Over 100 Officers Poured Into Campus Last Night; 35 Arrested, Says Cal Poly Humboldt
Micah Starr wearing a Star of David reads a Seder service held on the Cal Poly Campus Monday. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
The protesters, who clashed with law enforcement a week ago when officers attempted to evict them from a sit in supporting the people of Gaza at Seimen’s Hall, were mostly peaceful.
However, tensions escalated as the administration and protesters failed to reach an agreement and the University claimed that the protesters had done millions of dollars in damage to the campus. Student protesters and faculty eventually issued a letter calling for the resignation of Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson and Chief of Staff Mark Johnson.
The protesters, who clashed with law enforcement a week ago when officers attempted to evict them from a sit in supporting the people of Gaza at Seimen’s Hall, were mostly peaceful.
A protester, Tommy, blows bubbles at yesterday’s protest on campus. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
One of the chants heard was “Resistance is justified when Palestine is occupied.” [Photo by Mark McKenna]
A protester waves a Palestinian flag as the sun set yesterday. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
A protester addressed the students. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Law enforcement marching into the Quad of Cal Poly Humboldt. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Most protesters knelt in the center of the quad and locked arms. Media attempted to capture the scene for the community to observe but most were pushed back.
Law enforcement arrest a protester in dark clothing on Cal Poly’s Quad. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Law enforcement struggles with a protester. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
According to a statement released by the University this morning, “Those arrested faced a range of different charges depending on individual circumstances including unlawful assembly, vandalism, conspiracy, assault of police officers, and others. In addition, students could face discipline for conduct violations while any University employees arrested could face disciplinary action.”
Officers march protesters to the processing area before the police wagon takes them to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
An officer processes a protester for the large police wagon which was used to transport students to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
A Sheriff’s Deputy assists a suspect into the police wagon. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
In defiance of our wrongful arrest, I have chosen to reject any bond and embark on a hunger strike. I refuse to accept the label of criminal for standing up for an ethical reason. Our arrest on a stolen land and in a place that we consider home is an act of violence.
Until all of my students and me are released and justice is served, I will endure this hunger strike as a testament to the strength of my convictions and unwavering commitment to truth and justice.
Protesters have released this flyer with the image of the detained faculty member and we’ve updated this article with it.
Earlier:
- Pro Palestinian Protesters Occupy Siemens Hall at Cal Poly
- From Campus to Courthouse: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Demand Release of Activists After Clashes at Cal Poly Humboldt
- Protestors Continue to Occupy Cal Poly Humboldt Buildings
- Anti-War Protestors Continue Occupation of Cal Poly Humboldt Building: Campus Closure Extended
- Letter From Student Urges Cal Poly Humboldt Leadership to Rethink Campus Closure and Facilitate Peaceful Protests
- Cal Poly Humboldt Extends Campus Closure Amid Ongoing Protests
- Anti-War Protestors Continue Occupation of Cal Poly Humboldt Building: Campus Closure Extended
- Cal Poly Humboldt Responds to Protesters Demands as Students Continue to Occupy Seimens Hall (Almost Five Days)
- Breaking News: Cal Poly Humboldt Announces Campus Closure and Shift to Remote Operations Until Semester’s End
- Safe Exit Offer: Cal Poly Humboldt Provides Opportunity for Occupants to Leave Buildings Without Immediate Arrest
- Sheriff Honsal Visits CPH as Protestors Opt Out of Safe Exit Offer; Siemens Hall Opens
- Cal Poly Humboldt Campus Sealed Off Amid Law Enforcement Buildup and Student Protests
- Student Unrest 54 Years Apart: Cal Poly Humboldt Protests Echo Historic Campus Activism
- ACLU in Humboldt County: Monitoring and Advocating for Rights at Cal Poly Humboldt
- The Convergence: Reports of Large Numbers of Law Enforcement Ramp Up Protest on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus
- Letter to the CSU Administration From Community Leaders Calls for Dialogue
- Blue Lake Rancheria Says It Faces Disruption as Pro-Palestine Protesters Target Businesses Over Alleged Law Enforcement Lodging
- Breaking News: Law Enforcement Warns Campus Protesters of Arrests and Possible Use of Force; Many Defy Orders
- NYT Notes ‘Small Campus in the Redwoods Has the Nation’s Most Entrenched Protest’
- Arrests of Students at Cal Poly Humboldt as Law Enforcement Pours Onto Campus
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Good job, lock em up. All non students need to be kept in jail and held financially responsible.
Here is a screen shot of today’s booking sheet. Just shows 4 protestors though,. Resisting arrest. Guess the rest will be on tomorrows.
Funny they used HSU instead of CPH
Should’ve used HSC, that podunk place will never be on par with UC or Stanford. They take applicants that can’t get in anywhere better
Their expectance rate is in the mid 90’s – not a hard school to get in to – they will take anyone with a heartbeat and checkbook from here on out! The newbie numbers were horrific this year…this just added to the problem on the hill! How are the “crane”dorms coming along??? 😂
Cal state is objectively easier to get into than UC, thats the point of the two parallel systems.
