So, your students don't like what a conservative speaker says and cause a violent disruption so that the speaker has to be escorted out. What do you do? You limit the size of the audience of the next conservative speaker invited to your campus:
Why, we wonder, at 4:45 in the afternoon, a mere 3:15 hours before Walid Shoebat and his panel were to speak to an audience at Columbia University, all of whom had RSVP'd to the Columbia University College Republicans who were sponsoring the talk, and received invitations from them to the event, has Jewelnel Davis, the advising officer to Student Governing Board groups at Columbia decided to rescind all of the invitations?Good going, Columbia! That's really smart, rewarding bad behavior. You just did these kids a big disservice because know they think they have the power to shut down the voice of the opposition. They aren't going to be able to do that in the real world (unless they work for the government or a college).
Can it possibly be that, having been severely embarrassed by last week's events - when radical leftists at Columbia were left free to act as thugs and attack the Minutemen - and the blogstorm it precipitated, resulting in severe, public criticism of Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, for his lack of initiative at solving the problem, this week they decided to solve the problem - at the last minute - by restricting their popular lecturer to Columbia students and 20 invited guests.
(Link via little green football)
BTW, these were the speakers they were silencing:
Shoebat, a former terrorist who has renounced jihad, will be speaking tonight at 7:30pm in the same auditorium where Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist was mobbed last week.Don't you think these are the type of people that you would be encouraging your students to hear?
Also speaking at the event: former Lebanese terrorist Zachariah Anani and former Nazi Hitler youth and German soldier, Hilmar von Campe.
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