WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

WaPo: Many protesters are outsiders

More than a quarter of protesters arrested Tuesday at Columbia University and 60 percent of those arrested at the City College of New York had no connections to the institutions, according to data from the New York Police Department.

It’s time to take these provocateurs seriously.  When a DA wants to, an avalanche of charges can be dropped on a defendant.  Outside agents should be treated as a serious threat.  They should be kept in jail as long as is legally possible to keep them from fomenting chaos elsewhere.  Intelligence agencies should be investigating their background.  Foreigners can be expelled, and student visas revoked.

The useful idiots from the student body should face university disciplinary hearings along with more modest charges.  Academic freedom doesn’t shield faculty from punishment for criminal activity.  They should be dismissed from the university.

Our government representatives should be monitoring the response by university and local officials.  If these disruptions aren’t seriously addressed, those officials should face consequences.