See Free-Speech-Movement: Berkeley here:
Posted on 01/02/2009 6:24:57 AM PST by flowerplough
Protests at The New School, where a student uprising over the leadership of the university’s president, Bob Kerrey, led to clashes with the police and at least one arrest on Thursday morning, took another wild turn later on Thursday evening.
A little after 11:30 p.m., Mr. Kerrey emerged from a university building on Fifth Avenue south of 14th Street to a sea of a few hundred protesters chanting for his resignation. As Mr. Kerrey walked down Fifth Avenue toward 12th Street, about 30 protesters began following him, some of them shouting insults.
As the crowd’s pace quickened, so did Mr. Kerrey’s. Then, Mr. Kerrey, who lost a part of his leg in Vietnam and wears a prosthesis, broke into a run. The protesters gave chase. Mr. Kerrey turned left on a cross street and ducked into a brownstone.
At some point in the confrontation, a protester threw a tomato at Mr. Kerrey.
( ... )
Mr. Kerrey, the former governor and United States senator from Nebraska who was given an overwhelming vote of no confidence from the university’s faculty in recent days, showed up at 11:30 a.m. asking to address the dissident students, but they voted not to hear him out.
The student demonstration began Wednesday evening in the ground-floor cafeteria, with about 50 of them staying overnight citing a list of grievances with the Kerrey administration, dating back to his early support of the Iraq war. They adopted a list of eight demands including a greater student voice in university affairs and the resignations of ...
(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Remember when the dog used to wag it’s tail. Today it’s the tail that wags the dog.
Shouting “we support the troops but not the mission,” no doubt.
Spoiled kids.
Most probably are on student loans and scholarships.
A certified lefty gets a dose of his own.
What were they going to do if they caught him?
“...Mr. Kerrey turned left...”
Surprise, surprise!
This is the same bed of Marxist scum that produced the idea of taking over all 401Ks.
What a peaceful bunch!
Sucker!
I'm not wishing any physical harm on President-elect "Zero", but if it happens, it will be the same type of people who helped elect him, disappointed because they didn't get everything they felt entitled to get.
When Obama talks about “unity”, I always have to shudder, because I can’t envision being “unified” with a mindset that would tolerate this behavior. You call the cops, you expel every student involved, and if they set foot on the campus again you have them arrested for trespassing. DONE. I just don’t get why this kind of crap is tolerated in any venue, for virtually any reason.
Alas, now that the punks know that they have a president and his eminence grise (Ayers) who support these things, we can expect to see a lot more "occupations" by the thugs of everything from schools to factories and offices. Things are not going to be good here. Barry will use these people to create a mob-run society that enforces his policies.
What exactly did Kerry do to the school that was so bad? Or was it just Iraq? Were any of their friends drafted and sent to die over there? No, didn't think so. Are they afraid they are next? No again.
Isn’t this the guy y’all had words with during the 9/11 hearings?
Likely nothing if he hadn't run. Running just triggers the wrong reaction in the pack.
Quoted from the comments......
“I am not protesting. 6000 other students are not protesting. These unruly 100 brats are making a bad name for our school. The New School’s primary problem is money- ousting Bob Kerrey will not improve the school’s finances- I predict- (guess what?) it would get worse.”
This is what I thought was the case. Usually is.
This is the NB Kerry, not the MA one.
The NB Kerry is a “moderate.”
Actually, the students should be told that they are not “equals,” which is what they claim that they should be (if you read the whole article). They are there to learn, not to run the place. If they do not like it, they can go somewhere else.
They are getting treated too well. And evidently they are being taught things in class which cause them to behave the way they do. The university authorities think that the “demonstration” is OK as long as lives and property are not directly damaged, but they do not count disruption, blocking doorways, and making a mess as anything to worry about. In other words, they treat these demonstrating students like babies, and that reinforces the infantile behavior of the “philosophy student” and his followers.
The New School has always been a hot-bed of radicals and communists. It should be regarded as increasingly irrelevant in a age of international economic competition. Who needs more people like these demonstrators? What can they possibly offer society?
I say, stop the state budget to such places, and let them wither. Every time you buy something in New York and pay their 8% sales tax, you are helping fund this. And they still can’t balance the state budget. Heck, in New York they can’t even propose a budget by the deadline date.
A former Navy SEAL who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and was a Republican at one time now finds out what he has helped to created, and it has turned on him.
Yeah, “Peace & Love” is just a facade for the violent left.
Nothing says “Trust Fund Baby” like a white kid in dreds.
Forgot to mention, these are the new SDS. Not metaphorically, they are using the same name as the 60s bombers.
These kids are 60s prostest re-enactors. They got tired of palying Dungeons & Dragons.
Yep...
We call ‘em Trustafarians.
Nobody plays D&D anymore. They play Halo and World of Warcraft.
