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"More than 40 years ago in 1969, protests erupted — and soon turned into riots — over city plans to turn a vacant lot near campus into a parking lot.
...more than 3,000 students began protesting on campus...
The rally, which drew 3,000 people, soon turned into a riot, as the crowd moved down Telegraph (Ave.) towards the park. That day, known as Bloody Thursday, three students suffered punctured lungs, another a shattered leg, 13 people were hospitalized with shotgun wounds, and one police officer was stabbed. James Rector, who was watching the riot from a rooftop, was shot by police gunfire; he died four days later.
Ronald Reagan, who was governor of California from 1967 to 1975, responded to the riots with force, according to the “Resource.” He declared a state of emergency and sent in 2,200 National Guard troops to “use whatever methods they choose” to restore order.
Over the next several days, police and troops arrested nearly 1,000 people, including 200 for felonies, while 500 were booked at the local jail.
Later at a press conference, when Reagan was questioned about his response to the riot and why he didn’t negotiate with the rioters instead, Reagan said, “What is there to negotiate?”
“All of it began the first time some of you who know better…let young people think that they had the right to choose the laws they would obey as long as they were doing it in the name of social protest,” he said.
Reagan’s response to unrest at UC Berkeley was dramatically different than the response on Wednesday, which left administration officials bowing to protesters by canceling Yiannopoulos’s event."
These violent snowflakes do NOT have the right to CHOOSE the laws they will or will NOT obey. EX-President Barak Obama must bear a lion's share of the blame for this WRONG belief today, as within days of assuming the role of President in 2008 he declared he would NOT enforce the Defense of Marriage Law because HE did not agree with it. Like the protestors at Berkeley, Barak Obama did NOT have the right to CHOOSE which laws he WOULD obey / enforce and which ones he would NOT...but he did anyway.
The next time one of these violent protests begin - violence, destruction f property, assaults, looting, etc - a 'State of Emergency' should be declared, the National Guard should be called in QUICKLY, and they should be ordered to use any and all methods they choose to shut it down immediately - tear gas, rubber bullets, shotgun bean bags, Tasers, water cannons...a lot of handcuffs and a lot of transportation to take them to jail!
ENOUGH of this cr@p!
See how Ronald Reagan shut down violent UC Berkeley protesters in 1969 when he was Calif. governor
...more than 3,000 students began protesting on campus...
The rally, which drew 3,000 people, soon turned into a riot, as the crowd moved down Telegraph (Ave.) towards the park. That day, known as Bloody Thursday, three students suffered punctured lungs, another a shattered leg, 13 people were hospitalized with shotgun wounds, and one police officer was stabbed. James Rector, who was watching the riot from a rooftop, was shot by police gunfire; he died four days later.
Ronald Reagan, who was governor of California from 1967 to 1975, responded to the riots with force, according to the “Resource.” He declared a state of emergency and sent in 2,200 National Guard troops to “use whatever methods they choose” to restore order.
Over the next several days, police and troops arrested nearly 1,000 people, including 200 for felonies, while 500 were booked at the local jail.
Later at a press conference, when Reagan was questioned about his response to the riot and why he didn’t negotiate with the rioters instead, Reagan said, “What is there to negotiate?”
“All of it began the first time some of you who know better…let young people think that they had the right to choose the laws they would obey as long as they were doing it in the name of social protest,” he said.
Reagan’s response to unrest at UC Berkeley was dramatically different than the response on Wednesday, which left administration officials bowing to protesters by canceling Yiannopoulos’s event."
These violent snowflakes do NOT have the right to CHOOSE the laws they will or will NOT obey. EX-President Barak Obama must bear a lion's share of the blame for this WRONG belief today, as within days of assuming the role of President in 2008 he declared he would NOT enforce the Defense of Marriage Law because HE did not agree with it. Like the protestors at Berkeley, Barak Obama did NOT have the right to CHOOSE which laws he WOULD obey / enforce and which ones he would NOT...but he did anyway.
The next time one of these violent protests begin - violence, destruction f property, assaults, looting, etc - a 'State of Emergency' should be declared, the National Guard should be called in QUICKLY, and they should be ordered to use any and all methods they choose to shut it down immediately - tear gas, rubber bullets, shotgun bean bags, Tasers, water cannons...a lot of handcuffs and a lot of transportation to take them to jail!
ENOUGH of this cr@p!
See how Ronald Reagan shut down violent UC Berkeley protesters in 1969 when he was Calif. governor