The New York City Police Department released a video showing a professional “protest consultant” who was seen on other social media videos instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University overnight Monday.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke about outside agitators during a press conference Tuesday evening.
“What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators. We were extremely cautious about releasing our intel information because our goal was to ensure the safety of the students, the faculty, and without destruction to property,” Adams said. “We have sounded the alarm several times before about external actors who attempted to hijack this private protest.”
Adams and members of his administration shared information about the outside actors who were creating “serious public safety issues” at the protests.
“Some of the people involved are being paid money,” Stoll said, explaining he authored an article for The Wall Street Journal recently about how these groups are advertising for fellows to be paid $3,000 to work eight hours a week for three months, on campuses across the U.S. “Some of the people who have been quite prominently in these protests have been paid fellows with hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Soros Open Society Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
“So, there’s big money behind these protests,” Stoll added.
He also spoke about how many of the people at the anti-Israel protests taking place at campuses like Columbia University are the same people who attend Black Lives Matter protests, as well as anti-Trump protests.
Students that participated in occupation should be held financially accountable and expelled, blacklisted from public universities. Free speech is a good thing, destruction of public property and interference with school operations is criminal. Take it to the Plaza.
Bet the hunger strike doesn’t last three days.
Free speech is so easy behind a keyboard.
Indeed it’s the only free speech we have left. Look how they came down on these protestors for free speech. Meanwhile Netanyahu will be arrested for war crimes this week. Mark my words.
https://youtu.be/UZyceCmDw_4?si=_8_CWUTsavcWkD7k
Dream on.
And a hunger strike will change nothing. You’re not that important Professor.
Those glasses may be probable cause for arrest?
Either way watching The Neo Hippies VS. The Neo Americans is pretty funny to watch.
Honestly never imagined the downfall would look anything like what we see, but it does and you can’t make this stuff up.
“We are not afraid! We are NOT afraid!!” “Whaaa!!!!Somebody help us!!!” Great humor. Monty Python could not have done better….
Ah yes, the free speech icon Musk who readily bans whatever speech he doesn’t like but is perfectly fine with all kinds of racist and homophobic speech.
What speech has Musk banned, other than flight tracker and his child’s location data? Waiting…
Just one example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-musk-silencing-his-critics-as-journalists-are-suspended-by-x/
For another example, he bans use of the term cis because he considers it a slur but somehow doesn’t think various uses of trans are.
Pay wall can’t read your link. Is it a leftist propaganda opinion piece? There’s no social site with more free speech than X and I’m certain you know that
I don’t think Forbes is known for leftist propaganda.
Musk, the globalist and government contractor who envisions a future where carbon taxes and digital neural interfaces are requirements to use his electric cars and digital payment processor, is so well supported in his marketing effort that he’s made himself the darling of the American republican.
It’s truly bizarre.
At least they are not LIES like heard from the mouths of elected conservative Republicans and their leader Pinocchio Donald Trump.
They call themselves transvestites cause that’s what they identify with. Remember science isn’t real. A dog can now be called a cat. All by design,
and all this time i thought they were from Transylvania
“Just a step to the left…”
Musk has famously done more for free speech than nearly any other person. X may not be pretty, but it’s not the propaganda that twitter was, with 98% of its employees certified left. This fact is fairly obvious to any clear eyed individual.
My God it’s hard to look at that level of delusion.
Jeffersonian, what a stupid name – just call ur self Captain Whiteman and get it over with
Jack Dorsey was much worse. At least Musk broke up that echo chamber.
Let’s also not forget that these same students would be the first ones to block any conservative speaker from gaining access to the campus. They are ONLY in favor of free speech that they agree with.
I’m certain that would be true
The Fascist Biden Regime is encouraging antisemitic rallies, like the Nazis. Only antisemites and fascists would support another Biden term.
“We need the President of the United States to speak to the issue and say this is wrong. What is happening on college campuses right now is wrong, it is unAmerican, and it is not who we are. The president seems unable or unwilling to do that.” – @SpeakerJohnson
How can I forget…that hypothetical future?
Well, I admit I am extrapolating from the many, many past events where leftist students have blocked and shut down invited conservative speakers, often with physical force.
I think the odds are with me that these students would act much like other leftist students have in the past and do anything they can to curtail the ‘free speech’ of a conservative.
I know. You have examples. But you just don’t feel like sharing right now.
Are you joking or serious?
Kind of scary if you are serious and unaware of the massive amount of censorship on college campuses relating to conservative speakers.
Here is a list of 274 guest speakers who were protested and/or cancelled.
I could try and round up some more if necessary.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cancel-culture-database/?gv_search=&filter_4=Guest+Speaker&filter_6=&filter_7=&mode=all
Most of that list is instances where people protested a speaker, which is pretty standard for controversial or emotionally charged topics. At least several of the listed “canceled” events were universities denying requests, which is their right.
