The good old days of the local cop walking the beat and helping little old ladies to cross the street when he's not rescuing cats that have climbed a tree and can't get back down are ovah!  Now it's straight to the SWAT teams in full Riot Gear if 50 undergrads set up tents and serve coffee and doughnuts while they socialize and hand out leaflets calling for divestiture of investment in arms manufacturers.  "Assymetric Response" is the new doctrine for dealing with any dissent in Amerika.  Hit 'em hard and fast with overwhelming power and scare the living shit out of anyone who dares to question the party line.

If they had ignored the Columbia campers, by the end of the week they would have been getting ready for graduation and done with finals attending parties and smoking dope.  Instead, they set off copycat protests all over the world, and they're cycling it up in a feedback loop that if somebody doesn't show some CFS will end up with 4 more dead in Oh-Hi-Oh.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/27/israel-hamas-war-campus-protests-arrests/73462872007/

Mass arrests, officers in riot gear: Pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns

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