“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,” Arreguin said, referring to militants who have also been called anti-fascists or antifa…
“I obviously believe in freedom of speech, but there is a line between freedom of speech and then posing a risk to public safety,” the mayor said. “That is where we have to really be very careful — that while protecting people’s free-speech rights, we are not putting our citizens in a potentially dangerous situation and costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars fixing the windows of businesses.”
I’m looking for the part of the interview where the mayor condemns the violent left-wing groups who actually commit the violence. So far, nada.
Have you noticed that right-wing people never riot to prevent people from expressing their points of view? And that is all Mr. Shapiro, Ms. Coulter, and Mr Yiannopoulos are going to do…. express points of view. They are not coming to beat up people, burn buildings, or smash windows. They are not going to encourage people to do those things.
But that is what the Progressive Left does every stinking chance it gets.
More black neighborhoods have been burned by #BlackLivesMatter supporters than by “White Nationalists.” This is a fact.
BTW, the student groups hosting Mr. Shapiro, Ms. Coulter, Mr. Yiannopoulos are being charged over $15,000 to help pay for the damage and violence that left-wingers will carry out. Think of it as a Free Speech Tax.
Don’t pay this and go to court to stop the police from infringing on their rights.
So, people can be prevented from expressing opinions because their opponents might react violently?
Would Berkeley ban a Gay Pride march because some homophobe might show up and drive a Dodge into the crowd? Would they ban an NAACP convention because the KKK might try to shoot the attendees?
Would they prohibit Planned Parenthood clinics in the city because some anti-abortion extremist might try to blow them up?
We only negotiate with some terrorists.
More perverted Progressive logic.
The Progressives in Mine claim there is no such thing as the alt-left. I say fine. There is just one big Progressive Left which includes antifa, BLM, and other radical violent Progressive groups.
Milo, Coulter and Shapiro are testing whether the left can and will create the environment for free speech and peaceable assembly.
That is the fundamental principle at stake. It has nothing to do with the content of speech. Speech does not cause violence. Peaceable assembly does not cause violence.
Berkeley is a “no-go zone” and the left wants to support that concept.
The left is doing everything in their playbook to blame their version of the “devil” for making them act the way they do.
Well, how’s about you round up the minions of civil order and you make sure that free speech is respected and that mayhem is averted?
Defending peaceable assembly and free speech is the height of Political Correctness. Get together with the National Guard and show this “mayhem committing black bloc” what civilized people demand.
But, no, they would rather slam the speakers as riot inciting pests who stir stuff up. Which is to say that the Constitutional guarantees in the First Amendment are conditional according to calculations of the minions of the state.
That is Statism as the leftists want it.
“because it’s just a target for black bloc to come out and commit mayhem ”
Completely racist statement. There are plenty of good upstanding people of color in America. This remark simply shows that the “outspoken” left thinks people of color can not control themselves.