Crowds wearing red, white and blue and chanting “U-S-A” threw water balloons and ice at Benjamin Haas, a communication studies graduate student (my editorial comment: now there's a winning graduate studies program), while he tried to read a prepared statement in front of an estimated crowd of 1,500 to 2,500 students and community members.
Unless I am mistaken, this is the same Benjamin Haas.
Mr. Haas looked rather pathetic out there in that field. In fact, I felt sorry for him. Thousands of outraged, screaming people surrounding some misguided 60's throwback. Instead of making this guy a martyr, I think the more effective response would have been to ignore him.
2 comments:
No, what he got was a water balloon. He's not a martyr. It could have been a molotov cocktail.
And the horseback cops? They could have protected him for about 15 or 20 seconds if that crowd had gone "mob".
Now, he may still become a martyr, because at some point he'll come out of hiding.
I would worry more about the army rotc cadet.
I was in a protest when Buddy Roemer was on LSU's campus as he was transitioning to become governor. My picture ended up on the student paper front page, unfortunately I was wearing an afROTC shirt.
I got an ass-chewing for being involved in a protest wearing something that said afrotc. doh.
That cadet was in uniform, he's going to get really reamed. The hippy is lucky, he just got a little water on him.
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