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April 16, 2009
Tom Tancredo Attempts to Give Speech at UNC Campus in Chapel Hill
Tom Tancredo Attempts to Give Speech at UNC, Lefty Riots and Death Threats Ensue
Report by the person that did the video's below.
"Tonight, I traveled to UNC Chapel Hill to hear retired Congressman Tom Tancredo speak about why he opposes the Dream Act Amnesty and in-state tuition for illegals. His views are representative of the vast majority of Americans on these issues as illustrated by numerous polls."
Tom Tancredo Event UNC Shut Down By Violence Part 1
Tom Tancredo Event UNC Shut Down By Violence Part 2
The meeting room had become packed, as protesters filled the seats in the back of the room. Police refused to let anymore protesters enter for safety reasons and when they did that, the pro-illegal alien protesters made physical contact with the officers.
Officers deployed pepper spray and activated a hand held taser, although they did not use it on anyone.
I briefly filmed the altercation and then entered the room to find Congressman Tancredo sitting at the front of the room calmly. Those who had come to hear him speak had dismayed, worried, and agitated looks on their faces because the illegal alien supporters were intent upon trying to disrupt the meeting and prevent him from speaking by shouting obscenities, screaming "racist", and chanting.
Most of the protesters were younger and many were from the UNC campus Hispanic groups. Among their ranks were some students that had a style of dress and hair styles similar to many of the anarchist groups seen around campuses.
I entered and greeted Tom and then I went to find a seat but found the braying protesters to be highly disrespectful and anti-American in their attempts to suppress free speech in the room.
So I raised my voice and asked them to calm down. It took them by surprise for a second, but I explained that this was America and that free speech cannot be attacked using mob rule tactics. When I explained that UNC was my Alma matter and that their actions here would reflect poorly on the University, things calmed down for a few minutes.
Some Hispanic students came up to the front and said that this affects them and that they want to be heard too.
Congressman Tancredo was so polite and so tolerant. He told them that he would certainly let them speak as long as they showed him the same respect. He told the crowd that they could certainly shout him down and stop him from speaking if they chose, but that many had gathered to hear him and that he wanted to proceed.
While things were calming down in the meeting room, you could hear protesters out in the hallways being held at bay by police and they were banging on drums or something similar to try and create enough noise to disrupt the meeting.
There were some older adults in the ranks of the protesters near the back of the room who appeared to be the ring leaders. I hope that we can identify them from the videos to determine if they are UNC employees or merely old school leftist radicals from outside of the campus.
As Congressman Tancredo started speaking, two anarchist looking girls stood up and unfolded a long banner that read "No One Is Illegal" and many in the crowd sighed and said come on now. Tancredo said that signs were fine and he tried to continue.
Then after a few seconds the two girls winked at each other to give the signal and they moved directly in front of Tancredo putting the sign up physically on his face. Tom tried to pull the sign out of his way and while that altercation took place, the large glass window to the right of Tancredo was shattered by protesters outside of the building.
Two women stretched out another banner, first along one of the aisles and then right in front of Tancredo. Tancredo grabbed the middle of the banner and tried to pull it away from one of the girls. "You don't want to hear what I have to say because you don't agree with me," he said.
The sound of breaking glass from behind a window shade interrupted the tug-of-war.
Tancredo was escorted from the room by campus police.
About 200 protesters reconvened outside the building. "We shut him down; no racists in our town," they shouted. "Yes, racists, we will fight, we know where you sleep at night!"
Luckily, there was a blind in place but the glass did rain down on two students who were there to hear Mr. Tancredo speak.
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Wild Thing's comment.......
So much for letting someone disagree with them. The Racists are these Rioters they Hate Americans.
Posted by Wild Thing at April 16, 2009 06:40 AM
Comments
One word in this stands out, braying. It is the sound of a donkey or ass. I guess the donkeys only want to hear what eminates from the annointed one and his ilk. So much for being open minded on their part, eh?
Posted by: Glenn Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET at April 16, 2009 09:11 AM
My guess is that these protestors will be prime candidates to join Obama's civilian security force. They know the tactics already.
Posted by: TomR at April 16, 2009 09:35 AM
Glenn Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET, good one,
yes. More and more I see why the ass is
the choice for the democrat party it is
perfect for them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 16, 2009 03:56 PM
Tom, I had nto thought of that you are so
right, they are all ready.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 16, 2009 03:58 PM
Too much free time and lack of discipline, but that's because the libs and lefties control the schools. I'm glad the school I went to had no State or Federal ties beyond certification. This would not have been tolerated and those students would have been dismissed, barred from returning to any of the campus classrooms forever. We punched in on time clocks for study, just like a real job, had dress codes and rules for behavior, you had better have a valid excuse for any absences and we had homework that never ended. Two offenders played hooky and went to float the river the first semester, they were dropped and they never returned. Examples of discipline we'd all signed on to accept as students. We were there to learn and the director was one tough old geezer who would stand by that damned time clock every morning. Most of my fellow students were there to avoid the draft, I'd served and was there to learn. I subsequently went to a local college for some required courses and was disappointed at the lack of discipline from the staff and students.
The difference being that I was paying for the education, not my parents and not the state, that joke of a GI bill forced me to hold down a full time job at the same time.
Posted by: Jack at April 16, 2009 05:06 PM
My hope is that every one of those protesters and their families, sometime in the future, loose their jobs to illegal aliens.
Posted by: BobF at April 16, 2009 06:00 PM
Jack, me too, I just went to a little country
school when I was growing up. And there was
no money from the government given to it.
Later on when I was out of school my Dad said
they were trying to force government money
to be given to the school in the disguise of
a Milk program.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 17, 2009 12:01 AM
