A Profile in Courage

NOTE: This is a trilogy about the battle between pro-Palestinian

protesters and those trying to preserve First Amendment 

rights for everyone regardless of their views on the Israeli-

Palestinian War and to protect people and property from

violence. 

--- The Peasant 

We hear almost daily of protesters on college campuses

trying to influence the schools to separate entirely from

Israel by divestiture in their investment portfolios and 

not inviting Israeli speakers from speaking to the student 

body and faculty, among other things. Oftentimes the

protesters' behavior goes beyond the bounds of civility

and wander into the dregs of bullying, and fracas from 

brawls to riots occur, including tearing down monuments

and replacing the American flag with that of Palestine;

the latter having been attempted at the University of

North Carolina campus at Chapel Hill for one example.

However, some of the students at the university wouldn't 

tolerate this act. Some brothers in the Pi Kappa Phi 

fraternity stood in the way of the Pro-Palestinian protesters,

thus preventing their carrying out their radical mission.

The interim chancellor, Lee Roberts then addressed the 

unruly gaggle: "This university doesn't belong to a small 

group of protesters. It belongs to every citizen of North 

Carolina ... That flag belongs to all of us." Naturally the 

crowd tried to shout him down to shut him up, but to no

avail as Roberts kept going: "To take down that flag and 

put up another flag, no matter what other flag it is --- 

that's antithetical to who were are, what this university 

stands for, what we've done for 229 years." Wow. 

Simply wow! 

A toast to Chancellor Roberts and to the young men of Pike,

who defended the flag, what it represents, and the right to 

fly it. People like them are why we're going to win the 

cultural war that our country is engulfed in!

MEM