Protesters at UC Berkeley Shut Down Speech by PayPal Founder Peter Thiel
The protesters were shouting “no police state, no NSA.”
At some point, someone has got to stand up to this anti-free speech trend on campus. These idiotic student protesters obviously had no idea that Thiel is a Libertarian who opposes government overreach in the form of the NSA.
Joel B. Pollak of Breitbart reported.
Berkeley Protests Shut Down Peter Thiel Speech
On Wednesday evening, in the very hall where the University of California at Berkeley had just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, demonstrators shut down a speech by billionaire tech guru–and noted libertarian–Peter Thiel.
The activists who broke into Wheeler Hall were protesting the non-indictment of police officers in the deaths of black suspects Michael Brown and Eric Garner in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY for the fifth straight evening.
Shouting “No police state–no NSA,” the demonstrators broke into Wheeler Hall as Thiel was fielding questions from the student audience, according to Adrienne Shih of the Daily Californian. Evidently the demonstrators were unaware of Thiel’s opposition to intrusive government and his strong support for Ron Paul, who ran for president twice on a platform of upholding civil liberties against the security policies of the federal government.
These self righteous children think they’re heroes fighting the police state. They somehow don’t notice they are the police state.
Inside #ThielAtBerkeley #berkeleyprotests @dailycal pic.twitter.com/SmIS0wjuf6
— Adrienne Shih (@adrienneshih) December 11, 2014
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Here’s my solution: Hire a choruster from the San Francisco opera, preferably a dramatic/Wagernian soprano. Then, have this singer sing the speech that the visitor wants to give. No one will really be able to hear the speech in its entirety, but it would give the narcissistic special snowflakes a run for their money.
Very simple solution. Call the police. Arrest people breaking the law and prosecute them.
When we stopped enforcing our laws because it became politically uncool, we stopped being a nation of laws and accepted anarchy as our normal state.