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I hope UNC is prepared

scharrison — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:27:10 -0400

There may be quite a few non-students attending this event. I found this copy of a mass e-mail by Tancredo on the ALIPAC Forum:

Dear friend,

I would like to thank all of you who have expressed your concern and outrage to me in response to the violent protesters who shut down my speech at the University of North Carolina last week.

The brave students who invited me are following up by bringing my friend, former Congressman Virgil Goode, to campus tomorrow. Virgil will speak on the suppression of free speech in the immigration debate, and also try to finish my talk on illegal immigration that was stopped short by the protesters.

If you are in the North Carolina area, I hope you can make it. Here are the details. Please note the new location.

Who: Congressman Virgil Goode
When: April 22, 2009; 6:30 PM
Where: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Graham Student
Union -- map and details at
http://www.planroom.unc.edu/bldg/detail.asp?id=065

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Riley Matheson at (336) 287-8865, or jmatheso@email.unc.edu

Thanks for all your support,

Tom

"If you are in the North Carolina area, I hope you can make it."

Keep your fingers crossed, people. This could get ugly.

Re: UNC to host former Rep. Goode

j1c2kp — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:45:57 -0400

well goodgollygosh why didn't I think of that, oh yeah I did try that but was unsuccessful finding the information I was looking for. But thank you for showing me the opening to the super secret portal. :)

Re: UNC to host former Rep. Goode

Gosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:39:14 -0400

Any way to get this kind of information?

Not to overstep any bounds, but I've recently discovered and successfully used a super secret portal of information set up years ago located here.

Re: UNC to host former Rep. Goode

j1c2kp — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:28:57 -0400

Ryan is it possible to get a breakdown of the students at Carolina? How many are actual NC natives? Is there a way to know how many from each state and other countries? I would also like to know where the students were from that behaved so badly the other day. Any way to get this kind of information?

Re: UNC to host former Rep. Goode

Gosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:35:00 -0400

I hope no bad people show up.

Re: UNC to host former Rep. Goode

pjpuryear — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:11:32 -0400

I was kind of hoping they would bring Vernon Robinson instead.

Re: UNC to host former Rep. Goode

j1c2kp — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:32:08 -0400

I am against illegal immigration but those kids at Carolina should give old Virgil a listen. If just listening to him speak doesn't crack them up nothing will. Virgil's speaking voice could grate on even his own mama's last nerve.

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

rusty_shackleford — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:43:42 -0400

We don't have discussions in this country anymore; we demonize anyone who doesn't agree with us. We assail their character rather than their ideas. Both sides of the aisle are guilty and we all know it (and just because you claim the other side started it doesn't make your response in kind righteous!).

Folks, we are living in the era of the downfall of a once great country. Just like Rome, the US will decay into irrelavancy if we continue this BS. I hope the students are proud of themselves....they appear to be guilty of the same hate of which they protested.

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

ConMax — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:44:14 -0400

Can some legal expert that reads this blog tell me why Mr. Oakley should not have been arrested by the UNC-Chapell-Hill police? And why shouldn't the federal government arrest Mr. Oakley for violation of Mr. Tancredo's civil rights?* Confuse

It's simple! Ms Annie Oakley did not take a shot at Tom while he was speaking about 2 amendment rights, and since when did the federal government take over UNC as a Federal State or Colony like Iraq?

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

ConMax — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:36:16 -0400

It took just a few hours for U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo to turn his unpleasant ouster from a UNC-Chapel Hill classroom into a fund-raising opportunity.*N&O Story

lol! What does old Tom the hustler expect! Stilumus Money from the Obama and Bush Banker bailout to cover his losses! Didn't old Tom vote for the Patriot Act 1 and 2 and authorize the Bush Police State to read our e-mails without warrents..and sorted destroy the Consitution of the United States during his war mongering Republican days in Congress. And this racist dude is complaining about Free Speech?

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

LetsGoPitt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:45:00 -0400

Once again, the left-wing socialists show their true colors at yet another university campus. How much more of this are we going to take, people? Everytime a college conservative group publishes a newspaper or posts a flier about about a conservative meeting, they get trashed and torn down. These things are happening in the country of free speech???? You see, these people are socialists because they decide what can be seen and heard and read. And if doesn't fit their narrow-minded agenda, well, too bad: you lose.
We all do.
Anthony in Wilson

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

JohnPershing — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:45:45 -0400

"Tancredo, a Colorado Republican and strong opponent of illegal immigration, was forced to end his visit Tuesday night after protests by a few dozen students."--N&O staff writers

OK boys, I saw most all of the videos that have been posted on this event and y'all are prevaricating big time. If one counts the protesters both inside Bingham Hall and within "noise making distance" outside around Bingham Hall (and riotous nose from outside Bingham Hall was easily heard on the audio tracks) then the number protesters comes a hell of a lot closer to 'Hundreds of protesters yelled obscenities, tried to put a banner saying "No One is Illegal" in front of me.'--Tom Tancredo THAN "a few dozen students"--N&O staff writers. And on another point Tancredo was far more accurate in characterizing his vocal opposition as "protesters" than the N&O is in characterizing them as "students" (unless of course the N&O reporters asked everybody to show their student ID cards)

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

mountainman — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:15:22 -0400

Just one question keeps rolling around in my mind. What if mr. obama came to give a speech and a bunch of rednecks and some unc faculty harassed and heckled him, broke glass and tried to prevent him from speaking. The students would be expelled and the faculty fired so fast they wouldn't know what happened. So let us question what are the differences between the imaginary sceen above, and what really happened at unc. Folks we as a country cannot tolorate this kind of behavior. The students had ever right to oppose Tancredo's views,but they have no right to try to silience him, or take the rights of the folks that wished to here his message. As for the faculty that was involved they should be fired because they should have been teaching those students the proper way to voice their opinion through civil discussion.

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

oldhillbilly — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:27:29 -0400

This reveals the failing of the administration at UNC. While all of us support diversity of oppinion on the campus, particulary among the faculty, where is the support for diversity including conservative thought? Where is collegial discussion of issues? The students involved should be expelled. The faculty involved should receive a letter of reprimand and not be elgible for re-hiring, much less tenure. The actions of a few students and a few faculty are unexcusable and if the UNC administration does not rise to the occasion, they are not compentent to manage an institution of enlightened higher education.

Re: Tancredo raising money from UNC visit

jwmakm — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:48:06 -0400

The Left dominates UNC-CH and has for years with the encouragement of the N&O.

Last night's denial of Tancredo's speech rights by members of the fascistic Students for a Democratic Society and others, including at least one identified as a faculty member, reminded me of the Leftist "activists" at Duke who waved the CASTRATE and GIVE THEM EQUAL MEASURE banners when the now disbarred Mike Nifong began the public part of his and others attempt to frame for gang rape three transparently innocent Duke students.

The N&O disgraced itself than by shamelessly enabling Nifong.

The N&O's tepid reporting today of the terrible events of last evening leaves me thinking the N&O will again disgrace itself.

Hint to the N&O: Cover the silencing of Tancredo and the threats ("we know where you sleep") targeting students who sponsored his talk the same way you would if the speaker had been an African-American or Muslim bashing former President Bush and the students sponsoring the speaker largely African-American and/or Muslim.

Of course, something like that wouldn't and shouldn't happen at UNC-CH or any other college campus in America.

John in Carolina