More Excellence At The Academy

Attendees at an event on the campus of Columbia University last week got yet another glimpse of what life would be like in American society, were the leaders of the rabid left ever to fully gain control over American government.

According to a CNS News story covering the episode, Jim Gilchrest, founder of the Minuteman Project, had just started to deliver his remarks on the issue of illegal immigration when members of the audience began shouting and “students rushed the stage with fists raised and banners proclaiming, ‘No One Is Illegal.’” Needless to say, Mr. Gilchrest was never given the opportunity to actually make the speech he had been invited and authorized to make before security personnel ended the event a few minutes later.

In defending their actions in denying an American citizen the right to be heard in a forum to which he had been invited, protesters declared, “The Minutemen are not a legitimate voice in the debate on immigration.” Thus, apparently, any objective observer should be satisfied that nothing unseemly took place.

Let’s see, disregard for both law and simple rules of decorum that don’t fit their agenda, shouting down opposing views, and justifying all this by declaring that the opposition is not a legitimate voice and doesn’t deserve the right to be heard anyway. Looks like all that was lacking was a statement impugning the intelligence of conservatives for this to be a classic example of the far left’s approach to debate.

No, it’s still a classic example. After all, nowadays, the ignorance of those on the right should just be assumed by everyone anyway, right?

And it is the party that these lunatics support that may be on the brink of gaining control over Congress?

Republicans and Democrats both have scandals and scandals-in-the-making in their ranks. But I’m guessing there was not a single Republican in the ranks of these youths, who obviously favor free speech only for the “right” kind of people, who hold the “right” positions.