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.
People who support illegal aliens and the criminal enterprise that brings and/or keeps them here, disrupted a series of speeches addressing the other side of the people-who-are-not-U.S.-citizens-crossing-the-border-illegally argument. As of Noon CDT, you could not find a single story about this incident on the main webpage or U.S. news webpage of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or Yahoo! News.
I ended up doing a search of news stories on Yahoo!, and here is what was returned.
NEWS STORIES Results 1 - 4 of about 4 for "Columbia University" gilchrist.
At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder
The New York Sun - Oct 04 9:20 PM
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
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Minuteman college talk gets violent
New York Daily News - Oct 05 1:27 AM
The border wars came to Columbia University last night when student protesters clashed on stage with a staunch anti-immigrant advocate.
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Protestors Rush Minutemen
Columbia Daily Spectator - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
Protestors took the stage minutes after Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, came to the microphone in Roone Arledge Auditorium Wednesday night, sparking a chaotic brawl involving more than 20 students, other attendees, and guests.
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Columbia Daily Spectator - Oct 05 1:38 AM
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, CC '83, received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia where he also taught for six years, authored over 30 books, and chaired Encyclopaedia Britannica's Board of Editors-all before graduating from college. He has the swim test to thank.
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Three. Only three news stories found (the last two links are for the same publication). There may be more news stories later, but there were only three at a little after Noon CDT on 05 October 2006.
If this had been an event organized by Students for Choice at Columbia University, with the keynote speaker being Nancy Keenan of NARAL, and conservative and Christian protesters had not only disrupted the speeches throughout, but also jumped on stage within minutes of the keynote speaker stepping before the microphone with a big sign that said, "It's a baby, not a choice!" followed by more protesters rushing the stage and a brawl, do you think that it would have made the national headlines?
I think that the mainstream media would have found that to be news. I think that the ACLU and various other legal and civil rights organizations would be railing against the horrible violation of our freedom of speech. I think that Senators Biden, Boxer, Clinton, Feingold, Feinstein, Kennedy, Kerry, Leahy, Obama, Reid, and others would be calling for legal action and suggesting that the Congress come up with some legislation to protect public speakers from such protests and protesters.
But this was just a few conservatives who invited a few speakers to Columbia University. No problem here at all. In the words of one of the protesters:
"We were aware that there was going to be a sign and we were going to occupy the stage," said a protestor who was on stage and asked to remain anonymous. "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."
See? The protesters were just exercising their right to free speech. It was the invited speakers who were the illegitimate parties in this whole fiasco.
Law enforcement should find the protesters, charge them, arrest them, and try them. Columbia University should suspend or expel them. Period. End of story. Because if they don't, then this sets precedent for future speeches on both sides of any issue, and the result will be the inmates running the asylum.
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