen from exercising their First Amendment rights."

A protester who spoke anonymously to the independent student newspaper Columbia Spectator said the stage takeover was planned.

"I don't feel like we need to apologize or anything. It was fundamentally a part of free speech. ... The Minutemen are not a legitimate part of the debate on immigration."

Prior to the event, a group of protestors estimated by New York police to number around 200 assembled with placards and a loudspeaker to denounce Gilchrist and the Minutemen.

Slogans on the placards included, "Workers of the world unite! Same struggle, same fight!," and "Minutemen, Nazis, KKK! Racists, fascists, go away!"





About 20 protesters managed to momentarily take control of the stage during Gilchrist's speech, with loud shouts and fists thrust in anger. Security fought to restrain them and managed to rush Gilchrist backstage before he could be assaulted, according to Corsi

Corsi told WND the protestors were "angrier than I have seen before." The melee at Columbia suggests the "pro-illegal immigration forces are moving in a more violent direction," he said.
"The street protests last spring didn't convince Congress to pass an amnesty," Corsi commented, "so maybe the next wave of their protest activity will turn more violent, in their frustration that the U.S. public is not convinced they should be allowed to live and work in the U.S. in open defiance of our rule of law."

After taking over the stage, protesters unrolled a banner that read, in both Arabic and English, "No one is ever illegal."

According to the New York Sun, as security guards began escorting people from the auditorium, students jumped from the stage, pumping their fists, chanting victoriously, "Si se pudo, si se pudo," Spanish for "Yes we could!"


Minuteman board member Marvin Stewart speaks amid taunts at Columbia University (WND photo)

Marvin Stewart, an African-American minister and member of the Minuteman Project's board of directors, was the first speaker at the Columbia event.

Protesters in the crowd harassed Stewart with shouts, and toward the end of his speech, some in the audience stood silently and turned their backs to him.
Stewart expressed dismay at the audience's intolerance.

"If this is how low we have sunk in U.S. higher education, I am deeply concerned about our future," he said. "Don't any Columbia University professors teach these students the importance of free speech under the First Amendment?"

The Sun report said that when Stewart referred to the Declaration of Independence's self-evident truth that "All men are created equal," audience members called him a racist, a sellout and a black white supremacist.
One student's demand that Stewart speak in Spanish drew thundering applause and brought the protesters to their feet, the New York paper said. At that point, the protesters turned their backs to Stewart and drowned him out by chanting, "Wrap it up, wrap it up!"

Stewart appeared unfazed, however, and with a smile, said, "No wonder you don't know what you're talking about."

The Columbia Spectator said Gilchrist and the president of the College Republicans, Chris Kulawik, eventually called Stewart off the stage.

"I clearly had the false assumption that I was at an Ivy League school," Kulawik said as he introduced the main speaker.

"Who's a racist now?" said Gilchrist, putting an arm around Stewart. "I love the first amendment!" he shouted. "You're doing a great job, kids. I'm going to have more fun with this than with my prepared speech."

But before he could get much farther, the campus paper said, two students stepped on stage with a banner.

Corsi said that when university personnel screened audience members as they entered, a number of eggs were confiscated

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Posted by mariana: [#446] [reply] (in reply to #42
Yes, you obviously are a BIGOTED Columbia student, because you have no reliable information upon which to base your salvation of mankind. Everything you believe about what Mr. Gilchrist WOULD/MIGHT have said is chimerical. Had you LISTENED to Mr. Gilchrist, you could have legitimately disagreed with firm ground upon which questions could have been asked or challenge s made during the Q & A period afterward; however, weakness, uncertainty and cowardice drove you and your Thug cohorts. If you had any confidence in your position, it would not have been necessary to shout the man down to enjoin him from speaking.

This fantasy of yours, that ILLEGALS have no voice in this country is amusing. In Ca, ILLEGALS are given preference over American kids, whose parents and grandparents built, paid for and maintain still, the university system, are FORCED TO PAY TUITION.
There was a time when Universities were institutions of higher learning, where unpopular views could be expressed and heard, discussed and debated. No longer. They're now Politically Correct Gulags, run by feckless elites, disassociated from the society and nation that created them for ENLIGHTENMENT. Fat Chance!ma


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Originally Posted by Dixie

...Ryan Fukumori, a Columbia junior who took part in the protest, told The New York Sun. "They have no right to be able to speak here."

Government is a required course. I think they need to review his grade because this guy should not have received credit for the corse.

Dixie

There is no "government" requirement in the Core Curriculum for CC, GS, SEAS or Barnard. However, the university does have a good Poli Sci program, or at least it did in 98-2001.

I really think that some or most of the students weren't students, but were outsiders.