If violence is what it takes for the Left to prevail, then violence we will have. You saw it, and you were meant to. Berkeley was a message about the price of dissent where leftist hold sway. And they seek to hold sway everywhere. -Kurt Schlichter
Protesters armed with bricks and fireworks mounted an assault on the building hosting a speech by polarizing Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos Wednesday night, forcing the event’s cancellation.
Berkeley (which voted 90 percent for Hillary Clinton, 5 percent for Jill Stein and 3 percent for Donald Trump) seems to be taking the same approach to organized masked black-clad thugs that Italian authorities took to Mussolini's Brownshirts and Weimar Republic authorities took to Hitler's Brownshirts. If fascist violence is thriving and unpunished anywhere in America, it's in Berkeley. -Michael Barone
Antifa Mug Shots
That's the way we became the Berkeley Bunch pic.twitter.com/1qPzXKoaIE
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 29, 2017
On second thought, those ISIS style masks were a good idea.
Look at all these liberal Berkeley snowflakes. They're intolerant of speech...
"It allows people on the right to say, 'Look at all these liberal Berkeley snowflakes. They're intolerant of speech.' I don't think it's productive at all. It does nothing to help this country."
Set It All On Fire
Punch Nazis.
— Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) February 2, 2017
Riot when your college invites a Nazi.
Set it all on fire.
In case of doubt, study history.
Riots At UC Berkeley
We won this night. We will control the streets. We will liberate the land. We will fight fascists. We will dismantle the state. This is war.
Occupy: This Is War
We Will Control The Streets
We won this night. We will control the streets. We will liberate the land. We will fight fascists. We will dismantle the state. This is war. pic.twitter.com/JnlJMUtgCj
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) February 2, 2017
We won this night. We will control the streets. We will liberate the land. We will fight fascists. We will dismantle the state. This is war.
"Berkeley, you know, used to be the cradle of free speech. And now it's just the cradle for fucking babies."
Democrat: Fight in the streets...
"What we’ve got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box, and now there’s the momentum to be able to do this. "
UC Berkeley Liberals Shut Down
Speech By Milo Yiannopoulos.
#Berkeley shut it down! pic.twitter.com/ttFXtpsShU
— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) February 2, 2017
Were there any books in this fire?
Liberal Temper Tantrum: February 1, 2017
KGO: Riots At UC Berkeley
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Crime, Hate, Violence, Degeneracy, Fascism, Assault
A female supporter of Republican President Donald Trump was pepper-sprayed during an on-camera interview with KGO-TV amid rioting at the University of California, Berkeley, Wednesday night. “I’m looking to make a statement by just being here, and I think the protesters are doing the same,” Kiara Robles told the reporter. “Props to the ones who are doing it non-violently, but I think that’s a very rare thing indeed.” Seconds later, she was hit with the pepper spray.
A peaceful protest was not going to cancel that event, just like numerous letters from faculty, staff, Free Speech Movement veterans and even donors did not cancel the event.
Only the destruction of glass and shooting of fireworks did that. -Juan Prieto, Violence helped ensure safety of students
We were not, as the news, the chancellor and concerned progressives have alleged, “unaffiliated white anarchists.”
Behind those bandanas and black T-shirts were the faces of your fellow UC Berkeley and Berkeley City College students, of women, of people of color, of queer and trans people. The bloc was made up of people with the most to fight for and the most to lose. - Neil Lawrence, "Black bloc did what campus should have"
But All The Nonviolent Tactics Were Exhausted...
But when you consider everything that activists already tried — when mass call-ins, faculty and student objections, letter-writing campaigns, numerous op-eds (including mine), union grievances and peaceful demonstrations don’t work, when the nonviolent tactics have been exhausted — what is left?
...You are what's Left, Neil.
Desmond, we concede. You win.
Don’t play “Who’s The Real Fascist?” with me because fascists win that game every time.
Leftists Did What They Had To Do To Shut Down Speech...
Was the “violence” Wednesday night justified? I am of the opinion that it was the plurality of tactics employed Wednesday evening that contributed to the success of the cancellation of the talk.
...it's not like this will set a precedent or something.
Now We See The Violence Inherent In The System
A peaceful protest was not going to cancel that event, just like numerous letters from faculty, staff, Free Speech Movement veterans and even donors did not cancel the event. Only the destruction of glass and shooting of fireworks did that. -Juan Prieto, Violence helped ensure safety of students
They had to break some glass.
To Milo: I’m sorry that you were too scared to stand your ground during a routine Berkeley protest.
The Forces Of Love And Tolerance Attack...
As the crowd grew, she and her husband both suffered concussions, she by falling hard trying to climb over two barricades to escape the crowd, he by being beaten with a heavy metal rod while lying helpless on the ground.
She says she was separated from him and thought he was dead. He spent the whole next day at a hospital, fearing permanent liver damage...
CNN: Riots At UC Berkeley
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Hate, Violence, Character, Degeneracy, Fascism, Assault, Vandalism
Far-left “anti-fascist” rioters assaulted numerous attendees, started fires, smashed up shops and ATMs, and attacked people’s cars at Breitbart Senior Editor MILO’s UC Berkeley show on Wednesday, forcing the event to be cancelled.
Several celebrities expressed support for the riot, including Hollywood director Judd Apatow, while UC Berkeley released a statement condemning the violence that took place.
Trump Supporters Beaten
At UC Berkeley
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Election, Hate, Character, Crazy, Demagoguery, Protest, Academia
Protests that erupted at UC Berkeley ahead of a planned Wednesday appearance by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos caused $100,000 worth of damage to the campus, the school said Thursday. The university blamed "150 masked agitators" for the unrest, saying they had come to campus to disturb an otherwise peaceful protest. Two Berkeley College Republicans "were attacked while conducting an interview" on the campus on Thursday, UC Berkeley also said in a prepared statement.
Hypocrisy, Liberal, Hate, Violence, Character, Threats, Fascism, Protest, Assault
Six days ago Berkeley College Republican Naweed Tahmas feared for his safety — all because he helped organize a campus talk by a gay immigrant... It got worse as he and his peers sheltered in place as fire bombs were thrown at the building.
And now Tahmas said he’s been told to watch his back because he may get jumped, and an Antifa affiliate has also threatened to publish the names and contact information of those sympathetic to Milo’s visit, called “doxing.”
As the protesters began to light fires around the building, Tahmas recalls thinking that “they [were trying] to burn the building with us in it.” “I don’t think they would have had any regrets burning us alive,” Tahmas told The Fix. “We were basically like cattle. The protesters shouted, ‘We’re going to burn and shut your shit down.’”