UCLA caves, cancels Minuteman/libertarian immigration debate

From this:
UCLA has cravenly scuttled a student-sponsored forum on U.S. immigration policyโ€”and revealed the administration's contempt for freedom of speech. The administration not only refuses to protect free speech, but also penalizes those who wish to exercise it on campus.

Scheduled for Feb. 6, the canceled event was to feature a debate between Carl Braun of the Minutemen and Dr. Yaron Brook, an open-immigration advocate and president of the Ayn Rand Institute. The forum, sponsored by the UCLA student group L.O.G.I.C., was approved by the administration weeks ago. When the student group learned that protesters from outside the university threatened to disrupt the event, it asked UCLA to protect the group's exercise of free speech by providing security for the event...
The acting chancellor for UCLA is Norman Abrams. Please send your thoughts to chancellor *at* conet.ucla.edu

You can read one of the jack-booted leftists who helped shut it down here: preview.tinyurl.com/yqodmz I did a little advertising on blogging.la a year or so ago, and I'll never make that mistake again.

A statement from the Minutemen is here, and a really nerdy blow-by-blow of the security negotiations - with some at UCLA apparently not acting in good faith - is here. 3/28/07 UPDATE: From this:
FIRE announces today that UCLA has abandoned its requirement that student organizations pay prohibitively large sums of money for heightened security at events that might spark controversy on campus.
Apparently there are still some issues however.

Comments

Openness to aggression, especially from the entire world, doesn't allow space for logic at the governments' bricks and mortar organs of state propaganda.
UCLA was, before the unspeakable openness to foreign hostiles, a place where great breakthroughs happened; but ministering to the sensitivities of illegals and professional race-baiters is apparently more important to those monstrously dishonorable administrators by now.