Save Us, You Bastards!
Pro-Palestine Students Demand Cops Protect Them
Thanks again to the California Globe for running this piece. You can visit the website at: https://californiaglobe.com/ - note: this has been updated a bit to account for last night’s actions.
To say that the mood of the various “pro-Palestinian” – really pro-terrorist, pro-Hamas - protests on college campuses around the state have been anti-law enforcement would be an understatement.
As has been said, a picture says a thousand words:
Late the night before last (last night didn’t go much better for the protestors,) the bought and paid for pro-Hamas encampers at UCLA were shocked to discover that there are some people that may not agree with their position and were going to make “their voice heard” or “to be seen and acknowledged,” as they would say.
There was a ruckus, people got hurt during “the Zionist attacks,” and eventually – after absurd dithering by UCLA admins - the cops showed up and quelled things.
But at UCLA and around the nation, protesters wonders why the cops weren’t there immediately, already there, knew ahead of time it was going to happen and why didn’t the cops protect us!?! This was wailed with exactly zero sense of self-awareness:
Fast forward to last night and here’s the same X/Twitter account bemoaning the police actions clearing out the encampment:
RUBBER BULLETS on STUDENTS calling for their university and government to STOP supporting GENOCIDE
WTH - that’s a just cause and it was a peaceful protest until… US Police brutally attack peaceful protesters at #UCLA. Several arrests reported.
https://twitter.com/Chilliebeanz/status/1786021982347141157
The local media has, of course, portrayed the “attack” as just that – an evil attack on “mostly peaceful” (nod to CNN) protesters.
At UCLA, KFI reported at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, that encampers are reinforcing the plywood barrier surrounding what, one assumes, they would hope would qualify as very very very West Palestine.
The UC Regents chief Michael Drake has called for an investigation; one would assume that process would involve two questions to and three answers from UCLA Chancellor Gene Block.
Yesterday - before the encampment was shuttered - Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) took to the floor of Congress to demand the schools end the encampments immediately.
“These universities have allowed a dangerous, disruptive, and deeply disturbing situation to develop on their campuses. Enough is enough,” Kiley said. ‘University administrators must work with law enforcement to clear encampments, arrest lawbreakers, and put a stop to this chaos. Canceling classes and punishing all students is not the answer.”
Kiley may actually have some oomph to support his words – he is a member of the House of Representative’s Committee on Education and the Workforce, the committee that is dragging various educators before it to explain why their campuses have been tolerating so many episodes of overt and specific antisemitism.
Next week, serendipitously, will see the Committee “host” the Superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District – yup, elementary school, etc. - about the complaints from students and parents about tolerating antisemitism at what appears to be every level of their indoctrination.
Sorry, I meant education.