This sort of thuggish, immature behavior from college liberals is becoming so commonplace as to almost not even be news any more.

Violence erupted at a Michigan law school Thursday when protestors tried to block a speech by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo.

Police were called after protestors pulled a fire alarm prior to the speech on immigration policies. There were at least three violent incidents with protestors targeting student backers of the event, Tancredo, R-Littleton, said today.

“One was spit on, one was kicked, and one was punched,” Tancredo said in an e-mail. “Tires were also slashed.”

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Protestors interrupted the speech with loud shouting.

College newspaper The State News reported that protesters carried signs reading “Ignorant Racist” outside the room where the speech was held. They were not allowed in with the signs, the paper said. It also reported that about 40 people attended the speech.

Tancredo said in the email that protestors organized on the Internet social networking site Facebook.

“They declared ahead of time on facebook that they would not allow me to speak,” Tancredo said in the e-mail.

They didn’t want him to speak.  Why?  Because they don’t agree with him.

Of course, they’d all be screaming “fascists” if the College Republicans tried to prevent Howard Dean or Jack Murtha from speaking.

Here’s some video of the protest.

What’s really sad is that these idiots are probably going to get away with this.  Just like the thugs at Columbia University, who stormed the stage and attacked the Minutemen, got away with it.

Which is pathetic, but not exactly surprising.  After all, to many of these college professors and university administrators, people like Tom Tancredo - who dare to express ideas different from their own - are the real enemy, not their thug students who apparently never learned what the 1st amendment stands for.

Update: O’Reilly had the organizers of the event on.  See the video on the reader blogs.