Within the ongoing battle by US College directors to take away the proper definition of “Genocide” from the minds of their college students together with the one supplied by Websters and Oxfords’, the campus re-education program on the College of California/ San Diego over the previous two weeks is proving unsuccessful.
The tents could also be gone. The “Fixed of Conscience” of their college students has not.
Within the opening salvo within the “Warfare For Your Thoughts,” as proven at UC San Diego the scholars have already discovered the sensible significance of the First Rule of Democracy. As showcased in an homage to the scholars, “On the Significance of Tents,” it’s a drive to be reckoned with. Final week it produced for the UCSD college students their first victory.
How candy was that style, this time?
In the meantime, geriatric America does nothing however pray for his or her orange savior to hopefully get it proper this time after November and in flip swallow the justifications for Israeli genocide sooner than their subsequent vodka and tonic.
Fortunately, the age of mortality in America is ever plummeting and subsequently offering a small diploma of hope.
Our saga, in fact, started on Oct 7, 2023, with the long-expected “blowback” by Hamas. However months later, with the sport’s rating now a tad one-sided at 34, 989 for Israel to 1, 222 for Hamas, the competition to many actually appeared a bit rigged. So out got here the scholars and their tents, which I prefaced in my most up-to-date article, “On the Significance of Tents.”
And… the First Rule of Democracy.
On the weekend of April 27, 2024, UC/ San Diego campus directors obtained wind that College students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) was going to arrange an “encampment” at some extent but unknown. That they had been ready for this opening salvo of the fixed of conscience and its visible appeal-tents– to lastly come to their campus. For months, they’d beforehand been summoned to conferences at UC Davis, UC Los Angeles, and UC/ Berkeley to, partially and precedence, handle the rising pupil awakening.
And easy methods to cease it.
Within the above-referenced article, the executive construction of the Division of Pupil Life is supplied. Suffice as to say, that most of the directors on the particular person campus stage really feel like their necks are tied in an ever-tightening noose of the white flag on the heart of the thick rope of “Tug of Warfare” between the scholars and the President’s Workplace.
Sadly, too many of those center administration directors have proven by their actions to be not more than higher administration lackeys to the needs of the UC Board of Regents, their hand-picked President, Michael V. Drake, who presided over the ten Chancellors of every of the schools.
However as predicted within the article, and proven over a rapid-paced fourteen days previous, as a result of “Fixed of Conscience” being utilized liberally to “The First Rule of Democracy,” within the “Warfare For Your Thoughts” and that of the scholars, the scholars are profitable.
Within the face of drained, apathetic previous fools… they’re removed from accomplished!
“…And So… It Begins.”
On Sunday evening SJP, as promised, took over a wooded piece of floor close to Geisel Corridor. Twenty-some tents slowly grew to about forty-five over the subsequent few days with over 100 college students. As is anticipated with tents, campus consciousness of the peaceable name to cease genocide in Gaza was additional attended by growing numbers of curious college students every day.
By Monday morning the cellphone was clearly ringing off the hook on the UCSD chancellor’s workplace from the outraged triumvirate of upper training in Sacramento. This demand to correctly and rapidly indoctrinate the wayward younger minds within the anticipated methods of Zionism and Genocide rapidly cascaded downstream to the Workplace of Pupil Life and its campus capos, the Vice-Chancellor and Assoc. Vice Chancellor and their workers.
However Pupil Life directors had an issue that was beforehand highlighted: In contrast to non-public universities that exist totally on non-public actual property and so can legally do as they need, the UC and its ten campuses are public. Because of this every campus is certain by the UC Constitution as it’s by the protocols of habits set collectively for all. Modifications require a mandated process and take a lot an excessive amount of time to successfully cease pupil free speech in its tracks.
At this second in our story, the scholars on the camp had been solely responsible of a non-criminal college violation for failing to vacate the park after 10 pm as is routinely relevant campus-wide. This violation is token at greatest and topic, by protocol, to a pending disciplinary listening to which is adjudicated by a mix of Admin. Workers, College, and college students. Additional, for a lot of, with Graduation coming rapidly on June 15, they’d be already “off-campus” properly earlier than then.
