Why I Skipped Milo's Freedom of Speech Tour at UCI

Anteaters. They are furry creatures, a derivative of the bear. They have big claws and long tongues. Yes, they eat ants, but are generally an amiable species.

The anteater is the mascot for my alma mater, UC Irvine.

I reached out the College Republicans earlier this year, excited at the prospect of engaging young conservatives to support my assemblyman in the South Bay as well as rally for my preferred Presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

Canada Free Press printed my reflections on meeting the CR's from UC Irvine--along with other College Republican groups throughout the state of California.

I have had high hopes for the younger generation, in spite of the eight deplorable years of President Barack Obama and his full-front assault on individual liberty.

And yet, I also had to tangle with some disturbing underpinnings within the College Republicans at UC Irvine.

One of their members, who served as a campus state senator for Associated Students of UC Irvine, faced immense pressure to resign for a tasteless joke about Islam posted on Facebook (read more about it here).

Granted, George's jokes about Islam were tasteless (so were the other comments which followed from other participants). Even though the settings on social media intended a private audience, the comments went public.

But are we going to hang people in effigy for off-color comments? Are we going to damage people's careers well into the future for voicing opinions which other people find offensive?

That is the essence of tyranny, and it must not go any futher.

And yet, at UC Irvine, a college Republican was held out to dry, and kicked out by ... his own fellow Republicans.

Campus Reform reported:

Several members of the University of California, Irvine College Republicans (CR) are alleging that the club’s leaders have disregarded their own principles in an effort to distance themselves from controversial comments made by a former member.

“I think they have no values, and they bring discredit to the name ‘Republican,’” CR member Marshall Roe, who attends a nearby community college, told Campus Reform. “It’s people like this who are the reason the Party is falling apart … it’s about titles for them, not values.”

Campus Reform had also reported how the triggered Muslim Student Union wanted George Novshadyan removed from elected office, and granted George's supports very little time to organize and defend their man.

Milo

I spoke with George, other members of the club, and a third party involved in the matter. The club wanted to settle the matter privately, and had encouraged George to lay low, not go to the press about what happened. Instead, he spoke out against this fascist coup against him.

He was right to do that.

But let's put this all in perspective ...

A College Republican club s tried to suppress the outcry against political correctness from one of its members.

Eventually, a recall was launched, and he was thrown out. Even though student elections at UC Irvine have some of the most abysmal turnouts--even when bribing voters with a piece of pizza--enough enraged Social Justice snowflakes voted to remove him from office

Be afraid, people. This is serious. The undergraduates of today will be undermining all our core civil institutions tomorrow if they respond to "offensive" ideas or speech in like manner.

The club also  removed George from office, illegally based on the club's by-laws, and they even endorsed a socialist for the ASUCI Board!

George Novshadyan (Right) with Vince Vaughn

One UCI student was a victim of the political correctness rampant on campus, UC Irvine, where anti-Semitic rants are common place, where Mulism students repeatedly interrupted the Israeli Ambassador to the United States during one of his campus speeches.

Indeed, freedom of speech is under attack at UC Irvine.

The College Republicans engaged in the same purge against  one of their members.

And now they want to showcase a flamboyant flamer and First Amendment absolutist on their campus?

The irony, the hypocrisy was not lost on me.

There is a growing cohort of conservatives more invested in making headlines than making a difference, or titles, not values.

Indeed, it's fun to punk social justice warriors and mock their fascist stupidity. It's nice to get notoriety for your cause

But to what purpose? For what cause?

Liberty is not an end in itself, people! A life of endless rebellion is not life, either.

Furthermore, do these young Conservative anti-SJW's take their fight outside of the safe space of college campuses?

I faced the anti-free speech in Huntington Park, CA, when the mayor threw me out for asking a uestion, then threw out a senior citizen just for saying "Yes!" three times during my public comment. The District attorney got involved, and rebuked the rogue city council!

In Cudahy, California, residents worked together with our group to slam a corrupt city council, four of whom are immature Millennials. The DA Followed up on their suppression of public comment. Three months later, the Spanish local press exposed the Cudahy Corruptitos.

My fight for freedom of speech is getting results, not just giving me fifteen minutes of fame in the local papers.

It's about a petition for redress of grievances, not just making fun of the university grievance industry.

I wonder if Milo knew about this hypocrisy. I wonder if he would have cared ...

CA College Republicans Rally For Hadley

California College Republicans for Hadley

Election 2016 is going to be a wild year.

And a year where California politics will influence the national discussion and dynamic.

