Cal Berkeley Fascists Violently Protest Free Speech
Paul Craig Roberts
150 masked “protesters” at Cal Berkeley, precisely 0.0039 percent of the 38,000 student body was all it took to shut down free speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
The protesters are so confused that they see the shutdown as a victory for free speech.
Something is wrong here. The 150 violent protesters are masked, so we don’t know if they are students or a Deep State operation against President Trump. The protesters are behaving as fascists by shutting down free speech. By associating the exercise of free speech with fascism, the protesters appear to be too stupid to be Cal Berkeley students. When I was a graduate student at Cal Berkeley, there were high admission standards. Perhaps those standards have been declared to be racist and were thrown out with the bath water.
What is most odd about the protests is that the protesters are protesting a government whose goals are to reduce tensions that could lead to war with Russia and to bring back jobs for the working class. Normally, these are things that people protest in favor of, not against.
How do we explain that the liberal/progressive/left has abandoned its traditional agendas and aligned instead with the ruling One Percent and the arms merchents?
These protests make no sense on their face. For 15 years indiscriminate slaughter of Muslins have been tolerated. Now suddenly a ban on Muslim immigrants brings violent protests into the streets.
I conclude that The Saker is correct that these protests are orchestrated by the One Percent and the Deep State.
Even Al Jazeera is caught up in the disinformation. Reporter Rob Reynolds described the protests as a liberal push-back against a right-wing president. In my day, the right-wing wanted to nuke the Russians. Now it is right-wing to desire to be at peace with Russia. Of course, youth are devoid of historical perspective, but this level of confusion seems too extreme to flow from sincerity.
Fifty-six years ago President Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. We paid no attention. Consequently, today they have us, along with the liberal/progressive/left, in their clutches. I wonder if even Donald Trump can rescue us.
Outside the communist states, we don’t need Trump to save anything. Let the Anarchists burn their own states down. Sit back and enjoy.
Anonymous
February 3, 2017 8:44 am
You can expect more and more of this, the left is going to continue going Berserker at everything Trump does and everything anyone of any significance on the right does till they either get their way and rule over you or are destroyed in totality.
There is a war on, a real one, and it isn’t just some little figurative political war in America. It is worldwide and fully inclusive of culture, religion, political ideologies and every aspect of how you live your life, either by your own choosing or by dictate from powers high above you that will kill or imprison you if you don’t want to do and think what they want you to do and think.
How violent this war will be conducted is dependent entirely on the left, will it be something as mild ad Berkley or will it escalate to one with hundreds of thousands or millions dead?
Be ready for it either way, you will not be escaping from it. You may avoid it for a while, maybe even die before it reaches you full force if you’re old enough, but not escape from it. It will run its full course and one side will win with the other destroyed, vanquished and eliminated from the rest of future human history.
Choose your side now or it will be chosen for you, there is no neutrality to be found.
Stucky
February 3, 2017 8:48 am
OTOH …. Berkeley students were always homos, then and now.
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February 3, 2017 9:13 am
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Tucci78
February 3, 2017 9:34 am
No problem. If there’s a “protester” in one of these “demonstrations” wearing a mask or a bandanna, simply club him senseless – riot batons, blackjacks, billyclubs- and once their bloody faces are marked for further address, zip-tie their wrists, throw them into paddy wagons, and send them into Diesel Therapy for twenty or thirty hours before indicting them.
Once “Antifa” groups show up, beat them bloody, take each of them into criminal custody, and charge them as felons.
They’re going to have a sweet time getting into careers in Trump’s America with such stains on their vitae.
Not gonna happen, in reality is is widely suspected that the University authorities deliberately kept police from interfering since their lack of presence was painfully obvious.
This is what we can expect on an unceasing basis as the anti Trump anti Right leftist forces continue increasing their attacks.
Anyone know the current state of prosecution of those arrested in the D.C. inauguration day protests and charged with felonies? (might be a bit early to find out)
Those were communists using the slogan of free speech 50 years ago. They were violent then and are violent now.
They are safe pulling men out of their car in California. Not so safe in Missouri. I will not let anyone pull me out of my car and beat me.
Desertrat
February 3, 2017 10:46 am
At Berzerkley, the only difference between then and now is the amount of violence. In the days of Mario Savio’s free speech movement, the only speech which was free was that speech with which the Left agreed. All else was shouted down.
I had occasion to travel in and out of San Francisco in the 1960s/1970s. Haight-Ashbury, aka “Hashbury”. Red Mountain wine. The Berkeley Barb newspaper. Huey P. Newton and the Black Panthers. Today? More of the same, except more of it and more violent.
