Posted on 03/22/2024 4:55:30 AM PDT by marktwain
Violent left-wing extremists on Wednesday hijacked a Turning Points USA event at the University of Memphis featuring Kyle Rittenhouse — and they did so with the full backing of the Democrat Party.
Video footage from outside the university showed the extremists chasing down attendees as they tried to leave the event.
The drama started days ahead of the event, with “students and community members” expressing fury after Rittenhouse was invited to speak at the school by Turning Points USA, according to The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis paper.
The school released a statement shortly thereafter saying it wasn’t sponsoring the event but lacked the authority to shut it down.
“[A]s a public institution, the University of Memphis must uphold its obligation to adhere to the principles of the First Amendment and Tennessee’s Campus Free Speech Act. Due to this obligation, the University cannot legally prohibit the event from taking place,” the statement read.
Anger continued to mount, with even local Democrat politicians intervening, according to local station WHBQ.
“It distresses me to learn that Kyle Rittenhouse, notorious for injuring and killing protesters during a civil rights action and propagating anti-Black rhetoric, is scheduled to speak on campus,” Democratic Nominee for Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer wrote in an open letter to University of Memphis President Bill Hardgrave.
“Presenting his event as a 2A rights speech at a time when students fear for their lives due to gun violence nationwide is reprehensible. Moreover, his intent to attack civil rights work only exacerbates the situation. This is not freedom of speech, Dr. Hardgrave; it is malicious programming that fosters hateful rhetoric and actions towards Black students,” she added.
FYI, Rittenhouse killed two violent extremists, both of them white, who were chasing after him during a violent Black Lives Matter riot in 2020. One of the two turned out to be a convicted pedophile.
In addition to smearing Rittenhouse, Sawyer also celebrated when her beloved extremists effectively forced him off stage at Wednesday’s event by drowning him out — a typical leftist strategy:
Meanwhile, prior to the event Tennessee state Rep. Antonio Parkinson, another rabid Democrat, reportedly used Facebook to encourage the extremists to buy tickets to the event but not show up.
“Everybody sign up asap,” he wrote. “Let’s dry this @#$% up! Confirm when you’ve signed. Remember. We’re not going. We just want all the tickets.”
This sleazy, deceitful behavior — typical for Democrats — evidently worked.
“The morning of the event, U of M had announced that people would have to re-register for tickets and that the ones they had previously gotten were invalid,” according to The Commercial Appeal.
Despite all the hate directed Rittenhouse’s way, he did receive some love from unexpected places, including from Rep. Thomas Massie.
“At age 17, Kyle Rittenhouse had a greater sense of civic duty than most people exhibit in a lifetime,” Massie tweeted early Thursday morning.
“While trying to help during riots, he was attacked by convicts and exercised his right to self defense, killing a child molester & a domestic abuser convicted of strangulation,” he added.
Look:
Hours after the event, Rittenhouse uploaded an update letting everybody know that he was fine and had survived the event.
Why would he go to Memphis?
Who wants to hear him talk?
I don’t understand either. Didn’t he get defamation lawsuit settlements?
If he did, he should melt in the Sun somewhere.
Why did Jonah go to Nineveh?
Memphis: the descending colon of the Mississippi.
Thanks Socrates.
The violent ‘protestors’? These are the losers Biden’s bailing out with his ‘student loan forgiveness’ plans. Losers follow patterns.
Democrats adheres to their philosophy: Your speech is violence. Our violence is protected speech.
Memphis U admins collaborated with communist Democrats to incite mob violence against a MAGA 1A event. Then they have the nerve to accuse Trump of threatening a bloodbath. Too bad Rittenhouse didn’t have his AR with him.
At some point in time, hopefully sooner rather than later, BLM force will be met with We the People force!
And, We the People will prevail!
BLM rioting CANNOT/MUST NOT be allowed to continue!
So the Pro-Palestinians changed their clothes and are now BLM!!!!!
“It distresses me to learn that Kyle Rittenhouse, notorious for injuring and killing protesters during a civil rights action and propagating anti-Black rhetoric, is scheduled to speak on campus,”
Well, she’s a damned liar, that’s what.
It is what they do. Their entire philosophy, their understanding of reality, is all based on lies.
Moreover, they do not believe in objective truth, and have no moral compunction about lying if they believe it advances their objectives.
Their primary objective is political power. A secondary objective is destruction and chaos.
I’m completely baffled by this newest BLM phenomenon. It’s ALL OVER X now, Dem blacks with BLM membership or leanings (guess it’s no surprise of the Dem part) are attacking Kyle relentlessly for being a racist killer.
So let’s objectively look at who white Kyle shot in self defense:
3 very white males
2 i believe Jewish
At least one of them a pedo maybe 2 I can’t recall
All 3 i think had criminal histories
ALL 3 HAD LINKS TO ANTIFA
So WTH!!! Why is BLM matter defending white criminal PEDO ANTIFA????
Answer: they are and have been another front group for this far left Marxist/elite counterculture movement following a Cloward Piven strategy.
The neo-Red Guard and neo-Sturmabteilung of the Democrats rise. On cue.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Exactly correct.
The ability of ordinary Americans to defend themselves against leftist mobs is a direct threat to their plans to take over the country. If the left does not "own the street" (have a monopoly on organized street violence) a critical part of their plan to take over fails.
Which is why every Democrat knows DAMN WELL that 2020 was stolen, but they are fine with it and will howl like wolves if you dare suggest it happened.
If it was in Memphis, the chicken was probably raped and murdered.
BLM is a terrorist organization created from political scratch to erode law enforcement while promoting the right to physically resist arrest, eliminate the civil right of law enforcement officers to a safe work place and to flee arrest unabated.
BLM is an American travesty and symbolic of the Black cancer prevailing in the City States
I’ve read that Hugo Boss’old uniform designs are being reimagined for today’s BLM/antifa Sturmabteilungen. Wunderbar! Such modisch! Sie sind die Helden von Heute.
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