UNC illegal immigration supporters disrupt Virgil Goode speech

Posted Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:26 pm

The wonderful far-left illegal immigration supporters at the University of North Carolina have done it again. A week ago, they shut down a speech by Tom Tancredo.

This week, their target was former Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia (link):

...Goode spoke to a Frank Porter Graham Student Union audience of about 150 people and took questions from audience members for about 90 minutes. Some audience members jeered and heckled when the speech started. One small group walked out shortly after it began. Some set off personal body alarms that had to be located and turned off by police. Two others unfurled a banner with a profane statement. Goode continued speaking throughout.

Unlike last time, no one broke any windows. Six were arrested; there's an incredibly boring six minute video of the arrestees being put into a van here. There's apparently video here, but it's not playing for me.

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Comments

Anonymous (not verified)

Fri, 04/24/2009 - 07:59

Was UC Davis featured in 'Indoctrinate U'? Here's what Kevin Johnson, the dean of their law school, thinks of free speech for those he disagrees with. Lest you have any doubt he wildly approved of the mob's action, check out that bizarre Duke comment at the end: Tar Heels Chase Tommy T (Tom Tancredo) Out of Town! At some level, we miss anti-immigrant advocate Tom Tancredo as a member of Congress. If nothing else, he was always great fodder for ImmigrationProf blog -- and we got to run this great picture when we did a story about Tommy T's latest antics. But other people do not seem to miss him like we do. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that protests broke last week when Tancredo began to deliver an anti-illegal immigrant speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (The News & Observer also reported about this event.). "Several people in the 150-person crowd yelled profanities and displayed banners before the speech, which was organized by a student group opposed to illegal immigration." Police escorted a few people from the room and, according to news reports, released pepper spray in a hall outside the room. More protests followed when Tancredo began to speak and officers stopped the event and tooknTancredo away. Tancredo was brought to campus by the University of North Carolina chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, which, according to news reports, is a national organization of students who oppose mass immigration, multiculturalism and affirmative action. Food for thought: Would Duke students, just a few miles away down Tobacco Road, have reacted in the same way to Tom Tancredo and his hateful message? KJ April 20, 2009 | Permalink | TrackBack (0) http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/

Anonymous (not verified)

Fri, 04/24/2009 - 08:14

Is Kevin R. Johnson implying that Duke students might be too ignoble to form a mob to censor a speaker the way the heroes at UNC did? Sure sounds like it. Is he directing this ugly question at what he looks down on as rich, white private school Duke students as opposed to the public UNC? If a private school dean cheered the disruption of a minority speaker by white students and asked if the public school would have done the same would it get more attention?