Atlas Shrugs September 24, 2022 Pamela Geller _Huge Infidel Victory: UC Muslim Students Found Guilty On All Counts of Disrupting Meeting and Shutting Down Free Speech _ (http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=59241637&f=26412&u=13042656&c=4074678)
Justice was served today in a California courtroom. A six-man, six-woman jury found members of the Muslim Brotherhood group, the Muslim Student Union, guilty on all counts of misdemeanor disturbing a public meeting and conspiracy in connection with the Feb. 8, 2010. They deliberately broke the law. They deliberately disrupted and shut down Ambassador to Israel Michael Oren's, speech, knowing full well that they risked arrest. The stealth jihadists use freedom of speech to shut down freedom of speech. There is no freedom of speech under the sharia. Today American law triumphed over the sharia. Atlas readers and others are to _be applauded for urging the DA to prosecute the Muslim Brotherhood_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4074678/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/08/action-alert- prosecute-muslim-student-union-for-free-speech-attack.html) supremacist group. The Irvine 11 are the MSU students at UC Irvine who are accused of disrupting Ambassador Oren's speech. This was an orchestrated attack on free speech. Please take a minute to email Tony Rackauckas, the Orange County DA, letting him know you support his decision to prosecute these MSU students. Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR pushed for an aggressive plan to stop this prosecution. Both groups were named as Brotherhood proxies and unindicted co-conspirators in the largest Hamas funding trial in American history. No modern phenomenon has impacted college campuses today more than the Muslim Student Association/Union. Founded in 1963 by the Muslim Brotherhood — the same radical Sunni organization that spawned the terror group Hamas â €” the MSU has since made headlines around the country due to its militant and controversial rhetoric. The MSU, especially that of University of California at Irvine, is infamous for attracting charges of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, as well as for sparking the 2007 investigation of UCI for anti-Semitism. The MSU is no stranger to the First Amendment. Come May every year, the organizations hides behind it so its members can spout anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic remarks on college campuses. And just last February, MSU members at UCI attempted to use their right to free speech in order to deny Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren his own free speech. _(more here.)_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4074678/http://pajamasmedia.com/ blog/the-psychology-of-ucis-muslim-student-union/) The Brotherhood thugs: _Atlas Shrugs, Feb 2010:_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4074678/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/201 0/02/muslim-thugs-shout-down-silence-amabassador-from-israel-12-arrested-the-rise-of-the-fourt h-reich.html) Oren was interrupted 10 times while trying to give his speech before 500 people at the UCI Student Center, where there was heavy security. Oren took a 20 minute break after the fourth protest, asked for hospitality and resumed his speech, only to be interrupted again by young men yelling at him every few minutes. Many members of the audience also applauded Oren. After the 10th interruption, several dozens students who opposed Oren’s talk got up and walked out and staged a protest outside. It is not clear whether they were members of the UCI Muslim Student Union, which issued an email earlier in the day condemning Oren’s appearance on campus. They invoke freedom of speech to to kill freedom of speech. There is no free speech under the sharia. Today American law triumphed over the sharia. _UC Muslim students guilty of disturbing speech_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4074678/http://www.ocregister.com/news/speech-318635- students-defense.html) (hat tip Laurie R) SANTA ANA “ A jury Thursday found 10 Muslim university students guilty of disrupting a speech by an Israeli diplomat at UC Irvine last year, in a case that focused on free speech. The six-man, six-woman jury found the students guilty on all counts of misdemeanor disturbing a public meeting and conspiracy in connection with the Feb. 8, 2010, talk by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States.We're delighted the jury saw this the same way we saw it," said Assistant District Attorney Dan Wagner. The prosecution said the defendants used a "heckler's veto" to thwart the free speech rights of the speaker and others in the audience, while the defense countered what the protesters did was a lawful expression of their free speech. Defense attorney Dan Stormer said he was honored to represent the students, but disappointed in the verdict. The jurors left the courtroom without comment immediately after the verdict was announced. Court will reconvene at 1:30 this afternoon for a possible sentencing. After months of pretrial motion, the trial lasted eight days, including about two days spent on closing arguments by one prosecutor and six defense attorneys earlier this week. Wagner told jurors the protesters actions amounted to censorship when they planned to disrupt Oren and tried to cover it up. The right to free speech is not absolute, he said, and it does not include canceling out the speech of others. "If heckler's veto was allowed, then no one would have the right to free speech," he said. "Freedom does not mean that no one can tell me what I can do. That's not freedom; that's anarchy." The prosecutor urged jurors not to buy into the "alternate reality" created by the defense, saying the defendants "convicted themselves." Defense attorneys for the students' “ seven from UC Irvine and three from UC Riverside, "said their clients intentionally disrupted the speech, but they believed they were conducting a peaceful protest that did not break any laws. University officials' zero tolerance for protest kept students from exercising their rights to free speech, defense attorneys argued. And, it they told jurors in Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson's court officials were prohibiting the content of the protesters' statements at a controversial political speech and not simply their conduct. One of the elements the prosecution needed to prove for the jury to find the students guilty was the students' conduct and not the content of their message disrupted the speaker. "It was the message that was being targeted by administrators," defense attorney Lisa Holder said, "The university was prohibiting (the students') unpopular pro-Palestinian message."[...] The "intent of the conspiracy was to rob the speaker of his free speech rights," Wagner told jurors, adding that a planned Q&A would have given students ample opportunity to have their say, not yelling out "something non-responsive that violates the rules we all live with."When in an emailed "game plan" before the event students expressed willingness to disrupt regardless of what the university officials and police would do, that Wagner said was proof of conspiracy and the unlawfulness of the plan. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
