Expect additional sections of this post tomorrow as more correspondents from north of the Cheddar Curtain check in.
SECOND SECTION: Sean at The American Mind was there, and took additional pictures. Brainpost also attended, and filed a report. Charlie Sykes noted that some protestors there to defend Mr Churchill's right to free speech found a prayer vigil for the September 11 dead to be an inappropriate exercise of free speech.
Professor Althouse covered the story, more out of obligation than to discover any originality (or perhaps -- check the time stamp -- because even the same old arguments from the left that there are no innocents were insufficient to bore her to sleep?)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.
I find him incredibly boring, saying the sort of tired old things that radicals have been saying for as long as we can remember. He's getting way too much leverage out of a metaphor, and it's not even an inventive metaphor.The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's coverage observes, without commentary, the academy's dodge of excluding controversial speakers for safety reasons.
Media coverage, especially on conservative talk shows, has turned Churchill into a villain for people who believe he's unpatriotic and not using academic freedom responsibly. Some colleges, citing security, have canceled his talks.You'd think, with all that sensitivity training that goes on in freshman orientation, that campus audiences would be more mannerly. Oh, wait a minute, "mannerly" has hegemonic overtones, doesn't it.
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