On September 11th, 2019, after 47 years of open-air preaching on Indiana University campus, Jed (76) and Cindy Smock were forcibly removed by police officers and banned from the property for a full year by the university. They were falsely accused of assaulting a student by the police officers just to get them off the campus, after which, there was no arrest for the alleged assault, but instead Jed Smock was simply released.
Jed Smock preaching to a college audience
The following excerpts are from what Jed Smock wrote about his experience at IU.
“This past week I suffered the indignity of being forcibly escorted off the campus of IU for exercising my freedom to proclaim the gospel. Many students cheered as the police took me away. Earlier in the week at the University of Illinois my hat and chairs were stolen. It is relatively commonplace for the students to steal our stuff, to throw missiles, spit, threaten or shove us for standing for righteousness.”
“FIRST BOBBY KNIGHT, NOW BRO JED”
September 11, 2019, Indiana University
IU was too weak to handle Bobby Knight; they finally had to fire him as basketball coach, despite all the glory he brought to IU. Now they have gone after Brother Jed.
Maybe, like Coach Knight, I will have to move to Texas where there are still some real men, like the controversial and hated valiant preacher, Joel Osteen. We men, like Knight, Trump, Osteen and Smock have to stand together to make America great again.
“Girls today think it’s good to be loose with either the boys or other girls. Many of them even drink the frat boys under the table. They cuss like sailors. One well-dressed respectable looking coed even, “Hailed Satan.”
Within one half hour or so, a slovenly male, who was repeatedly screaming “Hail Satan,” grabbed for my camera. I ducked and turned away. He attacked me, not me him. This happened around 12:30. Several students and one teacher attempted to restrain him. Obviously, he was the aggressor. The teacher called the police. Who knows what she may have said?
Soon after, four squad cars arrived and stayed most of the afternoon. There were numerous policemen but for over two hours they kept their distance. As did most all the students.
When I said, “We are evangelicals for Donald J. Trump,” several inmates moved inside the circle. I proclaimed; “We are working with President Trump to make America great again.”
None of the so-called students were threatening violence. Of course, just the name of Trump sets them off. It seems that the only name that that excels Trump’s, since he announced his candidacy in 2015, is the mightiest name of all, Jesus.
Students were questioning me about when America was great and asking about the so-called native Americans. Suddenly, a short-panted policeman twisted my arm and manhandled me to a squad car. It is interesting that the police made no move until the subject of Trump came up. Perhaps, they were fearful of a hooded woman in a black robe, who was not a nun, that was questioning me. Police are usually intimated by those types.
IU students surround Cindy Smock, one scoffer shouts at her while she preaches
Initially, the policeman said he wanted to talk to me. He then proceeded to write out a “Trespass Warning,” which banned me from campus for a year. When I pleaded that I was not trespassing but exercising free speech, he claimed, “You are causing a disturbance.” I replied, “The First Amendment is for the protection of disturbing speech. Inoffensive speech needs no protection.” Finally, he came up with a wildly untrue story that four officers saw me assault a student. Little do they know that no one has more self-restraint and self-control than I, with the possible exception of President Trump.
Throughout the afternoon there was the usual same sex kissing and students unsuccessfully trying to get everyone to leave. I can’t help but wonder if the police did not get orders from above to remove me since student response to our preaching made the University look so bad as our video was going out to thousands over FB and YouTube showing the depravity and anti-intellectualism of the students.
IU has an outward appearance of the Ivy or Ivory Towers of respectability. However, I tore the ivy from the towers to expose the rot underneath, which has been covered by generations of overgrowth; or if you prefer, we ripped the alabaster veneer to reveal the blackness underneath.
The sexual revolution which came into prominence in the 1970’s was birthed at IU. The infamous Kinsey Institution was founded at IU in the late 40’s and defended by President Herman Wells, who presided over the University when I entered as a freshman in 1960. Alfred Kinsey provided the academic respectability and false science to defend pre-marital and extra-marital sex as well as all sorts of perversion. His research has been discredited by legitimate scholars.
Kinsey himself was a notorious pervert, whose actual training was to studying insects. The Kinsey Institute remains at IU after all these years. Kinsey provided the fodder for the Playboy Philosophy of Hugh Hefner and the porn industry and sexual slavery of today, which has twisted the minds of multitudes of college students.
There is a procedure for appealing the yearlong ban which we will be looking into. Sister Cindy was also banned from campus for a year. There were not even any false accusations of assault against her.
I warned the police that I will be encouraging preachers from all over the country to come to IU. Anyone want to take up the challenge?
But not all interactions with the students turned out with such a negative result.
“Brother Jed & Sister Cindy Smock came to my husband’s alma mater, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus when Mark Gabriel was a student there back in the years of 1979 to 1984, when he graduated. He remembers them coming & says they were always the talk of the dorms when they came. Spiritual conversations started all over campus, giving Christians the opportunity to talk about Jesus to others.
Case in point this past week. Brother Jed was preaching on the college campus & a student came up to him & said, “Brother Jed, I became a Christian because of what you said when you were here last year.” Bro. Jed was speaking with an open-minded agnostic student at the time, and that student heard this student’s testimony, so then the agnostic student asked the Christian student questions. Good conversation. So, pray for this dear, elderly couple, that Indiana University will do the right thing and allow free speech on their campus again.”
As the culture of this country has so evidently shifted in the last 47 years from a society which welcomed Christians and their message on college campuses… to colleges with the loudest, most dishonest, and least accepting and affirming crowds running the show… demanding the silence of the Christian message… while the believer is treated as one who is “less-than” the rest, and with fewer rights than the loudest.
One cannot help but to think of a similar time when a people were treated as “less-than” because of their beliefs before their Jewish lives were extinguished in chambers of gas. One must wonder if this treatment of Christians today mirrors the days just before the holocaust began.
UPDATE: Indiana University has since reviewed the legalities and lifted the ban. Jed and Cindy Smock have returned to their preaching.