They are not just the tail anymore, they are now the whole dog and we are just some old bone that has been long buried and forgotten about.
If Bob Kerrey is so unpopular with faculty and students alike, why on earth is he still president of that university? Looks like it’s time for him to find employment elsewhere.
Some students debated tactics; others gazed at computer screens or studied. Mr. Michelson read “On the Genealogy of Morality” by Nietzsche. Somebody else paged through “Early History of Rome” by Livy. A boombox blared music. Students alternated between catnaps on the wooden cafeteria floor and munching snacks delivered by supporters.
Such hardened revolutionaries. I wonder what the snacks were -- little boxes of raisins? Cheerios in a plastic baggie?
They adopted a list of eight demands including a greater student voice in university affairs and the resignations of Mr. Kerrey; James Murtha, the executive vice president; and Robert Millard, treasurer of the board of trustees, who students said was connected to a private security firm working in Iraq.
OT, but I'm not sure if I'm down with the use of semicolons here.
Bob Kerrey helped create this school! Ha! Looks like he created a monster. I remember seeing him on Larry King excitedly describing how this school would be a model of education, yada yada. Oh well.
You wouldn't have been able to chase him even if you'd wanted to...too many (operating) TV cameras in the way, LOL.
Ah, memories...
“but they voted not to hear him out”! Democracy in action (Leftist style)!
Sen Kerry took this job so he could date hot NY chicks and go to the great liberal cocktail parties. I wonder how that’s been working out?
And “The New School for Social Research”?
That’s been a leftist bastion since World War One before the beatnicks....When the artistes of Greenwich Village were known as bohemians
I hope there were enough passies and blankies for the nappers. :D
Stunning quote, but not surprising at all.
See, all those classes in egalitarian Marxist philosophy are paying off. Bet Mom and Dad are thrilled
Welcome to to Obamaland
If you check out the available majors at:
http://www.newschool.edu/degreeprograms/
you will join me in hoping they have trust funds lest we taxpayers wind up supporting them their whole lives.
See Free-Speech-Movement: Berkeley here:
Ha! Ha! Ha! It looks like the tables are turning on the RATS.
The New School in downtown Manhattan is really special-ed for libs. It’s where rich liberals send their spawn when the little rodents are too stupid to go to a real school.
They’re angry because someone told them that the free “toot” and unicorn rides won’t begin on Jan.20 as promised.
Found the threads from back then. You old chit-stirrer, you!!
ROFLMAO!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1176328/posts?q=1&;page=251
Alert!!! Confrontation Between Bob Kerrey and Public!!! (FReepers Kristinn and Doctor Raoul)
MSNBC | July 22, 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1176487/posts
Kerrey: ‘So Am I, (Expletive)’ (New video of freep of Sen. Bob Kerrey.)
The Left’s own tactics are coming back to haunt them. This has been happening to the Left since the 1960s, however:
“Meanwhile, German students had discovered Adorno, and the re-established Frankfurt School. Yet the rapport between Adorno and the German students proved difficult. Perhaps because Adorno was reserved and the German students demanding, certain activists turned on him at the height of the 1960s. They attacked him as a bourgeois sellout; they interrupted his classes and “occupied” the Frankfurt School building. He in turn assailed their tactics and their lazy use of the term “fascism.” Disturbed by the conflict and exhausted from work, Adorno died in 1969 of a heart attack. He was 65.”
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/people/kellner/RevPapVol3JacobyNation052-7.htm
eyewitness description.
To: LincolnLover
Doctor Raoul was carrying his famous sign “If Osama was a piece of ass, Clinton would have nailed him”, and kristinn was dressed like Sandy Berger (stuff in his pockets) carrying a sign about jailing him.
Kerrey apparently was on his way into the building, then abruptly turned around and walked over to where Doctor Raoul and kristinn were standing, demanding their names. (”You got a name??!!!”)
Kristinn immediately gave him his, looking him straight in the eye - then when Kerrey turned to DR demanding his, DR said, “Nevermind,” and started calling Kerrey on his absence at one of the meetings of the commission. Kerrey called him an a/h and kept demanding. DR said he was a citizen. Looked like Kristinn spoke up then but I couldn’t tell what he said...Kerrey swore a few times.
Then as Kerrey turned to go back into the building, Raoul shouted at him that he should try to stay for the whole meeting this time (in different words) and I think it was kristinn shouting out that they hadn’t spit on him and kicked him the way Al Gore’s people did (when Kerrey ran for the Dem presidential nomination).
It was awesome.
124 posted on Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:37:27 PM by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (NO SIMS CITY ON PUBLIC LAND.)
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A man named Hsu
If being called names by Kerry doesn’t get you into Heaven, then nothing will. That dude is a 1st class a/h himself, and would come in first, second, and fourth in any national a$$hole contests he entered!
LOL
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