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University of Wisconsin Student Govt Leader Vandalizes Pro-Life Display
by Steven Ertelt
May 7, 2008Stevens Point, WI (LifeNews.com) — A University of Wisconsin Stevens Point student government leader is coming under fire for allegedly trashing a pro-life display on campus. Student senator Roderick King is said to have vandalized a display featuring crosses erected by the campus pro-life group to memorialize those babies killed in abortions.
The UWSP pro-life group Pointers for Life put up the Cemetery of the Innocents display and spent the morning last Thursday repairing the damage someone caused in an apparent vandalizism.
That’s when they were trashed a second time.
As students repaired the earlier damage, King led a group of angry students by walking through the rows of small crosses and plucking them from the ground and throwing them.
The national pro-life college group Students for Life of America told LifeNews.com that King began to voice his complaints and said that Pointers for Life had “no right” to display the crosses.
King said it was “his duty as a paying student” to take down the pro-life display.
The pro-life students notified campus Protective Services and, when an officer arrived, most of the students stopped vandalizing the display. However, King did not stop and claimed, “The freedom of speech does not cover these signs and symbols.”
According to a video pro-life students posted on YouTube, King refused to stop vandalizing the pro-life display until the campus security officer told him he would have to compensate the pro-life group for the damages he caused…
After the incident, Bob Tomlinson, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, apologized to Pointers for Life for the vandalism. Student government senators Katie Kloth and Erica Wardle reportedly stopped by the display and told the pro-life students they had properly reserved the space for the display and had a right to host it.
The evening of the vandalism, Pointers for Life submitted a complaint to the Student Government Association and asked for King to submit his resignation or face discipline from the body.
Students for Life of America tells LifeNews.com the SGA has yet to take any action against King.
Kryzkowski complained that the SGA has a responsibility to represent the rights of the members of her group.
“Student Senators should be helping to defend our freedom of speech, not trying to take it away because of personal beliefs,” she said…
All too typical, is it not?
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May 7th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
…”it was “his duty as a paying student” to take down the pro-life display….”
I wonder how much this son-of-a-bitch pays for the privelege to deny others’ their freedom of speech. If left up to me he would REALLY pay!
May 7th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Who is the lady in blue?
May 7th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
See also:
http://www.wausaudailyherald.c.....20560/1981
May 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Now thats diversity in action ! Sigh . This just proves that inaction by intimidation must stop .
How sad , how very ,very sad . Tax dollars at work in my own State . I wonder which Prof. whipped them up to this kind of maddness ?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I’ll bet if someone was pulling up and throwing little Roderick King’s “sex toy” display he would proclaim that a “hate crime”.
See, that’s just the kind of situation where I would gladly trade several weeks in jail just for the chance to stomp a mud puddle in his ass, but he strikes me as someone who might enjoy it.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
wirenut; ….”Tax dollars at work in my own State….”
I’m a UW-Stout alum. When I got back from ‘Nam in 69 I packed mybags, my wife, (she of Menomonie) and my daughter, and moved back home to Missouri. I knew if I returned to school on the GI Bill that I’d soon be in trouble for busting some asshole’s head just for such as this, or something equally stupid. To this day, stuff like this drives me up a wall. The only thing pecker-heads like this dunce King understand is a good ass-whipping. He could use an attitude adjustment via blanket party. What a douche-bag!
May 7th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I knew if I returned to school on the GI Bill that I’d soon be in trouble for busting some asshole’s head just for such as this…
You earned the privilege to do just that, but it seems you made the better decision. This crap drives me crazy too. I know I’d be in jail for a long time if I witnessed something like that in person. I have yet to develope that much self control but I’m praying for it.
Thanks for your sacrfice JMG. All of you!
May 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
JohnMG , know the area well and Thank You for your service . Welcome home . If you know Indian head country , I live on the chin next to Lake Pepin . Is a blanket party like a burlap bag with a few que balls in it ? Haw !
May 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Used to ski up that way, wirenut. Hunted and fished there too. Beautiful country, Wisconsin. My oldest son and I (he’s my climbing partner) still venture up that way to climb at St. Croix Falls. Not much of the wife’s family still in Menomonie but we do make the trip about once a year. She has a cousin with a place on Lake Wissota.
Blanket party = one guest of honor, one large blanket with which to encapsulate the honoree, and any unyielding object per celebrant with which to smite said honoree. Gunnysack with cue-balls would do nicely, as would a taterstick or a Louisville Slugger. Anything that would leave a “lasting impression” is acceptable.
And thanks for the “welcome home”. You too, Noyz
May 8th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Huh…blanket party…that sounds just about right for our “student leader”. I think I saw that in “Full Metal Jacket” except they used soap. Billiard balls would do nicely.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I bet if it were a PETA display, he would have left it alone.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
“Billiard balls would do nicely.”
I like the way you think!
May 8th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Speaking of BALLS . DEZ , thanks for the ink in your train epic . I think ? When is side two due out .
I got a great story about Roy Rogers a couger and a train for ya . Better verbal than read .
May 8th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Wire, You are welcome I think, LOL.
Its all in good fun, If I think someone cant take a joke, They have no place in my epic.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Oh ! I almost forgot , ” new boots ” are the main theme in this Roy story . DW would like it too .
May 8th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I’m pretty sure I know where you’re headed, wirenut.
And it is a great story.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Who stepped in what with new boots on?
I must not know this Roy Rogers tale!