Tyrants, like abusive spouses and sociopathic gaslighters of all kinds, are fond of making their victims believe that their travails are their fault<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Westerners – those who still bother to criticize Red China, anyway – learn with some muted horror that when the Chinese government executes a convict via their preferred method, a bullet to the back of the head, the officials follow up by sending a bill for the bullet to the family of the deceased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Seems barbaric? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Compare it with the behavior of the authorities in Berkeley<\/a> – not just students, but the authorities themselves – <\/em>after protests and violence broke out at an Ann Coulter appearance last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, [UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo] Bennett said she was \u201csympathetic\u201d to students concerned about the heavy presence of police in riot gear around Wheeler. It’s not the Coulter spectators, who needed to be escorted into the venue past a mob of slobbering droogs, to whom the administration is apologizing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s the droogs. For being “triggered” by the presence of the police. Who needed to be there because of them. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n But it’s not just Berkeley. It’s right here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mayor Jacob “McDreamy” Frey, after all but literally inviting thugs to attack attendees at last month’s Trump rally in Minneapolis, and allegedly ordering the police to not intervene as the droogs and their boyfriends chased down old men and sucker-punched 5’2 women, is blaming…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI totally understand that,\u201d she said. \u201cWe did messaging to impacted groups that felt the presence of police caused them anxiety.\u201d [UC Berkeley spokesman Dan] Mogulof echoed Bennett. The concerns were \u201cunderstandable on a lot of different levels,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have work to do to continue to find ways we can accommodate profound differences of opinion. We believe we have met our obligations to both free speech and the rule of law, and to provide for the safety and well-being of students and campus guests,\u201d he said. \u201cHaving said that, I understand that students are deeply disturbed and unsettled by someone whose views they deeply disagree with.\u201d He said counseling and other services are always available to students.
Unbelievable. The authorities here \u2014 the police chief and the university spokesman \u2014 sympathize with the mobbed-up students whose fanaticism and violence required police presence so that a conservative speaker could address those who wanted to hear her. No wonder the First Amendment is losing. The authorities pity the tyrannical mob.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n