We know who Walid Shoebat is. We know who Baruch Goldstein is. And heck, we even know who Chris Kulawik is.

But who's V47? Bwog commandeth: reveal thyself!

News is coming hot and heavy these days on fallout from October 4th (Bwog's new name for the Minuteman Protest), so we thought we'd do a little digest on the latest.

Item # 1: The Republicans are going ahead with their event Wednesday evening featuring ex-PLO jihadist Walid Shoebat, along with a former Lebanese terrorist and a member of the Hitler Youth. The headliner--whom Princeton didn't even allow to speak--may even be more wacko than Gilchrist, and this time, they're not taking any chances. If you want to go, RSVP soon at the CU GOP website, where you may reserve and print out one (1) ticket in advance--but you might be lonely. Chabad brought Shoebat to Columbia in 2004, but this time around Hillel hasn't even put it on their online calendar, and word is that other student groups are planning on boycotting the event entirely. "We want pretty pictures of empty chairs," said one Bwog source. "Forty people attend, and the thing collapses."

Item # 2: We're not sure where Karina Garcia is getting the 3,000 figure for letters sent to PrezBo in support of the protesters--University Spokesman Robert Hornsby couldn't confirm the number. Then again, he also wouldn't answer any of Bwog's other five questions, saying only that the administration "will make no further comment at this time." Ah, stonewalling.

Item # 3: Even though YouTube has gone corporate, they're still providing us with lots of fun new video. Here's what we've found:

Lou Dobbs to CU: "You ought to be ashamed." Can't you see the breastbeating?

CTV National Media analysis: We RULE.

Protesters on CTV: All about the message, baby.

Finally, Dols v. Kulawik on Fox

Item # 4: Statements by World Can't Wait and the Working Families Party after the jump.

- LBD

After leaving the Minuteman Protest, Bwog sat down and e-mailed all the adminstrators it could think of for interviews. Chaplain Jewelnel Davis, who runs Earl Hall, responded via Blackberry at 6:30 AM the next morning. She and SGB program managers Jane Huber and Raquel Whittaker speak about protesting, free speech, and the swinging sixties.

When the idea to have Jim Gilchrist came up, what were your thoughts around that?

Chaplain Davis: We know that Columbia, at its very best, must be a place where free speech is affirmed and central, not only in the classrooms must there be a vigiorous exchange of ideas, but also if they have issues that their groups want to focus on, we are delighted for students to proposed events and propose speakers that will allow students first hand experience of what the issues are that face them as young people, and as citizens not only of Columbia, but of New York, of the region, of the country, of the world.

If you're going to have a speaker and have a question and answer session. You're at Columbia. If you want something to have a significant contribution to the Columbia Community, you make sure that there's a Question and Answer period.

In this case, for example, the speakers were scheduled to speak for 45 minutes, and then followed by a 45 minute question and answer period. Raquel and Jane had worked carefully and well with Chris Kulawik to make sure that the issues the College Republicans wanted to be heard, issues of immigration, were coming out. So it's not whether you read the newspaper, whether you've filtered through the television media, but no, you could say I was actually there with the people who were making the news that other people are reporting on.

At Columbia, you get to say I was there. The Minutemen are part of the national conversation about immigration, especially on the southern border of the United States, and the College Republicans wanted students to hear from them, and to interrogate. There were no bars on what the questions were going to be. There were no questions that were predetermined that could not be asked. The College Republicans made no effort to do that.

Supposedly Www.Bwog.net will run across the bottom of screen, which means that the site may crash, so don't panic if you can't find us for awhile. We're trying to figure out how to prevent that from happening... but what a way to go.

Chris Kulawik's cheerful visage graced Fox News' Hannity and Colmes this evening. While expressing shame at being a member of the Columbia community, he appeared the picture of moderation next to Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist, who called protesters the "anarcho-fascists" and the "21st century KKK," noting that he would have given the protesters a "Minuteman knuckle sandwich."

"They are domestic terrorists," he said, his eyes wide. "Their goal is to disrupt and deprive everyone of the first amendment except for themselves."

The video of Bill O'Reilly's take on the events from tonight's O'Reilly Factor is on the Fox News site now, and Bwog's got the footage of the Hannity and Colmes segment below... Ok, yes, we did tape a television screen. Silly Columbia TVs don't have "video out" holes! It's the sound that matters, really...

Meanwhile, in our self-Googling, we came up with this gem:

"Special honorary mention, also, to the courageous young journalists at BWOG who unflinchingly told the tale of the brave young jihadis who sought to protect the warriors of Islam from the vigilante infidels of the Minuteman Project."

It's nice to be appreciated?

Update 7:00 PM: Bwog has confirmed that Kulawik will appear at 9:00 tonight on Fox News' Hannity and Colmes with Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist, while opening speaker Marvin Stewart will appear on the Bill O'Reilly Factor at 8:00 and 11:00 PM. Protesters were asked to appear on The Factor, and one accepted, but declined shortly before the taping.

Campus, city and national media have already spun the Minuteman Brawl of 2006 into a harbinger for Armageddon, and Bwog would like to level the conversation a bit. Starting with the source, President of the College Republicans (ex-College Conservatives President) Chris Kulawik himself. In an early morning interview, he told Bwog why controversy follows him everywhere, what he saw, and why he brought members of a vigilante border patrol to campus in the first place. Below is a summary of the interview with choice Kulawik quotes.

Over the summer the Republicans sent out about 40 invitations to different potential speakers and elected representatives. Kulawik said the invitations "got a pretty decent return rate," and Gilchrist and Stewart got invites because Columbia students are "pretty far removed from the immigration debate," and Gilchrist is "on the front lines" and would be "a different opinion from what we're used to on campus."

Stewart and Gilchrist were flown to New York and put up with College Republican funds—Kulawik is not sure if student activities money went into planning the event.

In anticipation of student reaction, he forwarded a link to the 600+ member Facebook group protesting the Minutemen to Public Safety, which he said must not have predicted the extent to which the event would escalate. "In the wake of Ashcroft, the ISA, protesters, and Chicano Caucus were better prepared to mobilize."

As for the when the rumble broke out; "It was really hectic up there... I can't tell you how scared I was...The [protesters] were looking for a fight...I really felt that my personal being was in danger... they literally staged a premeditated attack."

After the event, he called an emergency College Republicans executive board meeting and said administrators also had a huge closed door meeting. As of 9:00 this morning, he had not yet had any communication with administrators.

He noted being "concerned" about future speakers deciding not to come to campus, and said he was worried the event would keep others from joining the College Republicans.

"Not only does it set back the university, it sets back the movement of mature debate."