Harvard group cancels invitation to anti-immigration speaker

Jim Gilchrist, leader of the Minuteman Project, confidant of Minuteman Shawna Forde, had his invitation to a Harvard debate rescinded after the student body rejected his hate filled nativist agenda.

Less than a year after speaking at a Harvard University student conference, the head of an anti-illegal immigration movement had his invitation to speak at a similar forum rescinded following a student uproar over his aggressive position on immigration.

Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, which sends armed vigilantes to patrol the Mexican border for illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, was scheduled to speak during a public interest and law conference hosted by the Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee.

Gilchrist was slated to appear on a panel that discussed “Immigration and Its Future in America.’’

But student protests, emboldened since Gilchrist spoke at a Harvard Law School event in February, led to the cancellation of his invitation.

The Undergraduate Legal Committee released a statement that read, “Mr. Gilchrist’s participation in the conference on the behalf of the Minutemen Project was not compatible with providing an environment for civil, educational, and productive discourse on immigration, and we cannot host him at this time.’’

The Man of the Hour

KYLE DE BEAUSSET, founder of Citizen Orange and co-founder of The Sanctuary, and friend of this site, was instrumental in seeing the invitation to this nativist vigilante rescinded, said yesterday that Gilchrist’s removal will allow discussions to move toward policy, rather than animosity.

“It’s a victory for people who are trying to get hate out of the immigration debate,” he said. “There’s a difference between having views, and hate speech…..”
“I’m concerned about the broader national implications of legitimizing these extremist views with the Harvard name,” he said in a letter to fellow students.

Gilchrist’s Reaction

Jim Gilchrist, who has had strong ties to Minutemen Child Killer Shawna Forde, currently incarcerated in the Pima County (Az) jail and under capital indictment for the home invasion murders of 9 year old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul, responded in typical fashion with hyperbole and falsehoods and bullshit!

Anti-Free Speech Fanatics at Harvard Threaten Disruption and Violence

Despite appearing at last February’s symposium at the Harvard Law School on immigration law with invited panelists ranging from legislators and government officials to academics and private practitioners from across the political spectrum, campus philosophical fanatics have terrorized the Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC) with disruptive threats if Jim Gilchrist attends their proposed convention.

With just five days notice, after over five months of planning his appearance, HULC gave Gilchrist notice that it was forced to rescind its invitation due to serious threats from unnamed anarchist radicals on the Harvard campus. The spokesperson for HULC said the threats were sourced in only some errant students. He said no faculty members were involved in the threat to wreak havoc upon the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus..

And Jim Gilchrist advocated violence in his statement about being disinvited at Harvard:

It is obvious why our Founding Fathers placed the Second Amendment directly after the First Amendment. When free speech is no longer an irrevocable right, well, that’s what the Second Amendment is for…to preserve the First Amendment…for everyone on U.S. territory. Jim Gilchrist - Minuteman Project (16 October 2009)

Appearance on Bill O’Reilly
For his efforts, Kyle received an invitation to appear on Bill O’Reilly’s show, hosted by Juan Williams. Typical of Fox News, he was promised 5 minutes and only received two, but he used those minutes wisely and effectively.

Here’s the video:

Thanks Kyle, and good job my friend, as always.

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