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Napolitano said:”But nonetheless they’re coming to speak, they’re coming to put forward controversial and noxious ideas, and, you know, colleges and universities are places where noxious ideas are expressed.”
Freedom is a noxious idea? Freedom of conscience freedom of expression and individual rights is controversial and noxious?
“So how you carry that out, protect that value — that’s the challenge that we face,” Napolitano said. “That’s why I think it’s important that if these events are going to occur, that they be done safely and securely and, I think unfortunately that means universities bear the cost.”
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Who else should bear the cost? If not the university, then who?
“Berkeley ‘Free Speech Week’ with Bannon will be costly, university president says,” by Benjamin Wermund, Politico, September 20, 2017:
University of California President Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that the so-called Free Speech Week planned at Berkeley this month that will feature former White House strategist Steve Bannon will be an expensive test for the school that has become the center of debate over free speech on college campuses.
Napolitano said that her office, which oversees the University of California system, will take the unprecedented step of helping Berkeley cover the the “substantial” security costs. That protection is necessary to ensure free speech on campus, she said.
“This will be a test for Berkeley,” she said. “It’s a cost that the university is bearing to protect the speakers but also to protect the value of free speech … But the rock and the hard place that the campus is in, is the value of free speech versus the need to protect the safety and the security of the students and the faculty.”
Napolitano said security for a recent speech by conservative author Ben Shapiro cost the school $600,000. The event this month including Bannon and planned by far right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is expected to be four days of similar security needs, she said. She would not provide an exact figure.
Bannon’s appearance has been billed as “Bannon infiltrates Berkeley.”
“I think some of these speakers are coming deliberately to provoke, and I think to provoke a response,” she said. “But nonetheless they’re coming to speak, they’re coming to put forward controversial and noxious ideas, and, you know, colleges and universities are places where noxious ideas are expressed.
“So how you carry that out, protect that value — that’s the challenge that we face,” Napolitano said. “That’s why I think it’s important that if these events are going to occur, that they be done safely and securely and, I think unfortunately that means universities bear the cost.”…
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75 Comments
6 years ago
This freak didn’t talk like that when she was governor of Arizona. She backhandedly flooded the state with illegals then moved on to be part of Obama’s nightmare team. A true psychotic Leftist.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
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Fake News Analyst
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6 years ago
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6 years ago
Reply to
Inmate of Diversityland
Did you ever hear her speak against jihadi crimes within and outside USA ?
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6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
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6 years ago
Reply to
Inmate of Diversityland
She would like what John McCain is doing in the US Senate.
6 years ago
Did you ever hear her speak against jihadi crimes within and outside USA ?
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6 years ago
“colleges and universities are places where noxious ideas are expressed”
True that. Noxious ideas like anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, Marxism, Communism, identity politics, racial hatred, and the encouragement of gender dysphoria, pro-Jihad ideologies, and every other self-destructive idea known to humankind.
6 years ago
Wow! That’s mighty white of her! What a lady!
6 years ago
Well, no Janet, actually it’s not that fine a line between freedom of speech and safety.
Rioting, assaulting, threatening, intimidating, attacking is NOT free speech.
It’s violent criminality.
6 years ago
Reply to
Harleyrose
The fanatical, left wing, lunatic Antifa are domestic terrorists and need to be treated as such! They show up armed and wearing masks, and come prepared to riot! There is no place in a free, democratic society for these barbarians!
6 years ago
I certainly agree that there is a responsibility to provide a safe environment, and I hope that the protesters do not riot or become violent in any manner, although recent experience suggests that is likely to happen. The protester has the right to disagree with the speaker, but the protester must disagree in a fitting and reasonable manner, without violence. As to the comments in this article about the speech being “noxious,” I find that commentary to be “off the wall” and not conducive to our rights to speak freely. To me the defining characteristic to determine whether any speaker should be prohibited from speaking is to determine whether the speech is promoting and preaching for the commission of violence of any sought against anyone. Otherwise, I believe the right to speak freely should be a primary authorization, and Napolitano’s comments about “noxious” are rubbish. “Violence” should be her concern, not “noxious.” Free speech entails the right to be critical of another’s belief/thoughts and to outline that person’s thoughts on why that person rejects those beliefs/thoughts, as long as the manner of presenting those differences do not promote violence. To me, promoting violence is the only free speech that should be prohibited and can reasonably be defined as “noxious,” simply because our Constitution does not protect a speaker who promotes violence of any kind, as that conduct should be prosecuted as criminal.
