"The Land Of Gracious Living"

Protesters outside the Yorba Linda Community Center during a Feb. 13 fundraiser hosted by an Islamic non-profit organization. Rep. Ed Royce, shown in the freeze frame, released a statement saying that while he regretted the insults hurled by some of the protesters, he attended the rally to oppose the presence of two radical Islamic speakers.
Hat tip to Liberal OC

Chuck Those Indictments

A lively debate at "LiberalOC" between a former GOP assemblyman from California, Chuck DeVore, and blogger Chris Prevatt over whether DeVore should have been prosecuted for conspiring to disrupt a Muslim Student Union event at UC Irvine on 2007.

Prevatt argues that DeVore's plan to provoke sponsors by videotaping the event against their wishes was as egregious as the disruption of the Israeli ambassador's speech that was allegedly planned by 11 UCI students in February 2010. Thanks to Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas, the students are now under indictment and facing up to six months in jail.

The DeVore-Prevatt exchange about the technicalities of the law against disturbing or breaking up public assemblies doesn't convince me that DeVore should have gone to jail. It does makes it all the more clear that the 11 students shouldn't, either.