Posted on 05/05/2024 6:48:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), now the president of the University of Florida, slammed pro-Hamas demonstrators this week who have created chaos on college campuses across the U.S. and the weak leadership at the universities that has allowed the behavior to happen.
Sasse’s remarks come after the school released a statement early in the week revealing that numerous arrests were made on campus because the school would not tolerate disorderly conduct that was in violation of the school’s policies.
“Higher education has for years faced a slow-burning crisis of public trust,” he wrote in an op-ed at The Wall Street Journal. “Mob rule at some of America’s most prestigious universities in recent weeks has thrown gasoline on the fire. Pro-Hamas agitators have fought police, barricaded themselves in university buildings, shut down classes, forced commencement cancellations, and physically impeded Jewish students from attending lectures.”
Sasse said that parents were right to be angered over the “asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrators.”
He said that at the University of Florida, the message that the school sends to parents and the future employers of college students is that “the adults are still in charge.”
“To cherish the First Amendment rights of speech and assembly, we draw a hard line at unlawful action,” he said. “Speech isn’t violence. Silence isn’t violence. Violence is violence. Just as we have an obligation to protect speech, we have an obligation to keep our students safe. Throwing fists, storming buildings, vandalizing property, spitting on cops and hijacking a university aren’t speech.”
He said that school’s making empty threats to quell bad behavior is not effective and only serves to embolden those who are violating policies.
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Way to go UF, my alma mater. And thank you Ron DeSantis for taking on the wokeists in the Florida state-university system.
Amen.
BTTT
It’s my Alma Mater as well, late 70s when I was there, it’s nice to see them making the right moves when dealing with these Hamas idiots.
UF has the largest Jewish student Undergrad population in the country, if these protests were allowed like other universities, it could have gotten completely out of hand very quickly, if the actions of Sasse and DeSantis were not taken.
He’s afraid to say that the insurrectionists are wrong about Isreal and favor people who are making the world a worse place.
Reading the headline I started to feel jubilant:
“University of Florida President Ben Sasse Blasts....”
Some one really does need to blast this Soros sponsored movement.I like it that its ruining the Dem convention is Chicago.
Gavin Newsomb is gearing up?
BUahahahahahahaha!
Do you even know who ben sasse is? He’s a traitorous POS. Ya, thanks desanctomonious and Florida state-university for rewarding another anti-American POS.
I love it when those in charge speak in clear terms and don't try to show off with fancy words, especially woke words.
Whatever you may think of Ben Sasse, he is doing the right thing here. For that, he is to be applauded.
“Stop Jihad Now!”
Jihad is not Free Speech.
[[I love it when those in charge speak in clear terms and don’t try to show off with fancy words]]
Indubitably
This Sasse character is a psychopath.
As a globalist-communist playing the role of a “republican,” Sasse is served very well by injecting himself into a conflict he cares nothing about.
It’s amazing the responses you are getting; you praise the President of your Alma Mater which also happens to be my Alma Mater as well and so far, the responses are filled with vitriol, some people can’t even take the slightest win for our side without crapping all over it.
Maybe they would prefer the ex-president of Harvard who is now looking for a job. I am not familiar with the congressional record of Ben Sasse, but he seems to be doing the right things at UF. No DEI positions any more, no tolerance for antisemitic protests. I have to say those were great moves.
I graduated in 1982, Electrical Engineering.
He was a RINO in the Senate, at this point I could care less about that, I’m interested in what he’s doing to/for my Alma Mater.
We aren’t going to wake up tomorrow and have the country turned around, it’s a series of small wins that will change the country, something the liberals have become experts on.
Sasse is president of the University of Florida - not the head of a school in Maine or California or Texas.
Sasse became UF president Feb 6, 2023. I hope that answers your question about “two years ago.”
I think what you would really like to do is to criticize Sasse’s boss - America's Governor Ronald Magnus DeSantis.
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