{"id":2210734,"date":"2024-04-01T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-lecture-derailed-by-hecklers-university-president-claims-free-speech-prevailed\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:31:41","slug":"house-dems-lecture-derailed-by-hecklers-university-president-claims-free-speech-prevailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-lecture-derailed-by-hecklers-university-president-claims-free-speech-prevailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hecklers disrupt House Dem\u2019s lecture; University President defends free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-dems-lecture-derailed-by-hecklers-university-president-claims-free-speech-prevailed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210734&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hecklers disrupted a prominent House Democrat&#8217;s lecture on democracy at the \u200bUniversity of Maryland. The school president ended the event in the name of &#8220;free speech,&#8221; despite wishing for more civil behavior. \u200dThe \u2064incident prompted discussions on social media about the role\u2062 of protesters in silencing speakers during public events. Hecklers disrupted a prominent House Democrat&#8217;s \u2062lecture on democracy at the\u2062 University \u200cof Maryland. Despite the \u200cschool president ending the event in the name of &#8220;free speech&#8221; and hoping for more civil behavior, \u200dthe incident sparked discussions on social media about the impact of protesters silencing speakers at public events.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Hecklers disrupted a prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/house-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Democrat<\/a>\u2018s university lecture on democracy last week, after which the president of the school ended the event due to what he called a show of \u201cfree speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jamie-raskin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamie Raskin<\/a> (D-MD), the ranking member of the Oversight Committee, spoke at the University of Maryland (UMD) on Thursday until a commotion about the Israel-Hamas war led him to get sidetracked and open the room to questions.<\/p>\n<p>Although UMD President Darryll Pines reportedly cut short the lecture and wished the disruptors had been more civil, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandmatters.org\/2024\/03\/29\/raskin-speech-at-umd-disrupted-by-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Capitol News Service<\/a> that the result was a positive one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Raskin] came here to speak about where our democracy is going in our country,\u201d Pines reportedly said. \u201cWhat you saw play out actually was democracy and free speech and academic freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cFrom our perspective as a university, there are the difficult conversations that we should be having.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raskin told the news outlet the \u201csentiments\u201d of the protesters were \u201cperfectly consistent\u201d with his planned lecture, which was titled \u201cDemocracy, Autocracy and the Threat to Reason in the 21st Century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congressman said he is \u201cnot really opposed to heckling\u201d but noted that \u201cit seems like heckling today is all about drowning out the speaker, and that\u2019s totally antithetical to the spirit of free expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As word of what transpired at the event and what Pines had to say about it spread on social media, people chimed in about their views on protesters effectively shutting down speakers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congressman Jamie Raskin tried to give a speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UofMaryland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UofMaryland<\/a> on democracy and &#8220;the threat to reason in the 21st Century.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It was relentlessly heckled and drowned out by people protesting Israel&#8217;s invasion of Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>The speech was ultimately shut down by the university\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DQVH2dkXoI\">pic.twitter.com\/DQVH2dkXoI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nico Perrino (@NicoPerrino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicoPerrino\/status\/1774482820678693194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPresident Pines is wrong,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicoPerrino\/status\/1774482820678693194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Nico Perrino, executive vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you saw play out was mob censorship,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt was a bastardization of free speech and the antithesis of democracy. These shout-downs happen far too often on college campuses \u2014 and with the approval of college administrators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC News reporter Jonathan Allen, a UMD alumnus, suggested that Pines\u2019 comments should be called the \u201cloudest-voice doctrine,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonallendc\/status\/1774788172091642176\">post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s debatable the degree to which federally funded schools have a duty to ensure free speech,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonallendc\/status\/1774817009168978403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>. \u201cWhat\u2019s not debatable is that the [First Amendment] also protects the right of assembly \u2014 to allow political discourse. Nor is it debatable that intimidation can fall outside protected speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>UMD professor Howard Milchberg, who <a href=\"https:\/\/umdphysics.umd.edu\/about-us\/news\/department-news\/1934-milchberg-lect-24.html#:~:text=University%20of%20Maryland%20Professor%20of,parents%2C%20Renee%20and%20Irving%20Milchberg.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started the lecture<\/a> with his family in recognition of his late parents who survived the Holocaust, posited that the disruption of Raskin\u2019s remarks was a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t go as planned, but it maybe turned out better than normal,\u201d Milchberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandmatters.org\/2024\/03\/29\/raskin-speech-at-umd-disrupted-by-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Capitol News Service<\/a>. \u201cIt was an actual exercise of democracy rather than a story about democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, hecklers disrupted a university lecture by a prominent House Democrat on democracy. The school&#8217;s president intervened, citing &#8220;free speech,&#8221; and ended the event. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), leading member of the Oversight Committee, was speaking at the University of Maryland (UMD) until the commotion ensued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2210735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1910343129-scaled-e1711989362854.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1910343129-scaled-e1711989362854.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}