The College Fix Rowdy and aggressive activists shut down a speech Monday night at the State University of New York at Binghamton by the famed “father of supply-side economics” Arthur Laffer, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in June.
Various videos of the incident show dozens of students yelling and disrupting the lecture, with one man with a microphone declaring “we are tired of being oppressed and we are tired of getting murdered by this administration,” referring to the Trump administration.
The speaker goes on to call incarcerations “the modern day slavery of our time” as a fellow activist hands him a bright spotlight that he shines toward the front of the room, apparently where Dr. Laffer is standing. As supporters of the economist move to block the light, many in the crowd erupt with laughter.
Leftist protestors at Binghamton University disrupt and eventually shut down a @yaf lecture from economist Dr. Art Lafferpic.twitter.com/khyg4fGoon
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 19, 2019
Videos show that as a police officer moves toward the speaker with the microphone leading the verbal disruption, others — likely students, some wearing red armbands — move in front of him like some sort of human shield to impede the officer. As the officer moves closer, protesters begin to chant “free speech, free speech.”
I’m disgusted by the chaos we’ve witnessed erupt across the @binghamtonu campus over the past several days. Our college campuses should be places where ideas and peaceful discourse can be shared freely by all individuals, no matter their differing politics or opinions. pic.twitter.com/75QENYMlRv
— Senator Fred Akshar (@fredakshar) November 19, 2019
The early street Bolsheviks of the 1900 in Russia, today are the university professors in America. The communist activism in the United States is at an industrial level. I wonder how many of these radical students realize satanism is the driving force behind the movement, or if they even care.