Appeasement doesn't Work

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It would be REALLY interesting to see that oar stuck up your traitorous ass.

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Pretty good sense of humor🙂

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It did....Trump just cut 400 million in Federal funding to it because they've allowed illegal and racist antisemitic demonstrations on campus.
I vote we start referring to Trump as PRESIDENT AWESOME.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
It did....Trump just cut 400 million in Federal funding to it because they've allowed illegal and racist antisemitic demonstrations on campus.
I vote we start referring to Trump as PRESIDENT AWESOME.

Just common sense is a great attribute of Trump.
I wonder what Kamala Harris, leader of the free world, the most powerful human in the world, would be doing right now with her attributes?

@AverageJoe1 said
Just common sense is a great attribute of Trump.
I wonder what Kamala Harris, leader of the free world, the most powerful human in the world, would be doing right now with her attributes?

She'd be signing whatever Obama and the top tier democrats in congress put in front of her. She'd just be a figurehead doing whatever she was told, just like Joe Biden was..

@Cliff-Mashburn said
It did....Trump just cut 400 million in Federal funding to it because they've allowed illegal and racist antisemitic demonstrations on campus.
I vote we start referring to Trump as PRESIDENT AWESOME.

So much for that "free speech" nonsense.

@no1marauder said
So much for that "free speech" nonsense.

Calling for the death of Jews is not protected speech. Neither is occupying govt buildings and committing vandalism.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Calling for the death of Jews is not protected speech. Neither is occupying govt buildings and committing vandalism.

Local police handled the incidents of building occupation last year and they were called by university officials. How does that justify cutting off funds?

@no1marauder said
So much for that "free speech" nonsense.

He did not stop their 'speech', I can see him saying 'they can howl to the moon'.

Now, you seem to imply that his movement of funds amounts to stopping their free speech. So, you and the libs find fault with his legal movement. Is it inconvenient for you? I found it inconvenient when he took our tax money and sent it all over the world for indescribable programs. Oh, wait, I'm sorry, that was Biden.
So, you have people wearing Yasser Arafat hats all over and disrupting our peace, We want our president to bring peace. One of us is wrong. You probably think, that if Trump did something legal to end these demonstrations of free speech, that it would be.......................nonsense?
Hey Marauder, you got one of them Arafat hats, do you?

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Calling for the death of Jews is not protected speech. Neither is occupying govt buildings and committing vandalism.

In the 1960's and 70's, Americans protested the war in Vietnam and forced an end to our involvement there. 😆

What happens when We The People don't do our duty of telling gummint it is wrong? Afghanistan happens. The longest war in our history.

We The People need to do our jobs WHEN GUMMINT IS WRONG - which includes protests. The more resistant the gummint, the more forceful the protest (and no, I'm not talking about Jan 6th. That was insurrection to overthrow a legitimate election. THAT was criminal, so don't even go there.)

It so happens in supporting Israel and denying Palestinian rights, our gummint has its head up its azz. True to form, the result has been unending war in the Middle East. 😆

@AverageJoe1 said
He did not stop their 'speech', I can see him saying 'they can howl to the moon'.

Now, you seem to imply that his movement of funds amounts to stopping their free speech. So, you and the libs find fault with his legal movement. Is it inconvenient for you? I found it inconvenient when he took our tax money and sent it all over the world for indescribable programs. O ...[text shortened]... would be.......................nonsense?
Hey Marauder, you got one of them Arafat hats, do you?

He's punishing the university for not suppressing speech the government doesn't like.

That's a textbook First Amendment violation.

@no1marauder said
Not with Trump and the right wing that is. A blistering article from the Intercept:

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on Gaza.

In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia Gaza solidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters ...[text shortened]... 3f9189e9f010fce

(That was real "cancel culture" not the pretend ones right wingers scream about).

Great news... send those jokers home. Iran does not allow any public support for Israel either.

Here is the story. He was arrested and will be deported:

A pro-Palestinian activist who played a prominent role in Columbia University protests against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza was detained in New York on Saturday evening, his lawyer has said. The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil marks a major development in the Trump administration’s pledge to arrest and deport international students involved in what it calls antisemitic campus demonstrations against Israel.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Khalil at his university-owned flat in New York on Saturday evening, according to his lawyer Amy Greer, who said that, as of Sunday evening, she did not know where her client was being detained. The ICE officials threatened to arrest Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, Greer added. In a phone call she had with one of the agents during the arrest, Greer said she was told that the State Department was seeking to cancel Khalil’s student visa.

After she informed them that Khalil was in fact living in the US with permanent Green Card residency, the official said they would attempt to revoke that instead, Greer added. “We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained. This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats,” the lawyer said.

Khalil’s arrest was confirmed on Sunday by Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, who said it was carried out “in support of President (Donald) Trump's executive orders prohibiting antisemitism”. McLaughlin alleged that Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin, had “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organisation”. She has not provided any evidence to back the claims.

Responding to his arrest, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to X to say that Khalil’s detention was just the start. “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” he said on Sunday, without providing any evidence against Khalil.

Meanwhile, critics said that the Trump administration was acting out of self-interest. “This has the appearance of a retaliatory action against someone who expressed an opinion the Trump administration didn't like,” said Camille Mackler, founder of Immigrant ARC, a coalition of legal service providers in New York.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/us-arrests-and-seeks-to-deport-columbia-university-pro-palestinian-student-protest-leader/ar-AA1ABSU5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=10aa82bca245412eb4cf2da599656de0&ei=15

@no1marauder said
He's punishing the university for not suppressing speech the government doesn't like.

That's a textbook First Amendment violation.

Yeah .. free speech does not include support for terrorists organisations.

@Rajk999 said
Yeah .. free speech does not include support for terrorists organisations.

Actually it does unless you're inciting imminent unlawful acts. See Brandenburg v. Ohio.

Not that most of the demonstrators were supporting "terrorist organizations" anyway.