Terrorists supporting racial discrimination by government agencies disrupted a meeting intended to bring a government agency into compliance with a court order and Michigan law.

Following a raucous, table-tumbling protest involving a couple of hundred impassioned Detroit area students, a state elections panel bucked an appellate court order Wednesday and failed again to place an affirmative action ban proposal on next year's ballot.

The Board of State Canvassers voted 2-1, with one member not voting, to certify the so-called Michigan Civil Rights Initiative for the November 2006 ballot. It takes three votes to certify.

The meeting was disrupted by an opposition group, By Any Means Necessary, which recruited students from Cody, Cass Tech, Crockett and Mumford high schools in Detroit and Oak Park High School to swarm the meeting and keep the board from voting.

I want to hear no more comments from so-called civil rights activists about disenfranchisement. This bunch is pursuing an agenda to disenfranchise the entire state of Michigan by preventing the people from ever getting a chance to vote on an amendment that meets all legal requirements to appear on the ballot.

It is time for the governor to call out the National Guard and for the appellate court to hold in contempt the members of the Board of State Canvassers thwarting the will of the people and violating the order to certify the MCRI.

UPDATE: Much greater detail from Discriminations and Chetley Zarko.

OTHER VOICES: GOPBloggers, What If?, Politics [Michigan] and Discriminations. The last quotes Thomas Bray of the Detroit News.

A string of recent debates on the issue also suggests the difficulty that supporters of affirmative action are having in trying to mount a reasoned defense of such policies. In a recent debate with Ward Connerly, who led the successful California fight to end preferences, the dean of Wayne State University’s law school asserted that race-based admissions is a “civil right.” That left even the veteran Connerly slack-jawed with wonder, ignoring as it did the language of the Constitution and a century of efforts to define civil rights as equality – not inequality -- before the law.

Had a mob of student conservatives invaded a meeting of state officials, it would have been denounced as fascist. The fascism of the left tends to be excused, even by those who know better, as a case of overwrought idealism. But voters may not be so easily fooled.

Indeed. But let's remembr that Mussolini was primarily a man of the Left, and that his German ally was the head of the National SOCIALIST Party -- so it is most appropriate to call the BAMN rioters "fascists".