PROTESTS AT UC BERKELEY ERUPTED IN VIOLENCE AFTER SOME
MAST INDIVIDUALS THROUGH WHAT APPEARED TO BE FIREWORKS AND
STARTED A FIRE ON CAMPUS.
WHAT WERE THE PROTESTS ABOUT?
THEY
WAS A PROFESSIONAL TROLL SCHEDULED TO SPEAK ON CAMPUS.
I
HAVE A POLICY OF NOT NAMING THIS
INDIVIDUAL BECAUSE HE LITERALLY SAYS THINGS TO BE PROVOCATIVE
AND GET ATTENTION AND I DON'T
THINK HE IS WORTH THE ENERGY.
HE PURPOSELY GOES TO VERY LIBERAL
COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND SAYS HE'S GOING TO GIVE A SPEECH AND
USUALLY IT LEADS TO PROTESTS.
IT FEEDS INTO HIS ARGUMENT THAT
LIBERALS ARE AGAINST FREE
SPEECH.
THIS IS SOMEONE WHO HAS SAID TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT
PRETTY MUCH EVERY GROUP
IMAGINABLE.
TWITTER PERMANENTLY BANNED HIM.
HE DIRECTED A BUNCH
OF HARASSMENT TOWARD LESLIE
JONES.
THE UNIVERSITY SAID THIS.
WE DO HAVE VIDEO OF THIS.
THAT
IS A STATEMENT FROM OFFICIALS AT
UC BERKELEY, THAT IS NOT FROM A WITNESS OR SOMEONE IN THIS NEWS
ORGANIZATION.
AGAIN, MASKED AGITATORS, THAT WAS THEIR STATEMENT.
>> LET ME JUMP AHEAD AND SAY WE THINK THE REST OF THE MEDIA IS
COVERING THE STORY WRONG.
EVERY HEADLINE IS PROTESTERS AT
BERKELEY RIOT AND THROW MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, TECH POLICE, SMASHED
GLASS.
ACCORDING TO BERKELEY THERE WERE ALREADY PROTESTERS
THAT HAD BEEN THERE FOR HOURS.
EVEN PEACEFUL PROTESTERS I
DISAGREE WITH, DON'T PROTEST THIS NO-NAME PERSON.
I KNOW IT
IS MADDENING THAT IDIOT COLLEGE REPUBLICANS PAY HIM A LOT OF
MONEY TO COME, THAT IS ANOTHER
PART OF IT.
IF YOU DON'T GO TO PROTESTS, SEVEN PEOPLE WILL SHOW
UP.
HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY REAL FANS.
THERE ARE SEVEN TROLLS IN
THE COUNTRY WHO LIKE HIM.
HE LOVES IT, SO STOP PROTESTING
HIM.
LET HIM ENJOY THE SOUND OF SILENCE.
>> I COMPLETELY AGREE.
I AM A FAN OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM.
THE
STUDENTS WHAT THEIR VOICES HEARD
AND WANT TO BE CLEAR.
BY THE WAY IDEOLOGY IS ONE THING, RHETORIC
IS ANOTHER.
I WILL GIVE YOU EXAMPLES OF WHAT HE HAS SAID IN
THE PAST.
HE IS LITERALLY A PROFESSIONAL TROLL.
HE WANTS TO
GET A RISE OUT OF PEOPLE.
I CAN'T EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH,
WHEN YOU GO OUT THERE AND
PROTEST HIM ñ THAT CREATES AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE AGITATORS CAN
GET INVOLVED AND SMEAR ALL OF
YOU.
AND ALSO PLAYS INTO HIS NARRATIVE THAT EVEN THE
PRESIDENT IS NOW THREATENING TO CUT FUNDING FROM THE SCHOOLS
BECAUSE THEY ARE CLAIMING THE SCHOOLS ARE NOT FOR FREE SPEECH.
BE SMART ABOUT THE WAY YOU REACT
TO THESE PEOPLE.
THEY WANT A REACTION, DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.
>>HE IS DYING TO BE A VICTIM.
EVERYTHING IS PROJECTING.
HE IS
THE SPECIALIST SNOWFLAKE OF THEM ALL.
