Columbia University has fallen

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Chanting the Hamas genocidal chant of 'from the river to the sea ... ' is NOT anti-war.
It's the exact opposite.
It's a call to war to genocide the Jews.  
Nothing peaceful about it.

Read elsewhere and Ill try and find it and post  links, but essentially it said in 20-25 years from now, the whole country if not a huge part of the world will look back and ask "What in the hell were they thinking?" LOL if not earlier

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An interesting article about the protests and the police response, Im not sure I agree with the Reuters assumption here. Dont tell me Reuters has an agenda and can't just report and analyze with out so much spin. 

Damn sure know, whatever the response needs to be on a case-by-case basis. What "worked" at Columbia might not go over as well at our colleges and universities in other regions. 

But we can gather some excellent educated conclusions just by the numbers 2600+ demonstrators arrested at more than 100 protests affirms these are extremely small protests relative to the 60s and 70s, and definitely compared to the Floyd/BLM protests.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-...024-05-10/

 
Since the first mass arrests at Columbia on April 18, at least 2,600 demonstrators have been detained at more than 100 protests in 39 states and Washington, D.C., according to The Appeal, opens new tab, a nonprofit news organization. The charges are mainly trespassing, with some for assault of a police officer. New York has also accused suspects of criminal mischief and burglary.
Some prosecutors are dismissing cases. After police on horseback and clad in riot gear intervened at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25, Travis County prosecutors dropped charges against 57 people, citing a lack of probable cause.
Criminologists say many mass arrest cases are dismissed because police apply broad, general statements, sometimes in identical language, to large numbers of suspects. Such arrests are also prone to sweeping up bystanders or people charged with minor offenses such as trespassing.