People have to live with what they think is “noxious:” AS THAT TERM SHOULD NOT EVER BE USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE IS JUSTIFICATION TO SHUT DOWN THE SPEAKER, AS IT IS REALLY UNDEFINEABLE BECAUSE WHAT TO ONE PERSON MAY BE HIS/HER ACCEPTED ATTITUDE/BELIEF TO ANOTHER PERSON MAY BE CRITICALLY REJECTED. THAT SHOULD BE THE WAY ADMINISTRATORS SHOULD APPROACH THE ISSUE OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
The Heckler’s Veto — the best thing going for muslums and their collaborators until they can enforce islamic blasphemy and heresy laws through our judicial system and law enforcement.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
BINGO. The similarities between the Muslim mob and the Marxist mob are breathtaking.
6 years ago
Exposing lies of the Left is her true concern,… Liberalism must be defended at ALL COST !!!
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
This definition of Democrats fits our moslem loving Canadian Liberals to a tee! They are just as whacked out and loony!
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
I don’t see anything about allowing “sexual emergencies” or allowing the average follower of the prophet to fu*k his goat on any street corner he pleases……
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Diversity is no strength. Our “diversity” is weakening us. All part of the liberal plan.
6 years ago
It’s hard to believe that this woman was once head of the Department of Homeland Security.
6 years ago
Reply to
pennant8
Considering the shape America is in now, she was not competent in that job either.
6 years ago
“I think unfortunately that means universities bear the cost”. What a stunned cow, did it ever occur to her, being the president of a university that feeds on taxpayer cash producing graduates that are useful only as land fill, that if they taught responsibility and mature intelligent behaviour, with students showing respect for learning and other people’s opinions, it would be much less expensive? Burt really why should she, snivelling and begging for government money is easier and more profitable.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Antifa
should bear the costs! They are the ones protesting free speech and
democracy! Anyone that shows up to a rally in a mask and bearing weapons
is a domestic terrorist and should be treated as such!
6 years ago
Reply to
GPAltaBob
True, they are responsible for the costs, their parents would be responsible for their stupid kid’s actions.
6 years ago
Reply to
GPAltaBob
Antifa will not bear any costs because this group is on George Soros’ payroll. $20/hour to rabble-rouse.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Teaching responsibility and mature intelligent behavior? Wow. I think if you broached that subject in any UC or Cal State classroom, you’d have students running out of the classroom screaming for their safe spaces, convinced they needed an exorcism.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Yeah, better not mention the precious little snow flakes will turn into puddles of piddle if they actually had to be accountable, responsible and lawful.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
“Responsibility,” “mature intelligent behavior?” I think that’s how that freakish cow would define “noxious and controversial.”
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
“I think unfortunately that means universities bear the cost”.
This from a woman caught with $150 million, of tax payer money, stashed in her office. The very same woman that attempted to ban rifle bullets. Begs the question: what exactly is she planning?
She’s transparently seditious.
6 years ago
Reply to
got243kids
She is a democrat tool of islam who are trying for force domination of a dictatorship on the world.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
She’s one of tens of thousands, all well-placed in every anal [intended] of government, institution and federal agency:
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6 years ago
Reply to
marlene
Ah yes german scientists, they are such a creative innovative bunch, the effectiveness of chemicals for crowd control first demonstrated in germany with the application of zyklon b.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I like that one, useful only as land fill. Very useful students, gender studies, gay studies, queer studies, mambo mambo studies and the rest. I forgot to mention the study of homosexuals for palestine. Very important.
6 years ago
Milo,
please don’t left the democracy killing, free speech killing, left wing
liberal assholes shut you down! Freedom of speech is one of all our
inalienable rights! Don’t allow the BS that is being forced on us in
Canada by our politicians (Bill M-103 and Justin Trudeau) happen down
there! http://abcnews.go.com/…/uc-berkeley-free-speech-week…
6 years ago
No, I don’t think so.
I don’t feel a need to emulate the UK in any way shape or form.
6 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
What the hell do you think we just went through with Obama for eight years?
The difference is, we’ll recover. You probably won’t. ‘You haven’t earned your stripes yet’, my ass.
6 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
Um, France and the UK have people talking jihad against the government all the time AND acting out on it. The same is not true for the U.S., knock wood. While the U.S. has people like Linda Soursewer spouting her bile, terror attacks here are nowhere near that of France and the UK. How many terror incidents has the UK had so far this year. France? Way more than the U.S. This isn’t to say the U.S. is absolutely safe. It isn’t. But, you should first ask why europe has far more terror attacks than the U.S. does, if in fact our muslim population is at or near Britain’s. Also, France and the UK penalize their own citizens for being armed. Not so, in the U.S. still.