In the meantime, uninvited, The Black Panthers had arrived to supply safety and had been mingling with the encampment simply sufficient to solicit expenses of Marxism from the Zionist press determined to demonize the coed’s ethical focus. Despatched and paid for by whom, was the one query.
Now, the crocodile tears by Pupil Life started to circulate liberally in the direction of the scholars in a failed effort to slacken the tightening yellow noose round their necks… whereas on a regular basis surreptitiously fucking over the scholars whereas sucking as much as the social gathering line coming from the UC Regents.
Thus, a job was set for them: to discover a “legal cost” that could possibly be filed towards the protesters on the encampment. However why legal expenses?
The scholars would quickly discover out!
Crocodile Tears… of Gasoline!
The primary response to the conundrum of a speedy prosecution of scholars was for, simply hours afterward Wednesday, Pupil Life to first start handing out written warnings to all the scholars already encamped or simply visiting and “pondering” about it.
With UCSD being break up into eight quasi-independent schools, many directors know their college students by identify. Thus, a few of these workers started to play stoolie and rat-out and snitch on a few of these they noticed in and across the tents.
The explanation for this sudden change of protocol now allowed these similar directors to subject instant “interim suspensions.” These suspensions solved, for the second, the issue because the suspensions had been instant and carried an expulsion from campus property to be adopted with a be aware of warning to USCD Police.
For sure, the scholars who had been summarily issued suspensions and evictions had been livid, as had been their pals and the coed physique on the whole. All started to speak, as predicted by the “First Rule of Democracy,” and coalesce their help by way of social media. (BTW: I’m informed that Fb, for the scholars, is as historical as a Gutenberg press.)
However as the scholars’ encampment and help grew directors had one other crucial downside additionally getting worse by the hour and favoring the scholars…the “Solar God!”
All throughout the brand new 12 months and particularly through the previous tumultuous first 72 hours these similar directors had been getting ready, as is custom on all US college campuses, for the annual pupil Spring Pageant simply earlier than commencement. Held since UCSD was first inbuilt 1960, Solar God is the biggest campus occasion of the 12 months, that includes nationwide music acts, leisure, merchandising, meals, and drink. And college students. Numerous college students.
Greater than 20,000 had been anticipated.
Rightfully, campus safety for an enormous pageant like Solar God has been an ever-growing concern earlier than the brand new campus re-education effort started. Through the years, because the pageant grew extra members of the general public had been attracted, nonetheless, past the anticipated drunken Sophmorishness by some, no critical incidents have ever occurred.
Nevertheless, this didn’t, some 5 years in the past placate UCSD directors once they for the primary time ordered a tranche of San Diego Police SWAT crew snipers to be stationed on the overlooking adjoining rooftops. This might have been the case this 12 months.
With Solar God simply forty-eight hours away, and with legal responsibility and pupil safety screaming for a call, Pupil Life punted, asserting that Solar God would, for the primary time in class historical past, be canceled.
The explanation they acknowledged was that they may not receive, as is common, the extra safety (all the time actual cops) ample to make sure security. This was due, they mentioned, to a scarcity of accessible cops who had been sucked away to defend the opposite 9 campuses or assault the rising public protests elsewhere.
They didn’t point out the snipers.
As campus directors had been to seek out out, all these crocodile tears could have quickly softened the noose round their necks however it will not liquidate the fires within the minds of their college students.
With the cancellation of Solar God, the coed neighborhood was incensed and noticed it as retribution towards the encampments, and so they mentioned so. Campus social media blew up all day and once more on Sunday. Accusations had been common and hurled on the Workplace of Pupil Life. As these new realities of American training rapidly set in, the camp swelled. Day after day, evening after evening.
Then got here Monday morning.
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College students, The First Rule, and… Victory!
5:15 AM Monday, Could 6, 2024…
Some twenty-plus cops and supporting automobiles together with paddy wagons quietly descended on the encampment whereas the scholars had been nonetheless sleeping. Two days earlier than there weren’t sufficient cops. This morning there have been loads!
The Black Panthers had slipped into the evening simply earlier than.
Because the cops did what cops do—be cops- an area TV station went dwell on the scene within the grey daybreak mild of the eucalyptus bushes as these cops started to take away tents and college students’ belongings. Already some threw stuff akin to coolers, books, and chairs over enthusiastically within the route of the protesters, hoping for a response.
