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The Olberman kids are going nuts in NC. Ignoring the first amendment while making a few of their own ("nobody is illegal"), they shut Tancredo down to return the university to it's natural moonbat fair and balanced state. The one where only one kind of thinking exists and dissent is stamped out, sometimes violently.
Protest At UNC Stops Speech, UNC Officials Apologize To Tancredo - Orange County - MyNC.com
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -
UNC-Chapel Hill officials said they do not approve of the way protesters expressed their opposition to former congressman Tom Tancredo's speech on campus Tuesday night.
Tancredo was at UNC to talk about his opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. In video now circulating on You Tube, it shows hundreds of protesters from several organizations on campus holding signs, loudly chanting and disrupting Tancredo's speech.
Watch YouTube Video Of The Protest
A few minutes into Tancredo's speech, two women held up a large banner in front of him while he was speaking that said "no one is illegal." Not long after, protesters started banging on the windows from the outside of the classroom until one broke. After the window was shatterd,the speech was cancelled but the spectacle spilled outside into the hallway. In the video, you can see both protesters and police pushing each other. Police also used pepper spray attempting to break up the crowd.
Linda Gomaa, a protester at the event, said she was not surprised to see the turnout and said they needed to be loud in order to be heard.
"I don't believe a lot of change in this country have come through debating and being happy and talking to people," Gomaa said.
Gomaa said the protesters felts Tancredo was giving a hate speech against immigrants.
"As a daughter of an immigrant and Muslim, it's ridiculous to me that he wanted to come to campus saying immigrants are ruining our culture," said Gomaa.
However, representatives from the group that brought Tancredo to speak, Youth for Western Civilization, said that is not his stance and they felt the protesters were out of line.
"They were acting like animals," said Riley Matheson, YWC President.
Matheson said he expected opposition on a liberal campus towards a Republican like Tancredo, but not to this extreme.
"They have every right to protest," Matheson said. "They could have just brough in signs, they could have protested outside the classroom."
Matheson said it was appropriate for police to use pepper spray and force to break up the crowd, though Gomaa said it was unnecessary.
Campus police have launched an internal investigation into the way the situation was handled.
Meanwhile, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp issued a statement on the protest saying he was disappointed in what happend and called Tancredo to apologize.
"Carolina's tradition of free speech is the fundamental part of what has made this place special for more than 200 years," Thorp wrote. "Let's recommit ourselves to that ideal."
Protest At UNC Stops Speech, UNC Officials Apologize To Tancredo - Orange County - MyNC.com
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -
UNC-Chapel Hill officials said they do not approve of the way protesters expressed their opposition to former congressman Tom Tancredo's speech on campus Tuesday night.
Tancredo was at UNC to talk about his opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. In video now circulating on You Tube, it shows hundreds of protesters from several organizations on campus holding signs, loudly chanting and disrupting Tancredo's speech.
Watch YouTube Video Of The Protest
A few minutes into Tancredo's speech, two women held up a large banner in front of him while he was speaking that said "no one is illegal." Not long after, protesters started banging on the windows from the outside of the classroom until one broke. After the window was shatterd,the speech was cancelled but the spectacle spilled outside into the hallway. In the video, you can see both protesters and police pushing each other. Police also used pepper spray attempting to break up the crowd.
Linda Gomaa, a protester at the event, said she was not surprised to see the turnout and said they needed to be loud in order to be heard.
"I don't believe a lot of change in this country have come through debating and being happy and talking to people," Gomaa said.
Gomaa said the protesters felts Tancredo was giving a hate speech against immigrants.
"As a daughter of an immigrant and Muslim, it's ridiculous to me that he wanted to come to campus saying immigrants are ruining our culture," said Gomaa.
However, representatives from the group that brought Tancredo to speak, Youth for Western Civilization, said that is not his stance and they felt the protesters were out of line.
"They were acting like animals," said Riley Matheson, YWC President.
Matheson said he expected opposition on a liberal campus towards a Republican like Tancredo, but not to this extreme.
"They have every right to protest," Matheson said. "They could have just brough in signs, they could have protested outside the classroom."
Matheson said it was appropriate for police to use pepper spray and force to break up the crowd, though Gomaa said it was unnecessary.
Campus police have launched an internal investigation into the way the situation was handled.
Meanwhile, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp issued a statement on the protest saying he was disappointed in what happend and called Tancredo to apologize.
"Carolina's tradition of free speech is the fundamental part of what has made this place special for more than 200 years," Thorp wrote. "Let's recommit ourselves to that ideal."
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