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Your requesting government retribution to the protests...
I'm not sure you understand how free speech works...

The protests are free speech. You can arrest the rioters without having to defund the University.

This isn't a difficult problem. Arrest people starting fires...

Tail's solution is to have the federal government (huh... thought you guys liked less government involvement) punish all students for a groups protests.

Or....by removing government involvement in funding the school, an argument could be made that there'd be less government involvement...everybody should be happy....I'm sure the anarchist students would be appalled to learn that federal funds allocated by the Trump administration might make their miserable lives possible....STOP the madness of federal involvement in our schools!!!!

I would argue that you could cut their federal funding due to them not being able to control their students.

I mean, why send them money if all it's going to go for is fixing windows, cars and medical bills from rioters.

Protesting is one thing (all for protesting), but indiscriminately destroying things because they want to silence a scheduled speaker is another.

A lot of good science comes out of Berkeley, but their students' actions are appalling... They need to fix their s#17.

Setting fires and attacking others isn't free speech...non-violent protest is...there's something happening here...

The university is the basic fundamental free (not cost) and open marketplace of ideas, including those on the far right. The university has a responsibility to protect the guest speaker and those who want to hear him, once they invited him in. Security was not adequate in this case.
The cost of protecting some speakers could be enormous...so that's a consideration for who speaks on a college campus.

... you missed the part where I said arrest the rioters...

Not that easy.

The assholes that caused the damage aren't going to let uniformed police officers get near them. Like the cowards they are they will run when the police start approaching. Perhaps, law enforcement can fine a way to teach K9's to target specific people. It would be nice to catch a few and find out who is funding them.

Next best thing is to have the universities do a better job policing their own property. This way to do that is squeeze their funds. I don't have a problem with that because UC Berkley is exactly tolerant of speech by people right of center.

I have no idea if it isnt.

I'm not second guessing the police and whether they chose to arrest anyone. I would expect they did. But if they didn't arrest them I'm assuming it was a tactical decision due to the size of the crowds.

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I believe there are a variety of reasons. Safety and politics would be 1 & 2 in that order.

With government funding come a responsibility to not break the laws.
Do we have to wait for one of the firebombs to kill someone before we act on it?
Cut funding and the school would emphasize how to properly protest.

End Welfare in all of its forms. Subsidies are a form of welfare.

Tail... you keep pretending a university is a closed campus. Hell this was a retail area. Businesses any random citizenry.

But sure... it totally makes sense to cut university funding.

The same groups shut down 880 outside of Oakland a number of months ago. Sounds like we should cut off funding to CHP as well... or DOT.

cut-off doesn't have to happen immediately....as long as secession happens in next 18 months, I'm ok waiting until then

Yeah. I said it was a closed campus.
Where do you get this crap?

I'm all for free speech and protests.
But the organizers have to prepare: pull permits, make sure it's done properly, etc.

If they did let in a riot squad from "outside" the university, then they are still responsible.

You have a party in your house and the homeless come by to sell drugs and provide sexual favors for money then YOU will be the one in trouble. You can't say "well they're from out in the street".

But why should we expect college kids or a cigar forum liberal to comprehend anything so complex as Responsibility?

no u dint.....NO U DINT JUST USE THE "R" WORD!

ya, there were prolly some babes at the protest...

Hey, whoa... mofo. We got Yosemite, Sequoia National Forest, and most of the damn groceries we eat come from CA.

NOT an even trade.

Thanks, MACS. Appreciate a little support, even though you are planning to be a future refugee...

Droughts over, problem is what they did to the central valley to save some sucker fish nobody cares about except some native American's Who couldn't get a casino license

It's always a drought.
Unless it's the rainy season with mud slides, that is.

If there is a pot to stir, TG is the FOG to do it. Of course Victor is a master stirrer, um no, masturba***.

Freaks

I have got the solution, when these left wing progressive mask wearing garbage riot, destroy property, attack and hurt people, we swoop in and arrest them all. We then exchange them for all the Muslim Refugees on a one for one basis. The anarchist would then learn a civil lesson while having their heads cut off, problem solved. It seems while we would be possibly letting in a few terrorist, those attacks are way less than the attacks on our country by our own people.

The KKK endorsed Trump. That didn't mean he was responsible for them or wanted them, or respected them. How is this any different. There has been no link established between Berkley and the anarchists. Those protesting peacefully were well within their rights. I hear all the time here that the federal government should stay out of states buisness. How is this any different.

I don't quote my own posts much, but in this case I quoted it based on the previous posts and not the actual news.

In any case... I changed my mind, if they were outsiders and came in wearing masks, then that is a cowardice act by a group of vandals and looters.

I no longer think that their funds should be cut over it.

I'm thinking their insurance should probably cover it.