With pupil’s cell telephones rattling close to melting from overload the decision went out, “The cops are right here!. They’re attacking the camp.” Apparently, many of the college students within the previous days had turn out to be properly conscious of precisely the place the camp was. And the tents.
They had been out the door, now. Shifting quick.
Nevertheless, directors, changing into rapidly clever within the methods of authoritarian rule, had already closed all the general public roads main into or across the UCSD campus utilizing a police element and to make certain had formally introduced the closing of the campus itself to all workers, college students and college.
And outrage.
Nevertheless, UCSD homes some 22,000 on-campus college students of their a lot sought-after luxurious pupil housing. As these receiving the information rushed to the camp, and workers seemed on, the cops razed the camp and subsequent started “kettling” the outraged college students who stood in lined up in protest, however had been now retreating steadily earlier than the regular encroachment by the cops. This is called kettling and I’ve been sufferer to it and escaped from it a number of occasions on the protests I’ve reported from.
Shifting ever ahead, every finish of the double-line of cops elevated its tempo whereas now shifting in the direction of the middle as the opposite finish did the identical till the unwary protesters had been thus encircled. This left the scholars with the Hobson’s selection of “Assault on a Police Officer” or give up to arrest for his or her present crimes towards Israeli inhumanity.
Some forty-five college students had been arrested, however at the moment all however one accepted arrest gracefully. “Oh, they only wished to be arrested anyway…” mentioned a workers member dismissively whereas watching.
In doing so she additional highlighted administrative duplicity and utter ignorance.
Earlier than protesting, if you’re not prepared to be arrested- proudly arrested- with a view to help the beliefs you maintain as a matter of the fixed of conscience then….. simply fucking keep residence!
Those that do danger their freedom and their training with the sincerity to face arrest are the brand new leaders, the examples, the visible symbols, and the spark of the ethical thoughts that’s prepared to sacrifice personally to ensure that all to see issues clearly.
Like tents.
By this time, these arrested had been hauled over to pre-detention on the ground of the Value Middle. This similar room has been used yearly to warehouse the plethora of overly intoxicated college students previous to their assembly with the virtues of a murderous hangover at Solar God. It ought to be famous that this protocol doesn’t harass the scholars, who sleep on supplied health club mats and blankets, and merely retains them secure and heat with an opportunity to sleep it off whereas underneath remark. For these whose minds weren’t quickly addled by different exterior forces, they’re discharged with out punishment.
Apparently, Solar God had been canceled some three days earlier than. So, why was the Value Middle able to go on Monday morning?
Naturally, screams of Pupil Life duplicity had been rising by the minute as college students charged to the park solely to seek out their pals detained. And lacking. Confirming that they had been nonetheless being processed on the Value Middle the scholars rushed there en mass with new arrivals straggling in from behind. Collectively, they converged on the Most important Entrance.
Right here a much-needed second of hilarity injected itself into all this panic.
The scholars had not totally thought out their rush to the Value Middle’s enormous entrance entrance doorways, nor its full service as an leisure venue. Whereas beating on the a number of tinted glass entrance doorways out there, somebody all of a sudden realized that the middle might need a again door, akin to freight doorways. And in addition to, the place had been the paddy wagons? And…and…
Shit!
This realization brought about the entire contingent to dash collectively in panic, indicators and flags in hand, to the opposite doors- the service doors- spherical again.
They arrived winded and barely in time.
The arrested college students had been already incarcerated on the buses out again, engines operating, cops all over the place. So, the scholars surrounded the buses blocking them from leaving. Seeing the throng in motion and now numbering properly greater than 1000 college students, the remaining cops contained in the Value Middle got here streaming out in a rush, however they had been not sufficient in quantity to deal with the rising crowd now armed with pallets, bike racks, barricades, indicators, outage and…
The First Rule of Democracy.
That rule now turned on these cops, boldly and unflinchingly going through them in a car parking zone battle as the scholars tried to forestall to cops from attending to these busses. The road was drawn: Buses behind the protesters.
Studying a lot faster than earlier than and with the arrest methods of the cops on the encampment properly in thoughts from simply minutes earlier than the scholars started shifting ever ahead, step-by-step, now surrounding the cops from the sides, shifting, encircling, the coed’s non-violent screams of concern the one weapon wanted. And the cops started to take that “first step again,” changing into encircled… the evil black mass now merely benign within the face of the First Rule.
