So much for free speech… Leftist students shut down Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s speech at Arizona State University this week.
Arpaio was sitting in on a First Amendment Forum sponsored by the School of Journalism.
Oh, the irony.
Story Balloon posted the video:
Leftist students wouldn’t stop singing Bohemian Rhapsody and eventually forced Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to leave a public forum at Arizona State University on illegal immigration. (Dec. 1)
Hispanic Business reported the news:
During the forum, which was hosted by the university’s journalism school, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was asked whether his office engages in racial profiling, according to the Associated Press.
Arpaio said his agency is an “equal opportunity law enforcement agency” that will arrest anyone who violates the law.
Later, when trying to answer a question about his policies on illegal immigration, a group of hecklers stood up and began singing the song.
Their song clearly annoyed Arpaio, who called the spectacle “ridiculous.”
“This isn’t the way journalists should operate,” he said to the host. “Are they all students up there? Why were they allowed here if they’re not students?” He later walked off the set.
The local reporters also pounded Arpaio during the interview before it was called off.
December 2nd, 2009 | 7:47 am | #1
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December 2nd, 2009 | 7:55 am | #2
What ever happened to the good old firehose?
December 2nd, 2009 | 7:59 am | #3
Identify all the hecklers who are ASU students and expel them.
Then ban them from future ASU forums.
Prediction: there’d be fewer hecklers next time.
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:04 am | #4
Sheriff Joe is an American hero.
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:14 am | #5
Joe you are my hero!
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:16 am | #6
Whatever happened to arresting people for disturbing the peace?
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:19 am | #7
The left have become todays Brownshirts. They wold have made very good Nazis.
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:21 am | #8
What do you expect? It was probably organized by one of the professor’s – in typical fashion they don’t even know any facts or what they’re protesting about AND in 5-10 yrs they will change to the other side and support Arpaio and his views!
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:32 am | #9
This incident is a microcosm of the political discourse between the left and the right in todays world. Only certain narratives are considered debatable. The political correctness on the left shouts and disrupts any sane discussion from the right . If only one point of view is ever presented then only one position is correct.
The simple adolescent childishness of this is madness. Yet the left counts it as effective as cultivates it where possible. I never see it denounced by moderate liberals.
This should give us a glimpse of how the AGW debate will proceed.
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:35 am | #10
Krauthammer/Arpaio 2012!
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:43 am | #11
“We appreciate the verses.” They ruined a learning experience for other students and wasted the time of the reporters and Arpaio (although his time apparently wasn’t valuable enough to be mentioned) yet they were still pandered and catered to. Bulls**t.
“If you want to sing, take it to a scary-okee bar,” would have been more appropriate, followed by “Security, please remove the warblers from the building.”
Then, as a show of respect for the guests and to remind the students that Arpaio and the reporters are doing them a favor and not the other way around, “Those students here to learn, please remain in your seats. Sheriff Arpaio and reporters, please feel free to take a ten minute break and return to the stage at (time), at which time the noise problem will be solved and we can continue with the program.”
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:46 am | #12
“We appreciate the verses.” My a**! Throw them out; don’t appease and cater to them.
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:46 am | #13
To me, the behavior of the left in stifling free speech, coupled with the evidence we see of anti-semitism raising its dirty head,is frightening and really does harken back to Nazi Germany. If we keep ignoring it we could wind up in trouble.
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:48 am | #14
It certainly is past time for the citizens of Arizona to tell their legislators to stop funding the ASU school of journalism. If they cannot even manage to have a debate without allowing brownshirts to disrupt it, then how can they possibly educate future scribblers? If all we needed were Pravda-style journalists, we could import them from the ex-USSR….
December 2nd, 2009 | 9:13 am | #15
My nephew is an ASU grad and Obama supporter (still). His brainwashing began at home during his early childhood: liberal mother who put him in daycare at 6 wks. and indifferent father who was and is a pansy.
No religion in the home. Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, and Captain Planet.
At Thanksgiving, this 24 year old educated idiot was more than we could bear. My 13 year old was able to best him in debates on climate change and job creation.
It’s sad, especially for my parents, who watched his (lack of) upbringing and feared this. We love the kid, but he is so misguided. And his mother thinks he’s brilliant.
December 2nd, 2009 | 9:28 am | #16
Their disruption really has nothing to do with ideology or disagreement. It’s about narcissism and the overwhelming need for these children to be the center of attention. After the show, they all ran back to their university dorms to bask in their peer’s adulation for their outrageous “wow” factor.
Mommy, Daddy; Grammy and Grampy have told them all of their lives how wonderful, smart and unique they are – the world will know thy name someday.
As they get older, they begin to realize how mundane they really are and that there are millions of them out there. Too lazy or dull to actually make a difference by becoming doctors, engineers or successful businessmen, they stoop to foolishness like this in an effort to receive the adulation they crave.
Welcome to the Indigo Generation.
December 2nd, 2009 | 10:04 am | #17
So much for the First Amendment.
Free speech for me but not for thee. (leftist opreating rule number 3)
December 2nd, 2009 | 10:06 am | #18
Yet this summer we were all teabaggers, racists and terrorists and these idiots are probably leftist hereos. I think our country is in big trouble. I keep telling myself not to be such a cynical alarmist but every day it gets harder and harder.
