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Kathianne
05-06-2024, 10:55 PM
I thought I'd posted about this crazy 'trial' held at GWU the other day, but I guess not. Turley wrote the following, which tells us just how unhinged the folks on campus are, including faculty:

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/05/06/guillotine-guillotine-guillotine-gw-protesters-call-for-the-heads-of-president-and-others-to-be-cut-off/


“Guillotine! Guillotine! Guillotine!”: GW Protesters Call for the Heads of President and Others to be Cut OffFor years, I have written about the analogy of what is happening on our campuses to the French Revolution, including faculty enablers becoming the targets of radical groups. Many faculty were silent as conservatives and libertarians were purged from faculties. Some even supported cancel campaigns against professors and speakers with opposing views. Now the analogy has become even more poignant on my campus of George Washington University after protesters held mock tribunals and called for the heads of the President, Provost, and Board of Trustees to be cut off by guillotine.


A video has emerged over the weekend from the enactment outside of my office with students gleefully cheering for the beheading of faculty, administrators, and board members.They specifically “convicted” President Ellen Granberg, Provost Christopher Bracey, the Board of Trustees, @GWPolice, and others according to the poster of the video.


I discussed earlier how the D.C. police refused to clear the street outside of the law school and next to the quad. In D.C., it often matters what you are protesting in determining whether action will be taken.


As for the guillotine video, the Post Millennial reported on the scene:


In the mock tribunal, the woman asks “How do the people find you?”


The crowd shouts, “Guilty!” then “Guillotine! Guillotine! Guillotine!”


“Bracey, Bracey, we see you! You assault students too. Off to the motherf*cking gallows with you,” the woman chants, along with the gleeful activists.


Moving on to the Board of Trustees, she states “On the charges of having a vested interest in the genocide of Palestinian people as they profit off Zionist weapons and purchases that you refuse to divest the apartheid as they line their pockets. The people find you.”


“Guilty!” The crowd screams with a mix of mob rage and joy.


“To the Guillotine!” the girl yells. “Board of Trustees, we charge you with genocide. I hope all that money is gonna save you when you’re rotting in jail.”


The crowd calls out President Grandberg, as well. “On the charges of using our tuition dollars to fund genocide, and selling out students to Zionist interest, the people find you?”


“Guilty!” The crowd yells.


“As you already know where I am sending her,” she adds, referring to the guillotine. “Her and her f*ck *ss bob.”


Fortunately, we got rid of shop in many schools years ago so the actual construction of a gallows may prove challenging. Amazon can deliver a guillotine but it is only five inches tall so it might be a bit of a Spinal Tap moment for the new Jacobins.


Few of us expect tumbrils to roll in Foggy Bottom. These students clearly thought that this was funny and no one believes that they are turning into little Robespierres. However, the rhetoric of these protests have displayed violent and unhinged elements – fueled by radical activists from Antifa and other organizations.


The protesters have already succeeded in forcing concessions from universities like Brown, Northwestern, and Rutgers. The growing protests have also clearly spooked the White House, particularly with the chant “Genocide Joe” catching on across the country. At GW, that image was projected over the large flag hung by the school.


The protesters are likely to take solace in the fact that the Biden Administration just reportedly put a hold on an ammunition transfer to Israel. It is not clear if this will be a mere symbolic hold that will be lifted or something more significant. Israel is preparing the long-announced offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza where the remaining Hamas fighters are located.

Kathianne
05-06-2024, 11:00 PM
Speaking of unhinged, I'm speechless:

https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-faculty-group-goes-on-strike-in-solidarity-with-anti-israel-student-protesters/


Columbia Faculty Group Goes on Strike in Solidarity With Anti-Israel Student ProtestersFaculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia vow not to return 'until police are removed from our campus'
Columbia faculty hold anti-Israel rally (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Jessica Costescu
May 6, 2024
A Columbia faculty group has gone on strike in solidarity with arrested student protesters and will not return to campus until law enforcement is removed.


Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia announced on Friday that "faculty, staff, and graduate workers of Columbia University, Barnard College, and Teachers College" would be "immediately" going on a strike until police are removed from the recently occupied campus.

"We will not return to a campus that is extremely dangerous for Black, Palestinian, Middle Eastern, Latinx, South Asian, Arab, Muslim, trans, queer, and other communities who are disproportionately profiled by police," said the group. "As members of the faculty, staff, and graduate workers, we will not return to campus nor engage remotely for administrative service work—we will only serve students directly—until police are removed from our campus."


The announcement comes as Columbia president Minouche Shafik struggles to reestablish normalcy on campus. It is unclear how Shafik will respond to the strike and calls to get rid of the police. The school's plan for law enforcement to remain on campus extends until May 17, two days after its graduation ceremony was supposed to take place, to ensure order and safety. Columbia on Monday canceled the ceremony in light of the protests.


The faculty group says that "no one can safely return to campus" because of police.


"Given the use of military-grade assault weapons and surveillance technology against our students … and the announcement of the plan for police to remain on campus until May 17th, we believe no one can safely return to campus," the group said.


Neither the faculty group nor Columbia responded to requests for comment.


It is unclear how many are involved in the strike, but participants are asked to fill out a form saying they will either strike or vow "not to retaliate against participating workers." The form also encourages supporters to publicly advertise their participation. The strike is expected to last two weeks, but the group says it could end earlier if Shafik agrees to remove police "from the campus and its surroundings."


Work covered by the strike includes any activity "that directly serve[s] the administration rather than our students," including task forces, such as Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism.


Many Columbia faculty members have been open for months about their support for anti-Israel student activists. Two weeks ago, a group of Columbia University professors held a rally to express solidarity with students who were suspended for holding unauthorized protests on campus and to lambaste Shafik for cracking down on them. Since then, faculty members have doubled down by participating in the unauthorized encampment and acting as security guards at the entrance.


After student protesters overtook Hamilton Hall last week, faculty members were also spotted nearby a blockaded entrance, expressing support for the protest. According to Columbia head of communications Ben Chang, two university employees were among the occupiers arrested by the New York Police Department on Thursday.


Additionally, "a significant portion of those who broke the law and occupied Hamilton Hall were outsiders," Chang noted. Specifically, over a quarter of arrestees were unaffiliated with Columbia University.


FYI


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Tuition $65,340
Mandatory Fees $3,060
Average Room and Board Cost $16,800
Books and Personal Expenses $3,742

Gunny
05-07-2024, 10:41 AM
I thought I'd posted about this crazy 'trial' held at GWU the other day, but I guess not. Turley wrote the following, which tells us just how unhinged the folks on campus are, including faculty:

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/05/06/guillotine-guillotine-guillotine-gw-protesters-call-for-the-heads-of-president-and-others-to-be-cut-off/You did. It's around here somewhere. IIRC, I made mention of where-all they should send students and Bowser.

The Federal government might be in DC, but it doesn't run DC. Nobody in their right mind lives in DC. Few people that work for the government do. I lived in both MD and VA. The District itself is a government welfare state inhabited by the type people you would imagine inhabit a welfare state, as reflected in both its politics and mayor. If you step outside the beaten path -- the Mall and surrounding tourist attractions -- you're in danger.

Contrast this circus with FBI interest in mothers concerned over their children's educations. Death threats are okay if you support terrorists. Just not if you oppose your child being brainwashed into a jellyfish. Seems to be a connection between the two.

Gunny
05-07-2024, 10:43 AM
Speaking of unhinged, I'm speechless:

https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-faculty-group-goes-on-strike-in-solidarity-with-anti-israel-student-protesters/



FYIBye. Enjoy your strike. Israel just entered Rafah. Hamas needs your support:smoke: