Hope the police are on hand on that day as Iâll bet they try to march onto the campus.
Reason? The media will report 1st thatâŚâat Texas A&M today, Nazi sympathizersâŚâ. You know they want max coverage of their hate-filled event.
Yup. Exactly the same first thoughts I hadâŚ
Texas A & M? Anarchy & Mayhem?
IANAL, but I think this is tricky, complicated ground for a public school. A&M administrators are no doubt thankful that the organizers gave them an easy, obvious out by directly linking this scheduled event to one where somebody got murdered.
It could be an ugly fall on campusesâŚ
Aawwwww. pRick Perry wonât able to show up in his cadet drag.
I thought he attended Faber College, not A&MâŚ
Faber had entrance requirements
From a different article:
After A&Mâs announcement Monday, Wiginton said he felt as though university administrators and state legislators, who had called for A&M to cancel the 9/11 rally, were saying, âWhite lives donât matter.â
âThey violated our First Amendment rights. Whites are now in the 1960s. Do we have to sit in the back of the bus?â
No, but you will be directed back to the short bus you rode in on.
So if âwhites are now in the 1960s,â Wiginton is accepting the fact that in the 1960s the rights of Black citizens were routinely violated?
Hell, even reichwing Gov. Lite Patrick is denouncing the trash.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to neo-Nazis: âNot here, not now, not ever.â
(Guess since his bathroom bill went down to defeat - again - Patrick is focusing on Nazis and not transgenders.)
Despite the embarrassment of having given diplomas to Rick Perry and Louie Gohmert, A&M is an outstanding academic/research school that has served many of my former, mostly Latino/Latina, students well. I am pleased that they stepped up and did the right thing on this issue. They may get a lawsuit from the wing nuts, but so let it be.
Nope. 9-11 has already been taken by another terrorist group.
Why they held it in the first place is just baffling.
Reschedule it at Guantanamo Bay. Allow Richard " punk neo-nazi" Spencer & Preston Wiginton to speak to the other jihadists being held there ,and allow the jihadists a few moments alone with them.
No, when you get on the big bus taking you to the penitentiary, you can sit wherever you like.
Iâm not sure A&M ever banned latinos. But it barred blacks from day one. In fact, it was forced to set up the all black Prairie View A&M at the same time to get the federal land grant money used to estabish it. They were really disappointed when Confederate President Jefferson Davis turned down the invite to be its 1st president.
Black enrollment is now 3.6%. Thatâs in a state that is more than 12% black. No wonder they need a White Lives Matter rally.
One upside to the near-certainty that fascist demonstrations such as the Charlottesville debacle will result in violence, which is of course their aim, is that mayors and police chiefs have all the evidence they need to deny permits to assemble on public property, and the power to intervene if these groups go on to assemble illegally. Incitement to violence is NOT protected speech, and public safety is Job#1 for public officials, overriding even constitutional rights. If they do approve a permit, regardless of whatever local laws allow carrying of weapons, they are well within their powers to cordon the permitted area and screen all entrants for weapons of any kind, denying entry and even arresting those who refuse to comply. The mere prospect of having to submit to searches and surrender their penis extensions in order to join in may dampen the enthusiasm of some of the fascist adherents to show up for their riots-in-waiting. All it takes is local officials having the spine to use their broad powers, and as more and more of these groups make plain that violence is their admitted aim, I hope we will see more localities shut these assholes out.
Could be. I remember several years ago a skinhead group applied for permits to hold a rally in my hometown and the one adjacent to it. My city processed their application routinely without any fuss, and the event was sparsely attended and got very little media coverage.
The other city, which had a past as a KKK bastion decades ago, tried to put up obstacles by demanding a one million dollar bond and making other conditions. The group parleyed that obstruction by playing the victim and were able to get some sympathy in some quarters.