6 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
Personally I find the muslum mayor of Londonistan more threatening than a hijabed witch w/no political power whatsoever.
6 years ago
Company stooge! She makes 600,000 a year – a looks like a troll.
6 years ago
Freedom of speech is controversial … well, not in the America I grew up in … We’re not there any more, Toto …
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Buley
No, it’s not ciontroversial. If you are on the right, there is no free speech. If you are on the left, like Linda Soursewer, there is absolute free speech. Got it.
6 years ago
It’s just so much easier and cheaper to implement Shari’a blasphemy and heresy laws — and just think of all the revenue we’ll generate off of fines!
6 years ago
That a UC president would make such inflammatory comments as……. “But nonetheless they’re coming to speak, they’re coming to put forward controversial and noxious ideas, and, you know, colleges and
universities are places where noxious ideas are expressed.” Napolitano effectively incited hate speech herself by saying those words. You can practically smell the contempt coming out of her. For all we know, that was the green light code to her programmed foot soldiers in brown shirts at Berkeley to get ready to disrupt the Free Speech conference.
All this coming from a woman who was recently outed as having hidden $175M of taxpayer money in the UC coffers. No doubt, money she had planned to give away to some of the DACA people. Of course, that’s all been sufficiently swept under the rug.
6 years ago
How about no, FTS!
6 years ago
FGM started in Africa. They own it & its spread around the world!! Black, white & brown American little girls & women are being mutilated cuz of it.They should be responsible to pay for Prevention, medical cost it. & rehabilitation !
6 years ago
It is a good thing Napolitano was not around at the initial founding of this country. Her sort did not fare too well at Salem.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Actually, they did; they were the accusers! Sometime read an account of the Salem witch trials, and see if anything about them looks familiar.
6 years ago
Reply to
LeslieFish
The Salem witch trials were about persecution, but I get your point. I was referring to Napolitano being uglier than a wooden keg full of a**holes. Tell me that isn’t a “witchy” look.
6 years ago
Another Obama Communist puppet!
6 years ago
Wait, isn’t he/she the man-ape-gone-wrong thingy that murdered all those kids in Waco during the Clinton presidency?
O wait. That was the OTHER man-ape-gone-wrong Regressive Democrat – Janet RENO – that murdered all those kids.
6 years ago
How much should it cost, really, to arm the cops with extra stun-guns, tasers, and smoke grenades, put them in riot-gear, and tell them to politely but firmly keep the BLM/Antifa crowd away from the discussion? That’s what we did here in Arizona at the last Trump rally, and it worked. It’s really easy to tell the BLM/Antifa crowd from the harmless and civil protesters; they’ll show up on different sides of the building, dress in clothes they can fight in, will carry shoulder-bags with suspiciously-heavy bottles in them, and they’ll deliberately hang around until sundown — even if the event ends before then. Put the plainclothes cops in the auditorium, in the front and back rows, with orders to stun and carry out any protesters who jump up and try to mob or down-shout or silence the speakers.
D
6 years ago
I guess she thinks our freedoms and the Constitution are controversial and noxious, too.
6 years ago
Once again, Napolitano reveals her utmost adoration for totalitarianism, which, of course is nothing earth shattering nor is she flying solo. Not unlike Obama, Clinton, the entirety of the Democrats and every Leftist in this nation and planet freedom of speech is repugnant. How any citizens of this nation can abide by this tyrannical and oppressive diktat is beyond overwhelming. It is also a ill-boding, the greatest threat to face this Constitutional Republic’s existence or continuance since the Civil War. The second of which has already begun.
Trump is blamed for being divisive while the truth is buried by the the Leftist betrayers, the Democrats, the progressives, all aspirant leftist revolutionaries/Bolsheviks; the truth, Obama and his Marxist conspirators were hell-bent on the ruination, the overthrow of this Republic. Deploying paid, mindless commie drones to unhinge civil-order via disparaging, protesting and denying Americans the First Amendment Rights and in time the entire Constitution.
6 years ago
What the heck is she talking about? She nailed the FSW sponsors with a last minute fee of over $65k … which Milo covered … but did it so late that even though they jumped on it, the deadline could not be met.
6 years ago
In a democracy, you are ALLOWED to hold and express “controversial and noxious ideas”, however popular or unpopular they may be. At least, that was in the America I know.
D
6 years ago
That woman is “controversial and noxious”! Oh well, all of Obama’s appointees were obnoxious!
6 years ago
The treatment for Berzerkly, aside from a collective strait-jacket is a heavy and frequent dose of Free Speech.
