[ April 23, 2024 ]
We marched at Berkeley amid an army of police, freedom lovers and fascists. Despite the unending fight to stop us, the obstacles thrown up at every turn by a crippled administration, we locked arms and marched unbowed.
Milo: “I hope you’re reporting that the police kept HUNDREDS (400-500) of supporters outside to make the crowd look tiny. There were 500 people waiting to get in. They let in 75.”
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The press was overwhelmingly hostile — no surprise there.
Milo Yiannopolous is greeted by dozens of counter-protesters on UC Berkeley campus
LA Times, September 24, 2017:
Milo Yiannopolous is greeted by dozens of counter-protesters on UC Berkeley campus
By Benjamin Oreskes and Javier Panzar Contact Reporters, LA Times, September 24, 2017:
Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was greeted by dozens of counter-protesters Sunday as he arrived on the UC Berkeley campus for what turned out to be a very brief speech.Wearing a denim jacket over a sweatshirt resembling an American flag, Yiannopoulos and his entourage showed up shortly after noon at Sproul Plaza on campus and was jeered by a large group of counter-demonstrators. The crowd included a smaller contingent of Trump supporters.
Security was tight and only about 100 people were allowed into the plaza after passing through metal detectors.
Yiannopolous spoke briefly to the crowd, sang the National Anthem and posed for selfies with supporters before he was escorted away. The entire event lasted about 20 minutes.
Surrounded by reporters, body guards and screaming protesters, Yianapoulols later told the Times that he had accomplished his mission.
“The purpose of today was to show up on campus no matter what and to let them know we’ll be back as many times as it will take,” he said.
He said he was pleased with the way things turned out Sunday, saying the event “was fine. It was great.”
Yiannopoulos announced Saturday that he would hold his own forum at the university after the organizers of a far-right speakers series on the campus canceled their event, which was supposed to kick of Sunday.
“We are unable to hold an official UC Berkeley speaking event,” Yiannopoulos said. “So we’re going to host an unofficial one.”
The Free Speech Week event seemed to be in trouble in recent days as organizers failed to meet Berkeley’s deadlines for renting indoor venues on campus, while at the same time some scheduled speakers either canceled plans to attend or said they never agreed to appear.
Yiannopoulos, who struggled to help organize the festival, said he still planned to speak on Sunday at Sproul Plaza, where the university’s free-speech movement began. The campus has become the national staging ground for confrontations between the right and left
By 11 a.m. Sunday, dozens of counter-protesters from the group Refuse Fascism and others began gathering near the plaza, chanting “No Trump, No KKK, No Facist USA.” They faced off with Trump supporters, some wearing red hats emblazoned with the slogan “Make America Great Again,” as police in riot gear stood nearby.
The two groups were surrounded by hordes of reporters as several rival demonstrators engaged in heated debate over Yiannopoulos’ anticipated appearance.
Campus police set up barricades around the plaza, where backpacks, frozen fruits and other items that could possibly used as a weapon were banned.
Christopher Corsi, 24, said he drove overnight from Phoenix to Berkeley for the chance to see Yiannopoulos. He said he loves how “absolutely outrageous” Yiannopoulos is and how he riles up the left. He said he hopes Yiannopoulos gets the chance to speak.
“I don’t think shutting down other people’s point of view is good for the left or the right,” Corsi said. “I’m not even convinced [Yiannopoulos] even believes what he says. He might just be trolling everybody.”
Andrea Grenburg, 34, a Berkeley resident, said she supports free speech, not the kind of hate speech that she believes Yianopoulos promotes, and that is why she wanted to show up to make her views known.
“If no one speaks up, the hatred festers,” she said. “When you don’t do anything, you can’t complain.”
Kris Hanson, who has four children, said he drove from out of town to rally with fellow Trump supporters..
“I wanted to stand against the leftist fascists in our community,” said Hanson, who was wearing a “Kid Rock for Senate” T-shirt.
Supporters of President Trump and members of the left wing activist groups By Any Means Necessary and Refuse Fascism yelled at each other in roving skirmishes all morning.
Christian Silva, a 29 year old from Fullerton, said he drove up to hear Milo speak and was disappointed the event had devolved into shouting matches.
“They are not here for dialogue,” he said of the counter-protesters. “I’ll dialogue with anybody about anything but that’s not what they want.”
Yiannopoulos had complained to reporters that the university tried to sabotage plans for Free Speech Week by making it difficult for organizers to make logistical arrangements and to meet certain deadlines.
But UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said such claims were “without basis in fact.”
“The university was prepared to do whatever was necessary to support the 1st Amendment rights of the student organization,” Mogulof said in a statement.
