Michelle Malkin » Campus chaos: Social justice mobsters attack police, smash windows over tuition hikes; Update: “Who’s (sic) schools?”

Campus chaos: Social justice mobsters attack police, smash windows over tuition hikes; Update: “Who’s (sic) schools?”

By Michelle Malkin • March 4, 2010 07:11 PM

When last we heard from entitlement-mongering college students protesting budget cuts at public universities, they were taking torches to the chancellor’s home at UC Berkeley.

Remember?

As I’ve noted before, it’s not right-wing Republicans assaulting police officers, abusing government authority to try and drive out the Marines, waging nationwide war on recruiters, and terrorizing researchers in the name of animal rights. It’s left-wing nutballs who always get a pass from the NYTimes columnists and MSNBC loudmouths who’ve been blaming every violent outburst on the planet on the Tea Party movement.

Today, the social justice mobsters on campuses across the country held a nationwide tantrum over tuition hikes. This is how the Left teaches civil discourse to its intellectual progeny: “Gimme!” “Revolucion!” “Smash Patriarchy!”

At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, they assaulted cops:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials said they had to use pepper spray Thursday to help break up a rally at the campus after some protesters became violent while trying to enter the building that contains the chancellor’s office.

Sixteen people were detained and 15 were arrested during the afternoon rally, university spokesman Tom Luljak said. The rally coincided with rallies at colleges nationwide, criticizing the rising cost of higher education.

Luljak said university police sprayed pepper spray in the air and called the Milwaukee Police Department for help after some protesters attempted to storm Chapman Hall, the building that houses Chancellor Carlos Santiago’s office. Protesters were punching and kicking officers while some also threw snowballs and ice at the officers, Luljak said.

Students who helped organize the protest said in a statement that officers punched them and described the rally as a peaceful protest of a repressive school administration. No snowballs or punches were thrown at officers, the organizers said.

More than 125 students rallied at UWM’s student union at noon and later marched to the chancellor’s office, according to several accounts.

Luljak said a representative of the protesters was invited into Chapman Hall and asked to deliver any demands from the protesters. The student representative later yelled at the crowd, telling everyone to try to enter, Luljak said. That’s when police intervened.

Four officers were knocked to the ground, Luljak said. UWM’s police chief asked Milwaukee police for help.

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#101

On March 5th, 2010 at 2:47 pm, huggybear said:

He got books from the Library and stayed up until 2 and 3 A.M. reading to EDUCATE HIMSELF FOR FREE.

You mean the ~~public~~ socialist library? Funded by tax dollars? I guess he never bothered to look up the definition of “irony.” If anything, his example underscores the societal value of making information and education available to anyone who seeks it.

The signs are hilarious, however the violence is extremely unfortunate and counter-productive, and worse yet, entirely predictable. These are tough times, especially here in California, and everyone needs to own up their fair share of reality. Even after tuition hikes, public education is still far cheaper than any private school.

tack on the bill for all the damage, police overtime and class stoppage to their tuition bills.

Agreed.
#102

On March 5th, 2010 at 9:16 pm, frontierguy said:

What are these morons going to do with their liberal arts degrees anyway? There are no jobs. It is real irony that the ones who have destroyed the system are the ones people like these continue to vote for. Colleges will continue to raise their fees as long as government keeps their hands in the pot. When student loans are (maybe were) easy to get there is no incentive to keep costs down, institutions of higher learning will keep milking the system. Students today don’t sacrifice at all for their education and have no idea what it is like to sacrifice.
#103

On March 5th, 2010 at 10:06 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

On March 5th, 2010 at 2:47 pm, huggybear said:

He got books from the Library and stayed up until 2 and 3 A.M. reading to EDUCATE HIMSELF FOR FREE.

You mean the public socialist library? Funded by tax dollars? I guess he never bothered to look up the definition of “irony.”

I guess you’re unaware of the history of libraries in this country, and how over 1,500 of them were built not with tax dollars but rather with money donated by Scottish-American CAPITALIST and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Oh, the “irony” of assuming that libraries only come from socialism.
#104

On March 6th, 2010 at 1:27 pm, AlohaGuy said:

I guess you’re unaware of the history of libraries in this country, and how over 1,500 of them were built not with tax dollars but rather with money donated by Scottish-American CAPITALIST and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Oh, the “irony” of assuming that libraries only come from socialism.

Let’s not forget University libraries either. Harvard is named after the Marxis, er Socialist, I mean Progressive, no, um Christian Minister who donated his books to start their first library. Years later when most of it burned, his relative Hollis gave them books to rebuild as did other private donors.
#105

On March 6th, 2010 at 4:40 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

AlohaGuy,

Great point. Veritas (Truth).

Most of America’s “elite” universities were started as Christian colleges/universities.

The administrations of these universities were taken over in the mid 20th century by the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy (what Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov accurately called “the world Communist conspiracy”).

See: Demoralization in America’s Universities
#106

On March 7th, 2010 at 6:38 am, tpitman said:

On March 5th, 2010 at 1:15 pm, WarEagle82 said:
Stupid me! I paid for my own college! And I finished in less than 4 years while working 15 to 20 hours a week!
Somebody forgot to tell me I was ENTITLED TO YOUR MONEY!!! I’m calling Obama, NOW!
I hope I qualify for a refund…

If you happen to be a “person of color” you are not only entitled to a refund, you are a victim.