The historic naked lack of objectivity by “free speech” advocates reminds me of the most emotional advocates of global climate warming change.
They are the professional victim boys of our society.
I never have met a free speech advocate who didn’t plaster a giant signboard around his neck saying,
“I Am a Victim. Feel Sorry for Me.”
The latest case of Feel Sorry for Me thuggery involves 10 well-organized, calculatedly trained Arab boys, mostly from U.C. Irvine, who are on trial in Orange County for savagely disrupting a campus speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren a year ago last February.
The disrupters — who could get six months in jail — were choreographed more finely than the Philharmonic. That is what is so disgusting.
UCI has been an anti-Semitic hotbed for bullyboy Arab misbehavior for a number of years.
(See http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/02/sympathizers_and_opponents_of.php)
Placing Mr. Oren in the midst of the Irvine campus was no different from donning a yarmulke in Cairo tonight and trying to walk one block without being assaulted, if not killed.
This afternoon’s subject, though, is this morning’s story in the always partisan Los Angeles Titanic on the Jew-hating Arab students’ explosive trial in Santa Ana.
This isn’t Kansas, dear readers; this is the Middle East brought home in flames. But you never would know it from the Titanic.
To quote the opening:
“A UC Irvine professor overstepped his boundaries when he told students that no disruptions were allowed during the Israeli ambassador’s visit on campus last year, according to testimony [by] UC Irvine professor Rei Terada, an expert on the history and guidelines of free speech.”
The reporter, one Mona Shadia, probably not a Dublin native, seems to have a personal stake in the story because she presents Ms. Terada, Radical Rei, as a virginal, disinterested expert who just sailed in on the noon balloon from Saskatoon, inquiring, blankly, “What’s up, boys?”
The truth is the opposite.
The 40ish hot-tempered Ms. Terada has a deep emotional, cultural, professional stake in the outcome of the trial. She has made it plain in a year and a half of public rantings that she hates Jews for being Jews as virulently as she agrees with the behavior and rhetoric of the Arab thugs.
The original story is too complex to be fairly related here, but the scenario is familiar: Speaker arrives at the podium, rowdy thugs in the audience, on cue, act out.
Before Mr. Oren spoke, the emcee, UCI Prof. Mark Petracca, warned the likely (?) to erupt students, according to the Titanic, “that he expected the highest civility. ‘This is, after all, not a street corner; it is a university. It is not the British Parliament; it is a university. And it is not even a joint session of Congress hearing the President of the United States. It is a university.’”
Radical Rei, sounding like an undisciplined street kid, was outraged.
According to the OCWeekly.com,
“As someone who has organized and attended 20 years of controversial events, Terada said it is ‘very rare’ for an official to restrain the tone of the event before it occurs. She said she believes neither Petracca nor [UCI Chancellor Michael] Drake had the authority to make those rules…
“‘If the top official at a university does not have the authority . . . who does?’ asked lead prosecutor Dan Wagner.
“Terada responded, ‘I don't think there is an authority in that situation, where many people object to the event.’”
And yet, despite her testimony, this extremist anti-Semitic professor was presented to Titanic readers as a smart, disinterested expert.