UC Berkeley has incurred at least $1.4 million in security costs since February, when Yiannopoulos’ last appearance there sparked violent protests. The campus spent $200,000 on security for that event, $600,000 for an appearance by conservative firebrand Ann Coulter, whose event ultimately was canceled, and an estimated $600,000 for a talk earlier this month by conservative writer Ben Shapiro, according to the university.
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27 Comments
6 years ago
no one cares pam
D
6 years ago
The original 1964 free speech stuff wasn’t officially allowed either.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Mario Savio’s free speech movement was really a filthy language movement. These Leftists were trash in 1964 and they’re trash now.
6 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
Wuz you dere, Charlie? The original FSM fought for the right to say, write, hear and read *anything*, no matter how upsetting. It’s disgusting that the Left has degenerated to Antifa idiots like this.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
That is because Berkeley in ’64 was anything but free speech unless you were a Black Panther or left of Joseph Stalin.
6 years ago
The whole event was a bummer. UC Berkeley got its way anyway, effectively shutting down any meaningful Free Speech event, and even so controlling the crowds that many pro-event people were let in only after it was over. But I’m sure that Milo and Pam haven’t let them hear the last of it.
6 years ago
Breaking: Shooter at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch Tennessee was Sudanese Terrorist
– Emanuel Kidega Samson a black terrorist from the Sudan is the man who opened fired and killed at least one person
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
This has to STOP!
Trump just included parts of AFRICA in his updated ban. Muslims!
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Islam itself has actually killed many Christians in Africa, the terrorist group Boko Haram has allegedly killed more people than the Islamic State.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
And I think Trump also has SOMALIA in his existing ban, which was a good call.
Minnesota has the highest ISIS recruitment rate in US (bec. of Somali Muslim radicals).
and Sweden also has the highest ISIS recruitment rate per capita in Europe (also bec. of Radicals coming from the Somali regions).
6 years ago
Reply to
TD
Well, duh. An essentially Muslim pirate empire whose main source of income comes from international piracy turns out to be populated by criminal terrorists. I am shocked, I tell you, shocked.
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Keeping all muslims out of USA IS ONLY WAY to stop this menace.
And the Islamonazi Pope wants christians to bring in more of his islamonazi friends. while the hypocrite hides behind personal security and 40 feet high walls !
And now he even questions christians on their faith http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl
And he would not even criticise the never ending genocide of christians in egypt , syria, Iraq, pakistan etc.
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
I thought so — especially considering how the enemedia was keeping a lid on the identity of the shooter.
Where are all the moral retards who want to tell me muslums are good people now? For some reason they always seem to disappear when muslums slaughter/rape/enslave/persecute people of other faiths, or even no faith at all.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
They, those who support Muslim immigration, always point to members of the community who are Muslim. Fair enough, but this ignores the fact that the early immigrants were fleeing fundamentalist Islam as well. The present situation must take into account ‘sleepers’ who come here to do harm. Our first and primary obligation is the safety of our people. Period.
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
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6 years ago
Free speech includes being OFFENDED and NOT agreeing.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Meanwhile the worthless BDS anti-semites, terrorists sympathizers, and alan Sharpton can continue to spew out their David Duke style rhetoric without anyone really blocking them.
6 years ago
Reply to
TD
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On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $11752 this last four weeks..with-out any doubt it’s the most-comfortable job I have ever done .. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it
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6 years ago
Never surrender. Freedom is not free.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
I heard that it costs Berkeley $600,000 to provide protection when a conservative speaker speaks.
This is what ANTIFA is costing people other than their rights.
6 years ago
Thank you, Pamela, for standing up with MIlo.
6 years ago
Deleting my comment is not free speech Pam.
6 years ago
Reply to
Marty Funkhouser
Maybe it contained some words that were automatically picked up by the filter or something? That’s happened to me before elsewhere.
6 years ago
As an old peace-marcher, I can tell you that persistence is the key. If Milo, Pamela, Robert et al keep coming back to Berkeley, sponsored by legitimate groups, *week after week*, the yowling idiots will eventually get tired and bored (not to mention in trouble for missing too many classes or work-days) and give up. Another thought: host the speeches inside some willing church (like the Unitarians) that respects free speech more than political correctitude; if the Antifa idiots dare try to throw a riot in there, you can lawfully arrest the lot of them.
6 years ago
Is there a lawyer in the house? It’s vital that the legal concept of “hate-crime”, let alone “hate-speech”, be thrown out as unconstitutional. Can’t you see why?
6 years ago
Thanks Pamela and Milo you both have true grit.
I will order your book as I have Milo’s.
