Posted on 03/06/2018 2:05:34 PM PST by Sergio
Masked thugs invaded a talk organised by a university free speech society last night before setting off smoke bombs and attacking security guards.
The self-proclaimed 'antifascist' protesters forced their way into the King’s College London lecture hall and grabbed the speakers' microphones before smashing windows and leaving notes threatening the moderator.
Several security guards were punched and had to go to hospital, according to the organisers, who were forced to evacuate the building and call the police.
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Free speech for me, but not for thee. Antifa is all for free speech...that they approve of.
Full title of the article:
‘Several people are hurt’ as violent thugs shut down a FREE SPEECH event at King’s College London setting off smoke bombs and ‘punching security guards’
Did a search on the full title, portions of the title, and key word searches for the authors as well as Antifa and King’s College. No hits/results...so I post.
Sounds like free speech needs support from RKBA.
Imagine the message it would send if some of the thugs were shot dead.
Trying to figure out how anyone can seriously claim that free speech is “fascist”.
They see themselves as anti-fascist in the same way that communists see themselves as anti-fascist...’cause like, anti-fa are communists.
The barbarians have breached the gates......
Anything not approved by anti-fa is by their definition, subversive and not deserving of “free speech” protections.
Well...this is England, where self-defense is very strongly frowned upon. A victim, defending themselves with nothing more than their hands, stands a good chance of going to court and then prison.
The self-proclaimed ‘antifascist’ protesters
Right, and Fidel Castro and Che Gueverra were Freedom Fighters...Why do they always pick, safe Gun Free ZOnes to practice their fascism?? COwards.
How is this any different than Hitler’s Sturmabteilung brown shirts? The thing that galls me the most is that these punks refer to themselves as “antifascists”. Do they not have any grounding in history at all?
They see it as completely different. Hitler liked white people, they hate white people. Hitler thought black people were inferior, they think black people are victims.
They believe their ideas should be implemented with force, and since they think their ideas are correct, so force is completely acceptable.
Other people’s ideas are wrong, so it is acceptable to use force to stop their speech.
It is a simple intolerant tribal approach to life. Morality is determined by whether you are for me or against me, not by what you do.
“How is this any different than Hitler’s Sturmabteilung brown shirts? The thing that galls me the most is that these punks refer to themselves as “antifascists”. Do they not have any grounding in history at all? “
It’s not different except when the communists tried to seize power in the so-called Spartacist uprising in 1919 they got their @sses handed to them. They morphed from Leninists to full blown Stalinists sometime after that. These punks are likely well aware of their historical obfuscations - it’s the MSM and the general public who are in abject ignorance of history.
The difference between a facist and an anti-facist: facists will beat you up if they don’t agree with you, while anti-facists will beat you up if they don’t agree with you.
“Trying to figure out how anyone can seriously claim that free speech is “fascist”.”
Understand the history:
The political terms “left” & “right” originated around the French Revolution.
The Leftists of that time touted the imperative of “liberty, equality, fraternity”.
The Leftists of that time then proceeded to murder anyone not perfectly in step with Robespierre.
The Leftists of today tout the imperative of “freedom, equality, diversity”.
The Leftists of today currently proceed to shout down, beat up, and are expressing interest in murdering anyone not perfectly in step with ... well, they haven’t found a leader to rally around, which is probably why they haven’t gotten to murdering anyone not perfectly in step therewith.
Somebody please convince these morons “Lord of the Flies” is not a how-to manual.
Unmask these cowards.
It must be that their security guards don’t carry guns. So sad that those thugs got to walk out of there.
I saw the full video of this before. Hard to believe that any of those frail looking soy-boy Antifa guys could hurt anybody with a punch. A couple of the Antifa girls looked like gorillas though.
“How is this any different than Hitler’s Sturmabteilung brown shirts? “
They were beating the shit out of the antifa of the time...communists. Same as today. Too bad they went off the rails with the jews and WW2.
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