Posted on 08/29/2017 10:17:16 AM PDT by Twotone
“Trump supporters (conservatives) wanted to get beat up,” said civil rights lawyer Dan Siegel, according to the East Bay Times. Siegel repeatedly and loudly praised the inactions of the Berkeley Police Department, which allowed a huge mass of hooded, helmeted, masked, Antifa with studded gloves and clubs to jump the barricades and attack the half dozen conservative protesters who had gathered after a “No to Marxism” rally was canceled for fear of violence. There were about 450 police, and about 200 Antifa "soldiers" according to law enforcement reports. Police later claimed their inaction was "necessary to prevent greater violence in a confrontation between them and Antifa." The San Jose Mercury News quoted Berkeley police chief Andrew Greenwood as saying there was “no need for a confrontation over a grass patch.”
Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin is now calling on the University of California Berkeley to cancel “Free Speech Week,” an event planned for late September in which a small conservative campus group called Berkeley Patriot is inviting controversial speakers, including former Breitbart News tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, to speak.
Aragon blamed conservative speakers for provoking the Antifa violence aimed at shutting down their events: “I’m very concerned about Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter and some of these other 'right-wing' (conservative) speakers coming to the Berkeley campus, because it’s just a target for 'the non-student black bloc' to come out and commit mayhem on the Berkeley campus and have that potentially spill out on the street,” he said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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“Berkeley mayor...to cancel “Free Speech Week,”
You can’t make this stuff up.
The Left has truly gone mad - dangerously so.
Mayor Cancels Freedom of Speech
Listen to that ‘Mayor’.
Spoken like a true Orwellian-Propagandist!
Where up = down and kind = cruel.
On what planet was this again? Huh? Oh, no matter; anyway, the cops on that planet have a strange way of thinking. Hope their policies never make it to planet Earth.
As I just commented on another thread: “From what I’ve seen, the only people who get arrested in these melees is conservatives. The police are too much tied to their unions & the lefties in office to go after the real perps these days. A sad state of affairs.”
When will it be time for the National Guard to be called out?
The Fox is in the Hen house, and the media is calling it a Teddy Bear.
Well that was naughty of them. I received it from a friend & searched on the title. Didn’t see it posted, but maybe they just changed the title.
The lack of attribution is a civil violation and a violation of FR rules.
I don’t know if the OP is complicit or not.
Berkeley is getting quite famous for the thugs wearing black with black masks, and the police standing by watching the mayhem.
Civil rights attorney Daniel Siegel was once a violent left-wing activists in the 1960s and he is currently the lawyer representing bike lock attacker Eric Clanton.
The home of the free speech movement.....
We said they were. commies then and that hasn’t changed. The only speech they want is theirs. Thugocracy forever
Antifa are Brownshirtd....IF they succeed they have no clue as to what is in store for them
The Left has truly gone mad - dangerously so.
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There is no doubt in my mind that sometime in the future, if they can do it, they will round us up and send us to camps. That is no exaggeration, either.
So should this thread be pulled? Is it Admin or Moderator we refer it to?
“She asked for it.”
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