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Criminalizing Dissent
American Thinker ^ | 2/16/20 | Karen D. Hurvitz and Ilya I. Feoktistov

Posted on 02/16/2020 1:16:12 PM PST by Buttons12

Louis Shenker, a 21-year-old junior at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, just wanted his MAGA hat back from the graduate student who ripped it off his head on campus. He wore the hat to a December 6, 2018 protest organized by the university’s graduate student union against Trump and local police. Video shows that when Louis, who is 5’6’’ and 140 pounds, arrived wearing the MAGA hat and holding a large sign, he was immediately surrounded by a hostile mob of older grad students cursing at him and calling him a white supremacist. A woman lunged from the mob and snatched Louis’s MAGA hat...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: academia; amherst; antispeech; louisshenker; maga; massachusetts; socialwarfare; tds; uofmassachusetts
Authors are attorneys for the student, article details how the woman retaliated by various means.

"We have repeatedly filed grievances on his behalf against Peller and her co-actors and have been met with stony silence. Instead, Louis has been notified that the university is investigating another complaint -- by Peller against him."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/criminalizing_dissent.html

1 posted on 02/16/2020 1:16:12 PM PST by Buttons12
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To: Buttons12

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2 posted on 02/16/2020 1:39:41 PM PST by sauropod
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To: sauropod

See my tag line.

L


3 posted on 02/16/2020 1:43:30 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: sauropod
Peller and the University are working to enforce crimethink.

They do not believe in free speech.

They do not believe in truth.

4 posted on 02/16/2020 1:52:57 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Buttons12

Burn down the universities.


5 posted on 02/16/2020 1:53:00 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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A frightening example of subjugation and repression at what is supposed to pass for one of our centers of enlightenment.


6 posted on 02/16/2020 1:58:08 PM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: Lurker

Isn’t that the truth.


7 posted on 02/16/2020 2:24:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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To: Buttons12

Leftists (i.e. Democrats) want you totally controlled and if not, then they want you dead.

Their goal is to criminalize everything. Their second goal is to disarm us.

JoMa


8 posted on 02/16/2020 2:48:14 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: Buttons12

This is who #progressives really are, all their protestations to the contrary notwithstanding. As David Horowitz says, “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to gt out.”

Amherst should be defunded, and a complaint should be filed against them. And the cancel culture should be cancelled.

The Party of Tolerance, doing what it does best. And I can’t wait for the lefties to come around and defend this.

#Progressives #TheNewKKK #Nazis #Communists #Fascists #MakeThemLiveByTheRulesTheyMade #Thugs #Haters #ThisIsLiberalTolerance #LiberalPrivilege


9 posted on 02/16/2020 4:20:01 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Most “progressives” have no idea what the movement is about! As with most “democrats,” they’re the useful idiots that give them numbers, but I believe that if most people who claim to be “progressives” were to be exposed to the pillars of that political movement, they would be appalled.

One of the main themes of the party is the disregard for not only the word, but the intent of the Constitution. Since the leaders are “the best and the brightest,” they believe themselves to be appointed to lead the masses into a brighter future, if only they didn’t have any restrictions placed upon them. And of course, that line of thought attracts the worst of the narcissists, who know better than “the great unwashed.”

They eventually believe that when the people are confronted with things “they didn’t sign up for,” that’s the time for the gloves to come off, and the jack-booted-thugs are turned loose.

Mark


10 posted on 02/16/2020 7:47:54 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Buttons12

Time to ask for restraining orders against Peller and her attorneys on grounds that they are fake, lies, harassment and malicious/defamatory.

Amherst has been a Marxist shithole since the 80’s or 90’s when Victor Rabinowitz’s son, then a student, won the election for the head of the student government. He was a member of the Communist Party’s “Young Communist League” at the time, and had another YCL female student get a position in the student government.

Amherst’s administration has been a communist asskissing complicit partner in the attacks on conservatives and Jews for decades.

The only answer is aggressive law suits to tie all the leftist up in Gordian knots.


11 posted on 02/16/2020 11:55:46 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Lurker

Well aware FRiend.

FReegards, ‘Pod


12 posted on 02/17/2020 6:55:04 PM PST by sauropod
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To: TBP

New tag line.


13 posted on 02/17/2020 6:56:17 PM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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