DON'T FEED INTO IT.
WE KNOW
THERE WAS A PEACEFUL PROTEST THERE AND THESE MASKED AGITATORS
CAME IN THAT WERE NOT PART OF THE PROTEST THAT WAS THERE FOR
HOURS.
YOU THINK BERKELEY STUDENTS PUT ON MASKS AND PLAN
THIS OUT AND CAME IN?
NOBODY KNOWS WHO THOSE MASKS AGITATORS
ARE.
IF YOU ARE SAYING THEY ARE BERKELEY STUDENTS, YOU KNOW THAT
AT ALL AND EVERYONE IN THE MEDIA THAT SAID THAT SHOULD
IMMEDIATELY RETRACT IT.
I HAVE A DECENT GAS AND WHO THEY ARE, BUT WE DON'T KNOW EITHER.
>> LET ME GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION ON THE SPECULATIVE
REPORTS REGARDING WHO THESE
PEOPLE ARE.
THERE ARE PEOPLE ON THE LEFT WHO HAVE A MILITANT
STYLE OF PROTESTING PEOPLE.
IF IT'S PROVEN THESE INDIVIDUALS
ARE PART OF THESE GROUPS, VIOLENCE IS UNACCEPTABLE UNDER
ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.
TO PEOPLE ON THE LEFT OR RIGHT, UNACCEPTABLE.
THERE ARE SOME REPORTS THAT
THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE THESE MILITANT LEFTISTS WHO LIKE TO
USE VIOLENCE TO GET THEIR POINT
ACROSS.
APPARENTLY THEY ARE FROM A GROUP CALLED ANTIFA.
THEY DO
BELIEVE THAT UNDER ANY AND ALL MEANS NECESSARY YOUTH TO SHOW
YOUR OPPOSITION AND RESISTANCE TO RIGHT WING OR RIGHT
SUPREMACIST IDEAS.
NO, YOU ACTUALLY HURT THE CAUSE WHEN YOU
USE VIOLENCE TO GET YOUR POINT
ACROSS.
IF IT IS PROVEN, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
I DON'T
CARE ABOUT HOW YOU THINK VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN
SHOW YOUR OPPOSITION.
YOU ARE
CAUSING MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
PLEASE DON'T DO THAT.
IT IS SO
STUPID.
>> IF THEY ARE LEFT-WINGERS, A TRUE PROGRESSIVE DOESN'T DO
THIS.
IF YOU EVER SEE THIS, STAND AWAY FROM THEM AND POINT
THEM TO AUTHORITIES.
THEY ARE
SMEARING YOU.
THERE ARE THE RIGHT WING'S BEST FRIEND.
BECAUSE IN THE RIGHT WING SAYS YOU SEE THAT?
THEY CAUSE
VIOLENCE.
MEANWHILE THIS GUY WHO IS SPEAKING IS LIKE I AM A FIRST
AMENDMENT ACTIVIST.
THE MINUTE YOU DO VIOLENCE, IT IS SO
MONUMENTALLY DUMB.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL ANARCHISTS ARE.
NO
RULES NO LAWS?
THAT IS NOT LEFT OR RIGHT, THAT IS JUST OFF THE
SPECTRUM.
COULD THE RIGHT WING COME IN MASKED?
COULD IT BE
4CHAN GUYS?
>> YOU GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW
PROBLEMATIC ALL OF THIS IS.
IF
IT WAS A CLEVER STRATEGY BY THE RIGHT, CONGRATULATIONS IT IS
WORKING.
DON'T PLAY INTO IT.
BUT EVEN IF IT IS NOT, AND YOU HAVE
PEOPLE ON THE LEFT USING FORMS
OF VIOLENCE TO PROTEST, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM AND ARE
CAUSING MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
DONALD TRUMP ACTUALLY TWEETED
ABOUT THIS AND THREATENED TO
PULL FEDERAL FUNDING FROM UC BERKELEY.
HERE IS WHAT HE SAID.
THE PERSON WHO HAD HIS SPEECH CANCELED BECAUSE OF THESE
PROTESTS SAID THE FOLLOWING.
