Arrest made at Coulter speech
Student arrested, charged with disorderly conduct after offensive question
By Yashoda Sampath

ncessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by Ann Coulter, an extreme right-wing pundit, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

Shouts became so pervasive during the question-and-answer session that Coulter informed the organizers she would no longer take questions if the hecklers were not silenced. For a time, the shouts were considerably lessened, until the issue of gay marriage was broached.

Coulter said she supported the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman on the basis that a good woman civilizes and inspires a man to strive for something better, leading to a question that was met with a stunned silence.

"You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage," said Ajai Raj, an English sophomore. "How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but fuck his wife up the ass?"

UT Police officers approached Raj to arrest him, resulting in a mass exodus of protesters chanting, "Let him go."

"The person had been disruptive the entire event," said Matt Hardigree, former Student Events Center president. "He took the opportunity to say something lewd and offensive and then made masturbatory gestures as he exited."

Hardigree said that Cheryl Wood from the Office of the Dean of Students spoke with some of the protestors before the event, and assorted members of the Distinguished Speakers Committee asked them to sit in the back if they had signs and to leave quietly if they wanted to leave.

According to Jeffrey Stockerwell, a friend of Raj, officers violently seized Raj and illegally searched him after his question.

Police have charged Raj with disorderly conduct, a Class C misdemeanor.

Representatives of the Austin People's Legal Collective were taking statements from everyone at the scene, in case it should be taken to court.

Raj worked at the Texan on a volunteer basis for a brief time in March.

Before the speech began, the International Socialist Organization protested outside of the library, with about 12 people holding up signs with slogans such as "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, right-wing bigot go away" and "Stop the new McCarthyism."

The booing began early into Coulter's speech, when she issued a joke to pro-choice advocates.

"I wonder why those 'I Heart Partial-Birth Abortion' T-shirts aren't selling better," she said, followed by a combination of cheers and jeers.

Coulter went on to decry the conservative media bias she said liberals complain of, and she challenged the undemocratic actions of liberals with respect to Iraq and to the judiciary.

"They're always trying to act like they're oppressed," she said. "So let's do it. Let's oppress them."

One student asked Coulter why universities and institutions place microphones in front of Coulter when she advocates terrorism against liberals, prompting Coulter to mention the strength of her book sales. Coulter has had four New York Times best sellers.

The $30,000 event was co-sponsored by the Texas Union Student Events Center and Student Endowed Centennial Lectureship Committee.

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LOL

Ajai Raj = Hero

Hero? The kid comes across looking like a jackass. There were little kids in the audience according to the police report. Now why kids under 10 were there is beyond me, but geez, sounds to me like this Ajai fellow has no decency.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/05 ... ter_1.html

I wouldn't call that kid a hero. Funny, yes.

Still ... whoever brings their kids to hear Coultergiest speak ... maybe they should have been arrested too.

WGAFF about Coulter.

My alma mater at work. I UT.

aww, i would be so proud if i was you!

sure, i don't agree with coulter, but the way these people (specifically this guy who was arrested) behaved in such a manner that makes them look more extreme and out there than anything coulter could have said. that level of crudeness was not needed.

i also was left unimpressed with coulter's comebacks that boiled down to "i sell a lot of books, so neener neener".

If you were me, you'd be embarrassed about your penis size.

Level of crudeness? Because he said "fucks his wife in the ass?" Big fucking deal. I have more of a problem with her advocating violence than a few words of profanity, not to mention the crudeness of statements like "I wonder why those 'I Heart Partial-Birth Abortion' T-shirts aren't selling better." Fuck that stupid cunt.

If there were a liberal who wrote the kinds of vicious, hateful, and incediary things about conservatives that Coulter writes about liberals, and that person spoke at a large gathering at a conservative institution and said things like Coulter said at UT, what do you think would happen?

The person would be lower'd into a pool of water, that is well pass their head, in a cage i might add, like the animal that he or she is, until said person admitted to being a liberal, after which this individual would be burned at the stake for making comments only a submersive terrorist would attempt to make.

http://www.theskyiscrape.com/phpBB2/viewt ... aw+liberal

Not a person on staff with the power to grade the audience. Just a paid guest speaker, in an unfriendly room.

but like i said, you can express your hatred with her views/comments without swearing, which in this case led to being arrested and the focus taken from her downright crazy views to this guy's words.

i do not agree with anything ann coulter believes, but i believe that opposing views are more likely to be taken seriously by others when you refrain from stooping to vulgar language in very public situations like that. all a person is doing when using phrases like "fuck in the ass" is going for shock value, which is what ann coulter thrives on.

present an argument that would require real thought in response from her and much more damage would be done. with the "fuck in the ass", nobody is talking about her stupid retorts, but instead about this young guy with a foul mouth.

Yeah, I see what you're saying.

See, I don't understand how a woman who does all the stuff in that blog can be offended by this guy. Hell, her entire relationship w/ this guy was purely ass and mouth fucking.

1) I don't think that blog is a true story.

2) Who ever said AC was offended? Hell, she probably got off on it. It was the cops who got offended, and frankly, they did their job by arresting that dufus.