Florida College Shuts Down Conservative Event After Seeing Anti-Obama Literature (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 1:28 PM
It begins… School officials at Palm Beach State College kicked members of the Young American’s for Freedom off campus after they saw anti-Obama literature at their table.
It was offensive.
Administrators and Campus Police Kick YAF members off campus after seeing anti-Obama literature at their table.
Other college groups were allowed to stay on campus despite not registering for the event.
Orlando Political Press reported:
On Tuesday September 7, 2010 at around 11:00am one Palm Beach State College (PBSC) student and two Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) members, state chairman Daniel P. Diaz and state vice chairman Eddie Shaffer, were shut down and had campus police called on them after tabling and recruiting during club rush at the College. The PBSC student, Christina Beattie, had received prior permission from college administrator Olivia Ford-Morris to promote her organization on campus via telephone and email communication.
On the day of club rush, officials approached the group and after seeing information about the organization and its ideals criticizing Barack Obama’s economic policy. Ms. Ford-Morris was visibly disturbed by the material presented, published by the Heritage Foundation, criticizing President Obama’s administration. College officials then called the campus police to assure the group left campus. Ms. Ford-Morris denied having ever talked to Ms. Beattie about giving permission to the organization to be a part of PBSC club rush.
“I was shocked and offended by her dishonesty. She outright denied giving me permission to table at Club Rush simply because she disagreed with my beliefs! The fact is, she was using her administrative power to silence the conservative opposition.” said Christina Beattie.
Christina Beattie, a student at PBSC has been the lead organizer of a weeklong recruitment event for YAF. Christina saw a need for a conservative club on campus and decided to create a YAF Chapter. Beattie inquired with college Student Activities Coordinator, Ms. Olivia Ford-Morris, via email about being allowed to recruit at the college rush. To Christina’s surprise Ms. Ford-Morris called her and allowed the group to table at the event.
Other groups on campus attended the event and tabled, but had not registered with the student activities coordinator. These groups remained untouched and were allowed to recruit even without permission. The Film Club, one of the groups not authorized to participate in the event, declined to comment for fear of reprisal from college administration.
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Kevin P commented:
Oh – those bastions of tolerance and higher education!
This is the face of fascism!
Militant Conservative commented:
Non violent dissent. MAKE THEM ARREST YOU!! This is how you protest. It is a misdemeanor and nothing too it. What the left wants to do is hide and not have this go public. Force their hand, make them violate your civil rights. Then you have them by the nads.
Other than this I’m not suprised.
NeoKong commented:
Those lefties sure like teh free speech and diversity don’t they…?
It was obvious she was lying through her teeth and looked like she was a moment away from striking someone or start screaming GTFO now.
Kevin P commented:
My daughter was one of those members of YAL (Young Americans for Liberty) that had their school sanctioned display at Washington University suddenly “un-sanctioned” because they used power tools to erect it.
That’s the school’s story and their sticking to it.
Convenient excuse since their display of a “Gulag” upset too many of the lefty professors.
tarpon commented:
How about they just use one sign, replace Bush with Obama???
Jobend commented:
America is over, it has been taken over by Colored fascists.
kato commented:
Liar-in-Chief just got done making a speech here in Cleveland, not three miles from where I sit. Audience was preselected.
(They could have filled Cleveland Browns Stadium. We’ve got enough union slugs and Section VIII parasites in this city.)
I heard some clips of the speech, and the Jivemaster really outdid himself. This truly is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on this country.
Kudos to all you Independents who bought into this clown’s jive act.
down with dems commented:
Lefties are all for the Constitution when they’re arguing that the Commerce Clause allows them to mandate you purchase a product against your will, but when oppositional speech pops up… well, 1st Amendment be damned.
Callipygian1 commented:
Ironic that the ACLU should jump on this… clearly the email train and phone records will support the fact that this person is a liar.
RickZ commented:
Racist totalitarian bitch.
I have nothing polite to say about her. Forget talking to a dean, these students need to take this to civil court and sue that administrator’s rather ample @ss off.
This crap really pisses me off.
