Tancredo’s freedom of speech suppressed by UNC leftwing extremists

In another demonstration that included violence, leftwing extremists shut down a conservative speaker on an American college campus. Tom Tancredo, former Republican congressman from Colorado, was invited to speak at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on behalf of Youth for Western Civilization. YWC is a conservative effort to restore rights for conservative students. If you think conservative students have full rights on most American campuses, I suggest you spend some time at your nearest university.

As Tancredo tried to speak, audience members openly disrupted the process. Two of the extremists walked in front of Tancredo and held a banner up. When an object was thrown through a window, shattering glass, Tancredo left. His action possibly prevented further injuries. Campus cops were completely useless—they appeared afraid of the leftwing extremists.

Tancredo attempted to speak about the problem of undocumented foreigners in the US. Leftwing extremists call the problem “immigration,” which as anyone with a dictionary knows is completely different than people who slip into the country by ignoring federal law.

Last year during the election I asked for comments from conservative students on a message board. I asked them if they were hesitant to speak up about their views and whether professors had impeded their doing so. I received many responses, and with only one or two exceptions, the students vented about suppression of their beliefs. For one thing, they were worried about grades—a professor might lower their grade if they admitted conservative opinions.

The leftwing extremists at UNC played Democratic Party sympathizers’ best trump card. They called Tancredo a “racist.” I seriously doubt a single one of the extremists could hold an intelligent debate about the costs of illegal foreigners, the crime impact of the same and the drain on educational resources. An example: USA Today reported (Apr. 3, ’09, pg. 7A) the US Dept. of Education coerced the Salt Lake City School District to increase ESL-endorsed teachers from 97 to 900. How much money did that re-direct from assisting American citizens’ students who need remedial help?

Tancredo’s positions include not offering undocumented foreigners in-state tuition, opposition to guest worker programs due to their failures in the past and disallowing Mexican consular cards as legal i.d.—it’s widely reported not even Mexico accepts this as legal i.d. for obtaining loans and other legal matters. More on the impact of those consular cards in a column next week.

Whatever your beliefs on undocumented foreigners—I disagree with Tancredo on the guest worker program for instance—for a high profile university to be unable to control leftwing extremists on its campus is shameful. Every person who came in hopes of hearing Tancredo and the former congressman were denied their constitutional rights. The incident on campus is another in a long line of examples of leftwing extremists crying ‘racism’ as a false cover to shut down views they don’t agree with.

Leftwing extremism, founded on anti-American doctrines and nurtured by leftwing extremist professors adept at brainwashing, once again trumps the Constitution and common sense at the University of North Carolina. Hopefully conservative donors will pay attention to incidents like these and refrain from donating money to universities and colleges with totalitarian views on freedom of speech and assembly.

The Associated Press described Tancredo as a "controversial speaker." The only element that created the controversy came in the form of leftwing extremists who acted like stormtroopers, shredding the Constitution as they marched.

Tancredo's freedom of speech suppressed by UNC leftwing extremists by Kay B. Day