And most of the other canceled events were related to transgender issues, which is a problem our society seems dedicated to not discussing honestly. The transhumanists will have their way
Yes, my whole point is that it is pretty standard for the left to protest conservative speaker, often to the point of shutting down the event.
Show me your list of 274 times this has happened with leftist speakers? Can you show me even 27 times? How about 4 times?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Or how about that time Maya Angelou spoke at Brigham Young…oh yeah. Never happened. Conservative universities aren’t getting bombed by speaking requests just to get denied and cry.
Guys like your Milo Yanoupolis engaged in a campaign to go to universities where he knew he’d be wildly unpopular so he could claim being cancelled. At a certain point some right wing stuff is just unpopular, and not thought through.
Spot on.
And arrested.
Just like what was done in Germany, Italy, Spain, Chile, the Philippines, Cuba and tens of other countries. And Donald Trump is stating he would do the same thing if he was re elected. Will Americans tolerate another Gestapo Police Forces waking people up at midnight to arrest them and throw them in jail? I certainly hope not. Think about that when you vote in November.
but it’s cheaper than weight watchers
That’s good, notice the lefty looney Progs are mostly obese?
People like you should have their fingers muzzled.
nnnope
Actually, anyone and everyone involved must be jail and held financially responsible. Glad to see law enforcement finally got the job done…
“Must be”
🤣 Lmao
The Governor of Texas did it right when protestors started coming onto the University of Texas campus, he called in the State Troopers to go in and make arrests instead of letting the protesters take control. Cal Poly Humboldt did this to themselves.
The protests in Austin are ongoing. Militarized police response didn’t stop them
I sure hope the charges stick.
Why do you hope that? You don’t have any relationship at all with the people you hope suffer, that’s just so ugly.
Cal poly Humboldt may just be a precious institution Diablo holds dear. The students are a dark smudge on the otherwise impeccable grace the University System lavishes on our little backwater. I say permanently ban all students from the UC, And State College system. They’re nothing but trouble.
nnnitwit
So far, they are all misdemeanors, no real consequences. There may be others with more serious charges that are still being processed. Some of the arrests were to late for today’s print out for the public to see, so you will see the others in print out tomorrow (unless you call in and ask).
Trespassing is only a citeable misdemeanor
Actually vandalism with a value over $400 can be charged as a felony. PC 594 google it.
Do u see any felony charges?
Not one!
Wrong. Trespassers who refuse to leave can be arrested and jailed.
In this case those arrested were given multiple opportunities, over the course of a week, to avoid arrest.
unless its criminal
Outside commentator, most likely law enforcement as they were seen on Redhead Black belt recently, they watch this page like a hawk, or vulture, which is what they really are. Kinda like a parasite 🪱
You only wish. I’m actually a citizen that lives not to far from Kym in southern Humboldt. How bout you?
Did you reach out to the anti defamation league yet?
Describing yourself?
Where are the 30000 dead gazans? NO pics, no bodies, no Graves. ?.
Maybe you should expand your news source?
NewsMax ain’t cutting it.
The 30,000 number comes from Hamas. Nice job shilling for terrorists.
35,000+ at this point
Okay, so 35,000 out of 2 million people in Gaza. That is less than 2% of the population killed and a good chunk of those were Hamas terrorists.
So, 2% killed in a war is a genocide?
The percent of Jews killed in Germany, Poland, and Holland was 60-80% of the population. THAT is a genocide!
You’re aware there is no verification for the IDF’s claims of terrorists killed?
And you’re aware that there are numerous documented instances of IDF and IAF deliberate attacks on unarmed innocent civilians, healthcare workers, aid workers and journalists?
And you’re also aware that the IDF gunned down their own citizens who had been taken hostage and tried to surrender stripped to the waist and waving a white flag?
Isn’t it obvious that Israeli armed forces are indiscriminately killing Palestinians and labeling them terrorists?
By contrast the casualty figures reported by the Gazan health authorities has historically been verified as accurate.
Except they’re most likely an understatement because as I understand it they only include actual bodies and not the people who are buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Finally genocide is not merely a numbers game based on body counts but is multifaceted and includes societal and cultural destruction and displacement of populations to name a few.
There is next to none supporting your allegations either. All your outrage and hyperbole far exceeds your ability to prove much of anything. It is pretty clear that you cherry pick from biased sources, then dismiss any that say differently, and that destroys any credibility.
So says the self-appointed shill for Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza…
So does the 1500 Israelis ruthlessly and viciously slaughtered on Oct 6 count as genocide or not. I’m confused. Maybe since they were only women and their children that doesn’t count. Seems unfair.
Yes, you’re confused.
See how susceptible you are to repeated hinting propaganda? What makes you think all the October 7 victims were women and children? Most accounts I’ve read and seen claim up to 600 IDF soldiers. An important point when considering Israel’s reaction, is that most of the Hamas raiders were killed in the initial fighting. Intelligence knew of the attack plans but blew it off as “aspirational”. Netanyahu’s pet projects were in the West Bank.
