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I Got Invited to Speak at UCLA. Guess What Happened Next.

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Back on April 15, I received an extremely courteous message from Matthew Weinberg, the chairman of the UCLA chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), inviting me to speak on campus in mid-May. While I was grateful for the invitation and immediately accepted, being invited to UCLA was the equivalent of getting a message from the dentist saying it’s time for a root canal: it’s painful and unpleasant, but necessary.

The pro-Hamas mob in the campus encampment, however, might not allow someone as dangerous as me to speak there. Yes, they’re the ones in charge.

YAF explained what is happening in a Thursday article: “In a meeting with the leaders of UCLA Young Americans for Freedom, Police Sergeant Roland Ruiz said, ‘I can say from the PD perspective, we can’t approve – we don’t know yet – how long the encampments will go on, and so we wouldn’t yet give our approval.’ He explained that unless the students pack up camp within the next 14 days, the YAF chapter’s permission to host an event is in jeopardy.”

You read that right: it’s up to the mob whether someone who opposes their point of view will be allowed to speak. Weinberg has been trying to get approval for the event and has submitted all the required forms, but has gotten no response.

He has tried to get meetings with UCLA Student Organizations, Leadership & Engagement administrators Kenneth Qian, Mike Cohn, and Kristopher Kaupalolo, but they have treated him as if he did not exist. After all, he is not a leftist, and so in their world, he doesn’t.

Finally, Weinberg threatened to take the matter to the chancellor, which made the UCLA wonks suddenly decide that they did want to meet with him after all. But UCLA Student Union administrator Pamela Lewis told Weinberg that “there is no timeframe” for the YAF chapter getting word on whether or not the event can go ahead.

Weinberg trenchantly noted the glaring double standard: “It sounds like we might not know [the approval status] until the very last minute and we won’t be able to promote the event, and that is an infringement of our First Amendment rights. The people in the encampments are frankly violating campus policy and nothing is being done about it. People are being physically assaulted, we just want a free speech event, and we’re being told no.”

Yep. For decades now, far-left professors have been bombarding students with lies, half-truths, and leftist fantasies, and telling them that those who think differently are demons in human form. I’ve experienced the results firsthand on many occasions.

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Comments

  1. Freedom to shriek, support terrorism, and break the country’s laws, but not to present valid, well-researched truth. I don’t know whether to hope it goes ahead or not, as these jihadis have attacked so many people now.

  2. It’s like the Wild West when outlaws ruled towns and nothing happened without their permission….and they didn’t give it.

    For some reason, I now have the words and tune to “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence” going around in my brain.

    • somehistory,

      Great movie choice, for sure.

      My first thought was “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964).

      • James, I don’t care much for Jimmy Stewart, but it was a good movie. He played a wimpy pretty well.
        Fistful is a good choice too. Might have been my first thought if not for the song for the other one.
        I have music in my mind all of the time and sometimes, the song fits the situation.
        Is there a medical term for always having music going around in the brain? I’ll get up in the mornings with a song going around, sometimes it’s one I have not heard in years.

        • We have a rare disagreement, somehistory. Jimmy Stewart was terrific, for instance in “Destry Rides Again,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “It’s a Wonderful Life, “Rope,” “Vertigo,” and “The Philadelphia Story.” As for his role in “The Man who Shot Liberty Valence,” he was supposed to play a Quaker-like character but even in that film he did punch out John Wayne in the “paint scene.”

          Born in Pennsylvania, went to Princeton and performed heroically in WWII. He was the real deal all around I would argue. I always look upon him fondly—and he was a true conservative to the core of his being. If only Hollywood today had more like him.

        • Wellington, I think it was his voice more than anything that grated on my nerves. There is a very old movie, can’t recall the name of it, where he was brand new. I think it kind of sets the tone for me and my opinion of his acting.
          I liked him in The Shootist. And he was believable in Vertigo. And I have seen most of his movies.
          I had read/heard most of what you wrote. As a *person,* he was likely one of a kind.
          So on the facts of his real life, we don’t really disagree.

        • As to music and the brain, somehistory, I never thought when I was a kid that so much of what I heard then would still be with me as an adult. Like you, I have songs pop in out of nowhere.

        • Some, I too associate many events with songs. When I watch what is going on my number song is Hit the Road Jack and don’t choo come back no more, no more. I love Roy Orbison singing This is MY Land, Mario Lanza singing I’ll Walk With God.

        • James, thanks for the link. I once saw these bits of melody described as brain candy.

        • Thanks, ET. It seems to be true of many of us who “think” clearly. Great songs may have a lot of Truth within.

        • Thanks for the link, James.

          I’ve watched Rear Window numerous times, and there is one western I have seen often…besides the Liberty Valence one. As I said, it was mainly his voice. Much like Tom Selleck as Magnum…kind of whiney.
          With me, it’s not the same song going on and on…once in a while it happens…but with many songs throughout the day.
          But, thanks for the info on ‘ear worms.’ (the name is not great, is it?) I found long ago that listening to the entire song, if one song is persistent, works sometimes.
          “I hear muuus…ic…let me in…”

          And, thanks, HP, for the better term of “brain candy.”
          It is in the brain and not the ear, after all.

        • I always thought because of “Vertigo” and movies like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Winchester ’73,” etc., that Stewart was the best American movie actor of his generation, though there are certainly close seconds like Tracy and Bogart. Clark Gable is fantastic in “Gone with the Wind” and “It Happened One Night.” John Wayne certainly is highly underrated if you look at his very best roles, such as “The Searchers,” “Red River” and “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and compare them to the best roles of the other top actors.

  3. Ronald Reagan – January 5, 1967: Inaugural Address (Public Ceremony). …….”Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”…….

  4. Switzerland isn’t neutral anymore. They just joined the european ‘sky shield’ missile defense alliance

  5. “Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies.”
    I don’t know who to attribute this to.

    • The internet says Ron Paul in a book he wrote, “The Revolution: A Manifesto”.

    • I believe that George Orwell said it first, and that Ron Paul was quoting him.

  6. I am a Fordham U alumnus, Class of 1958, and my estate goes to Hillsdale College with not a dime to Fordham, which has gone far to the left as decades have passed. Actions have consequences and I hope Fordham feels the consequences by donors avoiding them.

  7. I Got Invited to Speak at UCLA. Guess What Happened Next.
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    Sadly, none of this surprises…

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