Jess commented:
Well, to be blunt, the YAF folks blew it. If you’re setting up anything w/a conservative or libertarian bent you’d better get every permission sorted out in advance and in writing. Print any e – correspondence out!
J Hunt Morgan commented:
Olivia Ford-Morris is your typical uppity affirmative action employee. She and the school should be sued in court. Beyond time to repeal affirmative action.
OBAMANATION @ NOTRE DAME commented:
Hey, that’s just how we roll @ http://www.Indoctrinate-U.com
Ronnie commented:
The Soviets and their useful tools spent 70 years infiltrating and perverting the American power structure. After that effort you certainly don’t expect that evil tree not to yield tainted fruit, do you? Our entire system has become corrupt – from the grade schools, to the universities, to the city governments, to the highest offices in the land.
Liberty and freedom has been slowly subsumed and absorbed by the socialists for at least 40 years – and things are not going to stop just because the American people WANT them to. As Granny used to say, “Want in one hand and poop in the other. See which one fills up first!”
American families are being devalued (‘Gay’ marriage anyone?), our children being cloned in state schools (Sex ed in the 2nd grade?), and the list is endless. Our society is becoming derelict and crumbling, while people gaze at “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”. OH, and don’t say anything ‘nasty’ about Muslims or you could be called a racist!!!!
Until people are willing to DO something, rather than just vote for the opposing political professional (Yeah, we’re talking about you McCain.), nothing is going to change. Organize all you want to – who cares? The propaganda machine will just grind you up or ignore any who don’t agree with the liberal progressives.
Oldpuppymax commented:
You were “shocked” by the dishonesty of a leftist? My God, you ARE young, aren’t you.
Gman commented:
Liberals are the most intolerant group there is.
Granny commented:
Our young people are going to have to learn the same game that demonstrators of my generation learned. Stand your ground and make them literally carry you away! There can be NO compromise on Freedom of Speech, especially on state-owned property!
Don Rodrigo commented:
No federal funding for schools caught doing this kind of thing.
Defund any schools that have speech codes and freshman “orientation”
No school funding for clubs and organizations of any kind whatsoever. They can hold bake sales.
rumcrook commented:
free speech for me not for thee
Atlanta Media Guy commented:
Don, My thoughts exactly! Stop their funding and watch the roaches scatter. The ACLU should get involved. I love it how they accuse conservatives of being fascist yet they show their true colors in public. How’s that Hope and Change working out for you?
bg commented:
++
The lawsuits get even crazier…
[Arizona is in the middle of another lawsuit. No, this one does not involve their legislation that simply restates existing federal law. This law suit, brought about by Obama's Justice Department, focuses on the hiring practices of the Maricopa County Community College District. Obama's people are claiming that it is wrong for the District to require foreign nationals to show their "green cards" before being offered a job. So, let's get this straight... a foreigner gets a "green card" so that he or she may legally work in this country, yet the Obama administration is suing this Phoenix community college for asking that the "green cards" be shown. Can things get any crazier?]
where is the REVOLT??
have Obama’s et al threatening THUGGERY ala: Islamist threatening THUGGERY kept US kowtowing to his line?? i think so, seems to me the question is, what are we more afraid of, slowly but surely going under,
or a fighting chance??
==
Rock commented:
A prime example of social justice as practiced by the worshipers of Obama. Pull up Ms piggies home on Google maps bet she’s living large on the public dime. Hmmm hmmm hmmm. Wonder if she has rug burns on her knees for praying towards DC?
Indiana Conservative commented:
Here is Student Activities Coordinator, Oliva Morris-Ford’s email address.
morriso@palmbeachstate.edu
aprilnovember811 commented:
She will feel worse when he is thrown out, and criminally charged for all of his crimes. Like robbing the US Treasury.
forest commented:
Literature from the Heritage Foundation! OMG! The horror!
At least some of these totalitarians will be out of work when the higher ed bubble bursts.
Has anyone reached Jason Materra for comment yet?
wanumba commented:
Jess
September 8th, 2010 | 1:59 pm | #11
Well, to be blunt, the YAF folks blew it. If you’re setting up anything w/a conservative or libertarian bent you’d better get every permission sorted out in advance and in writing. Print any e – correspondence out!
