Robin of Berkeley Notes from the UndergroundCensorship is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin FranklinRestriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un American act that could most easily defeat us. Supreme Court Justice William O. DouglasI am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me. Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1. A campus group at the University of California, Berkeley, invited a conservative speaker to give a talk. How did Berkeley react, the legendary home of the Free Speech Movement
Given that the talk had been planned long in advance, did opponents get a permit to assemble legally and to protestOr, if not, did they at least share their displeasure through a peaceful demonstration, with signs and chanted slogans Not a chance. What happened is much, much darker. Thousands of people gathered, and many of them threw rocks and other dangerous objects at the police. Richard Castle Heat Wave Ebook Italiani. Some rioters beat and pepper sprayed students trying to attend the talk, several of whom had to be hospitalized. The mobs forced the emergency evacuation of the speaker and destroyed property cars were overturned, windows broken, fires set, and stores vandalized. Though Ive been here since the l. I never had children. Now that I am being dragged, kicking and screaming, into my twilight years, I have decidedly mixed feelings about this. W3Rw57PPLM/T0pySpk6vXI/AAAAAAAABz0/ebuKx0C4CI0/s1600/seneca.png' alt='Rational Purify 7 0 1 Crack Erodes' title='Rational Purify 7 0 1 Crack Erodes' />Weve had the Occupations, with the seizing of freeways and city streets and mob rampages through the streets. Since the November election, weve also had other riots, with more destruction and injuries, all at an obscene amount of cost to the cities. MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen Demonization of CO2 is irrational at best and even modest warming is mostly beneficial. When someone says this is the. But this latest riot at the UC Berkeley campus and downtown Berkeley was even more sinister. This is because students trying to attend the talk were targeted for violence. Those targeted had the audacity to want to attend a public talk, one sponsored by the campus group, the College Republicans. Even though the talk was approved and all of the channels gone through, the talk was shut down amidst the chaos. Yet more evidence that the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley was, and is, a lie. Although many students and others protested, I have serious questions about how many local residents rioted versus being imported and paid. However, putting that aside, I am extremely disturbed by how most of the residents around here support the riots. In these parts, mayhem against people with a different point of view is excused as just desserts for hate speech. However, this attitude begs the question how do they know that it is hate speech if they wont allow themselves or anyone else to hear it Then there are the mind games, for instance, calling the riot a protest, as the campus run newspaper, the Daily Californian, did. Personally, Im not sure how a stampeding mob of violent thugs can be called a protest. Of course, the message of the recent riots was this dont even try to offer a conservative point of view in the epicenter of progressivism. If so, you will be put in harms way. And given that the politicos sent a message to the police to do nothing to stop the riots, youll be out there on your own. Though profoundly disturbing, the suppression of free speech in Berkeley is not surprising. It is typical of all cults, and progressivism is a cult. With cults, no dissent is allowed everyone must parrot the same party line. And if anyone dares to diverge from the group in any way, shape, or form, he will be marginalized, ostracized, threatened, and physically endangered. Message, I imagine, received It will be very, very unlikely that the Campus Republicans or any conservative group will invite a speaker here anytime soon. Come to think of it, after decades of living here, Ive never heard of a conservative being invited to give a talk. The Left is very fond of pointing fingers at Donald Trump and his supporters, defaming them with slurs, such as white supremacist, crazy, stupid, evil, fascists, and insane. Trump himself has been called Hitler. But, honestly, who are the ones who most resemble fascists Who are the ones who muzzle free speech and unleash a violent mob on young college studentsWe are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. Edward Bernays nephew of Sigmund Freud, in his book, Propaganda Were playing those mind games together. Pushing the barriersplanting seeds. Playing the mind guerrilla. Chanting the mantra peace on earthMind Games, John Lennon. A number of years ago, before I went through my political and spiritual conversion, I attended a lecture in Berkeley by a progressive Ph. D, a linguist. His talk was about how linguists were starting to work with the Democratic Party to use words to manipulate the masses. Of course, we can all see the success of the linguists endeavors how the multitudes have been manipulated through the steady drumbeat of laboratory tested words and phrases. For instance, Obamas linguists had people chant, We are the change, over and over again, robotic style. School children and Hollywood types recited praises to their leader incessantly. The use of words as propaganda isnt new. It started with Freuds nephew, Edward Bernays, who borrowed from his uncles newfound field of psychology. The art of propaganda, through word usage, timing, and tone, has also been used successfully by hypnotists. This includes the practitioners of NLP, that is, neurolinguistic programming, which apparently was relied on heavily by the linguists working for Obama. So what happens is this words or phrases are used repetitively, in a hypnotic way, to create triggers. Those triggers can trigger what is called the altar state that is desired by the puppet masters. Hypnosis works on the premise that images and emotions both positive and negative can be evoked through careful word placement and repetition. To see how well it works, simply observe people on the Left. When feel good words and phrases are used, such as Obamacare, Hillary, Obama, Michelle, hope and change, happy feelings result. And then notice the complete opposite effect the hostility, if not outright hate, triggered by other words, e. Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon. As another example note how the frequent repetition of one of the newer words, haters, drives people on the Left to hate. Then there are words that evoke concern, a parental worry and a desire to rescue. Climate change, for instance, compels people to forgo bags, even regular showers, in order to save the planet. Particularly brilliant is the use of the word refugee in the immigration debate. Refugee conjures up the image of war, and of bloody victims fleeing persecution. The repetitive use of the word, refugee, impels most on the Left to open up our country to pretty much anyone who wants to come here. And yet, unlike real refugees, most immigrants legal and illegal are here mostly for financial gain. Of course, the old term, illegal aliens, is out. It has morphed into the more pleasant sounding undocumented workers, which implies that the person is here working, with somehow a bureaucratic snafu holding up the paperwork. And please examine closely the dangerous words thrown around by the Left to agitate their followers and to sometimes incite violence. The term, racist, has been used for years in that regard. But there are new words that are even more inflammatory for instance, white supremacist, white nationalist, neo Nazi. But what exactly is a white supremacist Or a white nationalistCan anyone easily explain it Where are they and who are they If someone doesnt support affirmative action, does that make him a white supremacist If a person is proud of being from the south, does that make him a white supremacist If someone is concerned about Spanish being required in his childs public school, is he one of those boogeymenMissing Faraway Friends Throw a Spontaneous Virtual Party With This App. What if you could throw a virtual party whenever you want that your friends from around the world could attend at a seconds notice Thats the idea behind Houseparty, an i. OS and Android click links to download video chatting app designed for spontaneous conversation. Houseparty has a tremendous following with tweens, but I hadnt heard of it until around 6 months ago. The way it works is pretty simple When you launch the app you create a chat room of sorts, and then your friends who also have the app can drop in. 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Sure, sometimes that means Im still drinking that beer alone. However, more often than not, some of my friends are also somewhere where they could video chat for a bit and a virtual party emerges. For instance, one recent evening I ended up chatting for an hour with friends from NYC, Chicago, North Carolina, and Los Angeles. We were all friends in college, but havent been in the same room in over a decade. Even though the hangout was on my tiny phone screen, it was pretty amazing to have us all in the same place at the same time, and we didnt plan it at all. Rooms can hold up to eight people, and you can have multiple rooms open at the same time. The idea being you can float between different rooms at the party and chat with different groups of friends. You can lock rooms if you want to have a private chat. Otherwise, theyre open to anyone who is friends with someone that is already in the room. 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