Welcome to pre-election summer protest season. The New York Times ran a non-paywalled story yesterday headlined, “
Columbia Said It Had ‘No Choice’ but to Call the Police.” New York sure sent
a lot of cops this time. And the cops had a cool truck they probably don’t get to use very often, that lets them stroll right into a building through the second floor window, whenever ‘student protestors’ illegally occupy campus and block the doors:
A little after midnight Monday night, agitated Columbia University protesters smashed a window to get into Hamilton Hall and then barricaded the doors. An unlucky janitor on the night shift caught in the building was released by occupying students yesterday;
ironically, given the whole Hamas situation, the protestors held the poor janitor for a few hours as a hostage. After a long, frustrating day of failed negotiations, it only took an hour for the New York Police Department to de-occupy the Hall around 9pm last night.
Here’s what the Hamilton Hall ‘blockade’ looked like from the outside. It was a disappointing effort from the Ivy Leaguers. Maybe MIT students could have engineered something more impressive looking:
Mind you, Columbia University was originally founded as King’s College on a Royal Charter from good old King George II, well before the American Revolution. The American rebels changed the school’s name to Columbia after evicting the British. Columbia was New York’s very first college — and the fifth in the original 13 colonies.
It used to have a strong academic record. Ninety-six Nobel Prize winners graduated from Columbia — a record second only to Harvard.
But how times change! Nowadays, Columbia’s highly-diverse student body is more interested in building trashy barricades than winning Nobel prizes. In fairness, these protestors are not, presumably, the
smartest students at the school. Don’t cancel me, I’m just saying.
It seems the students also did a little redecorating whilst occupying Hamilton. I guess their parents never taught them to leave a place looking better than when they arrived. From the UK Daily Mail:
Here’s another view from inside the Hall, where the energy-drink addled twenty-somethings seem to have gone on some kind of rampage, like a pack of wild chimpanzees that just found a crate of Red Bull:
I’ve been reliably informed the British plan to ask for King’s College back.
The skeptical Times was obviously yearning for a good old-fashioned
police-batter-students story. But it quoted Columbia’s president who explained, “the group that broke into and occupied the building is led by individuals who are not affiliated with the university.”
Outside agitators. Probably Soros-funded.
It might be the first time in history this has ever happened, or maybe something got distorted in the reality matrix the last time they fired up CERN, but President Trump and Columbia’s president both agreed, these are fake protests:
CLIP: Trump tells Hannity the protests are organized (0:27).
In his call to Hannity last night, President Trump focused less on all the fancy camping tents, but rather on all the identical protest signs: "I think you have a lot of paid agitators, professional agitators, when you see signs that are identical, they are being paid by a source. They're made by the same printer. "
It’s not just the protestors who seem to be working together. In the clearest sign of a coordinated narrative we’ve seen since the start of the Proxy War, every major corporate media platform ran
all protest, all the time news yesterday. You’d think there was nothing else going on in the world besides some overfed, privileged American kids avoiding studying, none of whom could tell you who is the president of Hamas even if you offered them a free iPhone upgrade.
Behold this morning’s 100%, wall-to-wall protest coverage in the New York Times:
It’s anarchy!
As the Times’ headlines suggest, there were protest stories from several schools across the country. The trashing of Hamilton Hall was pretty tame compared to others. There were some escalating stories about protestors grappling with police, and even
fights between protestors and counter-protestors, and launching fireworks into crowds. Corporate media delightedly covered all the chaos in multiple articles run with tons of pictures in long magazine formats.
Corporate media are experts at ignoring a story. So this intense coverage suggested they really like this protest story for some reason. Behold, the new Summer of Protest! And it’s just getting started. Recall that, last election season, the summer protests really only got going by
August. Remember the dramatic videos of the fiery, nighttime Kenosha, Wisconsin protest where Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself? Good times. That was August 25, 2020 — almost September.
Or at least, that
seems to be the goal. It’s not quite the same. This time the police so far are being allowed to do their jobs and clear the students and outside agitators. But all it would take is one George Floyd-style “police brutality” incident and things could change. So keep your seat belts on! 2024 has lots more left to give.
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