The MSM is referring to the current violence as being the worst since the Vietnam war.
And that was at its height, this is just starting.
Gonna be fun, eh?
P2
February 3, 2017 2:45 pm
President Trump missed an opportunity, something along the lines of: ‘we will not tolerate these hateful protests against LGBT persons, rioting to shut down their right to be heard’.
President Trump missed an opportunity, something along the lines of: ‘we will not tolerate these hateful protests against LGBT persons, rioting to shut down their right to be heard’.
Yep. With Milo – a staunch advocate of the God-Emperor “Daddy” Trump since well before his nomination – The Donald has a pivot upon which he can detonate progtards’ brains [sic] all over the republic.
Paul
February 3, 2017 5:59 pm
The “Free Speech Movement” was never about “free speech.” The universities had always had freed speech (as far as human shortcomings and human nature would allow & certainly greater than what universities today will allow). The “Free Speech Movement” was never anything more than a continuation of radical leftism (but I repeat myself) pushing on another front. I remember watching the news one evening in the 60s covering one of the Berkeley demonstrations during the “Free Speech Movement” period. One of the speakers (I presume a Berkeley professor, but he may not have been) said (this is obviously a paraphrase after all these decades), “We don’t care about the old folks. [note: In the context he was referring to the generation or generations older than the university students.] They don’t matter. We have their children.” [If I knew how to put those four last words in bold-face and italics, I would. The speaker, as I remember, seemed to emphasize those words–not by shouting or some manic tone of voice. It was just a clear, deliberate delivery that was almost like a statement of unchangeable fact.] For some reason that particular sound-bite has stuck with me for the past half-century–perhaps because I remember responding to it by saying, “That’s stupid.” I could not believe anyone could be so arrogantly stupid. I have often thought of that incident and long since realized that I was the arrogantly stupid one. I bring this up because while posters can often capture a thought with a pithy little statement. A poster can also mislead or distort (intentionally or not) with a pithy little statement. This poster distorts reality. The Berkeley “Free Speech Movement” had no more to do with free speech than the Students for a Democratic Society had anything to do with a democratic society. The pithy statement is correct. There has been a difference in fifty years. The leaders of the “Free Speech Movement” (the real leaders, not the useful idiots in the crowds and many of those on the podium) have achieved their goal of shutting down freedom of speech (without the sarcasm quotes). This poster is not ironical. This poster is a simple description of two points on a continuum.
Uncle Charley
February 3, 2017 11:15 pm
Let the Anarchists burn down Berkeley. Doesn’t effect me. Hell, burn down all of CA. Most entertaining.
Cal Berkeley Fascists Violently Protest Free Speech
Paul Craig Roberts
150 masked “protesters” at Cal Berkeley, precisely 0.0039 percent of the 38,000 student body was all it took to shut down free speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
The protesters are so confused that they see the shutdown as a victory for free speech.
Something is wrong here. The 150 violent protesters are masked, so we don’t know if they are students or a Deep State operation against President Trump. The protesters are behaving as fascists by shutting down free speech. By associating the exercise of free speech with fascism, the protesters appear to be too stupid to be Cal Berkeley students. When I was a graduate student at Cal Berkeley, there were high admission standards. Perhaps those standards have been declared to be racist and were thrown out with the bath water.
What is most odd about the protests is that the protesters are protesting a government whose goals are to reduce tensions that could lead to war with Russia and to bring back jobs for the working class. Normally, these are things that people protest in favor of, not against.
How do we explain that the liberal/progressive/left has abandoned its traditional agendas and aligned instead with the ruling One Percent and the arms merchents?
These protests make no sense on their face. For 15 years indiscriminate slaughter of Muslins have been tolerated. Now suddenly a ban on Muslim immigrants brings violent protests into the streets.
I conclude that The Saker is correct that these protests are orchestrated by the One Percent and the Deep State.
Even Al Jazeera is caught up in the disinformation. Reporter Rob Reynolds described the protests as a liberal push-back against a right-wing president. In my day, the right-wing wanted to nuke the Russians. Now it is right-wing to desire to be at peace with Russia. Of course, youth are devoid of historical perspective, but this level of confusion seems too extreme to flow from sincerity.
Fifty-six years ago President Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. We paid no attention. Consequently, today they have us, along with the liberal/progressive/left, in their clutches. I wonder if even Donald Trump can rescue us.
Outside the communist states, we don’t need Trump to save anything. Let the Anarchists burn their own states down. Sit back and enjoy.
You can expect more and more of this, the left is going to continue going Berserker at everything Trump does and everything anyone of any significance on the right does till they either get their way and rule over you or are destroyed in totality.