To be fair, to these vandalizing airheads that probably looks like some tricky math and based on their writing we can’t assume their number crunching skills are any better.
That number doesn’t take into account injuries. Nothing like having your legs blown off at age eight: The most effective method to recognize the errors in your little ways.
Maybe you should recognize antisemitism when it stares you in the face!
This is why Tik Toc is being banned
can you imagine ‘Mr. Clark’ on tiktoc?
Do you believe the tap water in flint is safe for consumption to or?
Mass graves, children blown to pieces. Dead and injured 100:1 to the October 7 attacks prosecuted with improvised powered para sails, and ancient Indian motorcycles. Once you turn 18 your Internet will let you see.
Mass graves with people hands tied and buried alive after being tortured, the ICC is x-raying bodies for broken bones and proof of torture by the Jewish Genocide State of Israel.
Jews and a genocide will always go tongue and cheek now. Good job Irael. If you think there was antisemitism before, now the world hates these people for doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to them in ww2
You are out of your mind
You have forgotten about the hostage that Hamas has. Have you heard testimony from some of the hostages that were released from Hamas. Days with out food in a dark room with no where to go to the bathroom no shower and being raped weather your a man or a women. And it’s not just rape it’s brutal forceful rape.
How about them? Did you forget about the babies put in the ovens by Hamas the family members beheaded in front of children then the children killed. Oh how about the Hamas guy who used a cell phone from someone he killed to call his parents to tell them what he did.
You seem to forget about that.
How about the video of some of the hostages being taken from the concert. There was video of Hamas taking a women who had blood and shit all over her and being shoved in a vehicle. People trying to get away and they were being shot.
Again you have forgotten about that.
It’s a shame.
All Israeli propaganda.
I suggest you google up the 13th Waffen SS, the most brutal of that lot. While you’re there check out The Grand Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini and his personal relationship with old Adolf. By the way his full title is, The Grand Mufti of Palestine. History matters
What are talking about? You are too inept to find photographic & video evidence on an overwhelmingly documented siege that has lasted for over 200 days? https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/2/8/mapping-israels-destruction-of-gaza here are some clearly doctored photos to further whatever disassociated suspicions you may have. And, honestly, if you were to just search the web for your question in any search box, oh what horrible things you’d see.
al jazeera is the group who cheered on al qaeda. You’re either a nazi or a simp.
Show us a clip. Al Jazeera is a news outlet from Qatar. Most of the anchors just look different. You better find that clip! I mean you’re so sure of yourself you start with the name calling again!
You have cemented your place of having zero credibility.
There is a lot of coverage here about protesters being protesters and very little coverage about the Palestinian issue, 99.9 % vs less than.1%. Same with the comments: blather from uninformed right wing trolls abounds. If there’s any thinking and interested people out there, the probable silent majority, who would like to read a thoughtful take on this issue, then I recommend a recent novel by Colum McCann called Apeirogon, about two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who both lost children in the conflict, and bond in solidarity. Very good book.
After reading this book you may, as I did, fully realize that the Palestinian oppression is real and something to sympathize with, in my opinion.
So you’re saying left-wing trolls don’t exist??
Another good one: The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-lemon-tree-an-arab-a-jew-and-the-heart-of-the-middle-east_sandy-tolan/249454/item/1866500/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=pmax_high_vol_scarce_under_%2410&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwrcKxBhBMEiwAIVF8rAWLLZ0lYWcPFUG3NGLMHDOtEu8iUh-_eUqsXZxKV942NoW9VmJhaBoC_dIQAvD_BwE#idiq=1866500&edition=4582050
Thank you. I will find the book.
Protestors blowing bubbles! When hate and killing starts… horrible situations occur. The fact the Jews have been hated for ever, been routinely killed and the murder sanctioned by governments – should help you recognize antisemitism! Go down the list (a recent list with plenty missing)… Nazi death camps, Olympic games – take hostages and then throw a grenade in the helicopter, throw a jew off a boat, profess to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, protest of University Campus promising death to Jews. Congratulations Paul – blow so bubbles.
Actually, everyone is just saying, stop killing Palestinians, it really has nothing to do with Jews, it has everything to do with Palestinians being killed on a daily basis and how it needs to stop immediately, months ago.
Seriously, why doesn’t Hamas surrender? They are literally shooting rockets and missiles at Israeli civilians even this week…
Saying “Nazi death camp” isn’t anti German, it’s anti Nazi. Israel is hardly at risk of being wiped off the Earth. The October 7 attacks were drones, old motorbikes and para sails. Of the 1300 Israelis killed, 600 were IDF not civilians. If you appreciate Israel as a Nation, you might say, “hey, how about proportionality. You are losing the hearts and minds of the world.”
Palestinian children today aren’t responsible for the crimes of their uncles, nor are they guilty of the crimes of Europeans 80 years ago. Serbs were valiant anti Nazis. Their grandchildren slaughtered Croatian farmers in Srebrinitza over a 1300 year old sister religion. The tactic of yelling down any dissent as “anti semitic” almost worked 20 years ago. In the face of what the World is witnessing, it’s ridiculous and offensive.
