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Yiannopoulos: ‘The Left is absolutely terrified of free speech’
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 1, 2017 | Trapper Byrne

Posted on 02/01/2017 10:13:15 PM PST by grundle

“I have been evacuated from the UC Berkeley campus after violent left-wing protestors tore down barricades lit fires, threw rocks and Roman candles at the windows and breached the ground floor of the building. My team and I are safe. But the event has been cancelled. I'll let you know more when the facts become clear. One thing we do know for sure: the Left is absolutely terrified of free speech and will do literally anything to shut it down.”

In a subsequent interview with Fox News, Yiannopoulos said UC Berkeley is “a liberal campus. They hate libertarians or conservatives who dare to express an opinion on their campus. They particularly don’t like me.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berkely; freespeech; leftwingnuts; liberalfascism; milo; mobs; rioters
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1 posted on 02/01/2017 10:13:15 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

“Free speech”, to the Bolsheviks, has always meant shouting down opposing viewpoints.


2 posted on 02/01/2017 10:16:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: grundle

I am only vaguely familiar with him, but I worry that someone like Soros will have him eliminated.


3 posted on 02/01/2017 10:17:40 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: grundle

A better characterization is simply that the Left is intolerant.


4 posted on 02/01/2017 10:18:10 PM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk

These folks are anarchists, and are all over the nation these days. I think they are paid troublemakers, and that amounts to a conspiracy. Soros and company are funding this. I think it is sedition or an insurrection.

This is high stakes, and it’s time the government step in and let these folks know the days of them pulling these stunts are over.

This is totally unacceptable.

We should have had a unified front against this nonsense starting last year, but one numb-nut actually blamed this sort of thing on another candidate, for personal gain.

You never ever ever ever attribute a reason for this stuff. There is no excuse for it.

Hillary Clinton and her campaign committee were direction some of these goon squads.

I’m betting we don’t know the half of it.

Arrest these guys. Then investigate their bank accounts. I’ll bet they are getting deposits from the same entity.

Charge them with conspiracy. Take down the whole lot of them.

They need to be swarmed and arrested in mass. Then investigate and prosecute the pros being paid. Absolutely throw the book at them.


5 posted on 02/01/2017 10:31:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Start with Soros. That evil bastard is behind much of this. If this isn’t stopped soon, Soros will let loose his stooges this summer and they’ll do all they can to shut down parts of cities, airports, malls, etc. They will try and bring commerce to a halt.


6 posted on 02/01/2017 10:38:25 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

I’ll bet BLM is funded by him also.

Just about all the social justice warrior stuff is on his dime IMO.


7 posted on 02/01/2017 10:40:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I think you are right. Hopefully DJT has ordered something to take care of him and they’re planning it right now.


8 posted on 02/01/2017 10:44:47 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: grundle

Well, that’s simple...free speech means you need to have rational arguments that pursue solutions. The Left crushes free speech so that their made-up, unreal-reality can exist without anyone pointing out the nonsensical nature of their belief system.


9 posted on 02/01/2017 10:47:43 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: laplata

Yes, I hope so too.


10 posted on 02/01/2017 10:50:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: grundle

A liberal campus? No, they’re way beyond that.


11 posted on 02/01/2017 11:50:09 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Building the Wall, NOW!)
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To: laplata
Start with Soros. That evil bastard is behind much of this.

We need ironclad proof to bring him to justice. It would be better to quietly snatch him up and deliver him to the Russians. They want him, badly!

12 posted on 02/01/2017 11:54:22 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Building the Wall, NOW!)
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To: plain talk

Exactly.

Can you imagine the uproar, the finger-pointing, and the screaming about intolerance if Milo were a liberal and he was being prevented from speaking? The gay community alone would be going completely nuts. (no pun intended)


13 posted on 02/02/2017 12:07:41 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: grundle
I have been evacuated from the UC Berkeley campus after violent left-wing protestors tore down barricades, lit fires, threw rocks and Roman candles at the windows and breached the ground floor of the building.

Milo, these people aren't "protestors", they're "rioters". Protestors are supposed to be law-abiding and non-violent, by definition. These people are simply thugs and bullies who are so threatened by your Free Speech that they resort to violence to suppress it.

“The fascists of the future will call themselves Anti Fascists” - Winston Churchill

14 posted on 02/02/2017 12:11:36 AM PST by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: grundle

Were any of these peaceful demonstrators aresseted for exercising their freedom of speech?


15 posted on 02/02/2017 12:15:48 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: DoughtyOne

Plus instigating violence, riots and property damage is very against the law and I believe on both the state and federal level government does have the right to go after these people and the sorce of their funding by many laws.


16 posted on 02/02/2017 12:22:32 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: sargon

At any gathering the police IMO should have every right to unmask and identify who the crowd is even before things happen. Masks tell you they are there to do damage.


17 posted on 02/02/2017 12:24:52 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: BenLurkin

And Ernst Rohm would be so proud of these thugs and their dirty work......


18 posted on 02/02/2017 12:27:26 AM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: DoughtyOne
> I’ll bet BLM is funded by him also.

The BLM is definitely funded by Soros. Deray McKesson, one of the major protestors for the BLNm was living in one of Soro's major donor's homes (owned by James and Robin Wood):

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/blacklivesmatter-leader-deray-lives-home-owned-by-soros-connected/

There are a lot more connections than this but this one stands out...

19 posted on 02/02/2017 12:30:32 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: grundle

He is correct. Truth is more hated than lies-—esp. by the cockroaches.

That is because, the Deep State who controls all curricula and ideas in the MSM—the ENTIRE Narrative—can’t have their trance disrupted by the truth.

Truth will set you free. The Bible/Christianity is what created a culture of abstract, profound thinkers (Age of Reason/Modern Science/US Constitution) and the Bolsheviks have been trying to destroy “free will” (choice) for over 200 years in children-—through their brainwashing system (publik skools). (Google Fichte 1810 “snow is black”)

They weren’t successful until they could get the little children in front of screens to program the tiny tots and destroy agency (thinking for self) and create a warped, artificial reality (dehumanization).......and when they created kindergarten to remove children from Nature (male/female paradigm) where they learn agency (free will/individuality) and common sense and real life skills which give emotional health and true self-esteem.

Get your children out of all those group (non) think factories which destroy agency and virtue formation.


20 posted on 02/02/2017 12:40:19 AM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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