Leftist Thugs Called Out
Well, it seems that nobody is particularly impressed by the actions taken by the leftist thugs who broke up the appearance on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus of Tom Tancredo the other night. Quelle suprise. You can get the facts about the event here, here or here.
What this post is about it the sudden realisation by otherwise liberal people that this event paints liberals out to be fascist thugs who throw a tantrum when something they don’t like happens. It’s about children (can you really call them adults when they act like that?) attending an expensive school to get the advantages of an education that isn’t even available to most people in the rest of the world, who don’t understand the first thing about free speech. It’s about the need of the left to suppress what it doesn’t want to hear in a societal version of the stereotyped person with fingers in ears chanting ‘la-la-la-la…” to avoid hearing. It’s the behavioural version of the NYT refusing to cover the Tea Party movement. Head in the sand; fingers in ears; don’t confuse me with any debate or discussion - my mind’s made up.
In this follow-up article, it’s clear that some otherwise liberal and very liberal heads which are a bit calmer and cooler have some problems with the actions of the leftist thugs in the harsh cold light of day. Apparently they’re not very happy being cast in the same mould as other strong arm thugs throughout history who’ve suppressed free speech and prevented their opponents from having their say. You know the list of people I’m speaking of; it’s every tyrant throughout history, from the first absolute ruler through Hugo Chavez.
The protest was organised by one Tyler Oakley, a grad student and teaching assistant, who apparently has made it to graduate school at a prestigious institution without understanding the plain meaning of the First Amendment, and, oh, about 200 years of legal tradition. Way to go, Ty-Ty. In the true spirit of free speech I should post your email addy, since it’s listed on a publicly available website for anyone to find. But I’ll show some restraint and just post the URL of the page where it’s located: Find Tyler Oakley’s Email Address Here. I’ll make those who’d like to share with you what they think of the fascist streak in you do the old Crtl-F to find you. Considering that page with your address came up sixth on my Google search for your email, I’d guess that many others have found you too.
Mr. Oakley, as full of self-justification as he seemed to be when interviewed about his actions, will undoubtedly do well as a toady, sucking up to his statist masters in the future, perhaps raising little Hitler’s of his own who can shout down their playmates in the neighbourhood when they say things that the demon-spawn of this monster think are wrong.
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Update: Though it wasn’t evident from the first wave of articles about this incident, the protest was the handiwork of our old friends in crime, the Students for a Democratic Society - yep, SDS. You thought they died a natural death back in the 1970’s, but no, what’s old is new again. The kids of today apparently don’t even have the creativity to come up with their own protest organisations.