Within the Irony of the day… These cops, these motherfuckers, they had now been… kettled!
The scholars allowed for escape, nonetheless, as they kettled these cops in a digital backwards perp-walk forcing them again into the Value Middle via doorways they’d come. Or to hunt fast refuge within the Engineering constructing subsequent door.
The cops after calling for large back-up, and with the scholars divided into three in protection of the bus and offense for the cops did lastly escape with their quarry.
However the shit was not over for the day. That night, within the largest protest in UCSD historical past, greater than 3000 college students marched collectively in a present of drive towards the administration. And towards Genocide!
In a earlier article I challenged all college students worldwide to know and to make use of successfully, the First Rule of Democracy. I gave examples of it working. One, I noticed.
What say you now, College students? One week later, do you continue to keep in mind that one-of-a-kind taste, that style that can by no means go away? I tasted it as soon as. I’ll by no means neglect it.
So, college students, chew on it yourselves with a sluggish grinding satisfaction till the juices run candy via the enamel and subsequent, all the way down to the marrow.
It’s referred to as… victory!
And that was on Monday!
When a Spark Turns into a Fireplace.
As might need been predicted, Pupil Life directors would have been higher off leaving the encampment to its slowly rising gadgets moderately than razing it and pouring instructional gasoline all around the pupil’s sparks of concern and braveness.
Though they haven’t effected one other confrontation, the primary one and its consequence have seen different influences dropped at bear since. There have been two massive protests and a smaller one by UCSD college in help of the scholars and towards UCSD directors and, oh yeah, Genocide.
The workplaces of the Vice Chancellor have been inundated with calls for from the handfuls of pupil organizations to elucidate why. These assembly are being held every day in what directors would have the scholars consider is their transparency. Nevertheless, that is but once more crocodile tears because the Vice-Chancellor doesn’t have the balls nor the ethical spine to use the least resistance towards the mounting downward stress favoring Genocide. She prefers to curry favor and as an alternative discover methods to cease the scholars.
There have been requires the resignation of the UCSD Chancellor, and the heads of the Vice-Chancellors and Affiliate Vice-Chancellors workplace. The grad college students who’ve been a thorn in latest contract disputes relating to offering support to the professors are threatening a walk-out. College is making related rumblings. Directors at the moment are anxious a couple of name for a campus-wide “wild cat strike.” In what could bode properly nationally, the grad college students are members of the UAW, that’s proper, the United Auto Employees. May this strike- and the equally outraged conscience of people that construct cars- set off a spark of collective conscience and a nationwide sympathy strike?
Effectively… it’s to dream.
It could appear that the directors at UC have vastly miscalculated. These college students and a lot of the awakening world don’t depend on the antiquated propaganda supply programs of CNN, FOX, BBC, SKY, and their ilk. What they do depend on is their very own eyes because the GENOCIDE in Gaza continues by the minute on their video screens. In the meantime, all world politicians cry the identical crocodile tears, whereas maintaining the loonies on the trail brutally and their Star of David knee pads and spittoon shut at hand.
What the ethical world of scholars witnesses every day comes from Telegram, Messenger, X Reddit and a number of different unbiased new mediums which have managed to convey to their eyes dwell video, indeniable video, barbaric video that exhibits to anybody: GENOCIDE.
I launched greater than a dozen of those channels for all to make use of as quickly because the struggle and the censorship started. I defy anybody to entry these channels for simply ten minutes and never attain one main, ethical conclusion: GENOCIDE.
Nevertheless, on the assortment of ten universities of selective training, that training is willfully making an attempt to redefine the most heinous crime towards humanity attainable by man. However as goes the failed police try and kettle the minds of the scholars within the correct route, the First Rule, that day, on a Monday in Could on the College of California/ San Diego, these college students seemed that evil within the eyes and as soon as once more turned that barbaric thoughts round on its heels. Despatched it again from the place it got here. Center fingers raised for all to see.
As goes this victory at UCSD, so goes the civilized world… First Rule now firmly in hand.
As a result of…there’ll all the time be extra of US than of THEM.
And by no means, ever, neglect it!
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