“Do you want to know where the birthplace of the free-speech movement was? Well nobody knows for sure, but I have some guesses. It might have been ancient Athens. Or it might have been Jerusalem or Bethlehem. Or maybe it was London where, in 1689, the English Bill of Rights established a constitutional right to free speech for Parliament. Or maybe it was Philadelphia in 1776 or 1789. I can make arguments for all of these places as birthplaces for the free-speech movement. You know where I can’t make that argument? Mother-[expletive deleted]ing Berkeley in 1964.”
“Zombie” who lives in San Francisco was at the riot being held to celebrate free speech, some of his and others photos and video are here:
http://www.zombietime.com/milo_berkeley/ … posted also at Ace of Spades dawt calm.
Berkley = Tax funded censorship, hatred, Anarchism and totalitarian programing.
#Defund Berkley
I never gave much credence to all the wonderful things universities say about themselves. To be fair, I don’t generally buy into any groups myths and legends that make them feel superior. Most of it is exaggerated. Universities actually seem to attract the most conformist types of people of the era, conservative or liberal. Today academics are more like a bunch of mediocre intellectuals attempting to live off the accomplishments of a few outstanding individuals.
As an undergraduate majoring in Math and Physics, I was required to take one course in the Faculty of Arts. I chose Anthropology which lectured me about culture. Additionally, each time that I had to attend class in the artsy side of the Campus I learned a lot about culture, particularly the difference between those people studying Arts and those studying Science.
While Goldberg is technically accurate about the origins of Free Speech as differentiated from The Free Whining and B*tching Movement … this fossilized GOPe completely misses the point. Elections aren’t won on critically, technically precise, arguments … they’re won on emotion. Voters don’t want to be lectured by some isolated, ivory Tower dwelling intellectual conservative pundit. Voters want to be inspired by leaders who communicate and resonate with the emotions they feel. Of course these emotions are underpinned by tax policy, immigration policy, and Obamakkare dysfunction … but the Voter wants their PAIN to be understood and transformed into action. Bill Clinton “felt our pain” and received 8 years to assuage it.
So picking over the true origins of Free Speech is no way to FIGHT the leftist Thugs who shat-upon the very campus that THEY recognize as the cradle of Free Speech. THEY consider Mario Savio and UC Berkeley as the patron saint and St Perters of the FSM. Nor is it productive to jealously, enviously, disparage the talent of Milo … and by extension, Breitbart News. Scoffing at them will not resurrect a dying, decaying, National Review from the grave Goldberg helped dig. Nor will it attract a single conservative back to the DEAD GOPe.
And Goldberg can take his Bannon-envy … and shove that up his puckered anus as well. Hey Goldberg ! YOU … and your ossified GOPers are irrelevant. And YOU are doing the very same thing as the Intafa barrier crashers are doing … you’re pitching a FIT at the Trump Administration, policies, and process. It makes no difference that you wield a fancy education and keyboard in place of a section of aluminum barricade. You are behaving just as petulantly. Start embracing President Trump, or piss off.
Kenji, well said. For some reason Jonah has morphed into a phenomenal waste of brain power.
My son just commented:” I wonder where the peaceful protesters are planning to riot this weekend?”
Why exactly are people required to embrace a Trump presidency? Does that mean that all Canadians must embrace the Trudeau government? Or all conservatives had to embrace the Mulroney government? I’m being serious, BTW, I don’t understand your reasoning.
No, I don’t expect conservative Canadian’s to embrace Trudeau … not the way the luvvies do. Nor do I ever expect blind obedience to any political leader EVER. What do you take me for ? A goose-stepping Nazi ?
But only, two weeks into what has already been a wildly successful roll-out of the Obama correction machine … I am already tiring of conservative political pundits squeezing themselves into Inca stone mason cracks in Trumps brilliantly constructed foundation. OK … so green card holders should be exempted … DONE (within minutes of the first complaint). Next ! Ohhhh wahhhh 14 days in and we haven’t already received our retroactive tax reduction checks from the IRS. You know, some really “smart” people don’t think too deeply or strategically in their enthusiasm to scream … “look at meeeee!”
We should all be thankful for a leader who actually owns a pair ! aka “toxic masculinity”
Thanks for that Marc. I’ve not checked-in on Zombie since the last Folsom Street Fair (aka the most revolting, disgusting, depravity ever exhibited in public). Perhaps because the unhinged left hasn’t had much to “protest” for the past 8 years. Good to see Zombietimes work again.
