Posted on 10/19/2017 10:06:15 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(CNN)The University of Florida in Gainesville is bracing for a day of protests Thursday when white supremacist Richard Spencer arrives on campus to deliver a speech on his racist views.
The event, scheduled for Thursday afternoon, will be Spencer's first planned visit to a college campus since he and others participated in the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. University and local officials are concerned that Thursday's event could also become violent, and they have taken a number of steps to prevent that.
On Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for Alachua County, where the university is located, to enable law enforcement agencies to work together more efficiently. He also made a provision for the National Guard to be activated if necessary. "I find that the threat of a potential emergency is imminent," Scott said in the executive order declaring the state of emergency.
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I’m still amazed at how quickly they had the guy’s name on the screen. All hail Mr. Balls.
I spent my first 8-10 years when my dad was a student there, late 50s-early 60s, and my mom worked in their administrative offices.
She was amazed at how huge the football players were.
I learned to swim at Fla-Vet lake, play baseball and roamed the edges of the swamps as a Huckleberry Finn type, which I read for the first time from my dad’s English textbook.
Different place or different times? Both actually.
Ah, nostalgia....
That's a different guy, whose name escapes me at the moment.
But Spencer's own quotes are, shall we say, problematic.
I have no interest in his tripe...
I’ll be clear to you as well, the QUESTION was facetious.
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