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November 16, 2006
Leftwing Stalinists Disgrace at Ball State University I fear that I get to beating a dead horse when I'm carrying on repeatedly about the intolerant Stalinist or fascist type tactics of some modern leftwing college students. However, the horse's ass is still very much alive. In this case, the horse was showing it's face/ass at my alma mater Ball State University on the occasion of a speech 11-8-2006 by David Horowitz.
Conservative activist David Horowitz got a 50-foot "not welcome" sign, 15 cheese pizzas and nearly a cream pie in the face before speaking at Ball State University about political agendas of professors Wednesday night.
Lacking dates that evening, Cassandra Reed and Grace Mitchell figured that the thing to do was disrupt the Horowitz event, and physically assault Mr Horowitz.
Sgt. John Foster said one woman, Ball State junior Cassandra Reed, ran at Horowitz with a cream pie in her hand. Director of Public Safety Gene Burton stood between the two, and he and other officers were hit with the pie, Foster said.
They were arrested and bailed out, but there were other jackass harassments short of absolute physical assault, notably a projector set up placing a 50 foot "Horowitz not welcome" sign on the Teacher's College. Real classy. Plus, some schmuck ordered 15 pizzas in Horowitz' name- which only hurt the Pizza Hut that had to trash a bunch of pies.
To state the obvious briefly, this kind of thuggish, intolerant behavior is not only unworthy of a university, it is positively un-American. If you actually have legitimate argument with Mr Horowitz, obviously you write a letter or webpage, or have another speaker the next day to brilliantly refute him. The brownshirt attempts at intimidation are in no way an argument against Mr Horowitz, but actually indicative of exactly the opposite: that they don't have any argument against him other than blunt harassment and suppression.
This is not just one odd evening at Ball State, but a continuing problem in recent years on college campuses across America, with vandalism, intimidation and physical assaults against numerous rightwing speakers and viewpoints. Horowitz gets this a lot, as does Ann Coulter among others.
Yet I'd bet that some of those same people holler their heads off about censorship and free speech when anyone says anything against, say, the Dixie Chicks.
