Berkeley riot
- Feb 2, 2017
- 2 min read
There must be repercussions to this violence. Bullying, intolerance, and stifling freedom of speech comes the need for a firm response: right in the pocket book. Money talks, BS walks.
On campus in the 1970s, both petty criminals and megalomaniac thugs sought to mask their selfish and narcissistic agendas under the more cosmic cloak of the antiwar movement, national liberation, and utopian egalitarianism. The felons of the Black Panther Party, the grim killers and bank robbers of the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the mad bombers of the Weathermen were encouraged by rhetoric of the nebulous resistance movement to act out their violent propensities--in hopes that allegiance to some half-baked philosophy would make them revolutionaries rather than the felons they were.
They are now engaging in pedestrian cruelty in both word and deed at Berkeley University yesterday. They are protesting a gay rights activist who happens to be on the ultra conservative plank and an immigrant to the US. A weird irony. The TV media didn't show signs people held up that said "kill the faggot" meaning Milo Yiannopoulos. No exchange of ideas, no one bothering to stand up and argue with the guy in a debate. There's room for debate, but now they, the self-styled liberals have provided no room for debate. Rather than confront the flaws, past or present, of public issues regarding mental health, failed families, no jobs, no productivity, there's instead ostracism. Instead they've chosen the receptacle for extreme lunatics of the anti-Americanism brand who seek more violent avenues of expression. It seems they desire notoriety, albeit wearing a mask and hoody, like their predecessors of the 1970s; those former youth protesters who are now in charge of our federal, state and local governments, faced with the current mixed-up pampered suburbanites who dabble in fundamentalism, dabble in crime and perhaps a sense of self-importance. Again, ironic to their sense of altruism, despising freedoms and clinging to a range of undemocratic traditions and prejudices.
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