A Dangerous Fa**ot in Bolder

[Zundfolge]

*Before the mods get all twitchy, Milo's tour is actually called "The Dangerous Faggot Tour", hence the title of this thread.

Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at CU Boulder today ... the BMW Bolsheviks, Trustafarians and other assorted fascist-anti-fascists are already there waiting to start trouble.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO6lWTlIbZ4


Could get interesting (kinda wish I could get away today and go see the fracas ... although you have to be a student to get in).

Anyway, it will be live-streamed here at 7pm:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBafIj-ay0

[cstone]

Thanks. On behalf of the twitchy MODS, we read and know the title of Mr Yiannopoulos' current talking tour.

I appreciate the information on his local stop. Lets see how Boulder handles the protests.

[roberth]

Milo is a strong 1st and 2nd amendment supporter - I wish him well.

[CS1983]

Everyone remember the movie PCU?

[Guylee]

They'll all protest and get violent and it will get shut down. The children at these schools have learned that if they throw a big enough tantrum the school will kank the whole thing because they're too scared of having a scene.

[Scanker19]

It's a shame these college kids are so against the LGBT community...

[Zundfolge]

I wonder if CU Boulder administration will pull one of these super big security fees at the 11th hour like they've done elsewhere.

[Scanker19]

Like this?
http://krqe.com/ap/unm-charges-student-group-3400-to-host-far-right-speaker/

[Skip]

Notice how the Left is starting to legitimize violence?

Yes there was violence before but they would never openly condone it. Even when the Weather Underground was bombing in 70s the Left never embraced or owned it.

Even membership in the Special People Hierarchy™ won't protect a person who falls outside the party.

[JohnnyEgo]

I had not ever heard of him. I guess Im out of the loop.
That's because you are over 30 and don't play a bunch of video games.
He's sort of like a millineal Morton Downy Jr.
I find both him and the people who get so worked up about him to be tiresome, but free speech isn't really free unless someone exercises it to the limits.

[Bailey Guns]

There was a shooting at his visit to WSU last week.

[cfortune]

There was a shooting at his visit to WSU last week.

Yeah. From what I understand, a protester was shot after attacking someone who was there in support of Milo. The shooter hadn't been charged when I was reading into it.

[Singlestack]

I was hoping to go to this, but my organization (Boulder County Amateur Radio Emergency Services) has enough people already signed up. We would be working for CUPD and providing live HD video to the incident commander and staff. We also work the CU Football home games. This one might have been pretty interesting.

Two years ago, me and my partner's camera was assigned to the student entrance at Folsom Field. In the 3rd quarter we got a call to move to one of the stadium tunnels as the PD was bringing out a miscreant. Sure enough, it was a pretty drunk young guy in a Broncos jersey. The cops were trying to administer a field sobriety test with simple exercises. The guy kept shoving the cop who was giving him instructions. Each time the cop said "please don't do that sir". On the 4th push the cop just stepped aside and took him to the ground, hard. At the time I was thinking the young guy had "the right stuff" to win a Darwin award some day. Maybe someone will, tonight?

[Ah Pook]

I had not ever heard of him. I guess I'm out of the loop.
Same here.

I did catch the last half of the YT feed. He made some interesting points but brought them back to the same political us/them (left/right). He has torn up a lot of their heroes, which needs to be done. I question the motives of anyone claiming to speak for me.

[Zundfolge]

He's going to be at UCCS down here in The Springs tonite.

[Guylee]

He's going to be at UCCS down here in The Springs tonite.

I saw his bus heading down I-25 today. It was interesting to see that huge F word rolling down the interstate for everyone to see.

[brutal]

I watched a good part of it but couldn't endure his forced laughter at his own jokes any more and found something else to do.

I've seen him before (online) with other like minded folks on a panel/stage and enjoyed their banter and jabs at the few SJW hecklers in the audience.

[GilpinGuy]

Morons on parade.

https://news.grabien.com/story-masked-protesters-starting-fires-tearing-down-fences-outside-1

[roberth]

I don't remember my team rioting when algore came to CO last year to encourage his fellow idiots to vote for that criminal harpy hrc. The left has never been one for law and order unless law and order happened to suit their end game.

[theGinsue]

Another example of the left using "free speech" (and violence) to shut down free speech they disagree with.



UC Berkeley cancels right-wing provocateur’s talk amid violent protest
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Protesters-storm-Milo-Yiannopoulos-event-at-UC-10901829.php#photo-12296704



A protest at UC Berkeley over a scheduled appearance by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos turned fiery and violent Wednesday night, prompting police to cancel the event and hustle the Breitbart News editor off campus.

But even after the event’s cancellation, hundreds of protesters spilled off campus into the city streets, where the violence continued as they confronted drivers, engaged in fights, smashed storefront windows and set fires.

