UC-Berkeley Claims It’s Willing to Cooperate With Federal Investigation of Violence at TPUSA Event
“There is no place at UC Berkeley for attempts to use violence or intimidation to prevent lawful expression or chill free speech.”
Higher education may have reached another turning point. As we have documented over the last few days, an event for Turning Point USA at UC-Berkeley was met with a violent mob. These were not ‘protesters and demonstrators’ as the media loves to call them.
These were people who were there to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk, keep the TPUSA event from happening, and hurt the people who showed up for the event.
The DOJ has already launched an investigation, and Berkeley has signaled its willingness to cooperate. This investigation absolutely needs to happen. Enough is enough.
This is the statement UC-Berkeley released to ABC 7 in San Francisco:
UC Berkeley condemns all violence and will hold accountable anyone who violates the law or campus regulations. The University is firmly committed to an open and robust marketplace of ideas and to maintaining a campus where people of all beliefs and perspectives can feel safe and respected.
There is no place at UC Berkeley for attempts to use violence or intimidation to prevent lawful expression or chill free speech. The University is conducting a full investigation and intends to fully cooperate with and assist any federal investigations and the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force to identify the outside agitators responsible for attempting to disrupt last night’s TPUSA event.
UC Berkeley will take all appropriate steps to safeguard the right of every member of our community to speak and assemble freely.
Thanks to the dedication and cooperation of numerous University, state, and local police officers, the efforts to prevent last night’s event did not succeed.
Instead, the TPUSA event proceeded safely and without interruption, with more than 900 participants in attendance. Several arrests were made in connection with the event by both city and university police. UC Berkeley appreciates and commends the officers and staff who helped preserve both public safety and freedom of speech on our campus. The University remains steadfast in its commitment to uphold open dialogue, respect, and the rule of law.
Empty, meaningless, words.
This violence from the left on college campuses has been going on for years because there have never been any real consequences. Charlie Kirk was shot through the throat on TV in front of his wife and children, and still nothing changed.
The violence and intimidation go in only one direction.
Point to one instance of leftists on a college campus being terrorized by conservatives. You can’t, because there are none.
The Trump administration should make an example of UC-Berkeley. Who cares if the school even ceases to exist? What will we lose? Opportunities for leftists to terrorize people peacefully exercising their constitutional rights?
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“Who cares if the school even ceases to exist?”
Make it so, Number One.
Not really off topic, but slightly detouring: Rod Dreher has a very disturbing report on the spread of fascism among young people on the right.
much safer than attacking those that will reply with violence>>blmplo
Thanks. Very interesting article. IMO I’d suggest the real issue is that a great many people, particularly Gen X and younger cohorts, are very tired being lied to by the establishment or punished by the establishment for ‘noticing things’. Many of those are basically done with the establishment pearl clutching scolds, Karens and Boomer busybodies who believe they are entitled to serve as gatekeepers. Absolutely done with those who declare it socially taboo to state facts or make a good faith argument from their analysis of those facts. Perhaps the conclusions they draw from the facts are wrong but don’t undermine your own credibility across the board by telling them the plain, observable facts are wrong These sorts of ‘you can’t say that or raise X issue’ gate keeping attempts undermine everything else such a person may argue. However well intended it comes across as nothing more than ‘straight white’ male bashing but instead of it coming from Jeremiah White or Al Sharpton it is coming from boomer establishment figures.
TL/DR – Let free debate and discussion occur. Don’t rush to gate keep or declare subjects off limits. Boomers gotta stop leading with ‘bootstrap’ economic arguments. Average age of 1st Home purchase is now 40. Stop telling people who recognize they’ve been lied to by the largely boomer establishment on a great many things that they shouldn’t believe what their eyes are showing them. Respect their viewpoint and make good faith attempts to concede they have valid points where raised instead of treating every point as death match. Then gently and calmly try to convince them they are drawing the wrong conclusions from the facts. Vinegar, honey, flies.
What do you have against the elderly (which is what most baby boomers now are)? Your ageism has nothing to do with the issue. In fact, most parents of the young adults in question are Gen X.
Your post makes my point about the tendency to pearl clutch and gate keep by attempts to invoke SIGN language tactics of accusations to stifle debate. (Shame, Insults, Guilt, Need to be right) You refuse to engage in good faith discussion instead leading off with a sustained attack of ists, ism, phobes;
‘What do you have against the elderly?’ Followed by an accusation of ageism. No evidence provided to support those attacks of course just assertions.
Pointing out that different generations have tendencies in behaviors, worldview shaped by their comments experiences isn’t an attack. Boomers are a generational cohort with their own subculture and one is quite cable of disliking many of the cultural markers shared and often expressed by Boomers which have zero to do with their chronological age.
