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BERKELEY: Cal's Robert Birgeneau talks about Tucson shooting
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/12/11 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

Posted on 01/12/2011 8:06:44 AM PST by SmithL

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has come out swinging over the shooting spree that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people, linking it to Arizona's "discrimination against undocumented persons" and a "climate in which demonization of others goes unchallenged and hateful speech is tolerated."

In a campus-wide e-mail message, Birgeneau said: "It is not a coincidence that this calamity has occurred in a state which has legislated discrimination against undocumented persons."

He added that "this same mean-spirited xenophobia played a major role in the defeat of the Dream Act by our legislators in Washington, leaving many exceptionally talented and deserving young people, including our undocumented students, painfully in limbo."

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: beserkeley; birgeneau; giffords; illegals; reichstagfire
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To: SmithL
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21 posted on 01/12/2011 8:33:06 AM PST by davidlachnicht ("IF WE ARE ALL TO BE TARGETS, THEN WE ALL MUST BE SOLDIERS.")
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To: SmithL

Twat.

Talentless twat.

Unproductive, talentless twat.

Overpaid, unproductive, talentless twat.

Protected, overpaid, unproductive, talentless twat.

Hate-filled, protected, overpaid, unproductive, talentless twat.

Ignorant, hate-filled, protected, overpaid, unproductive, talentless twat.

Twat.


22 posted on 01/12/2011 8:38:04 AM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: SmithL

Sir:
YOU are the CHANCELLOR of the UC system???? REALLY????

California education is in terrible trouble.

You are lambasting the law SB 1070, yet it is written word for word the same as the FEDERAL law, as best I can find out.

Soooo—such a law is bad in ARIZONA-—but fine in the District of Criminals???

You & Sheriff Dipstick need to have a ‘beer summit’ together & continue to lean on each other.

No wonder California is in such trouble in every sector.


23 posted on 01/12/2011 8:39:17 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: jospehm20

We’re thinking the same way.

See my #22.


24 posted on 01/12/2011 8:43:18 AM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: EyeGuy

Idiot. You are about to have your budget cut big time because of money being divert to pay the expenses of illegals in CA. Enjoy.


25 posted on 01/12/2011 8:46:18 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: SmithL
Whos fault was Robert Kennedys murder in LA? Bush or Palin?
26 posted on 01/12/2011 8:47:35 AM PST by Jolla
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To: SmithL

“Discrimination” against “undocumented persons” is entirely legal, you imbecilic Bundeskanzler.


27 posted on 01/12/2011 8:57:02 AM PST by pogo101
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To: SmithL

Using similar logic to the Chancellor, I think that we can all agree that the sole cause of the Tucson shooting is Lady Gaga.


28 posted on 01/12/2011 9:12:45 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: ridesthemiles

The chancellor should make himself aware of section 834b of the California Penal Code. It is pretty much the same language as Arizona’s SB 1070.


29 posted on 01/12/2011 9:13:51 AM PST by afnamvet (Patriots Rising)
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To: SmithL

Don’t colleges teach Logic anymore?


30 posted on 01/12/2011 9:16:48 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Fido969

Not in my state and I do not see that changing in my remaining lifetime.


31 posted on 01/12/2011 9:22:01 AM PST by afnamvet (Patriots Rising)
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To: Mr. K
If Sarah Palin made Jared Loughner commit mass murder, then who made Major Nidal Hasan commit mass murder?  
32 posted on 01/12/2011 9:38:53 AM PST by TankerKC (Part of the Soros funded Blog Police.)
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To: SmithL

a “climate in which demonization of others goes unchallenged and hateful speech is tolerated.”

That’s his university! LMAO.


33 posted on 01/12/2011 9:43:30 AM PST by popdonnelly (Democrats are silly people - but silly people can be dangerous)
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To: SmithL

Enough of these silly leftists who want to blame their political opposition for everything. The Left has been using violent and inflammatory rhetoric and actions for decades.

We ought to focus on real problems, like securing our southern border. It doesn’t help that the federal government impedes Arizona from doing the job that the federal government ought to be doing.


34 posted on 01/12/2011 9:47:33 AM PST by popdonnelly (Democrats are silly people - but silly people can be dangerous)
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To: SmithL

another overpaid windbag speaking out from Kookville, USA


35 posted on 01/12/2011 10:04:18 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: SmithL
This un-American sphync should be publicly flogged and then be exiled for life to Venezuela where he can play footsie with Hugo Chavez.

;-\

36 posted on 01/12/2011 11:36:15 AM PST by Gargantua (Palin ~ Bachmann 2012... just call it "Pa-Bach!" (AKA "Liberal Head Cemtex"))
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