Of course, everyone knew that the camera woman was filming for the Good Guys. She is the same person who was followed back to her car at UCI a couple years ago by a group of MSU (Muslim Student Union) males, surrounded and harrassed as they tried to take down her license plate. This occurred after a speaking appearance by Amir Abdel Malik Ali, which she filmed.
On this occasion, the young woman was asked by an MSU member to go up from the back of the room to the stage where Bazian was preparing to speak. When she told him that she would be video-taping, Bazian reportedly told her that she could not (something to do with copyright).
She replied (correctly) that this was a publicly-announced event on a public university campus and that she had every right to film. When he reportedly kept telling her that she could not film, she ignored him, returned to her video camera set up, and proceeded to video-tape his presentation.
Somebody needs to explain the law to the esteemed professor. This issue came to the fore a couple of years ago when Chuck DeVore, a Republican assemblyman, came to UCI and was told by some university hack official that he could not film at an MSU event. He straightened them out pronto. Since then, MSU events at UCI are filmed regularly.
Anyway, hopefully Bazian has been properly educated as to the law. After all, this is not the Palestinian territory. This is America.
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I understand Bazian is back on the Friendly Confines of Berzerkley speaking again tonight. If you decide to punish yourself and attend, don't forget your video camera.
The bravery of the female videographer is stellar. She stands up to the brutish MSU thuggery designed to intimidate and violate First Amendment Rights of U.S. citizens. Some one needs to remind the MSU that the U.S. is a Republic and not under sharia law. As far as Hatem Bazian of "Berzerkly", he uses the same tactics to intimidate, with the intent to violate First Amendment Rights. One wonders where the MSU and Bazian learned and indeed if they have learned anything in their civics courses. But, when we experience the opinion to dismiss criminal charges against the MSU in the Oren case, as Dean Erwin Chemerinsky proposes, it is clear that the understanding of criminal law may be limited.
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Very well stated. Wait till you read about last night's event. Stand by.
ReplyDeleteWe 've realized the best way to film this crap is to show up in a kaffiyeh. It's easy enough, and no one interferes. I shoplifted mine from the Sabeel conference, incidently.
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