December 2nd, 2009 | 10:30 am | #19
Oh man, isn’t it sweet when the leftist “student” loons illustrate their true naivet’e and foolishness. The true irony of the whole thing is that they actually helped Joe out and harmed their own “cause”(if you can call it that). Seeing Joe was to face heated and critical questions the whole time, all they did by shutting it down was allow him to avoid the assault.
Thanks loons. Your accomplishment was getting Joe to return to his desk and continue the good work of making sure that lawbreakers are arrested which includes sending ILLEGALS back to their home country where they belong until they learn to enter the country lawfully.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
December 2nd, 2009 | 10:41 am | #20
They are so afraid of Joe and they are desperate to destroy him.
Why?
Because he will be the next governor of Arizona.
On a side note…
I find it rather interesting that one of the candidates for mayor of Houston specifically states in his campaign ads that he will have the police check the immigration status on everyone they arrest/ticket. In plainer terms it means the end Mayor White’s policy of Houston being a sanctuary city. Considering the fact that Houston has a Hispanic majority population this has not caused any great outcry from the local Lulac and MEChA Hispanic race warriors.
The Houston mayoral race is rather interesting in another way. Annise Parker (the other candidate) is a lesbian and one would think according to the liberal hate propaganda about all of us “bitter teabagging Klingons with guns and bibles” one would think that a lesbian would be burned at the stake here. In true Houston fashion hardly anyone really cares who she sleeps with, all they care about is if she can do the job. The majority of those who do care are the Hispanics, they apparently do not like lesbians.
It is interesting situation. Who are the Hispanics going to vote for? The black man who will enforce immigration law or the lesbian?
December 2nd, 2009 | 11:12 am | #21
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December 2nd, 2009 | 11:52 am | #23
Joe is my hero too. Whatever happened to ushers and bouncers to remove unruly audience members?
This once again shows the fascistic nature of today’s libtard college student, free speech for me but not for any with whom I disagee.
December 2nd, 2009 | 12:39 pm | #24
Journalism students have got to be the worst for swallowing socialism hook, line, and sinker.
December 2nd, 2009 | 12:45 pm | #25
Sheriff Joe is doing more than just holding the line on Rule of Law for illegals – actually the ONLY FAIR and JUST way to handle it – all other approaches are ARBITRARY, POLITICAL and fundamentally BIASED.
He’s just filed RICO charges in Phoenix…
wooo-hooo! Clean ‘em out!
http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/12/01/arpaio-thomas-to-pursue-rico-charges-against-supes-court-officials/
December 2nd, 2009 | 1:08 pm | #26
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December 2nd, 2009 | 1:39 pm | #27
Why didn’t they keep the camera on the little thugs? We could of used it for a nice U-Tube video exposing the a** holes for what they are!
December 2nd, 2009 | 5:24 pm | #28
This is what happened to the “self-esteem” movement: it produced a generation of spoiled-rotten attention-seeking babies who think they deserve attention for acting like spoiled-rotten attention-seeking babies.
No manners, no consideration for the rights of others, no concept of having to actually WORK for anything they get.
Nincompoops.
December 2nd, 2009 | 5:30 pm | #29
Those so-called journalism students are just upset that printed news is in its death throes and that, upon graduation, they’ll all be back to working at Micky D’s flipping burgers for the next 20 years struggling to payoff those student loans.
And with taxes at all income levels expected to go through the roof to pay for all of Obama’s socialistic programs, despite Obama’s false promises to the contrary, these pukes will all be lucky if they’re still living indoors in 2012.
Relax… We’re the ones who will have the last laugh on these leftist hacks.
December 2nd, 2009 | 5:54 pm | #30
stupid hippies. from Vietnam to now dumb people have been there to protest crap. All they do is make us want to have protected sex. Embarrassing to see such stupidity.
December 2nd, 2009 | 6:49 pm | #31
these pukes will all be lucky if they’re still living indoors in 2012
Love it!
December 2nd, 2009 | 7:05 pm | #32
“The local reporters also pounded Arpaio during the interview before it was called off.”
Here’s what was at that link
Susan Green, Cronkite News Service’s Broadcast Director, hammered Arpaio again and again on his refusal to allow the reporters he doesn’t like into media events, pointing out that his “open door” was shut to some.
Arpaio was “hammered again and again” but when Obama and his flunkies declared war on Fox news, barely a peep. I wonder if the media has a liberal bias?
December 2nd, 2009 | 8:32 pm | #33
It is a college campus, what did you expect.
December 2nd, 2009 | 9:29 pm | #34
It is an outrage they were not thrown out on their butts, the way we would have been had we tried such antics at a leftist’s speech.
Tom Tancredo had the same treatment at UNC last year.
And WE (the citizens) were called “uncivil” b/c we dared question members of congress in town halls?
As long a the spoiled brats get their way (they WON – the session was cancelled) they’ll keep it up. The administration is responsible and should have stopped it immediately.
December 2nd, 2009 | 11:47 pm | #35
I’d be wary of making a hero of Joe.
I’d encourage anyone to find the video of his officer stealing files from a defense attorney, or read about his armed raid on his county IT department, and then ponder if all is really well in his operation of his fiefdom.
December 11th, 2009 | 2:34 pm | #36
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