Posted on 02/04/2017 2:45:16 PM PST by John Semmens
While Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin expressed regret that "the anger of those opposed to allowing a hateful white nationalist may have been a little too exuberant, we must acknowledge their constitutional right to prevent the airing of unacceptable views on the University campus."
Breitbart reporter Milo Yiannopoulos' sold-out speech had to be canceled when 150 masked men went on a rampage blocking traffic, vandalizing the University, attacking police, and assaulting individuals who came to hear the speech.
President Trump's post-riot suggestion that "the suppression of free speech at a heavily-subsidized public university raises questions about the continued federal role in contributing to these subsidies" sparked the Mayor's anger. "Mr. Trump's perspective on freedom of speech is ignorantly one-sided," he said. "Sure, he is all for the promulgation of Yiannopoulos' twisted ideas, but what of the rights of those who don't want to hear them? Shouldn't the majority of the students' preference to silence his hateful messenger rule the day?"
"Perhaps the biggest irony of the whole event is that Yiannopoulos is himself gay," Arreguin observed. "He is a member of a group that the protesters were trying to support by shutting down his speech. He may be feeling aggrieved in the short run, but will benefit in the long run if the Trump tyranny is disrupted by the patriotic actions of those in the streets fighting for social justice. That is why I gave police the order to 'stand down' and let events take their natural course. A decision that I feel was vindicated by the absence of any fatalities and only a minimal $100,000 in property damage."
A similar stance toward rioting was exhibited in Pakistan where Judge Chaudhry Muhammad Azam dismissed charges against 115 Muslim men accused of a rampage that burned the homes of 150 Christian families. "Given the unanimous testimony of the 115 accused that they did not commit a crime, I have no other option but to drop the charges," Azam declared. "Under our law, the testimony of one Muslim is worth four times the testimony of an unbeliever. Since there weren't enough survivors among the alleged victims to produce the requisite minimum of 460 witnesses to rebut the 115 true believers the case cannot go forward."
In related news, a speaker at a Black Lives Matter rally against the Trump Administration drew wild cheers from the crowd when she suggested "we need to start killing people. Smashing windows and burning stuff is a good beginning, but white people won't take us serious if we don't kill some of them."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/212068-2017-02-04-semi-news-semi-satire-february-5-2017-edition.htm
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Hey, mayor-hole, we’ll remember that comment about not allowing “unacceptable views”.
You will live to regret that remark.
‘semi-satire’ is actually 100% satire.
But I thought Robert Reich said on CNN that the protesters were right wing fascists? He’s a Berkeley professor, so he should know.
In the 9/11 post-mortem many leftists felt we deserved it, as the horror fades and the commemorations dwindle and recede from public view that sentiment has only grown.
15 years after people were jumping to their deaths from burning office buildings, liberals in that same city are demanding these killers be permitted access here.
I was there, as a native NYer At the moment I believed there would never, ever be any acceptance of the death cult and it would be marginalized out of the US
A month later I changed my mind:
I still hear dummies chattering about demolitions
Incredible, isn’t it?
One problem for NYC is that so many “normal” people leave; DeBlasio easily won his election because his opponent (a liberal Republican) tried to remind people of the Dinkins era - and so many current voters didn’t even live in the city at that time.
Satire? I dunno.
Sounds like the surgically-clown-faced Mrs. Pelosi's toxic descriptives to me.
Another fine column John.
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