Yeah, ok. I spent the previous three or four nights watching the dismantling of the encampment at Columbia and then the last two nights watching the mess at UCLA. The one at UCLA was extra special.
If you're gonna put you ass on the line protesting, then you better be prepared to get hurt when you cross lines and actually break laws. These turn into actual riots. UCLA could have been much worse but the police did everything by the numbers. What was also cool was when they zip tied the perps, they took the masks, helmets and other things that disguised these people right in front of the TV cameras, hopefully insuring that these people are now unemployable.
I remember back at Kent State (just 10 miles down the road from my house) when they read the Federal Riot Act to a group of protestors that simply sat down in the middle of the main intersection in town, Main and Water Street and would not move.
I am really wondering why no one has invoked the Riot Act for today's much greater transgressions. These candy ass protestors today have it easy compared to what went down in the 60's and 70's.
"You get arrested, processed and released within 24 hours with no charges or consequences."
Or you might up with broken ribs and a broken hand...
Yeah, ok. I spent the previous three or four nights watching the dismantling of the encampment at Columbia and then the last two nights watching the mess at UCLA. The one at UCLA was extra special.
If you're gonna put you ass on the line protesting, then you better be prepared to get hurt when you cross lines and actually break laws. These turn into actual riots. UCLA could have been much worse but the police did everything by the numbers. What was also cool was when they zip tied the perps, they took the masks, helmets and other things that disguised these people right in front of the TV cameras, hopefully insuring that these people are now unemployable.
I remember back at Kent State (just 10 miles down the road from my house) when they read the Federal Riot Act to a group of protestors that simply sat down in the middle of the main intersection in town, Main and Water Street and would not move.
I am really wondering why no one has invoked the Riot Act for today's much greater transgressions. These candy ass protestors today have it easy compared to what went down in the 60's and 70's.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the security cabinet, ought to be fired immediately over his latest remarks. That's how any properly run country would act, and all the more so a country against which the International Court of Justice in The Hague has issued provisional measures requiring it to refrain from genocide, including one requiring it to deal properly with incitement to genocide.
On Monday, Smotrich urged Israel to destroy its enemies. "There are no half-jobs," he said. "Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat â total destruction. 'Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.' There is no place for them under heaven." Plain and simple â total destruction. There is no room for interpretation. (...)
"The problem with UNRWA-Gaza isn't that of a few bad apples; it is a rotten and poisonous tree whose roots are Hamas. The Colonna report ignores the severity of the problem, and offers cosmetic solutions that do not deal with the enormous scope of Hamas' infiltration of UNRWA. This is not what a genuine and thorough review looks like. This is what an effort to avoid the problem and not address it head on looks like."
