Portland And Berkeley: Sanctuary Cities For Leftist Violence

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PORTLAND AND BERKELEY: SANCTUARY CITIES FOR LEFTIST VIOLENCE
And safe spaces for no free speech.
April 28, 2017

Daniel Greenfield

Keep Portland Weird.

After Trump won, thousands of leftist thugs rampaged through Portland smashing windows and starting fires. They threw fireworks and bottles at police. And they caused a million dollars in damage.

A Homeland Security report described the leftist thuggery as domestic terrorist violence.

Who was "Portland's Resistance" fighting? 73% of voters in Multnomah County had backed Hillary. Only 17% had voted for Trump. The odds that any of the drivers whose windshields were being smashed or the small business owners coming back to a destroyed shop had voted for Trump were vanishingly small.

But the thugs were making a point. Keep Portland weird. Keep it leftist. And intimidate everyone else.

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Portland and Berkeley: Sanctuary Cities for Leftist Violence

 

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WHAT IS THE LAW ON CAMPUS FREE SPEECH AND WHAT SHOULD BERKELEY—AND ALL UNIVERSITIES—DO TO PROTECT IT?
The lawsuit against Berkeley is a good start, but many more measures need to be taken.
April 28, 2017

Richard L. Cravatts

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The reality, at Berkeley and on campuses nationwide, is that the selectivity about who may speak and where and when almost exclusively applies to conservative speakers (and those who are pro-Israel). Not only are liberal speakers invited to campuses at a ratio of two to one over conservatives, but there has rarely been an instance when liberal speakers have had their events disrupted, obstructed, or forced to be canceled as a result of vigorous activism from conservative students—certainly not with the violence and incivility of the Milo event; or Heather MacDonald’s experience at Claremont McKenna; or Charles Murray, political scientist, libertarian, and author who was verbally assaulted by a crazed audience of Middlebury students intent on shutting down his planned speech; or at Canada’s Ryerson University in March where Ezra Levant, conservative political activist, writer, and broadcaster, had to endure a similar experience at when protesters set off alarms, pounded on doors, and continuously interrupted his speech.

Something is clearly amiss on campuses, and especially at public institutions like Berkeley where students and faculty must enjoy and are entitled to the same First Amendment rights and protections that they would off-campus. The notion that administrators can be selective about who can and cannot speak on their campuses—based, in advance, on the content of the presumed speech—and can then make capricious decisions about fees, venues, and scheduling in order to obstruct or degrade the speaker’s message is, obviously, something that not only violates almost every institution’s own professed loyalty to academic free speech and unbridled expression, but violates constitutional protections—and is therefore unlawful. Public universities must discontinue these practices and policies. “Such discretion,” the Court found, “has the potential for becoming a means of suppressing a particular point of view,” something that is clearly taking place at Berkeley and on other campuses.

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“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education,” observed Justice Louis D. Brandeis, “the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

What is the Law on Campus Free Speech and What Should Berkeley—and all Universities—Do to Protect It?

 

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AS PROMISED: YAF SUES BERKELEY FOR FREE SPEECH VIOLATIONS
Students at Berkeley have the right to hear diverse viewpoints.
May 4, 2017

Young America’s Foundation

Reprinted from yaf.org.

On Monday, April 24, 2017, Young America’s Foundation (YAF) fulfilled its promise to file a lawsuit, in federal court, against the University of California, Berkeley for the University’s unconstitutional suppression of free speech on campus. Last week, YAF warned officials at the state university that if administrators did not stop violating the rights of conservative students, then YAF would be left with no choice but to seek legal action in order to restore students’ rights.

Young America’s Foundation, in coordination with the Berkeley College Republicans and BridgeCal, invited 12-time New York Times best seller, Ann Coulter, to speak to students at Berkeley on the topic of immigration. The lecture was planned for April 27, 2017, until the University abruptly cancelled it.

The University cites, as its reason for canceling the lecture, its “high-profile speakers” policy. In recent weeks, administrators have used this unwritten policy to cancel events featuring two conservative speakers for YAF—Ms. Coulter and David Horowitz. During the same time period, administrators permitted events featuring leftists Vicente Fox Quesada, former President of Mexico, and Maria Echaveste, former advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff to President Clinton, to proceed without interference.

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As Promised: YAF Sues Berkeley for Free Speech Violations