Yay, wasting student's time.
 

I hope the rest of the ASUC Senate isn't as stupid as Dimitri Garcia. This condemnation sets a horrible precedent...especially for many pro-Israel, or pro-Arab commentators that indoubtedly will be invited to speak on campus. This one's best left untouched.
 

Oops. Yay for typos. :-P
 

My name is Marvin Stewart, I'm an American Blackman, who serves on the Board of Directors of the MinutemanProject.com,[MMP] as Director of Community Relations. I was the first speaker on the stage at Columbia, where I endured 45 minutes of racial epithets from the kool-aid drinking socialist facist, in adition to be assualted by two thugs who rushed the stage. I thank God Almighty for the pepper spray I had in my possesion. I presented the thugs with the following statement "make your decision" as I leveled my arm in the position to spray the both of them. It is apparent that these kool-aid drinking socialist facist, no nothing of the U.S. Constitution [Article IV Section 4. “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a Republican form of government and shall protect each of them from invasion”.] It is further evident that they [ASUC]havn't a clue of the Declaration of Independence, which is the foundation of our U.S. Constitution, which states the following:

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

JAMES MADISON desired to invite foreigners of both, merit and Republican principles. "Republican government presupposes the existence of the better qualities in human nature to a higher degree than any other form of government."

A Republican form of Government's purpose is "to first, secure its own citizen's Unalienable (Natural) Rights of life, liberty, and property."

But, that form of Government can only derive such power, "from the consent of the governed." And every person's character plays a vital role in helping to secure the
peace, safety and happiness of a free State.

• Men have a right and a duty to form governments to secure their rights, and to assist one another in striving for happiness.
• Men are authorized by the Creator to defend these rights, and accordingly, so are the governments they form. From this authority proceeds the right and duty to defend national sovereignty and security.
• Governments are made legitimate by the consent of the free and equal persons who form and sustain them. Governmental powers are always to be understood as a delegation from the persons who compact to form the political community.
• To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government--the virtue of self-control. A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty.

As for Dimitri Garcia the spokeperson for the ASUC who assumes that illegal aliens have civil rights in this Nation. I strongly suggest that he let the kool-aid along.

Many, primarily Mexicans, who are protesting restrictive policies for illegal immigrants, say they are emulating Blacks and have labeled recent protest the new civil rights movement, demanding “civil rights” What is my perspective?

The two movements are not comparable. The definition of the term civil rights distinguishes the two social actions. Civil Rights are defined as rights to which citizens are entitled. The Black Civil rights Movement and the demands of illegal immigrants to gain rights of citizens, then are different by definition, Illegal immigrants are not citizens, therefore they have no standing to demand civil rights. The Black Civil Rights Movement was a quest by legal citizens for rights they had been denied by law through the periods of slavery and Jim Crow segregation.

President Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919, 10 years after his presidency.
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

Every member of the state ought to diligently read and study the constitution of his country by knowing their rights they will sooner perceive when they are violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them. [John Jay]
 

Um. Right. *sigh* As a matter of policy, I prefer to have folks who have things to say go ahead and say them. This >50% quotes from dead people approach is pathetic.
 

that comment sounded somewhat "academic" though...