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Prominent Illegal Immigration Opponent Can’t Speak at PC

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Jennifer D. Jordan, Providence Journal, April 28, 2009

Tom Tancredo, former congressman from Colorado, Republican presidential candidate and outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, is scheduled to speak in Rhode Island on Wednesday. But he will not be addressing students at Providence College as he had originally planned, after college officials rejected a request from a student group to invite him to campus.

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The student group, Youth for Western Civilization, asked PC officials if they could also host Tancredo, but the request was denied, said PC spokeswoman Pat Vieira.

“They are not an officially recognized group,” Vieira said. “They asked very late in the semester when there was not enough time for the request to go through the usual channels.”

Just as important, Vieira said, were Bishop Thomas J. Tobin’s views on immigration and how immigrants—whether here legally or illegally—should be treated, which contrast sharply with Tancredo’s.

“The Bishop of Providence . . . is a member of the college’s Board of Trustees,” Vieira said in a written statement. “If a similar request to host a speaker on this topic is made in a future semester, the college will encourage and facilitate a format that allows for multiple points of view to be expressed.”

Gorman [Terry Gorman, executive director of RIILE (Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement)] said he and other anti-illegal immigration advocates are angered by the college’s refusal to allow Tancredo to speak.

“This college allowed Senators [Ted] Kennedy and [Sheldon] Whitehouse to speak, and they are virulently pro-abortion,” Gorman said. “That goes against Church teaching, but they were invited to campus.”

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Email Jennifer D. Jordan at jjordan@projo.com.

(Posted on April 29, 2009)

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1 — ice wrote at 7:23 PM on April 29:

“Providence College will not let Tancredo speak.”

The most bigotted institutions in the world are so-called institutes of higher education, known by the aware as mind-conditioning factories that stifle free thought and opinions they don’t agree with.

I just read an article yesterday outlining universities that were just now beginning to suffer budget shortfalls. If the experts are right, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t be, academia will be shreiking hysterically when the hammer drops on their social engineering projects and courses. (Better known as degrees for dummies.)


2 — WR the elder wrote at 8:13 PM on April 29:

It sure is interesting how whenever somebody on the far left is invited to give a talk at a university, whether that person is a white hating black nationalist, an Atzlan advocating Hispanic radical, a man hating lesbian feminist, or just an old fashioned Marxist, the speaker is never required to debate somebody with an opposing view. But a man can’t be allowed to speak who has the perfectly sensible view that immigration law should be enforced unless equal time is given to an opposing speaker.

3 — Anonymous wrote at 8:55 AM on April 30:

Remember when campus marxists wanted “free speech?” That was before they came to power.

4 — techie wrote at 11:05 AM on April 30:

Providence College has an active Multicult program and has had speakers that back this ideology as well as a national speaker who supports White Privilege. The “leaders” of the Catholic Church and their social beliefs are the reason many are leaving the church. Bishop Tobin is very much like a believer in Islam in that he sees religion as a vehicle to overcome secular laws he dislikes. Which are the next ones he chooses to ignore.
Christ said “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s”.

5 — Anonymous wrote at 5:08 PM on April 30:

Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know.

H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn’t mentioned on the news.It just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.

Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA . This is the news that didn’t make the headlines.

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in “migration assistance” to the Palestinian refugees and “conflict victims” in Gaza. The “presidential determination”, which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

To verify this for yourself: ———————————> www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488

6 — Anonymous wrote at 4:10 PM on May 4:

“H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn’t mentioned on the news.It just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.”
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I have jst received an e-mail letter from Rep.Henny Stoyer (called the Hoyer Herald, a regular info letter he sends out). In it he mentions:

“The last two weeks have been extremely productive in the House of Representatives. In that time we have passed legislation to strengthen community policing efforts and help law enforcement combat hate crimes.”

That is ALL that was said. He goes on to give further details and references in regard to other legislation, but NOTHING more about that mysterious “Hate Crimes” bill.

7 — Anonymous wrote at 9:36 PM on May 6:

The students at most colleges, as revealed by repeated assults against certain speakers demonstrates their offense against the First Admendment. The majority student/faculty blocks the thoughts/speech of those who may not agree. This is not new. I sat silent in my chair in the 80’s clearly knowing the domninant faculty/students do not tolerate ‘other’ opinions/viewpoints. I took a ‘D’ in one class for being ‘open minded’ and expressing different views. The college experience is now a production of political thought and route memorization of political doctrines. No wonder there is little real orginal creative thinking coming from colleges or even in the media. Everything is remakes! v


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