Protesters shut down Milo Yiannopoulos event at UC Davis
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By Dalila-Johari Paul
Updated 9:47 AM ET, Sat January 14, 2017
(CNN)A speech by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos' at UC Davis was over before it even started Friday after protests erupted, forcing sponsors to cancel the event.
Thirty minutes before the Breitbart tech editor was scheduled to speak, the UC Davis College Republicans canceled the controversial talk after consulting with the university's police department and student affairs officials.
Former pharmaceutical executive, Martin Shkreli had also been scheduled to speak at the event.
"I am deeply disappointed with the events of this evening," said Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter.
"Our community is founded on principles of respect for all views, even those that we personally find repellent. As I have stated repeatedly, a university is at its best when it listens to and critically engages opposing views, especially ones that many of us find upsetting or even offensive."
Earlier in the evening, protesters blocked access to the venue. Surrounding the lecture hall with signs, they chanted, "Say it loud, say it clear, racists are not welcome here."
One person arrested
As tensions rose between supporters and protesters, a determination was made that it was no longer feasible to continue the event safely.
"It's disgusting," Shkreli told CNN's affiliate KOVR as he left the venue. "Progressivism is about having a conversation."
Yiannopoulos posted on Facebook that the event had been canceled "after violence from left-wing protestors."
But UC Davis said in a statement, "Despite some reports, there were no broken windows or other property damage during the protest. Earlier in the evening, one person was arrested inside the venue. No further arrests were made."
Yiannopoulos and Shkreli are no strangers to controversy.
In fact, Yiannopoulos, the self-proclaimed "super-villian" welcomes it.
Last month, the vocal Trump supporter announced his book deal with Threshold Editions, the part of Simon & Schuster that has published books from Donald Trump, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. The book is called "Dangerous," and will seek to explain the rise of the "populist, nationalist Trump phenomenon," according to a press release from Yiannopoulos.
In July, he was banned for life from Twitter after a deluge of tweets from users were directed at comedian Leslie Jones.
Yiannopoulos later defended his tweets in an interview with CNN.
The British conservative has been accused of racism and transphobia but he took no responsibility for inspiring the tweets directed at Jones after his review of "Ghostbusters."
He told CNN in July, that he's being silenced because he's a "gay conservative."
"Gays are always canaries in the coal mine. This has given them the excuse they needed because (Leslie Jones) is a black woman," he said. "Twitter has just died as a free speech platform."
Shkreli has been temporarily kicked off Twitter after making unwanted advances towards a female journalist.
CNN's Joe Sutton and Sara Ashley O'Brien contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/14/us/milo-yiannopoulos-uc-davis-speech-cance...
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What is disgusting is that
What is disgusting is that Martin Shkreli thinks it is OK to raise the price of medication 300%. Shut the Right down NOW!
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Over the years, the ACLU has
Over the years, the ACLU has frequently represented or defended individuals engaged in some truly offensive speech. We have defended the speech rights of communists, Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, accused terrorists, pornographers, anti-LGBT activists, and flag burners. That’s because the defense of freedom of speech is most necessary when the message is one most people find repulsive. Constitutional rights must apply to even the most unpopular groups if they’re going to be preserved for everyone.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech
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The true Nazis are those on
The true Nazis are those on the left that would use violence or threat of violence to stifle free speach. Don't want to hear the speaker then don't attend the event. Issue is cut and dried. Poor snowflakes at college need to go hide in their safe places....
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so much for freedom of speech
so much for freedom of speech, o tolerant ones.
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Freedom of speech is
Freedom of speech is protection from gov't interference of speech. The gov't did not interfere. The students exercised their freedom of speech.
You snowflakes can't handle freedom of speech that disagrees with your opinion ! Ha HA !!
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>>>That’s because the defense
>>>That’s because the defense of freedom of speech is most necessary when the message is one most people find repulsive. Constitutional rights must apply to even the most unpopular groups if they’re going to be preserved for everyone.
could have just as easily been spoken by Rosa Luxemburg or John Stuart Mills
yet, Red is correct in his assessment.
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>> The students exercised
>> The students exercised their freedom of speech.
Earlier in the evening, protesters blocked access to the venue.
That's not free speech. It's civil disobedience and calls for arrest. You can protest, but you have to allow access.
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Limitations on Action
Limitations on Action
Demonstrators who engage in civil disobedience – defined as non-violent unlawful action as a form of protest – are not protected under the First Amendment. People who engage in civil disobedience should be prepared to be arrested or fined as part of their protest activity.
If you endanger others while protesting, you can be arrested. A protest that blocks vehicular or pedestrian traffic is illegal without a permit.
You do not have the right to block a building entrance or physically harass people. The general rule is that free speech activity cannot take place on private property, including shopping malls, without consent of the property owner. You do not have the right to remain on private property after being told to leave by the owner.
http://aclu-or.org/content/your-right-protest
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By Redneck's definition,
By Redneck's interpretation of the law, blocking access to an abortion clinic as a protest would be free speech.
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You can block whatever you
You can block whatever you want but depending on your location and other factors, you might be arrested for it. Hence people being arrested for occupying offices or schools or blocking buildings or marching on bridges or sitting down in the road and refusing to move. So, apparently the cops did not find sufficient cause to arrest more than one person, meaning that it didn't get all that out of hand.
Fuck those guys.
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WHEN YOU ARE LOSING THE
WHEN YOU ARE LOSING THE ARGUMENT, JUST SHUT THE OPPOSITION DOWN. It's what liars, frauds and Liberals ALWAYS do.
"The debate is over!!" Gee Al, I don't remember actually having a debate. I remember you LECTURING EVERYONE on this THEORY that the Earth just might warm .01 degree C in a hundred years!!! And now the "debate" is "over" we NEVER HAD IT YOU COWARD!!!!
And gee 100 years is far enough in the future that you never really have to be able to PROVE IT. Un;ike the prediction (amongst many others that have not come to fruition) that NYC would be under water by 2015, um, I'm here right now, high and DRY!!!
along with EVERY COMPUTER MODEL about MMGW being wrong 100%. EAST ANGLIA FALSIFYING DATA, gee why would they dop that?!?!
so I guess that "wins" the "debate"
clowns, authoritarians, tyrants., BABIES.
Liberals.