A mob of professors shouted during my speech at Florida International in 2003. At Berkeley in 2000, one student mooned me and attempted to rip the microphone cord out of the wall. Radicals shouted me down. A group of students stole copies of a booklet that I had written and burned them in a bonfire. At Connecticut College, a student stood during most of my speech to block the podium; he and other students screamed whenever I said something that they didn't like (which was quite often). At Swarthmore, one women dumped water on me while another held up her middle finger throughout the speech. There's a lot more where all that came from, but rather than bore with example after example I'd just like to point out that in no instance have campus security ever even thrown out people disrupting my speeches, throwing stuff on me, or exposing themselves to me. In several instances, however, universities, or their employees, have stopped me from speaking or attempted to stop me from speaking. At Berkeley, the security actually told a man to sit down and be quiet when he asked the hecklers to stop yelling at me. Alas, I'm not John Kerry. If I want John Kerry treatment, I'll have to adopt John Kerry politics. No thanks! All that I ask the security at Ohio University, where I kickoff speaking for this school year two weeks from now, is: "Don't taze me, bro."

It'd help if you were a senator.

What those people did to you was not some type of freedom of speech. What they did was not only rude but disruptive to the rights of others who wanted to hear you. If I was in the audience trying to listen to you I would hope that campus security would escort out or arrest the disorderly person(s).

You're right, of course, that your politics are wrong with regard to not being allowed to speak about them. But I think more emphasis has to be put on the fact that you are not a U.S. Senator. Other than the fact that unlike a U.S. Senator you are productive, you unfortunately don't have the same level of 'rights'. I can see a Republican Senator being afforded the same respect that was given to Kerry.

Pat Buchanan had salad dressing tossed on him and Ann Coulter almost got sacked by a cream pie.

Benjamin Netanyahu was a head of state, for crying out loud, and he wasn't allowed to speak in Berkeley. I realize there's a stature gap between a writer and a U.S. senator, but I don't think that's the big difference between how Kerry was treated, and how people like myself, or Horowitz, or Coulter, or whoever, get treated. I think politics is a factor. That kid is a jerk, but his antics were tame compared to what I deal with.

Well, you're out there in the trenches so you would know better (Thank you, by the way). In my opinion, what you do is more important than anything some lay about U.S. Senator does. But, there is a social and official hierarchy and Senator Gigolo is a member of a highly protected class.

And I’m very aware of and recognize the unequal and biased treatment that the Right always seems unfairly subjected to.

From what I understand, this tool is a semi-professional rabble rouser and would probably have been an equal opportunity pain in the a$$ regardless who was up there.

But, if he pulled the same stuff with McCain I can't believe that he wouldn't have been hauled away in the same manner. Especially as he was demonstrating what some might construe as dangerous tendencies. Of course, McCain likely would have taken charge and handled it better than just standing there with his hands in his pockets like Kerry did.

"That kid is a jerk, but his antics were tame compared to what I deal with" True but that just means the others should be dragged out too!

All i can say is "taze'm again Bro. taze'm again!! LOL