Berkeley Mayor
Wants ‘Free Speech Week’ Canceled; Trump Supporters ‘Wanted to Get Beat Up’ by
Antifa
by Joel B. Pollak 29 Aug 2017
Left-wing
activists are scrambling to excuse the violence carried out by Antifa activists
at Sunday’s counter-protest in Berkeley, California,
in which five conservative demonstrators were injured and 13 attackers were
arrested.
“It almost seems like [Trump supporters] wanted to get
beat up,” said civil rights lawyer Dan Siegel, according
to the East Bay Times. Siegel praised the actions of the
Berkeley Police Department, which allowed Antifa to
jump the barricades and attack the few right-wing protesters who had gathered
after a “No to Marxism” rally was canceled for fear of violence. There were
about 400 police, and about 100 Antifa activists. Police later
claimed their actions were necessary to prevent greater violence in a
confrontation with Antifa. The San Jose Mercury News quoted Berkeley police chief Andrew Greenwood as saying
there was “no need for a confrontation over a grass patch.”
Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin is now calling
on the University
of California Berkeley to cancel “Free Speech Week,” an event
planned for late September in which a conservative campus group called Berkeley
Patriot is inviting controversial speakers, including former Breitbart News
tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, to speak.
Aragon blamed conservative speakers for
provoking the Antifa violence aimed at shutting down their events: “I’m very
concerned about Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter and some of these other
right-wing speakers coming to the Berkeley campus, because it’s just a target
for black bloc to come out and commit mayhem on the Berkeley campus and have
that potentially spill out on the street,” he said,
according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Berkeley was the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement
in 1964, where students fought for, and won, the right to express any political
views they wanted on campus. Conservatives have challenged the famously
left-wing campus to live up to that legacy.
Arreguin defended the police for allowing Antifa to
jump the barricades Sunday, saying “the actions taken by the police were
necessary to deescalate and prevent further violence from taking place.”
The East Bay Times adds that organizers of
the counter-demonstration stressed that the vast majority of the several
thousand participants in their march on Sunday were peaceful. Journalist Al
Letson, who risked his own safety to save a man from a beating by 20 Antifa
activists, defended them: “I think, in retrospect, they may not have
wanted to injure him, but at the time, everything just happened so quickly,” he
told
Southern California Public Radio.
Let’s connect the dots:
University of California Berkeley
Stephen M.
Silberstein was a benefactor for the University
of California, Berkeley, a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a contributor for
the American Bridge 21st Century,
and a contributor for the Majority PAC.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the American Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Jonathan
Soros’s father, was a contributor for the American Bridge 21st Century, a contributor for the Majority PAC, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Common Cause, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the International Rescue Committee, and the New America Foundation.
Christopher
Edley Jr. is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, was a governing board member for the
Common Cause, and a law school dean
for the University of California,
Berkeley.
University
of California, Berkeley is a University
of California campus.
Haas
School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard C. Blum
is a regent at the University of
California, a board member at the Haas
School of Business, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), married to California Senator
Dianne Feinstein, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
William J. Clinton
is the founder of the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation, was an adviser for the Yucaipa Companies, and Strobe Talbott was his roommate at Oxford.
Jeffrey M.
Johnson was an operating partner for the Yucaipa Companies, and is the publisher for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Strobe Talbott
was William J. Clinton’s roommate at
Oxford, an editor for Time magazine, and is the president of
the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Andrew S. Grove was
the 1997 person of the year at Time
magazine, a benefactor for the University
of California, Berkeley, and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
David H. Romer
is a professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, and was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Michael R. Bloomberg
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
is the founder of Everytown for Gun
Safety, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and the founder for Bloomberg
LP.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Michael A. Nutter
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council.
Annise Parker is
an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council.
Kenneth
Canterbury is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and the president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Manny
Diaz was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and is a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg News
is a division of Bloomberg LP.
Al
Hunt is a columnist for Bloomberg
News, and married to Judy Woodruff.
Judy Woodruff is
married to Al Hunt, and a director
for Public Radio International.
Michael Lewis is
a columnist for the Bloomberg News,
and a visiting fellow at the University
of California, Berkeley.
Hal
Varian was a professor at the University
of California, Berkeley, and a chief economist for Google Inc.
Google
Schmidt as Executive Chairman of Google speaking with Nik Gowing.
Eric E. Schmidt was an Executive
Chairman for Google Inc., a member
of the President's Council of Advisors
on Science and Technology, is the chairman emeritus for the New America Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Susan L. Graham
was a member of the President's Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology, and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the New America Foundation,
and George Soros’s son.
Fareed Zakaria is
a director at the New America Foundation,
and was an editor-at-large for Time
magazine.
Andrew S. Grove was
the 1997 person of the year at Time
magazine, a benefactor for the University
of California, Berkeley, and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and is the founder for Bloomberg
LP.
Bloomberg News
is a division of Bloomberg LP.
Michael Lewis is
a columnist for the Bloomberg News,
and a visiting fellow at the University
of California, Berkeley.
David H. Romer
is a professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, and was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Lee H. Hamilton is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a
member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council.
Kenneth
Canterbury is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and the president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Manny
Diaz was a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and is a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Michael A. Nutter
is a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Annise Parker is
a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the founder for Bloomberg
LP, and was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign.
Bloomberg News
is a division of Bloomberg LP.
Michael Lewis is
a columnist for the Bloomberg News,
and a visiting fellow at the University
of California, Berkeley.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Andrew S. Grove was
an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, the 1997 person of the year at Time magazine, and a benefactor for the University of California, Berkeley.
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