Testing the motives and beliefs of the campus protesters: Yes, they are violent terrorists, and everything is upside-down

 Why has my writing shifted so much to college campuses, and jihadist protests?  I am a Jewish college professor.  I have spent years reading the underlying ideologies, and this is the world in which I live.  I would say that I have seen this coming, but this is so much worse than anything I foresaw.  Anyway, for this morning, we have yet another demonstration from Ami Horowitz.  This time, he visits the City College of New York and their encampment of totally peaceful protests, where the protesters totally non-violently protest purely because they care so much for the plight of those totally non-violent, purely victimized and totally innocent Palestinian people.  Absolute humanitarians, these people.  Mensches, one might say, but then they'd kill you for being a Jew after they recognize the Hebrew.  Anyway, Horowitz did another simple thing.  He visited CUNY, and walked up to the totally peaceful, non-violent encampment with an American flag.  They assaulted him-- felony assault-- threw him off the stairs, shoved him down the street, and the cops took him away.  Because we live in clown world, where the terrorists can assault a guy merely for having an American flag, and the cops take away the guy with the American flag who just got assaulted.  Watch.

Yeah, so that happened.  My favorite thing about this clip is that as Ami says, he indicates nothing about Israel, Judaism, nor anything.  They hate America.

So leave.  Once upon a time, there was a saying.  Love it or leave it.  Unlike the Soviet Union, North Korea, East Germany (Mr. Gorbachev...) or other dictatorships, we don't lock you in.  People are literally risking their lives trying to get in.  I want them, not you.  They work hard, they strive for the American dream.  Get out, and give your place to them.  Give your place to the Central American refugees who will work their asses off raising families, and striving and contributing to the positive culture, a true multi-culture while you do nothing.  Bu-bye.

My suggestion about where these people should be is Guantanamo, that being the optimal place for terrorists.  When you provide active support for terrorism, and use violence in support of terrorism-- which you just saw-- you should be taken away, not by the cops, but by the Feds, and sent to Guantanamo.  I opposed waterboarding and all of the enhanced interrogation techniques torture policies of that administration on moral as well as practical grounds.  Torture is morally wrong, period.  However, this is not merely assault.  This is terrorism.  Using violence to promote fear in pursuit of a political goal-- indeed, against the United States of America-- is terrorism.  That is the definition of terrorism.  Maybe I need a definition-of-the-day on that.

Now, ask yourselves.  Is there something unique about CUNY?  Also, UCLA, and Brown, and Columbia, and Pomona and Northwestern and... do I have to list literally every institution that is getting absolutely scary?  Ami didn't go to every campus with the American flag test.  I would recommend that you not try this on any campus near you.  Be safe.  Do not provoke these people.  "Provoke," being a loaded word, but the point is that they are violent and dangerous.  They are not peace protesters.  They are terrorists.  Ask yourself, what would it take to get one of them to assault you?  If the answer is, "seeing an American flag," you have important information about who and what they are, and what they really want.

I firmly believe in the constitutional right to burn an American flag.  First amendment, baby!  Please follow all fire safety guidelines.  Maybe a BBQ pit, although whatever plastic is in the flag might do damage to the unit.  I will not be burning an American flag in mine.  I like my Kamado, if anyone wants a recommendation.  Regardless, I have no intention of burning any American flags.  I grew up, but if that's what you want to do, maybe learn what the first amendment actually means, and learn to appreciate the Enlightenment, classical liberalism, and all that.  You know, America.

Did that video look like free speech, or felony assault to you?  And if it is felony assault, because they hate America, hate the American flag, seek to take down America, in support of jihadist terrorism, there's something else happening.

And unless Horowitz just happened to stumble onto the one campus in the country where the American flag was particularly triggering to a bunch of "protesters," there is something bigger.

There is something bigger.

You just saw a bigger demonstration of the motives.

Your next reading assignment: Benedict Beckeld, Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations.  I might make a few other observations about the video itself, and some specifics, but I'll refrain.  Note them if you choose.  Read the book, though.