For the first time in decades, California will play a significant role in who will be the nominee for hte major parties. Republicans in this blue state (actually, a red state dominated by two liberal urban areas in Los Angeles and the Bay Area) are gearing up for a much higher than expected turnout.

This rise in the final balloting may help California Republican candidates. More Democrats and Decline to State voters are joining the Republican Party so that they can vote for ... Donald Trump.

Whatever one may think of his policies or rhetoric, his celebrity stronghold over the media can give Republicans an edge in a stater where the Democratic Party has edged them out deliberately--and definitively--for the past twenty years.

And in the state of California, and for the country, there is one section, one assembly seat where the fate of the Golden State rests precariously.

The South Bay, Los Angeles County Assembly District.

The 66th Assembly District is Ground Zero for the state of California, and for the California Republican Party in particular.

We win this seat a second time, the South Bay will be a safe haven once again for the Republican Party.

Not an outpost of isolated conservative courage, but a beach head where young guns will fight for life, liberty, and opportunity to take back Los Angeles County and California for We the People.

The Rebel Alliance is strong, ready to fight to the end.

The Democrats, in full connection with Big Labor, Big Business, and ever self-serving special interest, will pour in every resource available to take over and take the reins of power once again.

In 2014, the California Democratic dominance facade began to crack

David Hadley (with a lot of moral support but not a lot of party funding until the end) defeated a smug, entitled Democratic incumbent in 2014.

And yet the margin of victory was less than 1%.

How many votes? 706!

And the turnout was lower than expected. It was the sixth-year itch, and many Democrats had not turned out to vote.

Will a similar disillusionment draw down the liberal turnout in 2016? Perhaps.

Regardless of the top of the ticket on the Democratic side, Election 2016 will have a bigger turnout with bigger money from the left-wing Democratic Machine.

But ...

David Hadley has a bigger community of support, with the South Bay 300.

He will also have a bigger base  of volunteers.

We have not even entered the final month before the primary, and College Republicans are pouring in to help David hold his seat and help California Republicans bring balance back to the Golden State.

Students from Chapman University, USC, UC Irvine (Go Anteaters!), and Cal State University Channel Islands showed up and showed their support.

It's a Saturday, people. Shouldn't these kids be taking a break from their studies? Or shouldn't they be cramming for their next exam?

These young Republicans can take on the heavy load of course work and political canvassing.

The Secretary for the California College Republicans came down and helped, too!

Special thanks to these young conservatives for stepping up, so soon and so early.

As we approach the June 7th primary it is vital that every stakeholder in the state steps up and rallies the South Bay for David Hadley.

Young conservatives have heeded the call and are stepping up for the win.

This fight is for everyone. If your assembly seat or Congressional district is safe (or impossible), mobilize your forces down to the South Bay and help the Rebel Alliance beat back the Democratic Empire!

My Statement to the UCI College Republicans

On April 13th, the UCI College Republicans invited me to speak at their club.

It was uite a trip down memory lane for me.

I remembered most of what it took to navigate the campus.

There are so many more buildings at UCI, and still the enrollment challenges are daunting for new students.

I cannot believe who many years it had been, and yet I was so glad to speak with the UCI College GOP.

Here are the extended remarks I anticipated sharing with the young conservative charges:

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The First Amendment is under attack. You college Republicans are in the center of that fight. We need to take back our universities. They are centers for learning. They are centers for inquiry. They are designed to allow for the clash of ideas, even if it is a vivid and sometimes volatile clash. As a Republican, I have long sought for, fought for more liberty, more opportunity. I am also pro-life, and I believe that the family, one man and one woman, remains the most critical unit for our society.

I also think that we need a revival of respect for the Supreme Governor of the world, as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.

I recognize that these values are under attack, too.

But I also recognize today that the First Amendment is the first line of defense—and offense.

But before I go on, let me speak a little about myself.

I am a blogger, writer, and commentator on topics both timeless and timely; political, cultural, and eternal.

Born in Torrance, CA, the same year that Ronald Reagan was elected President, Arthur Christopher Schaper, I have lived in California all my life.

My political bent has always been conservative, protecting life, carrying about family, but regarding the leanest government as best, respecting the genius of the Constitution and the general wisdom of individuals and private interests.

A libertarian on some issues, but liberal in the true sense of the world, I learned a great deal about free markets, free enterprise, and free people while earning Bachelors' Degrees at UC Irvine, followed by his few and frustrating years a teacher in LA area schools.

When I came to UC Irvine, I was already a conservative, I was already a Republican. Unlike many students, when I graduated in 2003, I was more conservative. Sometimes, I had to ditch classes and do all the required classwork for the grade.

