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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.

Boston Herald: Pro-Palestinian Protestors

So we are back to this.  City and university administration doing as little as possible to maintain order.

These Emerson students should be back on campus, trying to figure out their sexuality.  That’s become too political, so they dress in their best grunge outfits and protest for something they don’t understand. 

Emerson’s new president, Jay Bernhardt, wrote yesterday that the college supports “our community’s right to express their views through protest. However, they must do so in a manner consistent with the laws of the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”

At least administrators and city officials are saying the right things, but they won’t follow through.

A court official released the students on a “promise to return” on their scheduled dates.

Really?  A better response would be to charge them with three or four misdemeanors and set bail at a couple of thousand dollars.  Tuition at Emerson is $54k. They can afford it.

An Instagram post just before the arrests show a man with a bullhorn instructing the students on how to “form ranks 4 lines thick” and “resist police,” the post states.

It would also be a good idea to find out who that man is, who trained him and who is funding this disruption.  Where did the tents come from?  None of those chubby rascals look like they spend many weekends hiking around Acadia National Park.

Another solution would be to leave the police out of it and let the townies clear out the malcontents