There is a war on, a real one, and it isn’t just some little figurative political war in America. It is worldwide and fully inclusive of culture, religion, political ideologies and every aspect of how you live your life, either by your own choosing or by dictate from powers high above you that will kill or imprison you if you don’t want to do and think what they want you to do and think.
How violent this war will be conducted is dependent entirely on the left, will it be something as mild ad Berkley or will it escalate to one with hundreds of thousands or millions dead?
Be ready for it either way, you will not be escaping from it. You may avoid it for a while, maybe even die before it reaches you full force if you’re old enough, but not escape from it. It will run its full course and one side will win with the other destroyed, vanquished and eliminated from the rest of future human history.
Choose your side now or it will be chosen for you, there is no neutrality to be found.
OTOH …. Berkeley students were always homos, then and now.
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No problem. If there’s a “protester” in one of these “demonstrations” wearing a mask or a bandanna, simply club him senseless – riot batons, blackjacks, billyclubs- and once their bloody faces are marked for further address, zip-tie their wrists, throw them into paddy wagons, and send them into Diesel Therapy for twenty or thirty hours before indicting them.
Once “Antifa” groups show up, beat them bloody, take each of them into criminal custody, and charge them as felons.
They’re going to have a sweet time getting into careers in Trump’s America with such stains on their vitae.
Not gonna happen, in reality is is widely suspected that the University authorities deliberately kept police from interfering since their lack of presence was painfully obvious.
This is what we can expect on an unceasing basis as the anti Trump anti Right leftist forces continue increasing their attacks.
Anyone know the current state of prosecution of those arrested in the D.C. inauguration day protests and charged with felonies? (might be a bit early to find out)
As if any of them want actual jobs.
They aren’t protesters. They are Anarchists.
Those were communists using the slogan of free speech 50 years ago. They were violent then and are violent now.
They are safe pulling men out of their car in California. Not so safe in Missouri. I will not let anyone pull me out of my car and beat me.
At Berzerkley, the only difference between then and now is the amount of violence. In the days of Mario Savio’s free speech movement, the only speech which was free was that speech with which the Left agreed. All else was shouted down.
I had occasion to travel in and out of San Francisco in the 1960s/1970s. Haight-Ashbury, aka “Hashbury”. Red Mountain wine. The Berkeley Barb newspaper. Huey P. Newton and the Black Panthers. Today? More of the same, except more of it and more violent.
The MSM is referring to the current violence as being the worst since the Vietnam war.
And that was at its height, this is just starting.
Gonna be fun, eh?
President Trump missed an opportunity, something along the lines of: ‘we will not tolerate these hateful protests against LGBT persons, rioting to shut down their right to be heard’.
Yep. With Milo – a staunch advocate of the God-Emperor “Daddy” Trump since well before his nomination – The Donald has a pivot upon which he can detonate progtards’ brains [sic] all over the republic.
The “Free Speech Movement” was never about “free speech.” The universities had always had freed speech (as far as human shortcomings and human nature would allow & certainly greater than what universities today will allow). The “Free Speech Movement” was never anything more than a continuation of radical leftism (but I repeat myself) pushing on another front. I remember watching the news one evening in the 60s covering one of the Berkeley demonstrations during the “Free Speech Movement” period. One of the speakers (I presume a Berkeley professor, but he may not have been) said (this is obviously a paraphrase after all these decades), “We don’t care about the old folks. [note: In the context he was referring to the generation or generations older than the university students.] They don’t matter. We have their children.” [If I knew how to put those four last words in bold-face and italics, I would. The speaker, as I remember, seemed to emphasize those words–not by shouting or some manic tone of voice. It was just a clear, deliberate delivery that was almost like a statement of unchangeable fact.] For some reason that particular sound-bite has stuck with me for the past half-century–perhaps because I remember responding to it by saying, “That’s stupid.” I could not believe anyone could be so arrogantly stupid. I have often thought of that incident and long since realized that I was the arrogantly stupid one. I bring this up because while posters can often capture a thought with a pithy little statement. A poster can also mislead or distort (intentionally or not) with a pithy little statement. This poster distorts reality. The Berkeley “Free Speech Movement” had no more to do with free speech than the Students for a Democratic Society had anything to do with a democratic society. The pithy statement is correct. There has been a difference in fifty years. The leaders of the “Free Speech Movement” (the real leaders, not the useful idiots in the crowds and many of those on the podium) have achieved their goal of shutting down freedom of speech (without the sarcasm quotes). This poster is not ironical. This poster is a simple description of two points on a continuum.
Let the Anarchists burn down Berkeley. Doesn’t effect me. Hell, burn down all of CA. Most entertaining.