Of course the unhinged-Left is having a fit about the arrest of Ajai Raj after his offensive comments and gestures following last night’s Ann Coulter lecture.
Here’s the article in today’s Daily Texan (UT student-run newspaper), where Raj worked on a volunteer basis for a brief time.
Incessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by Ann Coulter, an extreme right-wing pundit, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Shouts became so pervasive during the question-and-answer session that Coulter informed the organizers she would no longer take questions if the hecklers were not silenced. For a time, the shouts were considerably lessened, until the issue of gay marriage was broached.
Coulter said she supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman on the basis that a good woman civilizes and inspires a man to strive for something better, leading to a question that was met with a stunned silence.
“You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage,” said Ajai Raj, an English sophomore. “How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but fuck his wife up the ass?”
UT Police officers approached Raj to arrest him, resulting in a mass exodus of protesters chanting, “Let him go.”
“The person had been disruptive the entire event,” said Matt Hardigree, former Student Events Center president. “He took the opportunity to say something lewd and offensive and then made masturbatory gestures as he exited.”
And this wasn’t Mr. Raj’s first run-in with police either. According to PartyCampus.com, he was arrested over spring break for drug possession. His experience led him to write, “I learned that, according to our ‘justice’ system, a straight-A college kid holding a bag of weed is as bad a criminal as a guy who beats his wife and kid.”
Of course Byron LaMasters at the Burnt Orange Report was unhinged, too.
But the most off-the-wall and unhinged reaction was posted at the Daily Kos (no surprise there):
The police (who were there in full force that evening to protect Coulter from the fatal threat of banana creme) had taken the questioner by the arms when he attempted to leave the auditorium after signaling to his friends that he was leaving. Two officers grabbed him and with an undeniably excessive amount of force pushed him out of the very same auditorium that he was exiting on his own.
First of all, there were three uniformed officers present in the Auditorium. If you think that is ‘full force’ then you have not been to 6th St. on Halloween. And I’ll deny that it was excessive. More accurately, it looked to be sufficient force to remove the idiot.
I immediately jumped out of my seat in the back and was near the front of a crowd of 20 or 30 students and activists that were shouting “LET HIM GO!” at the two police officers, only one of which whose name and badge number I remembered-Gabriel 427. We rushed out of the auditorium following the man who was being detained for exercising his first amendment right and surrounded the officers, all the while shouting and attempting to un-arrest our newly discovered friend.
So, you’re one of the idiots on the riot squad? Surrounding and shouting at the officers? While they were attempting to do their job? You’re lucky that the lot of you weren’t arrested for obstruction or threatening an officer. And what exactly does ‘attempting to un-arrest’ mean?
They led him around to the back of a van where he was pinned face down on the cold, dirty concrete, away from the eyes of his concerned compatriots and the lens of the television camera that arrived. What they did to him for the five minutes that he was isolated from the rest of us is a mystery.
If he was led around to the back of a van, ‘away from the eyes of his concerned compatriots comrades…then how did you see him ‘pinned face down on the cold, dirty concrete’? Do you want to know what they ‘did’ to him during those excruciating 5-minutes? It’s called standard procedure: the handcuffed the kid, they read him his rights, and they searched him before placing him in the cruiser. Standard stuff. Or are you implying that they went “Rodney King” on your comrade? Care to back that allegation up?
We demanded that the officers explain what he was being charged with. None of them replied. We asked politely. They stood steadfast. We threatened bad press and lawsuits with professors at our side. They didn’t flinch.
First, they don’t have to tell you a damned thing, especially while you are in the process of hindering the officers. Secondly…you asked politely? I’m calling bullshit. Especially when you have just previously admitted that you were ’surrounding and shouting’ at the officers. Or were you shouting politely?
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UPDATE: Here’s the Texas Penal Code that Mr. Raj was arrested under, and here is the police report of the incident.
Also posting on this topic:
I don’t understand why you call the ‘Burnt Orange Report’ “unhinged”. They barely comment on the story but to make the point I would imagine you’d make if your student fees were used to support, say Michael Moore:
“And for those of you wondering how much of our student fees were paid to that b*tch, the Daily Texan has the answer: The $30,000 event was co-sponsored by the Texas Union Student Events Center and Student Endowed Centennial Lectureship Committee.”
[...] *** I don’t think I’ll be attending the dog-and-pony show this evening. But I’ll bet you that no Republican or otherwise-Conservative protestors will be arrested for throwing pies, salad dressing, or vulgarities at Ms. Dowd during her speech. That’s something resereved for the “peaceful and tolerant” Left. [...]
[...] My favorite blogging event in Austin was the Ann Coulter appearance at the LBJ Auditorium earlier this year. It was a memorable event, not so much for the speech itself, but for the opposition Coulter’s appearance on campus caused and the subsequent arrest of Ajai Raj. [...]
From looking at some of the CON-servative blog titles listed- no wonder you all sound like a bunch of kooks and loonies.. HILLBILLY WHITE TRASH…LOL
What an accomplished debater you are, Mr. Alfaro. Bravo on your exquisite use of ad hominem attacks to defend your opinion. Perhaps you can set up some strawmen for us in your rebuttal.