Protesters decried President Trump’s policies as much as they did the visit by Yiannopoulos, a gay conservative who has been making the rounds at college campuses across the country with his “Dangerous Faggot” talks, specializing in remarks meant to insult, offend and disgust liberals who disagree with his ideas.

Milo speaks: ‘The Left is absolutely terrified of free speech’

The trouble began around 6 p.m., two hours before Yiannopoulos was to begin his speech inside the student union building on Sproul Plaza. Protesters outside the building began throwing fireworks and pulling down the metal barricades police set up to keep protesters from rushing inside. Windows were smashed and fires were set outside the building as masked protesters stormed it. Police quickly evacuated Yiannopoulos for his own safety.

Berkeley police said five people were injured and some people, including a man who said he had hoped to see Yiannopoulos speak, were seen with their faces bloodied. There were no arrests.
Police said protesters threw bricks and fireworks at police officers. University police locked down all buildings and told people inside them to shelter in place, and later fired pepper balls and paint balls into the crowd of protesters who defied orders to leave the area. Police called in support from nine of the 10 UC campuses and the Oakland Police Department and Alameda County sheriffs department.

This is what tolerance looks like at UC Berkeley,” Mike Wright (http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Mike+Wright%22) of Berkeley College Republicans (http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Berkeley+College+Republicans%22), the group that invited Yiannopoulos to the campus, said outside the student union building as smoke bombs went off around him.

As he spoke, someone threw a glass bottle of red paint at him. The bottle shattered and splattered paint on his clothing. “It’s sad,” he said.

On Berkeley’s city streets, protesters took their rage against construction sites and businesses, smashing windows at banks and stores. They also confronted motorists, and at one point a driver sped off with a protester on the car hood.

University officials had earlier rejected requests to cancel Yiannopoulos’ appearance. In a letter to the campus community last week, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks (http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Nicholas+Dirks%22) said, “The U.S. Constitution prohibits UC Berkeley, as a public institution, from banning expression based on its content or viewpoints, even when those viewpoints are hateful or discriminatory.”

Protesters argued that what Yiannopoulos specializes in is hate speech, and that it didn’t deserve to be protected.

“It’s not a question of free speech,” a protester said via megaphone, riling up the hundreds of protesters. “It’s about real human beings.”

Yiannopoulos’ appearances at some universities have resulted in violent confrontations between protesters and his supporters. Some private universities have barred him, and Twitter banned him in July for repeatedly breaking harassment and abuse policies.

Berkeley College Republicans said all 500 tickets had been sold for Yiannopoulos’ scheduled appearance in Pauley Ballroom in the student union building. Yiannopoulos was expected to use the event to kick off a campaign against “sanctuary campuses” that have vowed to protect students in the country illegally as President Trump cracks down on illegal immigration.

Campus police had been hoping to avoid a repeat of the chaos at UC Davis on Jan. 13, when protesters overwhelmed their barricades and shut down Yiannopoulos’ speech.

In an interview with Fox News after Wednesday’s cancellation, the 32-year-old Yiannopoulos — a self-described “libertarian, gay, Trump-supporting provocateur” — said college campuses are places where “you should be able to engage with different ideas.”

Those who attend his appearances, he said, include people who “don’t necessarily agree with me but just want to hear the other side. They were prevented from doing so this evening by violence from the left — the left that is terrified of anyone who they think might be persuasive or might be interesting or might take people with them.”

But UC Berkeley sophomore Jonathan Gow (http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Jonathan+Gow%22), 19, rejected Yiannopoulos’ insistence that free speech took a hit.
“The whole reason we’re here is for free speech,” Gow said. “Milo’s hate speech is not allowed here. When it’s hate speech, our free speech is to shut him down.”

Three lines of zip-tied metal fencing separated the crowd of protesters from campus police officers who had secured the building where Yiannopoulos was supposed to speak. He had arrived earlier, escorted by security, and had been waiting inside the student union building when the protests erupted.

The protest turned violent around 6 p.m. when dozens of masked anarchists, dressed in black and wearing backpacks, emerged from the otherwise peaceful crowd.

As “Milo has got to go” chants broke out, they struck: in small groups, at first — knocking down the fences, cutting through the zip ties. Then they came in droves, as the dozens of university police officers in riot gear quickly retreated to an inner ring of fencing.

Seizing the opportunity, the masked protesters ran toward the student center and breached the inner ring, picking up pieces of fencing and hurling them into the building’s windows. Glass shattered, but no one went inside, where Yiannopoulos was waiting for the event to begin.

As some protesters yelled obscenities at police, others toppled a generator and light pole police had set up, spray-painting “Milo” with an X through it. Then they lit it on fire. From their backpacks, the protesters hurled dozens of fireworks.

One of the black-dressed anarchists said he had been hit by nonlethal ammunition.

