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#BlackLivesMatter’s Weekend with Bernie
Over the weekend, a handful of #BlackLivesMatter activists took over the podium at a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle and proceeded to berate the crowd with a litany of racial grievances while a frustrated Sanders stood aside. We’ve got a great discussion on the matter going on on the Member Feed (Not a member? There’s an easy way an easy way to fix that.) Warning: video contains some brief uses of language outside Ricochet’s Code of Conduct:
This is likely not the last time this will happen. As such, Republicans need to think hard about how they’ll respond should a something similar happen at their own rally. A few quick thoughts:
- Notice how much the (leftist) crowd hated this stunt: for every cheer, there seemed to be two boos and a jeer, (not to mention that one “How dare you!” from one of the attendees). Think of how wonderful it would have been to do an interview with the woman who said that under the headline “Activists made my hippie grandma cry for attending a Bernie Sanders rally.” These kids have the potential to be a fetid albatross around the Democratic Party’s neck if this is played right.
- If this is played wrong ,they have the potential to do enormous harm, especially once they start trying this at Republican rallies. Nothing would play into their hands better than for than to be violently evicted, tasered, or pepper-sprayed on the orders of a bunch of white — or “white Hispanic” — male Republican politicians. I don’t know enough about security to comment much further, other than to say that any Republican candidate who hasn’t already met with his security detail to discuss this likely isn’t sharp enough to be president.
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Cruz did a nice job in a difficult situation, but that wouldn’t have worked with the “black lives matter” fascists. They clearly intended to seize control of the rally and would not have been moved by any attempt at rational discourse. In fact, they were offered time after Sanders spoke and rejected that, insisting that they would speak or they would shut down the rally.
What would you suggest Ted Cruz should do if he is met by this kind of intransigent thuggery instead of the mild behavior of the Code Pink demonstrators? Do you recommend Bernie Sanders’ approach of capitulation?
Why didn’t someone, anyone, get right into her face the way those women got into Bernie’s face, and keep talking over them instead of allowing them to speak freely?
What’s good for the goose, etc.
Bernie Sanders expects to be Commander in Chief of the United States of America, and yet he is quickly bullied away from the microphone by couple of protesters?
Activists hijacking an event is an implicit acknowledgment that they would be unable to draw significant numbers of people to their own event. Therefore, as with many bullies, their behavior is a sign of weakness.
I deplore the abuse of captive audiences. Whether it’s BLM at a Sanders event, a “performance” or solicitation on a subway car, or even movie previews on a DVD that cannot be skipped, it irritates me in the extreme.
The solution to the BLM problem is to control access to the stage. Preventing an interloper from taking a stage has a far different appearance from that of dragging her off the stage. If someone does get control of the mic, there’s no need for a separate speaker system. Every sound board has separate volume controls for each mic input. You turn down the hijacker’s mic and turn up the intended speaker’s mic. Easy-peasy.
There’s a view, prevalent among liberals, the good hearted kind in both parties and the cowardly kind that fear media frenzies, that allowing folks to blow off steam, have their say, play a role important to them will help manage the issue, the people the movements, create opportunities to co-opt them. This is the tea kettle view of human activity which was prevalent in the sixties. It’s biology not physics. Allowing them in, giving them their time is fertilizer and gives rise to growth of the noxious weeds which crowd out the things we want. They have to be stopped and if they do illegal things, arrested because the growth covers that garden by doubling with increasing rapidity.
Things just got a little more interesting:
And so it begins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOttqTwaUM
Each and every person who disrupts a public event in this way should be arrested and charged with disturbing the peace, and made to serve 30 days in jail. At their sentencing the judge should give them a copy of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to give them something to think about while incarcerated.