Campus Conservatives stage fake antiwar protest

[wyethwire]

It's unusual for students at Clemson University in the foothills of South Carolina to get riled up about anything - except football.

Which is why a student protest against the war in Iraq this spring drew so much attention.

To bad it was all faked.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/1/94054/53474

[Frederik]

1. That's their SOP

MIHOP.

[tabasco]

2. Why don't they march down to the recruiter's office?

Cowardly assholes.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. thank you!

Those dipshits should always be met by counter-protestors with enlistment forms.

[Pockets]

5. I second that...

The web page won't load here, but I am also curious if they support the war why don't they join?

[calico1]

4. Its when I hear about things like this that

I wish they would reinstate the draft. See how they feel about it then and how humorous they think this all is. But of course students who really get it would have to be drafted too so I guess that is a bad thing to wish for.

[Wickerman]

6. read the source article

great stuff:

http://www.metrobeat.net/gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid%3A3291

The confusing saga of the faux protest created by Andrew R. Davis is still unfolding, but there are a few facts that are not in dispute. Davis, a 20-year-old political science major, and the publication he edits, the Tiger Town Observer, are ideological soul mates of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, way out in right field where George W. Bush can do no wrong. Why would someone holding these beliefs want to organize an anti-war rally to protest the Bush policy in Iraq?

That's a good question, but what officials really want to know is how Davis managed to fool so many people with such a blatant hoax. Clemson spokesperson Robin Denny confirms, "Judicial Services is investigating, collecting materials and talking to people to determine if there has been a violation of Clemson University policy." In addition, Denny says the apparent ease with which Davis used a fake name to gain approval for his event has the Student Affairs University Union staff "reviewing policy and revising procedures to include positive identification of contact persons for such events."

--snip--
As Chief Harris sums it up, "This is basically a peaceful, conservative campus that does not rise up for controversy in the way you might have at a more politically diverse institution."

As for the College Republicans, they say they're feeling a little burned by this whole turn of events. Robert Frisina, a senior history major from Columbia who is president of the College Republicans at Clemson, denies any prior knowledge that the event was phony. "It makes us look like fools," said Frisina. "This is a serious blow to our credibility."

--snip--

Unfortunately for Coulter - and Davis - such stereotypes mostly exist in the minds of ideological nutcases who see black helicopters hovering at the periphery of their most paranoid fantasies. As it turns out, there was a guy in a black ski mask on the Clemson campus spouting ridiculous rhetoric about President Bush - but he was one of the president's supporters. There is an outrage in there somewhere.

[JohnyCanuck]

7. And not for the first time either Robert.

"It makes us look like fools," said Frisina. "This is a serious blow to our credibility."

[blm]

10. They did it during the campaign "Communists for Kerry" was a GOP operation

and many of the corporate media promoted their staged events as if they were real.

[gratuitous]

8. Ah, the luxurious life of the campus chickenhawk

Safe in his little conservative cocoon, no draft, no responsibility, all his bills paid by mummy and bumpy, and someone else dying far, far away, out of sight and out of mind. Gee, what is there to do? Think, think.

[geomon666]

9. What a jackass

Sigh...how did he even figure out how to get into college?

[AntiCoup2K4]

12. Wow, someone so proud of his protesting he wears a ski mask

The "Cuba" sweatshirt is a nice touch too. COINTEL PRO Asshole!

Same exact fucking BULLSHIT as the WTO protests in Seattle. Right wing ASSHOLES in ski masks stirring up shit and the mediawhores paint the entire crowd as "violent radicals".

[underpants]

13. Well put

[applegrove]

11. This is what happens when neocons teach your children. n/t