Posted on 02/02/2017 7:37:17 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
This is a place many Cal alumni turn to for news, and I feel there is going to be an annoying narrative hanging in the air today about our campus and our people. In light of yesterday’s events, I want to issue a public service announcement about last night’s protests in Berkeley, because I feel our Golden Bear population deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Anarchists from around the Bay Area, NOT Cal students, were the ones who demonstrated violently last night in Berkeley. Utilizing typical black bloc techniques, they hijacked last night’s peaceful student protest of a certain speaker and turned it into the uncomfortable display that was aired throughout the nation.
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Uh, they were wearing masks, and none were identified. How does this youngster know if they were students or not?
Protests are supposed to have permits and follow the rules. It's a no-brainer that people at protests shouldn't be allowed to obscure their identity. The other issue should be the issue of our suspicion that there are paid organizers and protestors. If that's the case, these aren't protests, they're theatrical events. Those are the rules they should be governed by, including wages and laws for the employees and employers. Another situation....flag burning legal? So why not enforce the fire laws?
Oh yeah, like why was the announcement to riot placed in the student newspaper? The anarchists are you.
How many “free-speech” Berkeley people took a stand against the “anarchists” in favor of Milo’s First Amendment rights?
Most kids at Berkeley want to study. It was another Rent-A-Crowd planned and paid for by the usual suspects. Hope Project Veritas is also on scene.
Hiding in their parent’s comfortable home.
Anarchists, not students responsible ?
but no arrests ?
Crappola.
The Mayor there issued a stand down order for the police.
Where as the cops should have gone in and cracked a passel of skulls and made arrests.
Way past time to make a statement against these criminals.
Notice all these attacks are in soft-target States. California, New York, Colorado are majority Anti-American. The lefty flagburners know if they try that $hit down in any town in Texas not named Austin, they’d become coyote food in Hill Country.
If it had been Klansmen, the Tea Partiers would've kicked their collective a$$es. The Tea Party doesn't abide with Democrat Terror Organizations.
One of the reasons these guys can be blamed on anyone is because they never seem to get shot, tazed, or arrested. They seem to come and go pretty freely, and that needs to be fixed. I want to know who they are, and who is funding them (I figure it’s Soros, but I’d like to know for sure.)
I do not recognize any degree from University of California, nor will I hire any graduate from the UC system.
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