Sending armed troops to quash peaceful campus protests is a dangerous idea

[robosmith]

Sending armed troops to quash peaceful campus protests is a dangerous idea

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On Wednesday during a visit to Columbia University, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned that if the wave of protests against Israel’s U.S.-funded war in Gaza on college campuses, including UCLA and USC, is not contained quickly, “there is an appropriate time for the National Guard. We have to bring order to these campuses.”

How troubling that the man who is the third in line to the presidency seems to think that it’s OK to silence largely peaceful student protests by sending in armed troops.

It’s a terrible idea, with a deadly history in the U.S. It was the Ohio National Guard that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others at a rally against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in 1970. Since then, there have been uncountable examples of armed responses to nonviolent activities ending with innocent people getting hurt or killed.

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) have called on President Biden to deploy the National Guard to quash pro-Palestinian protests. Republican state lawmakers in New York want Gov. Kathy Hochul to deploy the National Guard to Columbia University. And more than two dozen Republican senators signed a letter urging the Biden administration to “restore order to campuses” by using federal law enforcement, prosecution and deportation against “the outbreak of anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist mobs.”

Never mind that they are unfairly assigning racist motives to thousands of people protesting the killing of more than 34,000 Palestinian people, most of them women and children. It’s clear that these Republican politicians are less concerned with the wave of antiwar protests than using them for their own political ends. 

Johnson has clearly revealed he is an UNSERIOUS POLITICAL HACK.
 

[gatomontes99]

If you find any peaceful protests, let us know.

[Legato]

Those protestors are not peaceful they're war empty.

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, gatomontes99 said:

If you find any peaceful protests, let us know.

The protest at UCLA was peaceful until these guys showed up:

UCLA students describe violent attack on Gaza protest ...

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com · 4 days ago

 

Slow response from authorities left students shocked as people wearing white masks attacked pro-Palestine protesters.

 

[User]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

The protest at UCLA was peaceful until these guys showed up:

UCLA students describe violent attack on Gaza protest ...

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com · 4 days ago

 

Slow response from authorities left students shocked as people wearing white masks attacked pro-Palestine protesters.

 

At this point, you are simply not telling the truth. It has already been pointed out to you they engaged in violence before counter-protestors showed up. 

Even then, being "peaceful" doesn't mean they were not breaking the law. 

YOU invite this lawlessness that leads to violence when you want lawlessness. 

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, User said:

At this point, you are simply not telling the truth. It has already been pointed out to you they engaged in violence before counter-protestors showed up. 

Even then, being "peaceful" doesn't mean they were not breaking the law. 

YOU invite this lawlessness that leads to violence when you want lawlessness. 

No evidence from you of "lawlessness."

My local news and other posted sources say the LEO was NOT INVOLVED until the counter protesters showed up to pick fights.

Any further evidence free posts from you will be IGNORED.

[Fluffypants]

 

1 hour ago, robosmith said:

No evidence from you of "lawlessness."

My local news and other posted sources say the LEO was NOT INVOLVED until the counter protesters showed up to pick fights.

Any further evidence free posts from you will be IGNORED.

Oh please even when we supply you with evidence you either dismiss it because it doesn't come from a source YOU trust i.e. ultra left wing or we give you a source that you approve of and you still dont accept it and make some stupid excuse about it.

 

 

 

[Nationalist]

9 hours ago, robosmith said:

No evidence from you of "lawlessness."

My local news and other posted sources say the LEO was NOT INVOLVED until the counter protesters showed up to pick fights.

Any further evidence free posts from you will be IGNORED.

You're a twit.

Here's the account from NPR.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248401802/columbia-university-protests-new-york

Note those who broke into the library are call "occupiers".

At UCLA these...protestors...spray painted all over the buildings.

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/pictures-police-storm-ucla-protest-encampment-2024-05-02/WVUE4R3WSBLULAAFEDQBXURR7U

There is all sorts of visual evidence of "lawlessness". You ignore it because it does not fit your lies. In short...

You're a twit.

[gatomontes99]

Portland police are investigating a social media post claiming responsibility for an arson fire last week that burned 17 Police Bureau cars.  Police originally said 15 cars were burned in the fire last Thursday but increased that number by two on Monday as their investigation continues.  Also Monday, a group calling itself “Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade” said people had cut through a fence at the bureau’s training facility and set 10 fires in anticipation of a police response at Portland State University’s Millar Library

Look at those peaceful protestors.

[robosmith]

4 hours ago, Nationalist said:

At UCLA these...protestors...spray painted all over the buildings.

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/pictures-police-storm-ucla-protest-encampment-2024-05-02/WVUE4R3WSBLULAAFEDQBXURR7U

There is all sorts of visual evidence of "lawlessness". You ignore it because it does not fit your lies. In short...

You're a twit.

From your cite:

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after protesters were asked to leave by UCLA campus police, May 2.

AKA what I said, "after the counter protesters showed up to pick fights."

You don't even know how to read.

1 hour ago, gatomontes99 said:

Portland police are investigating a social media post claiming responsibility for an arson fire last week that burned 17 Police Bureau cars.  Police originally said 15 cars were burned in the fire last Thursday but increased that number by two on Monday as their investigation continues.  Also Monday, a group calling itself “Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade” said people had cut through a fence at the bureau’s training facility and set 10 fires in anticipation of a police response at Portland State University’s Millar Library

Look at those peaceful protestors.

No one said they're ALL peaceful, lDIOT.

[User]

22 hours ago, robosmith said:

No evidence from you of "lawlessness."

My local news and other posted sources say the LEO was NOT INVOLVED until the counter protesters showed up to pick fights.

Any further evidence free posts from you will be IGNORED.

I already provided it to you in another thread... and like you consistently do, you run away. 

It is not lawful to block other people's paths in a public right of way. It is not lawful to assemble as they were, taking over public areas. 

The fact that police stood by and did nothing is only evidence of their allowing the lawlessness. And as I have repeatedly told you now, if you are going to support this kind of lawlessness, you do not get to cry when others take matters into their own hands. 
 

[CdnFox]

13 hours ago, User said:

I already provided it to you in another thread... and like you consistently do, you run away. 

It is not lawful to block other people's paths in a public right of way. It is not lawful to assemble as they were, taking over public areas. 

The fact that police stood by and did nothing is only evidence of their allowing the lawlessness. And as I have repeatedly told you now, if you are going to support this kind of lawlessness, you do not get to cry when others take matters into their own hands. 
 

It is one thing i notice about the left.  "WE'RE BREAKING THE LAW IN PROTEST!!! WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BREAK THE LAW!!! IT"S NECESSARY TO BREAK THE LAW !! ITS......  woah! Hey - those guys are harassing us, that's breaking the law!!! Where the hell are the police!?!?!?!!?!!"

Ohhh the hypocrisy