You want proportionality?
Well, Hama’s charter of 1988 (revised in 2017) blames the Jews for WW1, WW2 and the French and Russian revolutions. It explicitly calls for their death. You sure you want Israel to respond proportionately?
Sure. Israel can publish a wing nut charter nobody will read including the a lone commenter 36 years into the future. I’ll take a new wacky charter any day over indiscriminate bombing of civilians.
Riddle me this…
If Hamas had the ability to kill every Jew in Israel, would they?
We both know the answer.
Riddle me this, Hugh Manatee…
If they wouldn’t have before the last 29 weeks of relentless Israeli murderous onslaught, would they be more likely to now, following it…???
I’ll give you three guesses…
They would have then, they still would now, and they still will 20 years from now.
Israel is making it harder for them to fulfill that desire.
That disregards the decades of Hamas-Israel conflicts. This is a 2021 article listing just some of them back to 1987. At which point Manatee’s point about Hamas’s antisemitism was still the official policy. And, although they rewrote their documents to soften it in 2017, the Hamas official rejoicing in the death of Israelis took to to social media to encourage killing Jews all over the world.
You may be tired of it but too bad Gazans are not. And Palestinians have operated on the idea for centuries. It’s an inconvenient truth you can’t just flick off because you prefer to.
Right, let’s count the ones slaughtered by Hamas initially and then for proportionality you can be the one to pick out a proportional number of Hamas Palestinians to be murdered and raped. You can also be the one to do the proportional killing and rape. If you were facing drones, old motorbikes and para sails and were facing death… I’m pretty sure you would downplay the murderers coming at you as “well… we aren’t “at risk of being wiped off the face of the earth!” Fascist much Jocelyn!
So, what does the future hold? Half the population of Gaza is under 18. Your expectation is that they will grow up to be thankful for the last 7 months? Do you think they will learn the error in THEIR ways, and peacefully pursue ship dismantling in their new homeland in Egypt, housekeeping in Saudi Arabia?
I wonder? If you check the bio of the Prof that was arrested you will see he did some of his scholarly work in Tehran. Isn’t Hamas a proxy for Iran? I wonder? Any possibility this Prof is working for Iran? Maybe a coincidence. Maybe he is part of the organization that staged the protest?
I would be considered to the “right” of most people. I think what Israel is doing in Gaza is wrong and is obviously a genocide. People who say otherwise are being purposefully disingenuous or are severely misinformed. I also see what is happening to these protesters and think that is wrong as well, especially when it is compared to the riots of 2020 that burned down cities. This was an operation to bring the political right and left into conformity with one another regarding the First Amendment. Now both sides are in agreement through actions(not words), that freedom of assembly and free speech is dangerous to society. That is a terrible place to be. People need to pull their heads out of their a*ses and realize what has just happened. Some college students being dumb and shutting down a school that is mostly paid for by printed funny money, won’t solve the Israel/Gaza situation. The destruction to the school won’t raise taxes. I feel for the kids who paid and missed out on education, but they are still alive, the school is still there, and the piece of paper that one receives for completing college can be printed off and embossed at any time that they finish their requirements. The alignment of both the political right and left on the issue of denial of free speech and assembly is a danger to us all and will have repercussions far into the future for all of us. Far more danger to our freedoms than a few kids who missed a week or two of school.
Go ahead all of you, miss the forest for the trees, tear each other apart, and continue to lose all your freedoms as ya’ll do so. I can’t believe that a Russian built nuclear powered microwave floating in space has to be the one to point this out. Ya’ll need help, and to get your heads checked. All of you.
School not destroyed. So work backwards from there.
Covid showed us you don’t need to physically be in the school anyway. Why complain now if you didn’t then?
Of course Palestinian oppression is real. As is Palestinian oppression of dissenting Palestinians and bitter hatred of jews. As is the misogyny that actually made raping Israeli women to death a policy of Hamas. The catch is in assuming that it is all a problem created by Israel when that hate and oppression existed prior to Israel existing.
And of course these articles are all about protesters because that is the bit that is new.
It’s non partisan, Democrats and Republicans on both sides of this conflict. … I’m neither!
anyone but Biden 2024
How are these comments not considered spam?
Like yours?
What a sad day for peace. My son and I were just there Saturday, so grateful for the students, and to share that peaceful experience. My son used to want to be a police officer, but then he watched the videos of the arrests and threats of violence against his new student friends, he was just drawing chalk peace signs with the other day, and he has since changed his mind. The world is watching you hcso and cph.
This never would have happened in the daytime. only bullies attack peaceful people at 2:45am. And When did exercising your constitutional rights turn into “assault of a police officer?” These bogus charges are beyond Shameful.
Stand proud students, we see you, you are so appreciated! This isn’t over.
Uhhhh….yes, it is.
You weren’t there when it started. Students didn’t know what to think and were frightened as to what’s going on as they rushed out , as the protesters barricaded themselves. They did not sit down n just sing kumbaya.