Why exactly are people required to embrace a Trump presidency?
Nobody said all people. But conservatives should embrace it, because conservatives will never get another chance.
We’re at the point of maximum polarization. It’s arrival was inevitable, and now it’s a matter of whether you want to win or be polite. The left obviously doesn’t care about polity. So now it’s time to pick a binary side and embrace it.
The “Berkley Munich proletariat” want their communist tantrum recognized; they just haven’t found their Rosa Luxemburg yet…
You can have all the free speech you want as long as it is anarchist-communist inspired only!
Otherwise we club you over the head.
Clearly a ‘reasonable’ approach!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
I asked because I loathe double standards and hypocrisy in politics. I think establishment conservatives and libertarians have some valid concerns. I’m not a fan of establishment conservatives because their commitment to liberty is fickle and they tend to champion fashionable causes/rights rather than consistently supporting free choice and natural rights. But expecting them to fall into line behind Trump is not only unrealistic, its a bit disturbing because it is too much like group think progressives demanding conformity.
Why should anyone embrace Trump’s presidency?
Answer: Because it is killing Soros.
Is that an oversimplification?
And, as someone said, it’s the only chance conservatives have to be in power to make a difference. Who knows when it will come again.
And the same could have been said about Canada.
The street fair with many many men having sex on the avenue? I think I took a step back from Zombie at that point as well… just a bit too much for a saturday morning.
I agree, LC. Groupthink is always a fatal flaw, and it always turns out to be wrong in the end. It’s worth noting that Trump’s success in November was in part the result of the fact that he was always opposed and because of the groupthink nature of his opposition.
Protest organizer says they need more violence like at the Milo riot.
How does CNN blame that on Milo now?
https://youtu.be/YPrRLyFTzSU
well LCB, group “think” is in the DNA. Humans are emotional reactionaries who are herd oriented by nature, and not nurture, in that people think they are not such creatures simply means they are lying to themselves, and those lies are the greatest lies that people tell. People who are complete hermits are rare, and are basically mentally ill. The herd was the only way to survive in the start, and thusly became a part of our make up.
Trumps biggest asset, and worst flaw I suppose,is that he doesn’t give a damn what the VIPs think. I’d imagine he felt a certain type of freedom once he realized he’d never be accepted by his peers. He owes them nothing and they have no means to manipulate him. Groupthink is thoroughly, almost comically, ineffective once the ostracized class of people give the ruling class the finger and act entirely outside of the normal conventions. Watching the chattering desperately trying to regain control by doubling down on insults and resorting to violence is weirdly fascinating. Hopefully they’ll rediscover some poise, self comtrol and dignity and before things spiral completely out of control.
I disagree. People make choices. Groupthink is an easy choice because it requires very little effort and ensures social acceptance. There’s a significant minority of people who don’t seek this type of approval.
“Why exactly are people required to embrace a Trump presidency?”
Well one good reason, because it is.
Reality rules,except for welfare parasites,presstitutes and politicians.
The RINO’s and Loser Democrats are wailing,crying and pounding sand as if this can not be.
Reality is way better than fiction.
Yes I too accept that the Hair Apparent is PM of my country, I see no reason to burn public property or beat Liberals about the head.
Though I would if I thought it would do any good,but can’t cure stupid.
Possibly the comedy being provided by the continuing progressive meltdown here in North America will fade away, however the hypocrisy of the UniParty people will live on as long as the cameras roll.
The long view,AKA a perhaps more rational take,says the acceptance of violence as a political tool, by the nontool using segment of society,will not end well.
For them.
Just as Canada is heading for bankruptcy.
Too many takers.
Speaking of Soros and communist inspired anarchist riots.
Look Who Funds The Group Behind The Call To Arms At Milo’s Berkeley Event
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/03/look-who-funds-the-group-behind-the-call-to-arms-at-milos-berkeley-event/#ixzz4XmJGwj4E
Isn’t that what socialists did in Germany in the early 1930’s of the past century?
Can you see the parallels?
Pretty sure Zombietime is “her.”
Folsom Street Fair expose was repulsive, but sending the coverage to my libertarian friends and listening to their heads explode with sudden social conservativism was worth it.