…………………
That’s true. It doesn’t matter if everyone else is El Sloppy about their permission, any conservative group needs to have it all in writing. These are young people with little experience, so they get outmanuvered. The phone call should have been followed up with a email, better a LETTER of “understanding” and confirmation of the agreed points of the discussion, with a reply request.
That confirms the further discussion and agreement. Must have IN HAND before any set up.
If the school doesn’t agree, then plenty of IN WRITING requests for clarification, reasons, etc. Every turned away meeting should be documented, every “schedule booked, later” brush off gets a letter for a new date. All in writing. Paper trail paper trail.
Sigh. What’s the point? Our schools today are velvet gulags. See the universities? At enrollment of 20,000 – 35,000 they form central-control bubble cities of their own, populated like LOGAN’S RUN, a homogenous group of 18-30 year olds. While college is in session, the states have no young adults 18-22 mingled thru the natural population. Totally artificial. Totally unhealthy. Totally manipulated by the Left.
The Left rots everything they touch. Not sure the intrenched Left bureaucracy can be breached for any reform. It has to collapse under its own weight. Walk away, do something else.
Jess commented:
Wanumba,
Spot on – and I speak from experience. Not too may years ago one of my kids was involved w/a similar group & was setting up for a campus event one weekend. They were using my recroom & garage a few days before (yes, they asked), and I walked downstairs at one point during a rather heated discussion about “who” had permission. I let it go on a bit, then asked to see the permit. After the blank stares passed I explained that a permit or some official statement will list “who can do what”, and can be relied upon to solve the inevitable problems.
Sure enough, a leftist Prof/Instructor (I don’t know for certain) started raising a fuss @ the event, and called for them to be booted. When the Campus PD arrived, they found a nicely framed copy of said permit posted at the front of the display…
jetstream commented:
tarpon #5
What a great idea. To prevent this from happening again, stock your booth with fake literature and signs damning Bush. Video the “controlling authority” permitting, if not approving, the display.
Then, replace with literature and signs that have only substituted the name Bush for Obama. Splash their hypocritical reaction, if they so dare, all over the internet.
Rinse and repeat.
Kevin commented:
On Mrs. Morris-Ford’s facebook page, her favoret
things are Barak Obama, and Micheal Moore.
daryl commented:
Hope that be-itch nor anyone like her ever gets into a position of real authority. If so, any whitey having any thing to do with her be soooo outta luck as far as his civil rights are concerned..
bob loblaw commented:
Here is contact info for a number of officials at PBSC:
Olivia Morris-Ford
Student Activities Coordinator
morriso@palmbeachstate.edu
561-868-3025 (assistants phone number)
Penny McIsaac
Dean of Student Services
mcisaacp@palmbeachstate.edu
561-868-3055
Dr. Dennis P. Gallon
President
gallond@palmbeachstate.edu
561-868-3500
Physical Address:
Lake Worth Location
4200 Congress Avenue
Lake Worth, FL 33461
gus commented:
I’M SHOCKED. SHOCKED I TELL YOU.
OLIVIA MORRIS-FORD-MORRIS IS BLACK!!!!
IMAGINE THAT!!!!!
wanumba commented:
Jess
September 8th, 2010 | 3:38 pm | #29
………….
Ha! Bet they were happy with your helpful hint. You are 100% right, though.
On a broader note, I’m at the point where I think the universities need to be scaled back to classrooms only. All housing eats should be returned to normal life: find private leases, the students should be buying food at the supermarket and cooking them at their own apartments. They should be real members of the local community.
It’s a totally pampered existence for 4 years or more to never have to plan for these things, just walk up at the cafeteria/food court and slick the card and get the meal plan.
With that much babying, it’s easy for the university to control ALL aspects of the students’ lives. And to especially create a bubble-think mindset. Students putting tables up under Big Brother isn’t American exceptionalism, it’s subservience to the “Authority.”
Their non-college peers are working long hours, paying rents, cooking for themselves, being ADULTS.
Our society is getting really lopsided with this massive university conditioning – training for central control, and to sit in a classroom.
Just_Saying commented:
So, no more academic freedom on campuses?
