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Mitch McConnell: Give college presidents chance before sending National Guard
Arutz Sheva ^ | 26/4/24

Posted on 04/26/2024 12:27:14 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell distanced himself from other Republican lawmakers who have called for the National Guard to be sent in to break up the antisemitic riots and demonstrations that have taken over multiple university campuses throughout the US over the last week and a half.

“What needs to happen, at least at the beginning, is these university presidents need to get control of the situation, allow free speech, and push back against antisemitism,” McConnell told Margaret Brennan on the CBS 'Face the Nation' program.

“I thought that was largely gone in this country, but we’ve seen a number of young people who are actually antisemitic. Why don’t they all sit down and have a civil conversation rather than trying to dominate the talk?” he asked.

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To: Eleutheria5

That mealy mouthed reporter didn’t get what he thought he would get.


41 posted on 04/26/2024 4:53:47 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Eleutheria5
“I thought that was largely gone in this country, but we’ve seen a number of young people who are actually antisemitic. Why don’t they all sit down and have a civil conversation rather than trying to dominate the talk?” he asked.

What is he, nuts???

I'd rather have Pat Buchanan's solution for rioters: shoot to kill.

42 posted on 04/26/2024 4:55:03 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Zhang Fei

“Sending state and local cops in would suffice, combined with the denial of bail”

Wishful thinking. Hundreds of people arrested recently have been released. Not even sure they were actually charged with anything...maybe misdemeanors


43 posted on 04/26/2024 4:57:50 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“What needs to happen, at least at the beginning, is these university presidents need to get control of the situation...”

It’s PAST the beginning. Maybe Mitch has been napping while this has been going on.


44 posted on 04/26/2024 5:01:55 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: HighSierra5

Cancel graduations and charge huge shipping and handling fees for the diploma like during CoVid.


45 posted on 04/26/2024 5:11:14 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Recompennation

Cancel Graduation and final exams the protestors will happily relocate to wherever Soros has planned. Problem solved peacefully.


46 posted on 04/26/2024 5:15:00 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Eleutheria5

47 posted on 04/26/2024 5:20:39 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Eleutheria5

The Turtle speaks! Deep State nonsense.


48 posted on 04/26/2024 5:22:46 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a (i )
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To: TTFlyer

When liberals are destroying themselves do get in the way.


49 posted on 04/26/2024 5:58:51 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Eleutheria5

Local police are capable of handling the matter. I’m not interested in a police state where the military is called in for minor matters. There hasn’t been any serious violence from the students and it was the university administrators who shut down classes not the students. So exactly how do you justify calling in the military at this point? That’s just crazy.


50 posted on 04/26/2024 6:14:34 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Eleutheria5

Mr. GG2’s nephew is the President of a well known southern college. At first he wanted to say no to any protests but was told that legally he had to so he designated a small area at the edge of the college property and let them protest surrounded by cops. It was basically a non event.


51 posted on 04/26/2024 7:00:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“At first he wanted to say no to any protests but was told that legally he had”

He’s a college president yet was totally unaware of the First Amendment? Perhaps he could use some remedial education to bring him up to speed.


52 posted on 04/26/2024 7:19:05 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

The protesters were not students of the college.


53 posted on 04/26/2024 7:50:10 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
"At first he wanted to say no to any protests"
54 posted on 04/26/2024 7:57:36 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Eleutheria5
...... Colleges and Universities are probably concerned that another Kent State type incident might happen if the National Guard is sent in.

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55 posted on 04/26/2024 7:59:14 AM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: jimwatx

OK we get it you’re Palestinian. 🙄


56 posted on 04/26/2024 8:19:32 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Eleutheria5

AS USUAL-—MITCH is too late with too little.


57 posted on 04/26/2024 8:36:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Name calling are we? I guess that means you lost the argument. And no I am not Palestinian, I’m an Anglo/Celt who happens to be American First unlike some on here.


58 posted on 04/26/2024 8:40:40 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Eleutheria5
I hate to say it, but Mitch is correct. As Haley Barbour once said, elaborating on advice from Napoleon: "Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself."

Let the Left's student radicals wreck the elite colleges and universities that nurtured them. The last time that happened, the GOP coalition was invigorated and elected Nixon and Reagan.

59 posted on 04/26/2024 8:49:25 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: Eleutheria5

McConnell is as useless as ever.


60 posted on 04/26/2024 9:30:07 AM PDT by Kazan
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