“The cops shot me with pepper balls,” said the 26-year-old man, who called himself Zombie. “It hurt.”
Carrying a thick black shield and wearing a milk-soaked kerchief over his face to protect against potential tear gas, Zombie said, “We’re anarchists.” Fellow protesters unfurled a banner reading, “This is war.”

Police soon declared an unlawful assembly and ordered everyone to leave, but hundreds of protesters stayed, filling the entire upper and lower plaza. “Turn on the dance music,” one masked woman yelled.
UC Berkeley junior Fatima Ibrahim (http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Fatima+Ibrahim%22), 20, who clutched a “resist fear” sign with a red fist, said the timing of Yiannopoulos’ scheduled appearance stung.

“As a black Muslim woman, all three of those identities have been targeted throughout (Trump’s) campaign,” Ibrahim said. “To have someone like (Yiannopoulos) come into my campus and affirm those people’s beliefs, it’s very, very hurtful.”

Hours after the event was canceled, the College Republicans issued a statement declaring the Free Speech Movement dead. “It is tragic that the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement is also its final resting place,” the statement said.

San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22San+Francisco+Chronicle%22) staff writer Sarah Ravani contributed to this report.

[Dave_L]

They are out of control.

[Rumline]

The protest turned violent around 6 p.m. when dozens of masked anarchists, dressed in black and wearing backpacks, emerged from the otherwise peaceful crowd. [...] From their backpacks, the protesters hurled dozens of fireworks.
Yeah...and yet the left will believe that these are "organic protesters," not hired or organized by anybody. Yep, these are just reflective of normal Democrats who abhor "hate speech".

[Eric P]

So if these idiots launch a firework at you, would you be justified in returning fire or be required to retreat and hide? How is launching an explosive device handled in Colorado law? I would assume it would be considered use of deadly force, since the right firework could kill.

I see this happening sooner than later in the current climate of liberal intolerance.

[TFOGGER]

http://scontent.fapa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16427628_1195640130557270_2296822307978224656_n.jp g?oh=7b374ba9e772b523cd93bf88948eef41&oe=5946E999

[roberth]

I wish they'd quit referring to them as "anarchists", these idiots don't know the first thing about anarchy. They aren't anarchists, they are violent democrats.

[GilpinGuy]

I wish they'd quit referring to them as "anarchists", these idiots don't know the first thing about anarchy. They aren't anarchists, they are violent democrats.

True. I don't see them practicing the non-aggression principle much.

[Rumline]

http://scontent.fapa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16427628_1195640130557270_2296822307978224656_n.jp g?oh=7b374ba9e772b523cd93bf88948eef41&oe=5946E999LOL perfect!

[Circuits]

Spread soap and deodorant samples at every entrance to the venue. The dirty, smelly hippies will be afraid to get too close.

[roberth]

Spread soap and deodorant samples at every entrance to the venue. The dirty, smelly hippies will be afraid to get too close.

Don't forget the job applications, maybe to Starbucks.

[Gman]

Berkeley police said five people were injured and some people, including a man who said he had hoped to see Yiannopoulos speak, were seen with their faces bloodied. There were no arrests.
What? These jackasses are hurting people and damaging property...and no arrests? Who needs law enforcement that shows up to be seen and does nothing? Insane.

[roberth]

What? These jackasses are hurting people and damaging property...and no arrests? Who needs law enforcement that shows up to be seen and does nothing? Insane.

Communists get a pass from other communists. The communists granting passes in this case are the police administrators and "leadership", I could be wrong but I think the rank-and-file wanted to give the violent communists a hickory shampoo and a new pair of bracelets.

Sorry for mansplaining.

[Fmedges]

Typical bullshit. The people who do all this bullshit don't understand that the police aren't there to stop them, but to protect them from people like myself.

[Ah Pook]

Peaceful protests in ND get dogs, water canons and goons. Violent riots get...(crickets)

[GilpinGuy]

I wonder how long the "liberal protest of the day" bullshit will go on. I know that the lefties do this for fun. It's entertainment and self gratification. But it has to get old, doesn't it?

[roberth]

These protesters are creating a very negative view of themselves and their (D) masters. One of these days LE is going to be released and then the fur will fly.

[Gman]

Something needs to happen. No Federal money to UC Berkeley, UC "Police", and the City of Berkeley would be a good start.

Let this bastion of Marxism pay their own way.

[hatidua]

What? These jackasses are hurting people and damaging property...and no arrests? Who needs law enforcement that shows up to be seen and does nothing? Insane.

This particular event made the news but Telegraph and/or Shattuck get shut down at least twice a month and have for that past 50 years due to protests in Berkeley. This isn't unusual there.

If there isn't any newsworthy event to protest, they'll protest because of the lack of newsworthy events. Seriously.