No, it’s entirely off topic. The guy is a crank that lives in Hungary. What does he know
He knows a lot more than you do. Since when was he a crank? And what’s wrong with living in Hungary?
Well, there’s being hungry all the time. That must suck.
The wine (tokaj) is great, and by the way, it was a Hungarian (Haraszthy) along with an Italian (Mondavi) who was responsible for inventing the California wine industry.
Being hungry all the time is why nagyanyas were created. With nagyanya and dedanya around you won’t ever be hungry for long.
I read this yesterday. Insightful and nuanced. This should be assigned reading for everyone conservative.
Why would anyone be surprised? Young people are very, very good at sniffing out BS. And BS is exactly what they’ve been spoon-fed throughout their education. The multi-culti, LGBT+, grievance industry dominated process that we’ve implemented in education, led by Karens, with stifling books and educational materials, and a near-total lack of inquiry —
— all has led young people to decide, “this is BS.”
And they haven’t been given the alternative that you, Milhouse, and I would like them to have. They aren’t being given the ideas of liberal inquiry, first principles, great books, intellectual rigor, and dissent.
Which leaves ‘fascism’ as the alternative, the forbidden fruit.
Dreher is wise enough to recognize the difference between the ‘fascism’ bogey-man put forward by the Left with the real thing, and it’s the real thing that is the issue.
We’re failing the young people today, and this is the result.
What strikes me about the article is that Groyperism (with which I was not familiar) appears to be a Leftist infiltration into conservatism. Note the nihilism. Among conservatives, this appears to be unique to Groypers. Has there ever been a conservative movement that sought destruction as its objective? This is, to me, clearly a mark of the Left. Leopards do not change their spots, so I think it possible that Groyperism’s leaders are Leftist infiltrators, trying to do to conservatism what they did to the Libertarian party (which is today thoroughly infested with Leftist thought). The Left has infiltrated all other institutions, why not infiltrate conservatism?
I think the author hit some sour notes. One being his comparison of Hollywood with the auto industry. Today’s Hollywood (the one that draws conservative ire) is trying to reshape American thought, telling us what and how to think, something the auto industry (with all their Corvairs and Pintos) has never tried to do (except trying to convince us to buy their cars).
“Has there ever been a conservative movement that sought destruction as its objective?”
It’s an impossible example of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Conservatism means saving things. Destruction means not saving them. A conservative who seeks destruction is thereby no longer a “conservative.”
Though one would have hoped that the conservative movement/establishment would have actually tried to conserve the basic premise of the ‘American Dream’; that each generation would be a bit better off than their Parents at the same age.
The problem is that they conservative movement/establishment folks failed. Not just that but they willingly assisted in undoing the economic structure that permitted it to be true; off shore manufacturing, globalization, financialization of the economy, mass immigration which led to the destruction of the broad US middle-class, the 70% between the top 15% and bottom 15%.
I am not a ‘conservative’ I am a center/right populist and hope like hell I don’t have to become nihilist to get the political and economic reforms needed to return the economic and social health of the broad US middle-class to being viewed as the highest priority.
“Conservative” and “liberal”, like “left” and “right”, change meanings over time and place. Much of what we now call conservative was called liberal 200 years ago. Edmund Burke was no Tory; he was what was known in his day as a “New Whig”.
It’s been about 25 years since I made the scariest prediction of my life. For whatever reason, I seem to have inherited from my late father the ability to make good long-term big-picture calls, and this one was a doozy. It was so grim that I only told three or four people, and hoped I’d be wrong. But no, I was right, and I have seen it coming true.
“The United States will go the way of Argentina. The Republicans will become crypto-facist caudillos, and the Democrats will become anarcho-syndicalist Peronistas.”
This has been happening gradually, but now it’s speeding up.
I’m a radical, far left wing democrat and I am appalled, appalled I say by schmuck schumer and the democrats dragging the party to total fascism.
He wanted to starve babies instead of aborting them. Why, it costs way more of the tax dollars we need to steal for illegal alien health insurance so we get them to illegally vote us back into absolute power.
The party needs a change in leadership who won’t cave to life affirming care.conservatives.
Thanks, great article. The thing that I don’t understand is why these people like Fuentes are referred to as right, MAGA, even conservative – just because they may claim to be? Republican sure, it’s a private business that accepts any legal donations. It seems a conflict in ideas is being deliberately obfuscated.
There can be no spread of fascism, a leftist ideology, on the right.
Please go back to the Democrat fever swamps where you belong. Wallowing in the fecal filth that spews from your every attempt at communication.
Go back to Hell, you lying demon. Dreher knows what he’s talking about, and unlike you he’s no liar.
Please, Democrat, explain to us all how one embraces fascism, a leftist ideology, like yours, and remains on the right.
