Thread: Another email sent regarding Columbia University

The spin is making me dizzy! Send Columbia and Votenowar.org a strong message that we want those racist students to be expelled NOW!

Please circulate widely

Mr. Minuteman, Jim Gilchrist, flees debate
with student protester on Democracy Now!

This morning, thousands listened in astonishment as Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, abruptly terminated a debate with Karina Garcia, student activist and Political Chair of Chicano Caucus at Columbia University. Last week on Wednesday, October 4, confronted with anti-racist protesters at Columbia University, the Minuteman violently attacked the protesters who were unfurling banners and Gilchrist terminated his speech and left the auditorium.

Gilchrist has spent much of the last week portraying himself as the champion of free speech and open debate, claiming that student protesters prevented any intelligent debate. Today, Mr. Minuteman had a chance to air his grievances and opinions on the events of last week, but after only a few minutes, he abruptly ended the debate. Sitting with his attorney in tow, he cited "legal advice," pulled off his microphone, and walked out of the studio.

Watch the whole segment by clicking here.

Despite their posturing as free speech advocates, this incident makes it unmistakeably clear that the Minutemen, in the words of Ms. Garcia, "are not promoting free speech. What they want is a pristine environment where racists and fascists can promote their agenda and their propaganda without challenge. That's what they're asking for... These are people with guns. These are people with rifles, people that stand on the border in the middle of the desert, and they declare open hunting season on defenseless immigrant families."

Finally receiving air time to articulate the protesters' positions, Garcia clarified several issues:

On the question of free speech, Garcia responded, "What we actually saw was two groups exercising their right to freedom of speech. One group was promoting hatred and violence, and the other group was loudly opposing it. We never asked for the university or for anybody, for that matter, to ban this man from speaking."

Responding to a question about the decision to protest the Minutemen, Garcia elaborated: "We were speaking to a larger crowd, not just the people in the audience who had already -- who were already against them. We were speaking to the country, to other students and saying, "This organization is a racist organization. They commit violent acts against innocent people. Wherever they go, they should be challenged."

On Mayor Bloomberg's hypocritical denunciation of the protesters, Garcia remarked, "all of a sudden [Bloomberg] has become the advocate of free speech... Now, if you think back two years ago when the Republican National Convention was in New York City, he wasn't allowing people protest permits [in the Great Lawn of Central Park] so that they can protest against the war and against the Republican National Convention. This is coming from the same man."

Garcia also reiterated the fact that Minutemen had assaulted protesters -- and not visa versa.

Watch the whole segment by clicking here.

You can still send a letter or fax to Columbia University demanding that the University take no reprisals against the students. Show your support and help defend the anti-racist protesters by clicking here, where A.N.S.W.E.R. (http://www.answercoalition.org/) has an easy-to-use mechanism to dispatch your message or fax right to Columbia.
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Mexicans have taken over the ACLU, now they have taken over Vote No War. Sorry Vote No War, we are aready at war with these illegal invaders who are trying to change our laws to fit their crime.

Link please?????

http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer? ... S_homepage

http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?ab ... le&id=8029

This was the page sent to me.

They commit violent acts against innocent people. Wherever they go, they should be challenged."

In a perfect world people would have a responsibility to tell the truth, but of course we don't live in a perfect world - hence very little truth is being told in the media by pro-illegal immigrant advocates.

Does anyone have in documented evidence of these violent acts the author of the article is accusing the Minutemen of?

I used their site to send a letter supporting the Minutemen and College Republicans. I thought it was poetic justice...

If these people are publicly accusing Jim Gilchrist of murdering people, obviously without any evidence, couldn't they be sued for slander or defamation of character or something?

I am sick, sick, sick of these people. I am sick of their twisting and turning everything around. My gosh, they are ON VIDEO as rushing the stage! This would reasonably be taken as an act of aggression on the part of the speaker. If that isn't an act meant to shut down the speaker, I don't know what is! I am also sick of them accusing everyone who doesn't agree with their open borders agenda of being racist when they are clearly the racists.

International ANSWER organized a lot of those demonstrations back in the spring. They are a Communist front group.

Another thing--you can be sure that, as pro-illegal as the media is, if they had ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE of violence committed by the minutemen, it would be front page news on the NYT and plastered all over CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN. They have NOTHING but empty accusations. Their arguments are so totally bankrupt that they have no choice but to resort to name calling and false accusations. That's all they've got. Still, they need to be exposed for who they really are and the organizations which are associated with them; namely, the Socialists, Communists and the REAL racist groups. And there IS plenty of proof of THAT.

Originally Posted by PinestrawGuys

I used their site to send a letter supporting the Minutemen and College Republicans. I thought it was poetic justice...

Great Idea Pine! Just did same.

I sent a copy of it to my e-mail account. Check out what a little creative editing can do...

Mr. Lee Bollinger
535 West 116th Street, 202 Low Library, Mail Code 4309
New York, NY 10027

Dear Mr. Bollinger,

I am writing to express my support for the Minutemen and Jim Gilchrist
who were viciously attacked on October 4. These patriots were
exercising their right to free speech, when they were attacked by the
Socialists and their supporters. It is outrageous that these patriots
have been demonized for standing up for the rule of law and against
the Socialists, who not only preach bigotry and violence, but practice
it.

I am appalled that the Columbia administration has not punished these
criminals, and I demand that all applicable disciplinary actions be
taken against the protesters, who stood up against the 1st Amendment,
and embarrassed the nation with their intolerance.

Sincerely,