Posted on 03/11/2023 8:28:45 AM PST by billorites
This weekend, we witnessed another assault on a public figure by an increasingly aggressive element of American politics. The book signing event was disrupted and Steve Forbes was assaulted by protesters who did not want others to be able to speak with or hear him. The fact that this was a literary event is particularly fitting given the effort of many to prevent free expression in our society. Ironically, the book is titled “Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.”
Forbes was present at a book signing for the new book written by authors Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz. Protesters disrupted the event by throwing drinks and books at him and toppling over a display. Forbes reportedly identified two of the protesters as Black Lives Matter activists who were yelling when they came into the event.
Mandel, a mother of six and CEO of Forbes, says that her newborn baby was also struck in the assault.
The attack came after years of pandering to the mob by politicians, writers, and academics. Political figures like Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Cal.) have called for activists to harass conservatives in public places and “push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Law professors like Georgetown Law Professor Josh Chafetz declared that “when the mob is right, some (but not all!) more aggressive tactics are justified.”
Blocking others from speaking is not the exercise of free speech. It is the very antithesis of free speech. Nevertheless, faculty have supported such claims. CUNY Law Dean Mary Lu Bilek showed how far this trend has gone. When conservative law professor Josh Blackman was stopped from speaking about “the importance of free speech,” Bilek insisted that disrupting the speech on free speech was free speech. (Bilek later cancelled herself and resigned).
This dangerous trend in academia is discussed in my law review article, Jonathan Turley, “Harm and Hegemony: The Decline of Free Speech in the United States”, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Someone is going to be hurt as politicians, professors, and pundits fuel this rage. Forbes is 75 years old and, while he appears in good health, this type of assault can easily trigger a medical emergency for many individuals due to age or preexisting conditions. It is incredibly irresponsible and reprehensible to encourage such public confrontations.
Apparently, BLM thinks Forbes is conservative.
Not sure what happened to the perps. Probably nothing and they just walked away?
These are the real nazis
Turley’s doing his Capt. Obvious act.
Point provers.
“Someone is going to be hurt...”
That is only localized collateral damage. These people are bent on destroying Western Civilization. They are getting close to their goal.
Forbes can afford the best security and should have it from now on. Was interesting when he was running for President and would debate Pat Buchanan on differences in their ideas.
Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation
by Karol Markowicz and Bethany MandelAmerican children are facing a crisis unlike any in human history: their very extinction. Every day, thousands of American kids are being robbed of their youth as they are converted into foot soldiers for an aggressive agenda of woke politics while parents watch in horror or resigned indifference. The insidiousness of wokeism is a phenomenon most American parents never fully realize, yet these ideas pervade children's minds because of the woke narrative ever-present in society. In this book, Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz present data about the impact of wokeism on childhood and give parents tools to identify how wokeism has encroached in their lives--and limit its influence.
BLM=PURE EVIL!
They are getting close to their goal.
It may seem so, but not really.
What they’re getting close to is taking one step too far. That will spark an opposite and wide ranging reaction that will see these little pukes stacked up like cord wood.
I wonder if that will ever happen. Normal people need livlihoods and work. They aren't inclined to stack them up like cordwood. If we get to that point, it will be open civil warfare.
The insidious rot from within that they are performing undermines all of our institutions. What would it take to finally trigger people to act? We seem to have grown accustomed to their antics and it is tolerated everywhere.
Due to his propensity to attract violent protesters, Mr. Forbes can expect to see future speaking engagements cancelled.
After all, since his own CEO’s infant was struck during this most recent violence, it’s “for the children”
Some people just can’t handle the truth.
Some people just can’t handle the truth.
We hope.
I don't care if they have MAGNA anything on...they were there to make trouble and nothing else.
There is only ONE reason these people are never caught or prosecuted:
Modern brown shirts. Thus, they truly are enemy combatants and should be treated as such.
And those like waters should have had an accident long ago.
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