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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Keep Gainesville safe, Sasse! What happens on that campus affects a lot of people.
“LOL Sure he is, just like linda and romney.”
You just make things up!
Ha, I see the liberals at the so-called “Independent” Florida Alligator (I see they are still as liberal as they were when I was there), sure didn’t like Sasse.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2022/10/ben-sasse-at-midland
I’m guessing you don’t get invited to many parties.
Whatever.
Remember when the students protested over the appointment of Sasse when he was first named?
During the second of three public forums, about 200 student protesters crowded into the lobby of Emerson Alumni Hall and refused to leave, waving signs and chanting “Hey hey, ho ho. Ben Sasse has got to go.”
-PJ
<>The governor directed Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, to send notices to the University of Florida and the University of South Florida notifying them that they must deactivate their chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) because they allegedly broke Florida laws about terrorism.<>
Oh.
Try reading the article.
“Granted that Sasse was not a college administrator nor in Texas at the time of the UNT disruption, my point is that college administrators did little if anything to stop leftist terrorism against conservatives while all the sudden feeling the need for law and order against this particular group of communist demonstrators.”
That is why DeSantis started putting in new administrators including Sasse.
Stopped clock.
See #45
-PJ
The question was not sincere.
Because Sasse, as a U.S. Senator, claimed to be a conservative Republican while at the same time opposing MAGA. He never articulated a single substantive reason to oppose Trump.
This tells me he’s corrupt to the core.
As voters, we interpret the actions of politicians. This is how the system works.
Ben Sasse opposes MAGA.
When a Senator claims to be a conservative republican but then opposes the one political movement advancing American values, we can accurately interpret his ideology to be anti-American.
The major anti-American, activist ideology is communism.
One of the primary strategies of the communist movement is to infiltrate conservatism by disguising communists as fellow conservatives.
Many of the RINOs are such infiltrators.
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