One of the best pieces of advice I received, I got from one of the most obnoxious and disrespectful faculty members on this campus: Raymond Novaco. He was just awful, but the best advice he gave to his students: “If you do not understanding, you can ask me questions. But better yet, go to the stacks. Go to the library. Read some books. Think about it, then read some more. Then think about it some more. That way, it will be knowledge that you have acquired.

I followed his advice, right down to dropping his class at the second week!

Originally I was a French major, and wanted to be a French Teacher. I grew tired of the anti-Christian, anti-liberty messages from much of French Literature, I eventually joined the school of Social Ecology. I studied Psych and Social Behavior and Criminology.

I was always interested in politics, following the Congressional races and the national contests. I was here when Ahh-nold started floating a bid for governor.

I even connected with the College Republicans, and wrote for a newspaper called “The Irvine Review”.

In a way, that’s when my writing career took off. I was even on TV, over at the KDOC station on “The Hot Seat with Wally George.” I weighed two-hundred fifty pounds, with more hair on my head.

After I graduated from UCI, I pursued a teaching credential at Cal State Long Beach, focusing on history, but ready to teach English or French. Oh La La.

Teaching was not as fun as learning. I liked my teachers, but I did not like being a teacher. I worked in three difference schools. I worked at one of the best charter schools in the region, and walked off the job.

I was in the wrong business.

Then I started writing again.

My career writing took off in 2010, after Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the dreaded Affordable Care Act. Outraged at the insufferable arrogance of Washington DC,  I began blogging. I really liked it.

There is something inside of me. I love to write and I love to be published to be read.

In 2011, while still lingering in the education field as a substitute, I began writing letters to the local and national press.

Then my editorials appeared in the Los Angeles Jewish Observer and the Daily Breeze. In Rhode Island, his commentaries on the local politics there (combined with the similar miasma of liberalism in California) made him a well-known and sought-after columnist on the East Coast.

In 2012, after layoffs and terminations, I focused entirely on politics .I joined the local Beach Cities Republicans, based in Torrance. At the time, David Hadley was the President of the club.

I worked on the state assembly campaign as well as the Congressional race. For the first time in recent memory, my Congressional seat would have a totally new fight.

I ended up with Henry Waxman the Taxman. I began blogging about him in a site called “Waxman Watch”. He found out about it, and shut me down in an open forum in Redondo Beach.

I realized that you could really frighten politicians! I liked doing it.

After that election, I focused on getting a fifty-state strategy in place. I focused on New England, the most liberal region in the country.

From Go Local Prov and Go Local Worcester to 990WBOB based in Providence, I commented on the web and on the radio about the politics of the day.

Finally, after much cajoling from his Southern California conservative peers, I returned to writing for the South Bay and focusing on California issues again.

Still working with the Beach Cities Republicans, I learned that the former President, David Hadley, was going to run for state assembly. He had worked very hard to assembly a strong endorsement and fundraising group, the South Bay One Hundred.

This was 2013.

He later confided in me that if he could not find the right candidate to compete for the seat, he would run. I didn’t think much of it.

Then he called me in 2013 and told me: “I cannot find anyone to run. I am going to run.”

I was resistance, and dismissive until near the end. But he would reach out to me, and I was full-bore to get him elected.

And he won!

The first Republican in 22 years in the South Bay-- and he is representing me!

And today, I hope to follow his example, as well as adding my experience and knowledge to not just engage our base, but to enlarge our numbers, and expand our influence.

Engage our base: there are lots of Republicans in the South Bay—and throughout the state of California, who think that Republicans are on the run instead of on the rise.

That is not true. We have stopped the supermajority. Republicans of all ethnic backgrounds are wining local races, sometimes in the most unlikely of places. Hawthorne, Lawndale, Alameda County. Republicans are winning, we just are not hearing the story.

And we are not getting enough people involved.

Enlarging our numbers. One of the first things that I wanted to do—was reach out to the college groups.

You have graciously welcomed me here to speak with you. It is my hope—our necessity—that we take back the universities, that we put pressure liberal groups and progressive administrators. They need to start respecting all opinions, especially the right ones.

And when we start affecting the culture, we will expand our influence. Students will no longer graduate in bondage to old ideas about making the government more intrusive an the individual irrelevant.

Instead of a monologue of dissent and conformity, a dialogue of freedom vs. slavery will emerge. Instead of being confined by the imposition, we will define the narrative, and win the argument.

I hope to help make that happen this evening and furthermore afterwards.

I look forward to working with  you to end regressive anti-freedom on this campus, and working with you for more victories, both at the local and the state level.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Arthur Schaper

President, Beach Cities Republicans

UCI Alumnus, 2003