(I don’t like to call people b*tches, because of my affection for dogs, but that woman was a b*tch of the first degree, no insult to dogs.) As has been said, another affirmative action bonehead.
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John Gargano commented:
The numerous bureaucracies that will be established under Obamacare will be entirely staffed with disgruntled liberals looking for payback, exactly like this women.
What do you think they’ll do when it comes time for registered Republicans to have hip replacements or other costly services? What type of runaround do you think we’ll get? And later on, just like Shirley Sherrod, they’ll reveal in meetings of their own that they didn’t give us the full force of what their office could do – and they’re audience will applaud.
We let this go too far and now we need to take some serious actions to get our nation back. NEVER can we relent in our efforts to turn back this plague. NEVER must we allow ourselves to think we have gone far enough. The complete dismantling of our (liberal union run) educational system should be one of our first priorities. Then we need to get rid of tenure at the (uber-liberal) Universities.
Jordan Marks commented:
It was Young Americans for Freedom not the foundation. http://www.YAF.com.
Thanks for posting.
YAF
Lanve commented:
I wouldn’t brag about most colleges these days with ignorant fascist like that administering them. You would think we could just stop funding them but we don’t have a choice. Between the federal government and evildoers like the Ford foundation, they are well funded with our own money.
bob loblaw commented:
The irony in all of this is that Ms. Morris-Ford, in trying to shut down and stifle this group, is now giving them publicity on a national scale. Poetic justice at its best!
Donald Blodgett commented:
I think this is the first time I’ve seen “table” used as a verb. Shocking!
Duke commented:
Ms. Ford-Morris needs to be fired immediately for stupidity.
Auntie Em commented:
Time for another Civil Rights Movement.
The coloreds had theirs and look at them today…worse off and more stupid and less free obviously.
Taxpayer1234 commented:
Donald, um, watch some government meetings on C-SPAN, and you’ll hear “table” used as a verb (e.g., We tabled the discussion…).
These students need to contact thefire.org, which will vigorously defend their First Amendment rights.
KSM commented:
They should be able to pull the administrator’s phone records to prove that she actually did call the student. That would blow her credibility. Civil suite should follow.
JAL commented:
So is there a phone record of the telephone call?
This will not turn out well for this school unless they do an “I’m sorry if any one was offended” dance and give the YAF folks a place at the table.
Maybe Ms Morris-Ford (Ford-Morris?) needs to attend some “re-education” classes in First Amendment rights. Of course she will now have official Victim status.
rick schwartz commented:
The tide is turning. Over at The Fire they are reporting on a court that just held a college administrator personaly liable for denying a student his civil rights. No shield law was available for him because the court said what he did was so bad he could not have thought he was acting under the color of law. He is going to be out a biiiig chunk of money from his pocket. Give that news enough time to perculate thru the campuses and we’ll see a lot less of this happening.
Donald Blodgett commented:
Taxpayer1234, you are correct. I should have added “in this context.” (“after giving me permission to table” and “allowed the group to table” apparently meaning to set up some sort of display or exhibit)
Jet Jaguar commented:
Is this her?: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000172656841&ref=search
Midusdew commented:
Hello Folks,
The Feds are leveraging the take over of the student loan system to force our Universities to promote Social Communism. Google: The New American University, after watching the ASU promo you’ll be sick to your stomach. This crap has to end! Obama is destroying our Country. God help us.
Best regards,
Dave
jd commented:
Unclear if the group was approved for the event. Do any of the commenters here even care about that? Or is it just knee-jerk, conservative reaction to a perceived wrong?
Not Likely commented:
I’m positively shocked that the comments here immediately went after the woman’s race despite it having nothing to do with the story.
TJ Parker commented:
Whine, whine, whine! We broke the rules and we got thrown out! Whine! Whine! Other people broke the rules too, we know it! and they didn’t get thrown out! Whine, whine, whine!
You’re in college. Learn to read, children.
jimbob2000 commented:
RAAAAACIST
AuntieMadder commented:
The hypocrisy of libturds knows no bounds.
Jess commented:
#60,
“I’m positively shocked that the comments here immediately went after the woman’s race despite it having nothing to do with the story.”