And you continue to lie your filthy face off. I don’t know why the moderators even tolerate you on this site. All you do is pollute and poison it.
Are we seeing a rehash of the rise of true fascism as a response to communism as in the 1920’s? Post WWI, the push by Moscow to instigate political change occurred not only in Germany but in the UK where there was fear of the loss of the monarchy and overthrow of British governance. The result of WWI and the rise of communism spurred the formation of the National Socialists. People didn’t want the disruption by the communists and were happy that someone fought them in the streets. As things polarize more… I can see what you are pointing to.
It sure looks that way. If Fuentes is turning young conservatives into copies of himself, they become dangerous people who aren’t conservatives.
Nick Fuentes is really drawing the college age kids. It’s the classic pendulum swing from the crazy left to the crazy right. Both extremes still blame everything on the Jews though.
That really is an insightful column. All the thoughts I had going into it are thoughts he explored.
“The institutions of our society, as they see it, have lied and lied and lied, and still lie. They still lie in many ways about race (e.g., refusing to be honest about black crime), they lied about Covid, they lied about males and females, and they forced the insanity of gender ideology on us all.”
This is what I think is the linchpin point. I wholly suspect the entire attraction of a Nick Fuentes is hearing him speak truths that every one of us KNOWS, but our political representatives — on the left OR on the right — never utter, much less give the priority hammering they deserve.
The problem, to channel X Files’ Deep Throat, is that great lies are best told sandwiched between two truths. Once you accept someone as a trustworthy truth-teller, you become suggestible to his less factually-based opinions as well.
The cleanest way to deflate groyperism would be for the MAGA movement to co-opt and thereby pre-empt the actual truths Fuentes has to offer, while leaving the unsavory opinions off the table. Take his rational action items away from him, and do something about some of them, and some of his followers will discover that maybe they don’t need to burn it all down after all. And if the left accuses MAGA of “turning groyper,” it’s totally worth the price to embrace the truth, defuse the resentment, and grow their own support
Yep. Don’t leave a void in discussion of uncomfortable issues and topics by use of gate keeping/pearl clutching to attack good faith efforts to ID potential issues and offer solutions. This is what is happening in Germany with their political establishment, cultural elite, media all refusing to address the obvious problems with immigration/lack of assimilation. The void created by their collective ‘you can’t say that or talk about that’ mindset was filled by the AfD. They are damn fortunate that moderating voices filled the void but if the German establishment succeeds in their bid to effectively outlaw the AfD the void won’t disappear it will be filled by something far less moderate and reasonable.
the jews dont keep to themselves like the amish…nor should they,,, so that fact and the fact that neither group is known to be violent or willing to be
invites the terrorists to attack
blaming the victims? not for the attacks but if they are unwilling to provide basic support in the physical sense then that opens them up to the inbreds who need to bully people
violence willllll stop violence
Of course they will “cooperate”. It’s in their financial interest. Student loans, grants, research money all flowing into their bank account. Question is will any changes be made to insure no more antifa thugs going after conservatives?
Oh, gosh, they’re WILLING to help? Very comforting.
“There is no place at UC Berkeley for attempts to use violence or intimidation to prevent lawful expression or chill free speech“*
*Not any more anyhow, since we’re scared to death that Trump will cut off our sweet, sweet federal funding.
“Several arrests were made in connection with the event by both city and university police.”
Still trying to associate the violence with the event rather than stating clearly the violence was due to people attempting to disrupt the event. I know the language is accurate, but it is still deceiving because more accurate language wasn’t used – and probably intentionally so.
TRANSLATION: Nothing will be done. “Berserkley” will continue to encourage violence against non-Communists while stonewalling, obstructing, and prevaricating.
“The DOJ has already launched an investigation, and Berkeley has signaled its willingness to cooperate”
“Don’t tase me, sista!”
Even better news today. The State Dept has finally designated Antifa a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization’. This gives much more leeway for all sorts of coordination between LEO and Intel agencies. Gives the ability to deny entry at the border to members of ‘Antifa’, to track financial transactions, follow the money of contributors and hold them accountable. Much bigger deal many will realize until the results roll in a few months down the line…assuming that the Admin actually uses the tools that come with the designation instead of relying on the headline/announcement to appease voters.
No, it hasn’t. It’s designated four groups that don’t have any presence in the USA. Members of those four groups will be denied visas, and it’s now a felony to give those four groups any material assistance, such as donations. But there’s no indication that anyone in the USA is giving them anything, so that’s probably not that relevant.
There is no such organization as “antifa”. It’s a movement, not an organization. For that matter, so was the Klan in its day. Each local group is its own thing, which may or may not qualify as an organization, but either way none of the ones here are foreign, so they can’t be designated.