RIGHT NOW BERKELEY RECEIVED 55%
OF THEIR FUNDING FROM THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IF THEY SNATCH THAT FUNDING AWAY FROM
THE SCHOOL, WHAT IS THAT GOING
TO DO?
PUT AN END TO THE TYPE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT IS
GOING ON TO PROVE THINGS THAT CONSERVATIVES DON'T LIKE LIKE
MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE.
OF COURSE THEY DON'T LIKE THAT.
THEY HAVE BEEN ASSAULTING AND DISMANTLING EDUCATION AS MUCH AS
THEY CAN.
IF YOU USE VIOLENCE TO PROTEST HIM, YOU ARE GOING TO
FEED INTO THEIR CAUSE.
DON'T FUCKING DO IT, IT IS STUPID.
LET
THIS GUY COME ON CAMPUS AND GIVE WHATEVER SPEECH HE WANTS, DON'T
SHOW UP.
IN FACT, YOU SHOULD HAVE A LIBERAL SPEAKER OR
ANOTHER LIBERAL SPEAKER WHO CAN ADD SOMETHING TO THE
CONVERSATION.
HOST THEM IN A DIFFERENT VENUE ON CAMPUS AND
LET THE STUDENTS DECIDE WHERE THEY GO AND WHO THEY LISTEN TO.
>> ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
THERE WAS A REPORTER WITH HIM WHEN HE HE
WAS KICKED OFF OF TWITTER.
HE SHED CROCODILE TEARS.
BUT TO THE
REPORTER HE SAID I AM SO
EXCITED.
>> I HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT THIS ON THE SHOW, I WANT TO MAKE
MYSELF A VICTIM BUT MY COMMENTS ON DONALD TRUMP GOT ME IN
TROUBLE.
STUDENT BODY AT A UNIVERSITY IN COLORADO NOMINATED
ME TO COME SPEAK AT THEIR SCHOOL.
AS THE EVENT IS BEING
PUT TOGETHER I GET A NOTICE FROM THE THIRD PARTY THAT IS HIRED TO
PUT THE EVENT TOGETHER AND THEY TELL ME THE SCHOOL BOARD VOTED
AGAINST HAVING YOU COME TO SPEAK ON CAMPUS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT
LIKE WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP.
I'M NOT GOING TO GO AROUND THROWING FECES AT THE WALL AND
CALLING FOR A CUT THE FUNDING BECAUSE THIS CONSERVATIVE
SCHOOL BOARD DECIDED AGAINST HAVING ME THERE.
>>MAYBE WE SHOULD, ANA?
ALL CONSERVATIVES EVER DO IS CRY AND
CRY.
THEN THEY GET THEIR WAY.
AND THEN HE MAKES A TON OF MONEY
FROM THAT.
AND THEN IDIOTS AT SIMON & SCHUSTER GIVE THEM
A TON OF MONEY TO WRITE BOOKS.
MEANWHILE ONE PROGRESSES SAY
THINGS THAT REPRESENT 60% OF THE COUNTRY, SOME CONSERVATIVE
DOUCHE BAGS ON A BOARD SOMEWHERE
SAY NO NO NO, WE CANNOT GIVE ANY FUNDS TO PROGRESSIVES.
MAYBE WE
SHOULD GO ON THESE CAMPUSES AND CAUSE A GIANT FUCKING STIR.
THE
PROBLEM IS WE WON'T HAVE ANY
PROTESTERS BECAUSE THERE ARE THREE CONSERVATIVES PER CAMPUS
BECAUSE THEY ARE NONEXISTENT.
ALL THEY CAN DO IS PUT ON STUPID
LITTLE MASKS AND TROLL AWAY.
THE DISPROPORTIONATE ATTENTION IT
GETS IS MADDENING.
NOW THEY HAVE THE KING TROLL IN THE WHITE
HOUSE, DONALD J TROLL.
NOW THEY ARE ALL TROLLING TOGETHER WITH
AN OBJECTIVE OF DESTROYING
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
THE REST OF THE MEDIA HELPS THEM
TREMENDOUSLY BY EVERY HEADLINE BEING OUT THERE, " BERKELEY
STUDENTS RIOTING" WITHOUT ANY CONTEXT AT ALL.