SFSU Republicans Refute Klasky On Blog

We found a response to Klasky's complaint of the Youtube Video, that Cactus Thorns along with the Mainstream Media took him out of context. This from an official blog of the San Francisco Campus Republicans posted Friday October 26, 2007.

By now almost 50,000 people have viewed our video that shows a bunch of radicals protesting the non-partisan 9/11 memorial at SFSU. One of the viewers was a head case from Georgia. He sent a threatening e-mail to the professor featured in our video. Of course this action is both stupid and illegal and the man should be charged with a crime and sent to prison if a judge deems that an acceptable punishment.

But lets analyze how the professor attempted to place at least partial blame on the College Republicans for the actions of some hick down south.

Quote 1 from the article:
"According to (the professor), the e-mail declaring, "We saw the video. Watch your back," found its way to his inbox shortly after Bill O'Reilly aired a segment of the event, characterizing SF State as disrespectful to 9/11 victims."

The footage of the professor was purposefully omitted from the segment that aired on fox news channel. The video had received over 35,000 hits before our segment aired on Fox News. Furthermore, College Republican Chair Leigh Wolf was very careful to separate the vast majority of SFSU from the radicals that protested the 9/11 memorial. The CRs were not "characterizing SF State as disrespectful to 9/11 victims." Despite all of this, the professor attempts to lead the reader to believe that the threat was made because we appeared on Fox News, when in reality he has zero evidence to back up such a claim.

Quote 2 from the article:
""It was a perfect example of the manipulation of the media to indicate the opposite of something that occurred," said (the Professor) of American Indian Studies, who received the intimidating e-mail."

At the event the professor was goading the protesters to go on stage and seize the microphone to speak their minds. He made no qualms about fully supporting the actions of the radicals and encouraged them to continue in their disruption of the event. While none of this is illegal, nor should it be, his actions are accurately depicted in the video.

Quote 3 from the article:
"(the professor) said he was concerned about the potential for violence and stepped in to quell the escalating tension at the 9/11 memorial"

A complete lie. The professor stepped in to encourage more dissent amongst the protesters and, as was aforementioned, even went so far as to encourage them to take the stage, seize the microphone and end the 9/11 memorial, which he claimed "was being used to justify illegal American wars."

Quote 4 from the article:
"(the professor) said the clip was taken out of context as he tried to broker a deal between the groups, offering protesters a chance to speak following the memorial in exchange for an end to their disruption."

The professor was publicly mocking the College Republicans and College Democrats for not allowing self-described radical communists to take the stage and spew hateful, radical propaganda that openly and gleefully disrespected every person who died on 9/11. It's ridiculous to assert that, in the interest of "intellectual discourse" we should be required to allow radicals to ruin the solemness of a memorial to the victims of 9/11. Would the communists allow us to espouse the virtues of capitalism at one of their events in Malcolm X Plaza? We've tried at least twice, to no avail.

This is the very same professor who started a debate at the 9/11 memorial two years ago about the use of the flag and singing of the star spangled banner. He claimed that the flag was a divisive symbol and should not be incorporated into a 9/11 memorial. The professor is a radical. He hates the College Republicans and has for sometime. Rather than placing the blame for this threatening e-mail where it belongs, on the idiot from Georgia, he chose to try and place partial blame on the College Republicans. These are but a few examples of the lies we endure and vitriolic hatred we live with. Link: http://gatorgop.blogspot.com/