Jury finds 10 of ‘Irvine 11′ Muslim students guilty (of verbal terrorism)
Posted on September 24, 2011 by creeping
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Michigan State University professor of political science William B. Allen has used the phrase verbal terrorism to refer to the same phenomenon, defining it as “calculated assault characterized by loud side-conversations, shouted interruptions, jabbered false facts, threats and personal insults.”[7]
via ‘Irvine 11′ jury finds all 10 students guilty – latimes.com.
After more than two days of deliberation, an Orange County jury on Friday found 10 Muslim students guilty of two misdemeanors to conspire and then disrupt a February 2010 speech at UC Irvine last year by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
There was crying as the verdict was read in Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson’s courtroom. The students showed no visible emotion, although they hugged each afterward. Some also stormed out.
Original image showed in LA Times story, now gone
In a case that garnered national attention over free-speech rights, the trial centered on conflicting views of who was being censored. Prosecutors argued that Ambassador Michael Oren was “shut down” when his speech was interrupted by students who took turns shouting preplanned phrases in a crowded UC Irvine ballroom.
Six defense attorneys argued that the students, seven from UC Irvine and three from UC Riverside, were only following the norm of other college protests and were being singled out.
A guilty verdict, the defense had said during the trial, could chill student activism and the free exchange of ideas at colleges nationwide.
University administrators disciplined some of the students involved and suspended the campus Muslim Student Union, whose members participated in the protest, for an academic quarter. The group is still on probation.
The case also has drawn the attention of a wide range of groups, including Muslim and Jewish organizations and civil libertarians. The trial began Sept. 7.
Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of UC Irvine’s Law School, has said that although freedom of speech is not an absolute right, university sanctions were enough for the students.
But he also added that he believes criminal sanctions go too far.
Chemerinsky told The Times last week that “it makes no sense” to use such resources. “It’s so minor.”
Charges against one defendant were tentatively dismissed pending completion of 40 hours of community service at a local soup kitchen.
But the other 10 went on trial Sept. 11 before packed, at times noisy, crowds in the courtroom.
Sep 11? Coincidence? This will not deter Muslim students (and their non-Muslim counterparts) who have similar intentions as Hamas.
Much more on the case below including the original Muslim student group’s plot and blatant lies during their coverup via, Emails reveal UC-Irvine Muslims pre-meditated plot against Israeli diplomat:
As the now public emails make clear, these denials were an attempt to cover up the truth about MSU’s behind-the-scenes attempt to shout down a visiting diplomat. A decision to disrupt the event had been made at an MSU board meeting days before the speech, the records show.
“We’ve already discussed the different options in the GA (general assembly) meeting and we took a vote,” a February 4 email to the MSU board said. “So now that we have voted on one method of action, we all go through this together, insha’Allah ta’ala together as one MSU … one Ummah.” [Emphasis original]
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