I'm not generally in favor of shouting down speakers at public events, whether it's Tea Partiers doing it, or campus leftists, or people who really hate Bill Gates. Here's what happened when Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren tried to speak at UC Irvine recently:
This sort of action seems to be based around the idea that "if you don't agree with me, you don't have a right to free speech," which is a pretty noxious idea no matter who espouses it.
Posted by Stephen Silver at February 10, 2010 01:03 PM