If you follow news on conservative blogs, you’ve probably read about antisemitic riots roiling liberal campuses like Columbia, where Jewish students have been assaulted or threatened by Hamas supporters who loudly proclaim their desire to “destroy Zionists” throughout the world.
The usual gang of idiots tried that at the University of Texas and quickly found out that Texas isn’t New York.
More than 20 people have been arrested, including a FOX 7 Austin photographer, by law enforcement on the University of Texas at Austin campus Wednesday.
UT Police have issued a dispersal order directing everyone to leave the South Mall area immediately.
Hundreds of students walked out of class Wednesday to rally for Palestine and attempt to occupy the South Lawn on campus.
The students gathered on the South Lawn and set up tents while chanting “Free Free Palestine” and other slogans, including ones aimed at the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and even Austin police.
DPS said in a release on social media that it responded to the campus at the request of the University and at the direction of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “in order to prevent any unlawful assembly and to support UT Police in maintaining the peace by arresting anyone engaging in any sort of criminal activity, including criminal trespass.”
UTPD is warning people to avoid the area in the 2200 block of Speedway for “police activity”. This area is between the South Lawn and the Gregory Gymnasium where the march began.
Abbot went further and suggested that antisemitic protestors be expelled.
On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Greg Abbott vowed that the arrests would continue until the crowd dispersed.
“These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled,” said Abbott.
State Sen. Brandon Creighton (R–Conroe), who chairs the Senate Education Committee, noted in light of the protests nationwide that the First Amendment does not protect violence or harassment.
“Let’s be real: if campuses witnessed protests with anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Asian, or anti-Hispanic slogans, the backlash would be fierce and immediate. Yet, when protests challenge Israel’s existence, they’re often waved off as acceptable political speech. It’s an unacceptable double standard, one that’s been fueled significantly by DEI programs,” he wrote in a post on X.
Creighton was the author of the state’s ban on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and departments on college campuses that went into effect earlier this year.
“And let’s not forget what Israel is fighting against —Hamas, a known terrorist organization, carried out the Oct. 7th attack—the worst attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. This isn’t about politics; it’s about recognizing and condemning terrorism and violence,” Creighton added.
The first amendment affords these morons the right to protest for their incredibly stupid causes. However, the right to protest is not the right to break the law, and clearly leftwing campuses across America have been letting their radical darlings break laws at will. Eugene Volokh has additional information on what is and isn’t lawful protest and both public and private universities. “There is no First Amendment right to camp out in any university, public or private. Indeed, there is no First Amendment right to camp out even in public parks (see Clark v. CCNV (1984)), and the government’s power to limit the use of property used for a public university is even greater than its power as to parks (Widmar v. Vincent (1981)).” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Disruptive protests that break the law are not constitutionally protected. Pro-Hamas protestors may get away with that sort of thing in deep blue cities and states, but that sort of thing doesn’t fly in Texas.
Tags: anti-semitism, Austin, Brandon Creighton, Crime, Eugene Volokh, First Amendment, Greg Abbott, Israel-Hamas War, Jihad, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Texas DPS, University of Texas
A day is coming when many states, especially like Texas, are going to be left standing alone against this madness. These locusts are already firmly in control of several states, of which we’re all familiar. This is just for openers. Where do you think they’ll be coming when they crash their current places of residence with no survivors?
And like clockwork, the Travis County DA and a compliant Dem district judge dismissed all the charges against those arrested.
OK UT Pres. Jay Hartzell . . . let’s see if you are, once again, all hat and no cattle. Expel those who were arrested and/or who are camping on the UT campus right now. If you don’t, then once again you’re just posing.
The Hamasholes are just warming up for the Democratic Convention in Chicago on the 19th of August. Then they will be partying like its 1968.
“[T]hey will be partying like its 1968.”
I well remember the 1968 Democrat Convention/Police Riot in Chicago. It seems as though everything old is new again.
It almost seems contrived, what they are doing.
Note the Biden admin’s floating of this capital gains tax on “unrealized profit”? It’s like they legit want to lose.
Same with this. What happened with the Chicago convention riots of ’68, again? Do these idjits not read history? How do they think the rioting is going to play, out in Peoria and the rest of the country?
You watch what is going on, it seems like a perverse sort of Kabuki theater. Almost as if they’re willfully trying to throw the election, or something…
And, on the other hand, they’re taking steps to make it almost inevitable that they declare martial law or “emergency” and stop everything. Biden’s been talking “climate emergency”, and all the powers that go with that declaration. How the hell do they think that’s going to work out? Oh, yeah… Everything gets locked down, rationed… Why? Because they say so. Think people will stand for that?
It’s like they’re consciously trying to push things so far that they wind up breaking everything. With malice aforethought…
I’m going to be pleasantly surprised if we get to November and actually have an election. Increasingly, it sure looks like they’re deliberately setting the stage for it not to happen. Consider the optics to the majority of Americans if the Biden Krime Krewe declares martial law on the back of the fact that their own people can’t control what they set in motion… Oh, look… Democrats and their clients rioting in a Democrat city, and that’s the basis for a Democrat administration to declare martial law and stop the election?
Can you say “Civil War”? I sure can… These idjits are playing with fire.
Scuttlebutt is, they intend for Trump to win, and then they intend for some very big things to break come January. I don’t think all-out war, but things like currency shenanigans, stock-market crash, George Floyd style riots, etc.
Probably no coincidence they have their own army of Chinese citizens spread throughout the country, connected via special phone apps – on phones given out by D.C. itself. Ditto an even bigger cadre of global poor also spread throughout the country with the same apps on the same Democrat-provided phones.
Shoot, look around. So many aspects of civic life are near the breaking point already. If not past it.
It’s alleged that half of the 50 arrestees at it are Soros-paid professional agitators:
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1783803152573042828?t=tQ1dzAI4CYcyctezaBv7-A&s=19
“It’s alleged that half of the 50 arrestees at it are Soros-paid professional agitators”
Everyone is always praying someone turns George’s head into a canoe. Not me. He’s virtually on death’s door. Now his son…preferably while George is still alive, is another matter…
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