Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Is This How to Defend Free Speech?

Shouting Down Prayer

An account of the events at UW-Whitewater tonight by WTMJ radio host Charlie Sykes.

"...I did see -- and experience -- something I have never seen before. Leftist hecklers -- ostensibly defending free speech -- actually tried to shout down the speakers at the vigil to remember the victims of 9/11. Shouts, rants, obscenties during the remarks... A little ironic, don't you think?

But it got worse...

When the minister tried to lead the crowd in prayer in memory of the dead -- they continued the shout down, and largely succeeded in drowning out the prayer.

A speaker with a megaphone performed a rap-left-wing-screed shoutdown all through the prayer and the moment of silence. If his fellow radicals had any sense of shame, it wasn't apparent.

This is beyond boorish. It was hate on display... and as I told the crowd tonight: remember this, because it helps define who we are and who they are and what they stand for. They showed themselves for who they really were."

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