Bush-haters ruin naturalization ceremony at Monticello (Updated with video link)

There are 76 freshly-minted fellow citizens who were being honored and welcomed today in a naturalization ceremony attended by the President of the United States. It’s a shame that people so blinded by their hatred of the President that they couldn’t do the decent thing and allow these people to have their moment without being forced to attend a protest rally just had to show up. Instead of a ceremony marking the happy occasion of their completing the monumental effort of becoming a citizen of this country they were a captive audience to a bunch of BDS-suffering morons with no common courtesy to their names.

Protesters made it hard to hear President Bush Friday as he welcomed new citizens and marked Independence Day at the home of Thomas Jefferson.

As is the tradition each Fourth of July, a naturalization ceremony was held at Monticello in Charlottesville, Va. This year, 76 immigrants from 30 different countries came to take the oath of citizenship.

But Bush repeatedly was interrupted as he welcomed the guests.

“That man is a fascist!” one protester yelled. Another swore at him.

The protesters later were removed from the ceremony by law enforcement officials.

“To my fellow citizens to be — we believe in free speech in the United States of America,” Bush said when the protesters started shouting.

Fascists are people who can’t bear the thought of another person actually being allowed to speak. Fascists are those who feel that forceful disruption is a perfectly valid response to anything that just so happens to tick them off. The President is not a fascist. The greatest likelihood, in fact, is that the people flinging that epithet at the President are more guilty of that themselves. (Want an actual reasoned explanation of why that is? Read Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. He’ll explain the situation far better than these idiots disrupting the ceremony ever will.)

There’s a time and a place for protest, even that conducted by people who can’t seem to successfully compete in the marketplace of ideas and must, therefore, simply scream louder in an effort to deny anyone they oppose their freedom of speech. There are also times and places where protests should not be. Funerals. Weddings. Graduation ceremonies. And, of course, citizenship ceremonies. These are all events commemorating something specific and general political protests – to say nothing of clueless moonbat protests – just aren’t appropriate. A little common decency and – wow! – empathy for our fellow citizens and particularly new fellow citizens should be all that’s required to see that. The selfish, “my baseless name-calling is more important than anything!” attitude of these protesters should be denounced by every true patriot in the land, left or right. I’m not holding my breath.

To those 76 new citizens, I offer my congrats and my welcome to this, the greatest nation on earth. You’ve overcome much to get here and your commitment to become citizens speaks well for you. I ask that you please not allow the actions of a few jerks to make the sweet smell of your accomplishment turn rancid. Some people here don’t know how good they’ve got it and take every chance they can steal to complain that the nation isn’t letting them have their way. I assure you, we’re not all like that. Enjoy this day and all of the days of your citizenship to come. Welcome aboard!

Update: See for yourself at the Washington Examiner.