Posted on 02/05/2017 8:45:47 AM PST by artichokegrower
When it comes to its treatment of anarchist protesters like the ones who trashed Sproul Plaza the other night, UC Berkeley’s attitude amounts to this: We’d rather deal with broken windows than broken heads.
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So if you are a citizen concerned about you personal safety and the protection of your private property please refer to the 2nd Amendment.
Why pay taxes, then?
So the destruction of private property by unruly brats is ok. Busted heads is a deterent. This all stops when a deterent is in place
College towns are as beholden to the snowflake students as ghettoes are beholden to ‘hoodrats; they are their bread & butter, supported by infusions of other peoples’ money.
It was as if they knew no one would stop them — which turned out to be the case.
Perfect argument for the second amendment! We need to make it legal for people to carry a gun across the nation.
If I were to attend an event and rioters showed up and realized that local government was going to order police to stand down, I would want my own protection.
In the past, when violent protesters have shown up at East Bay demonstrations, they’ve mixed with the crowd and used peaceful protesters as human cover. This time, the 100 or so black bloc anarchists marched brazenly up Bancroft Way and into Sproul Plaza after the protest was under way, lined up directly in front of their target and attacked.
It was as if they knew no one would stop them — which turned out to be the case.
“That is a real game changer,” Mogulof said.
Surprise, surprise. Rewarding bad behavior gets you more bad behavior.
Personally, I think broken heads send a much clearer message than broken windows. That’s just me.
If that was official city of Berkley policy, then the merchants whose property was damaged by the rioters ought to be able to sue the city of Berkley for intentional failure to protect them from law breakers whom the city’s police observed and allowed to break the law.
What’s the difference between Black Bloc Anarchists and ISIS? Look the same, act the same, liberal governments and liberal police departments won’t fight them. Not much I guess.
Exactly. The point of busted heads is to stop the destruction of property and prevent the future necessity of busted heads! This is the exact leftist mindset that Mayor Giuliani had to fix in NYC. You have to establish rule of law from minor offenses on up so you can eliminate major crimes.
And by standing back they allowed BOTH broken windows AND broken heads! It was never an either-or situation!
The pretzel logic of liberals defies all topographic descriptions.
If they’d arrested more than one of them, they’d have been able to identify their political ideology and perhaps even who was paying them. [One of the rioters is wearing a nearly $800.00 jacket. Either he’s a well off Berkeley student, or Soros pays very generously.]
As it is, they’re claiming Milo staged the protests (using conservatives as operatives) for promotional purposes. That narrative only stands a chance if as few as possible of the rioters have been positively IDed.
I would want my own protection.
if you are under the illusion that cops are going to stand idly by while you brandish a weapon, think again...
College campuses-the new “no go” zones.
Just so. There WERE broken heads, but they were the heads of innocent bystanders and guests who had come to hear the lecture, not the guilty heads of the lib morons who were smashing things up. Better to smash in the heads of the criminals, not stand by and let them beat up a woman because she happened to be wearing a red hat.
“When it comes to its treatment of anarchist protesters like the ones who trashed Sproul Plaza the other night, UC Berkeley’s attitude amounts to this: We’d rather deal with broken windows than broken heads.”
#1, those are our broken windows, not yours, that you are declining to protect.
#2, for many business owners, these aren’t just broken windows, they are broken dreams, broken businesses which never recover despite the years the owners have worked to build them.
#3, pro-America citizens had their heads broken by the radicals you chose to protest by not stopping,
#4, most importantly, if you do nothing, the radicals just keep coming back. When you break a few heads, in the end you don’t have any broken windows, nor the need to beak any more heads.
This is pretty much a rationale to avoid doing any police enforcement whatsoever.
and it will be standard procedure on campus and in minority enclaves going forward...
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