Don’t be – they’re not here to comment on whatever story, but to take screen shots & run off to whichever “look how raaaacist they are” site. There’s one here who’s posts magically appear w/in minutes on a certain “lounge” as examples of the “Right wing hate”…
They fool no one. Save themselves.
tarpon commented:
If you want to perpetrate a fraud on people, you need lots of stupid people. ’cause the shuck and jive act is the same …
Hey even Castro admits it didn’t work for him. Chavez is collapsing Venezuela, as they head off into starvation … Look what is coming to America.
Arch commented:
Push back immediately!
It appears that this college is in violation of Section 112 of HR6 signed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
‘‘SEC. 112. PROTECTION OF STUDENT SPEECH AND ASSOCIATION RIGHTS.
‘‘(a) PROTECTION OF RIGHTS.—It is the sense of Congress that no student attending an institution of higher education on a full or part-time basis should, on the basis of participation in protected speech or protected association, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination or official sanction under any education program, activity, or division of the institution directly or indirectly receiving financial assistance under this Act, whether or not such program, activity, or division is sponsored or officially sanctioned by the institution.‘”
File a criminal complaint that Palm Beach State violated these students’ First Amendment rights. This college could lose all their federal aid, college loans and grants.
Arch commented:
Contact the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). They have a pack of lawyers who will eat these fascists alive.
http://www.thefire.org/
american commented:
what do you expect from an uneducated sh_t hole.
Militant Conservative commented:
Jess
September 9th, 2010 | 5:38 am | #64
check out my post #2 dunce.
However, you open the door. According to Jesse Jackson “Black people cannot be racist as they have no power to do so.” Hmmmmm, seems to me she had the power and more than happy to use it. We cannot have free speech on a campus can we. This is a violation of civil rights plain and simple. Her political affiliations and mind set is open to the world to see.
It’s obvious who the racist is. powder is dry.
Arch commented:
After looking into the institution’s history, my advice to students is to transfer to a real school.
Ironically, this “college” only offers three Bachelor degrees, one of which is in Information Management. Miss Piggy should take a class to learn how to read email.
Bill commented:
” Over at The Fire they are reporting on a court that just held a college administrator personaly liable for denying a student his civil rights. ”
That was a different and somewhat unique case, the Valdosa case was a very very personal vendetta by the university president against a student. It also included, IIRC, personal defamation to justify expelling the student who was critical of his “legacy” oriented policies.
This is a third rate hack working for the university silencing a single group on pretense of procedure for what is really their viewpoint. I think you can sue the school but unless she came out and decried them as racists or filed a fraudulent police report then it doesn’t fit. She should still be sacked though. But you legally go through the university for it. That’s how FIRE has operated in that scenario before.
Jess commented:
MC,
What… the… heck? “dunce” for pointing out that some comments (here & on other sites) are used to point fingers @ the site, not to make a germain comment?
whew…
Rock commented:
Hey MC, LOL, Dimimicraps getting all uppity when they feel the race card is layed at their door, I smell another beer summit in the wind:)
Not Likely commented:
“They fool no one. Save themselves.”
Keep telling yourself that. These are your bedfellows.
Gunga commented:
The good news is that they shouldn’t have any trouble attracting members now. The bad news is that they are wasting their parent’s $s at an institution of lower education.
Mike commented:
“Young American’s for Freedom”???
Is the apostrophe the group’s display of illiteracy, Or that of Mr. Holt?
Lady commented:
I’m beginning to notice a trend as I watch the other videos from this group, These kids go to schools without permission and then claim infringement upon their rights when asked to leave…I know for a fact that its takes alot more that an e-mail to start a club, so i’m not buying it. I don’t even believe they are students at thid school considering they have also tried this same stunt at USF and FAU. Its a good SET UP especially when the head of Student Services is Black. However, in order to rightfully call foul play you should know your legal rights and yours was not broken here. I’m all for freedom of speech but what I hate is the spread of hate & that’s exactly what you do when you do things like this.
Todd F commented:
How many people STILL buy into the Obama worship? It’s unbelievable. This lady should sit with her Dear Leader in the pews of Wright’s racist church for the 25 years that Maobama did since she’s as big a racist as he is.