Only bullies attack peaceful people… that’s what you said when Hamas came in and started murdering and raping! You do realize these protests support that with their silence toward that fact!
guess what isntreal has been doing for over 70 years to the natives
The Pals have EVERY RIGHT to resist their occupation
Like raping women to death is resistance. Like murdering political candidates is resistance.
“It was in January 2006 that the Palestinian territories held what turned out to be their last parliamentary elections. Hamas won a bare plurality of votes (44 percent to the more moderate Fatah party’s 41 percent) but, given the electoral system, a strong majority of seats (74 to 45). Neither party was keen on sharing power. Fighting broke out between the two. When a unity government was finally formed in June 2007, Hamas broke the deal, started murdering Fatah members, and, in the end, took total control of the Gaza Strip. Those who weren’t killed fled to the West Bank, and the territories have remained split ever since…
“More pertinent, the Palestinian National Authority held its first election, and Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party—which had recognized Israel’s right to exist and supported negotiations for a two-state solution—won handily.
Around this time, Israel was withdrawing from the Gaza Strip—not just pulling out troops, but evicting some 8,000 Jewish settlers (most of whom were paid to resettle in the West Bank). Suddenly there was a vacuum of local authority. Bush thought democracy would fill a vacuum, so he urged the Palestinian Authority to hold parliamentary elections.”
This is a community whose whole existence revolves around hate and violence. So good luck with your idolizing that. Your reward will be more hate and violence. Leading to continuing failure to thrive. Are you really so fond of self destructive behavior that you insist it has more scope?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/was-hamas-elected-to-govern-gaza-george-w-bush-2006-palestinian-election.html
You love bombing the “R” word. Just like Israeli internet propaganda. Traditional justice for a rape doesn’t include blowing up entire neighborhoods, maiming and killing children. But you know what? The world didn’t start on October 6. In thirty years are Israelis going to be wondering “Why do they hate us?”
The attack on the 7th was so small and inept in the grand scale of Middle Eastern history, and the reaction so ready..so overkill, it seems orchestrated, or intentionally ignored as an excuse. Remember how the Nazi invasion of Poland got underway? Oops, is that anti Teutonic of me to bring up?
I wouldn’t do that if it wasn’t for the pretense of pro Palestinian supporters that Palestians are innocents being persecuted without cause by some presumed Hollywoood style supervillain.
Raping woman as a military and political tactic is okay with you? Gang raping multiple women to death? It isn’t for most human beings. And I bring it up so much as it was in the official directives to the Hamas in the 10/7 incursion and reflects on the nature of the public in Gaza that supports them. It reflects on the blinders you choose to wear.
It is not a minor crime. “Updating the Council on the Secretary-General’s report, she said it documents almost 3,000 UN-verified cases committed over the course of a single year, the vast majority of them (89 per cent) targeting women and girls.” This is what dismissing it as a AR crime foes.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-israel-history-confrontation-2021-05-14/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4078677.stm
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1068631
And I do recognize “orchestrated, or intentionally ignored” because that is what you are doing in comments you find inconvenient.
I think one rape in the world is too many. There have been multiple rapists over time in Arcata. Let’s say, 13 for arguments sake. Would you advocate bombing and bulldozing North Arcata, leveling all the structures, perhaps killing 350 collateral citizens and injuring another 800-1,000? just some men(rapists obviously, because they live in the town), women and children…well I mean, it’ll be half children….
Jeez what’s the big deal? There’s like, 15-20,000 up there!
If it was an Arcata city government policy to do it, and young men were recruited for the purpose, and Arcata city government then hid them out among other citizens who were willing to hide them because they too hated non Arcatans?
Yours is a nonsensical analogy. These weren’t random men behaving badly. This was a tactic of war to harm easy, unsuspecting targets, sent by a government out of hate and supported by Palestinians as just that.
What do you predict the attitudes of the little kids in Gaza now will be in twenty years? The hateful Hamas murderers? They weren’t born like that. Personally, I do believe we are born Innocent, and circumstances take over from there. My analogy would be better if we could imagine the criminal North Arcata completely fenced off with automated machine gun towers. The citizen within restricted in their movements. You can see the other people who happened to be born on the other side. Israel raised and trained the dogs that attacked them. It wasn’t just some notion cooked up out of the blue in Gaza. It’s not even the fault of Israelis perhaps, if you consider the cynicism of European powers “solving the Jewish problem” by “gifting” them the former British colony on the Med.
These protests are about ending genocide. Nice try tho
When did exercising your constitutional rights include destroying other peoples property, disrupting peoples lives and violating other peoples rights?
The Boston Tea Party?
The constitution didn’t exist at the time of the Boston Tea Party. HSU grad??
Heavier sigh. No it didn’t. But as most people know, the US Constitution was not the only constitution in the world. And the British Bill of Rights existed at the time and there was the Act of Settlement with which every British king since had to sign to before coronation. In fact, the Tea Party came about because the King refused to give colonists the same rights constitutionally guaranteed to other British citizens.
