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The Berkeley police may have stood down, but at least they are arresting the guy who wants to lead some prayer.

That is the cherry on top.

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I am glad they arrested him, a guy who makes tweets like this:

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In another thread I optimistically posted a statement by the new chancellor at UC Berkeley reaffirming the university's commitment to free speech:


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She said this, and a lot more, and it gave me hope:

Quote:

This fall, the issue of free speech will once more engage our community in powerful and complex ways. Events in Charlottesville, with their racism, bigotry, violence and mayhem, make the issue of free speech even more tense. The law is very clear; public institutions like UC Berkeley must permit speakers invited in accordance with campus policies to speak, without discrimination in regard to point of view. The United States has the strongest free speech protections of any liberal democracy; the First Amendment protects even speech that most of us would find hateful, abhorrent and odious, and the courts have consistently upheld these protections.

But the most powerful argument for free speech is not one of legal constraint — that we’re required to allow it — but of value. The public expression of many sharply divergent points of view is fundamental both to our democracy and to our mission as a university. The philosophical justification underlying free speech, most powerfully articulated by John Stuart Mill in his book, On Liberty, rests on two basic assumptions. The first is that truth is of such power that it will always ultimately prevail; any abridgement of argument therefore compromises the opportunity of exchanging error for truth. The second is an extreme skepticism about the right of any authority to determine which opinions are noxious or abhorrent. Once you embark on the path to censorship, you make your own speech vulnerable to it.

Guess I was premature. And she has her work cut out for her.

Edit

Timeline and live coverage from SF Chronicle here
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/B...003490.php


What a hoot. Look at this lone Trump supporter, trolling antifa now that he is safely surrounded by police:




So dopey. Who isn't against hate? This is a spontaneous flash mob straw man.

This chick has found a way to make it about her.



Supposedly this is a picture of Irma Hinojosa. If so, she might be better looking than I used to think:



It might not be her, though. I got this picture from the SF Chronicle, and for some reason, they think the guy she is talking to is Alex Jones.

(It's image 15)

http://www.sfgate.com/news/slideshow/Ber...958452.php

So far I haven't seen any pictures of the supposed right wing rally which show how many people attended. I guess it would look really bad to post a long range shot with ten dudes in MAGA hats surrounded by 2000 anarchists with bike locks. Would make it hard to maintain the peace narrative.