The Battle of Middlebury: What happened at the small college is a harbinger of what's to come

National Review ^ | 03/07/2017 | Rich Lowry

[The Toll]

So Rich, you’re fine with it when it happens to people from Brietbart, but not one of your own?

This is what Milo has been showing you morons for years!

[ZULU]

Whenever someone appears at a university at the request of that institution to speak and a crowd gets out of hand like this, the police should be called in to arrest the entire bunch of them and they should all be expelled with criminal records.

This is freedom of speech. This is destruction of freedom of speech.

[TBP]

And when the rioters start throwing dangerous objects or mob the stage then what?

If it were I, I would insist on continuing to speak.

[stanne]

We did choose to stand up. This is about Trump. Trump is about his supporters. And the nuns of the fifties raised me So they are here. Trump is equipped to stand up to this. At this point the nuns would say pray for him. It’s more powerful than people think it is

[Verginius Rufus]

In the movie The Lives of Others, a young man just starting out in the East German Stasi makes a joke that doesn't go over well with his superiors, and is relegated to steaming open letters from then on (until the fall of the Communist regime).

[TalBlack]

It is the ABSOLUTE certainty that they are GOOD that allows Leftist’s to go to the extremes that they have done all through history. The Left”s dead are a mountain that dwarves the efforts of any other group.

[Twotone]

Yep, it became hate when it became violent. The hate wasn’t there before then.

[utahagen]

“Whatever Charles Murray was speaking about must have really struck a nerve?”

I’d bet most of the people who wouldn’t let Charles Murray speak have never read his books. It is his book The Bell Curve that made Murray a permanent enemy of the left, although its conclusions have been distorted beyond recognition by his critics. People used to say, “Social security is the third rail in American politics.” No more. Now, it’s race, with homosexuality being a close second.

[HARRY TUTTLE]

We are extremely fortunate for President Trump, but we must participate in ways to show the liberals that we have had enough of their lunacy. Continue to wear Trump campaign paraphernalia for example, lets them know you will not be silenced about your support.
If it annoys them, remember how you felt for the last eight years.

[norton]

Useful Idiots.

Brown Shirts.

[BillyBonebrake]

Ironically enough, Middlebury is a whitebread enclave of a college smack in the middle of a whitebread enclave of a state.

[arrogantsob]

Not likely.

[laplata]

Useful Idiots.

Brown Shirts.

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You’re right.
Except for the higher ups, they’re basically the same.

[AdaGray]

What’s coming is the end of a college education as we used to know it. There will soon not be many people left willing to send their children to these ridiculous schools.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Stanger wrote afterward that she “feared for my life.”...if a conservative really is a liberal who's been mugged, at least we might have one more right-winger with us after this outrage......