I suppose though the Whisky Rebellion was an example of the tolerance required of the US government in handling rebellious citizens. “The rebels all went home before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation. About 20 men were arrested, but all were later acquitted or pardoned. ” As George Washington put it “The misled have abandoned their errors,” he stated. “For though I shall always think it a sacred duty to exercise with firmness and energy the constitutional powers with which I am vested, yet it appears to me no less consistent with the public good than it is with my personal feelings to mingle in the operations of Government every degree of moderation and tenderness which the national justice, dignity, and safety may permit.”
Whiskey Rebellion prompted anti-Federalist westerners to finally accept the Constitution and to seek change by voting for Republicans rather than resisting the government. Federalists, for their part, came to accept the public’s role in governance and no longer challenged the freedom of assembly and the right to petition. ” Which remains an ideal in place today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
I appreciate your intellectual consistency. One may not agree with the protesters, but they are participating, relatively mildly, in a long tradition in our country.
Yes they are and they are doing it in support of a people from another land(not country) who would never allow this kind of tradition within their territory.
Just like jan 6th this violent insurrection will be forgotten about in a week.
Not comparable at all. I honestly expect that Jan 6th will be covered in American history Civics textbooks for the foreseeable future
Yeah I guess you’re right. There weren’t enough FBI agents at CPH for it to be comparable.
Tom Jackson, you were MIA this whole time and now you issue a statement that this “broke your heart?”
You don’t have the leadership to be a university president. A true leader would have been down at Siemens Hall the moment they heard protesters had disrupted classes and engaged in dialogue with these students. I promise you, these are young students – they weren’t going to hurt you. This whole story would have turned out a lot different if there was engagement and dialogue from the start. These are students, they are not criminals. They were disruptive, and disruptive in some ways that no sensible person can accept, but that’s what protests generally do. It was a loud shout to be heard, and if you had listened and engaged from the start they would have dialogued with you.
The students DID NOT shut down the university. They occupied one building after being confronted with riot police from Redding, we’ve all seen the video. Even after that horrendous decision, you still could have kept the rest of the university open. That is what a calm and level headed and ENGAGED administrator would have done.
CPH shut down the university. You shut down the university. You never had to do that. That was your choice. I’m sick and tired of these CPH press releases spreading fear of “outside agitators in the the building” and “health and safety concerns for all” and “the protest has shut down the university”. YOU shut down the university and ruined a spring semester for all. Please resign today. There is not a shred of confidence left on campus or in the community for you to continue to run the most important institution in our region.
Quit trying to blame Jackson for the University shutdown. Not a fan of his, but nobody in their right mind would try to keep a university open when a building (the Administration Building no less) had been taken over. The “protestors” broke the law. Now stand up and face the consequences. Quit gaslighting everyone and shirking responsibility for this total sh-tshow of a “protest” that veered far from Gaza into just about every other grievance imaginable.
Holy smokes! I had no idea there were STUDENTS on campus! Shut it down SHUT IT DOWN! Siemens Hall has a prop 65 warning sticker. Don’t you protesters have any soul!? There’s NO WAY to maintain campus operations with 30 people in there overnight. Shut down all deliveries of Mad River water to the entire area. That’ll teach em. We must root out the terrorists. Modern rules of proportionality dictate we utilize smart targeting lazer guided technology to level Sunny Brae.
Aspects of the way they have protested up there are terrible, the graffiti and vandalism never acceptable. But Jackson has to take the brunt of responsibility for the sh-tshow that was this whole past week. The massive law enforcement response last Monday to a ragtag group of ultimately non-violent protesters was insanity and it escalated the whole thing. A good educational leader would have stepped in right away and talked with the kids and deescalated things. We’ve seen the teachers step up and show up for the students because they know and they understand the kids better than any of us. But the teachers don’t hold the power to make the big decisions. Jackson does, and he holds the responsibility to steer the university in the best direction at all moments and he can’t do the job – he didn’t even make a statement until today! Weak.
Thank you for your comments. I think you are quite correct. He would not speak with them, immediately called in riot police thereby escalating the situation and then he continued to hide out only approving some press releases that hyped the situation further. I’m not condoning the students’ behavior! But they are basically children. He was the adult. He should resign or be fired….
Other universities kinda de-fanged the protests by accommodating some demands, and extracting some concessions. For instance, I think it was Brandeis that allowed protesters to camp, but if they agreed to quiet down at midnight. The protests would quietly die out as summer progressed, and the rest of the students passed by daily, going on with their lives. It wouldn’t be a big exciting rebel Return of the Jedi event.
Precisely. Brown University admin dialogued and negotiated with protesters and agreed to a future vote on divestment. Nothing wrong with a vote and the protesters saw that and ended the protest there.
Negotiating and dialogue is tedious and hard work but it’s worth it for all stakeholders.
CPH will still have to do this at some point. The tensions of the past week have been stamped out by police for the moment, but the heart of the matter remains completely undiscussed and unresolved. Again, CPH obviously needs a better leader to navigate the school and our community through the next steps whatever they may be.
