“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)
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Douglas Murray—A Tale of Two Talks: Free Speech in the U.S.:
Sometimes the whole tenor of an age can be discerned by comparing two events, one commanding fury and the other, silence.
To this extent, February has already been most enlightening. On the first day of the month, the conservative activist and writer Milo Yiannopoulos was due to speak at the University of California, Berkeley. To the surprise of absolutely no one, some of the new anti-free speech brigade attempted to prevent the event from happening. But to the surprise of almost everyone, the groups who wish to prevent everyone but themselves from speaking went farther even than they have tended to of late. Before the event could even start, Yiannopoulos was evacuated by security for his own safety. A mob of 150 people proceeded to riot, smash and set fire to the campus, causing more than $100,000 of damage and otherwise asserting their revised version of Voltaire’s maxim: “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to your death my right to shut you up.”
The riots at Berkeley caused national and international headlines. Mainstream media, including Newsweek, also attempted to do their bit for an event they would ordinarily deride as “fake news.” Following a segment on CNN, Newsweek ran a piece by Robert Reich, the chancellor’s professor of public policy at Berkeley and a former Clinton administration official, arguing that “Yiannopoulos and Brietbart [sic] were in cahoots with the agitators, in order to lay the groundwork for a Trump crackdown on universities and their federal funding.” This conspiracy theory would involve Yiannopoulos arranging for 150 masked fanatics not merely to trash a campus on his orders, but to continue to remain silent about it in the days and weeks after the event.
In Newsweek, Reich wrote, “I don’t want to add to the conspiratorial musings of so many about this very conspiratorial administration, but it strikes me there may be something worrying going on here. I wouldn’t bet against it.” And so, a tenured academic made an implausible as well as un-evidenced argument that his political opponents not merely bring violence on themselves but actually arrange violence against themselves.
All of the violence and all of these claims were made in February in the aftermath of a speech that never happened. But consider how little has been said and how little done about a speech that certainly did go ahead just one week later at another American university — not by a visiting speaker but by a resident academic and teacher.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
To me, this was the most telling thing about the Berkeley riots: the mainstream media reported that UC Berkeley police and others that they brought in to help quell the violence arrested no one.
Think about it for a moment. More than 150 masked criminals assaulted people on a major college campus, torched cars, and attempted to burn the place down. They were met by a brigade of riot cops, but not one arrest was made.
Is that possible? Did they all run away after they were finished and no one was apprehended, not even one? That stretches believability beyond the limit.
I saw a Washington Post reporter on television explaining that UC Berkeley did everything imaginable to prevent a catastrophe. Really? They did everything except hold anyone accountable.
In total, the criminals did more than $100,000 in damage. That must be chickenfeed to the folks at “liberal progressive” UCB. It’s certainly not enough to justify doing good police work.
“Liberal progressive”, left-wing nutjobs are a menace to society. I hope President Trump improves the quality of justice meted out in America while he’s in office. Under Obama, the nubjobs ran wild. That’s got to stop.
Candidly, I’m afraid that things have gone too far already. They think they can do whatever they want with impunity. Eventually, they will run into people who take self-defense seriously. When they do, remember how it all started because there will be blood.
This is my advice to parents of college-age kids: tell them to avoid those riots. If they see one developing, they should leave immediately. When bullets start to fly, they don’t stop until they encounter enough resistance, and they don’t discriminate based on political leanings.
Community organizers are hoping that a “protester” or “protesters” will die. For them, it’s part of a public relations strategy. I think their wish will come true.
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“If My people who are called by My Name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7: 14)
Change that Yahweh calls “good” begins in the hearts of believers—people who are recognizable because they are different.
We are different because we belong to Him and are called by His Name. We are Yahweh’s people, His followers.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
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