Do I Look Like Your Savior or
Not
(Yes, and I am a Greek-born
Brit Seeking American Rights)
More on this story and radical Breitbart-sponsored speaker, Milo
Yiannopoulos from here.
The Main Post for Today:
A
speech by conservative firebrand and Greek-born British ultra-right Breitbart writer
Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled at UC Berkeley amid
violent protests that sparked a fire in a campus plaza. University officials
called off the event about two hours before Yiannopoulos was to speak at the
student union, where more than 1,500 people had gathered outside. Some hurled
metal barricades and others smashed windows at the student union.
“This
is not a proud night for this campus, the home of the free speech movement,”
said Dan Mogulof, a Berkeley spokesman, noting that the vandalism interfered
with the ability of the College Republicans — who hosted Yiannopoulos — to exercise
their 1st Amendment rights.
Background:
In late 2015, Yiannopoulos began a campus speaking tour called “The Dangerous
Faggot Tour” encompassing U.S. and UK universities where many say
Yiannopoulos spews hatred and bigotry and not much else. A number his scheduled
speeches in Great Britain were cancelled.
Other campus disruptions in the US include:
1. Rutgers University: February 9, 2016,
2. University of Minnesota: February 17 2016.
3. DePaul University: May 24, 2016.
4. UCLA: May 31,
2016.
5. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: December 13, 2016.
6. UC Davis: January
13, 2017.
7. University of Washington: January 20, 2017, Josh Dukes age 34, was shot while
protesting the event, and was put into intensive care at a hospital in Seattle,
having suffered from life-threatening injuries for using pepper spray before he
was shot – shooter still at large. 1
WHITE HOUSE REACTION VIA TWEET
– NATURALLY:
President Trump threatened to cut off Federal funding to Berkeley
tweeting:
“If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence
on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” 6:13 AM - Feb 2, 2017
My Notes: I believe all this is carefully planned
and designed and scheduled for the sole purpose to cause protests and trouble
on campuses by whipping up anger that
leads to rioting and protests then they blame the protesters and colleges. Worse,
all the while they try to come across as victims and innocents.
Keep in mind that this is
classic Breitbart and “Alt-Right” strategy: That is to push things to their
limits and plead innocence along the way.
But keep in mind that all of this
is much more than free speech or proper display of decency – it is raw politics
and it is ugly. Surprisingly, it is exactly what the “right” says they are against.
That is a tactic they use to convince voters to put them in office and keep
them in office, plus all the while it is their precise goal to sustain
precisely the turmoil they generate while weakly appearing innocent like a bystander.
Worse, they have the unmitigated gall to blame the “left and their media tools”
as culprits.
How ironic is that point
since the GOP-Rightwing has mastered the PR game and boy are they skilled at it
and without ever admitting they are skilled in avoiding the truth as they plead total innocence while blaming
all others in site – that is except themselves.
That is the irony and skill
of the GOP. Paramount is even thought all of that is carefully designed to whip up a frenzy just
like Justice Holmes once quipped to “falsely shout fire in crowded theater” and
watch the mayhem that follows is illegal and protected speech per se, they
still push that approach. That is neither free nor protected speech, cite:
That
Holmes quip: “To falsely shout fire in a
crowded theater” is a very popular metaphor for
speech or actions made for the principal purpose of creating unnecessary panic
cited in the opinion of Schenck v. United States (1919), which
held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft
during World
War I was not protected free
speech under the First Amendment
of our Constitution – he handed out
flyers protesting the and advocating dodging the draft.
Holmes' opinion highlights the principle that speech which is
dangerous and false is not protected as opposed to speech that is dangerous but
also true is protected.
And, here
we are today and that First Amendment holding
in Schenck was later partially overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), which limited the
scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot) and that I
believe applies here with the speeches across all the campuses listed above
designed to disrupt and cause riots and possible violence.
Brandenburg was
a landmark United States Supreme Court case
based on the First Amendment. The court in that case held that
government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is “directed to
inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to
incite or produce such action,” Specifically, it struck down Ohio's criminal
syndicalism statute, because that statute broadly prohibited the mere advocacy of
violence.
In the process, Whitney v. California was explicitly
overruled, and doubt was cast on Schenck v. United States, Abrams v. United States, Gitlow v. New York (1925), and Dennis v. United States.
The bottom
line: I believe that Colleges and Universities have the right: moral and
legal and obligation to cancel or postpone such events and speakers from any
on-campus event to protect all students and their safety and not just for the
sponsors of the “Alt-Right” speakers to be happy or miss a chance to spew more
of their hatred.
The other
campuses shown above show that a “clear and present danger” applied in this
case at Berkeley and that they acted accordingly... Breitbart with their
so-called “Alt-Right” messages and agenda are pushing the envelope... And,
guess who is close to Mr. Trump from Breitbart? Yep, Stephen Bannon who has his
ear and stands at his elbow.
Hope this post was helpful. Thanks for stopping by.
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