On April 5, Global Frontiers Legal Center sent a letter to President Schmidly of UNM, State officials and the Department of Justice about the handling of the (un)Occupy/Students for Justice in Palestine disruption of the Israel Alliance’s talk on Feb. 23, 2012. The One News Now website has written an excellent article about this. The Israel Alliance posted videos and an account on their web site, as well as being covered by many news outlets and blogs locally and internationally. A month after the events, UNM insisted that a member of the audience be charged criminally for helping conduct the hecklers out of the hall. But, as explained in the GFJC letter, each heckler had committed a criminal offense by disrupting the talk, and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) violated UNM rules in arranging for the (un)Occupy students to heckle the talk. Nevertheless, UNM and the District Attorney have not prosecuted the hecklers, nor disciplined the SJP student group and (un)Occupy students for violating the civil rights of others on campus. At present, UNM and the District Attorney appear to be ignoring police reports submitted by the event organizers and lawful attendees. Instead, they seem to be relying on similar reports from the hecklers themselves and a video that they published that omits context in which the events occurred and offers lurid and highly misleading headlines. All this happened after UNM failed to provide the requested police oversight of the event. With almost complete impunity, the SJP and (un)Occupy students were able to harass the Israel Allliance and the public who came to hear the talk. The University apparently approved of their actions, since it saw fit to prosecute a victim of the harassment rather than the harassers. The local DA, Kari Brandenburg, seems to be acting as a rubber stamp for UNM in agreeing to prosecute the audience member, but not the hecklers themselves. This pattern of supporting radical thugs who attack others’ rights to free speech and assembly is spreading through cities and universities across the country, while university administrations, prosecutors and judges do nothing about it unless forced to. It is difficult to tell how much is ideological and how much is plain cowardice in the face of politically connected radicalism. However, it must stop. Those who receive their paychecks with a commission to serve the public good, including the administration and faculty of State Universities, should not see themselves as a world unto themselves, as an elite class. They are employees of the people and must answer to the public for their work and actions. Harassing the public in order to coddle radical students and their handlers is wrong. [...]