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Cornell Student Government Removes Two For Not Voting To Defund Police
Newsmax News ^ | 12-16-2020

Posted on 12/16/2020 3:00:14 PM PST by blam

Cornell University’s student government removed two executive committee representatives who voted against a resolution to disarm the police at the Ivy League campus.

The Student Assembly on Dec. 8 removed Annie Gleiberman for voting against a resolution to disarm the university's police department, saying she condoned "acts of racism, physical aggression, and emotional violence" by voting against the resolution.

And when a fellow executive rep, Morgan Baker, said she wouldn’t vote for it either — becoming a procedural block because a unanimous vote was needed — members temporarily removed her to get to a unanimous tally, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

A previous motion to defund the police failed after 15 representatives on the Student Assembly opposed it. Following Baker and Gleiberman's removal, 13 of them wrote a commentary in The Cornell Daily Sun blasting the student government for its "brazenly undemocratic display."

"The simple fact of the matter is that the executive committee wants to stack the [student government] with loyal allies who will not question their abuses of power and violations of [student assembly] rules," they wrote.

The 13 representatives also claim the executive committee is planning to selectively use existing but normally unenforced rules on attendance and committee membership to remove members who voted against the "defund the police" resolution.

Weston Barker, the head of Cornell's College Republicans, told the Washington Free Beacon he wasn’t surprised.

"These individuals are career harassers who have used and continue to use fear, defamation, and their social status to put down any form of dissent," Barker said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cityofevil; cornell; defund; ithaca; police
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1 posted on 12/16/2020 3:00:14 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

New York What do you expect.


2 posted on 12/16/2020 3:01:23 PM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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Until further notice, student government entities on university
campuses need to be shut down.

Anyone trying to run one off book, would be expelled.

If they come on campus, they would be arrested for trespassing.


3 posted on 12/16/2020 3:01:54 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: blam

These guys make Stalin look like a piker.


4 posted on 12/16/2020 3:01:59 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: blam

What a bunch of nazis.


5 posted on 12/16/2020 3:02:46 PM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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To: blam

If you can removed based on how you didn’t vote, then voting is merely a formality just as it was under Fidel Castro.


6 posted on 12/16/2020 3:02:47 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: blam

“High above Cayuga’s waters there’s an offal smell...”


7 posted on 12/16/2020 3:02:50 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: blam; Behind Liberal Lines

Upstate / Cornell *PING*


8 posted on 12/16/2020 3:03:07 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: blam

Agree or face retaliation. I thought that was called totalitarianism, not freedom.


9 posted on 12/16/2020 3:03:14 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: blam

Nice. So what’s the point of voting?


10 posted on 12/16/2020 3:04:51 PM PST by EEGator
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What would a student government know about democracy ?


11 posted on 12/16/2020 3:05:03 PM PST by Celerity
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To: blam

Apparently “acts of racism, physical aggression, and emotional violence” are anything which the Bolsheviks disapprove of.


12 posted on 12/16/2020 3:05:22 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: blam

Good heavens—aren’t there any decent schools left in the country? Or have they all gone over to the dark side of communism garbage?


13 posted on 12/16/2020 3:05:35 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: blam

oh they are looking to that in congress as well

purge republicans that continue to support the Trump agenda


14 posted on 12/16/2020 3:07:20 PM PST by EBH (God Save the Republic. God is in Control. God knows what He is doing. )
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To: blam

Police defunded.

Soon thereafter, campus crime skyrocketed.

Campus officials are baffled by the mysterious, meteoric crime increase.

And urge everyone to use gender-neutral pronouns.


15 posted on 12/16/2020 3:07:57 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: EEGator
> So what’s the point of voting?

I've been wondering that very thing. I live in New York (in Ithaca, actually), and my vote means nothing in a practical sense because of NYC's overwhelming influence. I'm considering sitting coming elections out until this crazy sheet stops. I just hope it does before my Creator calls and I depart this veil of tears.

16 posted on 12/16/2020 3:09:47 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: blam

Democracy in action - you can remove representatives for not voting the “approved” way.


17 posted on 12/16/2020 3:11:20 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: blam

Luckily this didn’t happen at a reputable college, just some Ivy League Community College.


18 posted on 12/16/2020 3:11:20 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Paladin2
> “High above Cayuga’s waters there’s an offal smell...”

"Some say it's Cayuga's waters, some say it's Cornell...."

19 posted on 12/16/2020 3:12:01 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: blam

We need to defund the universities


20 posted on 12/16/2020 3:13:00 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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