-By Warner Todd Huston
Today a left-wing, anti-American student at Louisiana State University wanted to burn a flag for, he claimed, “due process for students and suspected terrorists alike.” Yeah. Whatever.
As it happens, the students he was claiming to represent didn’t seem to appreciate his idea, though. Several hundred of them turned out to the place where he appeared and drowned out his sniveling statement with loud chants of “USA, USA.”
This nebbish was unable to get his little screed spoken and when water balloons began to pelt him the cops quickly moved him out putting an end to the whole scene. It was epic fail for this dude’s blather.
Now, let me say that I am thrilled to see a large number of the student body of any American university turn out in support of patriotic sentiment. This is a change. For decades our universities have been a hotbed of anti-Americanism, filled with limp-wristed, half-wit kids that are acting out against the USA like 10-year-olds.
This time, however, a big crowd gathered to actually support the USA. It is a welcome change on our campuses and I hope it is a growing trend that eventually scares straight the leftist administrations of these schools.
Our schools need to be returned to institutions that celebrate America, instead of the self-loathing, anti-American places thy now are.
… and now the but…
The throwing of water balloons at this stoop shouldered, pantywaist was simply wrong. Shouting him down was bad enough but was at least a legitimate expression of their positions. I would not have supported the shouting down should this kid have been at an indoor, official school event. That sort of disruption would have been too much. But that it was out doors and not inside the school mitigates the opposition, too.
But the throwing of things was not right. Even though water balloons are the least harmful thing you can think of in such a situation, it was still wrong to commence the throwing of things.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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Since most people don’t carry water balloons in their pockets they were obviously prepared in advance and the throwing of them was premeditated. At least those who did it did not fill them with paint as the left has been known to do.
I remember as a child some neighborhood kids were squirting me with water guns. I ran home crying and when I told my mom what the problem was she said, “So what, It’s only water.” That woke me up, I quit crying and I ended up running out to let the other kids squirt me. – I got wet and had fun too.
As long as it does not escalate to harder objects such as rotten vegetables or rocks I think WATER balloons are a great device to use to express one’s ‘freedom of speech’ as the left defines it.
Yes, water balloons are the least to worry about. But my worry is that it WILL graduate to something worse. I think throwing things should be eschewed.