SCOTUS's decision in Murthy v Misssouri will tell us whether Big Tech Wall and the Deep State will be stopped in their joint venture to destroy the First Amendment
we need to see research across the country on how many students have been expelled and how many professors fired or suspended after riots that clearly cross the line from speech to violence. i have heard of no such events at all.
“ The entire “equity” edifice must be demolished; to do otherwise nourishes a parasitic bureaucracy that traduces academic freedom, contributes to antisemitism, and spreads a poisonous anti-liberalism into wider society.”
"The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just. For a man who does not value freedom for himself will never value it for others, or put himself to any inconvenience to gain it for others. Such a man, the world says, may lie down until he has sense enough to stand up. It is useless and cruel to put a man on his legs, if the next moment his head is to be brought against a curbstone. ... This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress/
Bullies will not stop until they are stopped, if they use physical measures to enforce their will, they must be met - and overcome - with physical force. Explanation and reasoning are valueless. And note that police have no legal duty to protect individuals or groups - that's the responsibility of the individual or group: "“Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law. “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are “in custody,” he pointed out." https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again
SCOTUS's decision in Murthy v Misssouri will tell us whether Big Tech Wall and the Deep State will be stopped in their joint venture to destroy the First Amendment
we need to see research across the country on how many students have been expelled and how many professors fired or suspended after riots that clearly cross the line from speech to violence. i have heard of no such events at all.
“ The entire “equity” edifice must be demolished; to do otherwise nourishes a parasitic bureaucracy that traduces academic freedom, contributes to antisemitism, and spreads a poisonous anti-liberalism into wider society.”
~ Amen and Amen!
As to the events at Berkeley, I offer this:
"The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just. For a man who does not value freedom for himself will never value it for others, or put himself to any inconvenience to gain it for others. Such a man, the world says, may lie down until he has sense enough to stand up. It is useless and cruel to put a man on his legs, if the next moment his head is to be brought against a curbstone. ... This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress/
Bullies will not stop until they are stopped, if they use physical measures to enforce their will, they must be met - and overcome - with physical force. Explanation and reasoning are valueless. And note that police have no legal duty to protect individuals or groups - that's the responsibility of the individual or group: "“Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law. “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are “in custody,” he pointed out." https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again