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/04/30/brown-university-protesters-will-clear-pro-palestine-encampment-heres-the-deal/73510478007/
Public trial in Arcata Plaza, let the people of Arcata decide. It’s simple. Jackson has got to go back to his home, it’s not Humboldt County!
B.S.
Vandalizing and destructive behavior is not “peaceful expression and free speech “. It is criminal activity that should not be tolerated. It was the demonstrators that chose to barricade themselves.
Go blow your bubbles on the plaza.
Stand proud students we are with you!! These shameful trumped up charges are ridiculous. Hopefully everyone can come to their senses and drop the charges against all who were peacefully protesting and exercising their rights of free speech and assembly.
No. We are not.
He has a mouse 🐁 in his pocket! Or maybe he’s French?
Don’t forget parents, send your kids to cal polyp humboldt for the education they deserve……place is a bad joke.
people make it a good or bad place
Given the speed of the court system I think the hunger strike isn’t a good idea.
But it’s great for tapping into the news cycle.
KRCR Facebook post that you link to clearly states Ruiz was not arrested and was released. Seems like you’re promoting an agenda or sensationalism here with false information.
Seems like you are?
this reporter “ADELMI YSITA” was arrested. along with 1 professor and 1 watershed coordinator.
No! Not the watershed coordinator!
George Soros?! You darn Hungarian Willy Wonka!
My 4D red thread chart just expanded another room…
he’s a rabble rouser
Good. You should be arrested just for saying you’re a watershed coordinator. Translation, a non productive non profit employee with no skills but an influential uncle.
Thank you for pointing out that there was an update on that page. The last we knew our reporter held his phone to the police wagon so Ruiz could call Nazy Javid. But, if she wasn’t actually booked into jail, then what looked like an arrest becomes police detainment. I’ve updated both of our stories to reflect that.
The confusion is understandable. Thanks for following up. I am against press being detained, arrested, etc.
Sorry for accusing you of something that was not true.
Thank you for the very gracious statement. To be honest, I have a hard time understanding how detainment could encompasses moving someone miles away. I know logically that arrest requires booking, but my mind feels that if the law moves someone against their will miles that is more than being detained.
It’s an illegal arrest at that point. 20 minutes max for detainment. Sue. $$$$ hold them accountable. The goal was to squelch media coverage
Unlawful detainment, time to contact an attorney. No laws were broke. $$$ get compensated
It looks like KRCR is the one with false information. she was in fact Booked at 3:05am according to jail booked list.
She said in the interview with KRCR that she had her mug shot taken, but not finger prints, I wonder if she knows she was arrested? She got a ride Back to Campus with Billy the Kid Hansal himself.
She said the arresting officer was most hostile one, Billy quickly got her back to campus realizing they got the wrong person… Lawsuits $$$$$
I say leave them all in lockup. As for the pos misguided “professor,” go right ahead and hunger strike. If you hold out long enough you will no longer be anyone’s problem. Everyone who took part in the vandalism should be kept in cages like wild animals so they are no longer a danger to society. Terrorists must not be returned to society, ever.
At least the parents who had local reservations to attend graduation have a place to stay while arranging bail. Or probably no bail but at least give their kids a place to shower and eat.
They’ll all be out today. Jail has no room for these small fry and it’s just not cost effective. Any decent public defender should be able to get the charges dismissed/reduced on constitutional grounds. Watch and see. The truth is what’s provable and what’s provable is rarely the truth.
The judge will O/R release them without bail within 3 days of arrest. These are petty misdemeanors in most cases. Victimless “crimes”.
These little boys and girls caused you to feel terror? You’re not going to fair well in the coming world. Better buck up buckaroo.
You’re one of those people who would have been foaming at the mouth calling MLK a terrorist back in the day. His image has been softened by the powers that be, but he engaged in much the same kind of nonviolent direct action as these students. Your vision of this future would have us segregated and afraid of getting thrown in a gulag for opposing injustice. That’s literally fascism.
You misspelled “terrorists “…
it is not spelled “protestors”
They caused you to be terrified? Wow. You’re not going to do well in the coming world. Better buck up buckaroo.
One of the goals is to “Divest.” Well, guess what? Who brings federal money into a State University? Cal Poly Humboldt is not a research university, so there is really only one major source of federal funding. THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES. Students through their student loans, Stafford Act loans etc. The same federal money that just went to Israel. So if you want the university to “divest” start with your student loans. This whole “protest” is so misguided and idiotic.
Student loans are a scam in and of themselves.
Maybe through some odd, indirect process the economic abuse of common citizens will be decreased?
Well that is informative. Rouhollah Aghasalehis an Iranian born teacher.
From this article from 2014, he said “When I shared a note in which I compared these dress code policies to Iranian dress code policy, my colleagues were offended because I was not supposed to compare U.S. liberal democracy to a theological totalitarian regime. They thought they have such a respect for women and don’t discriminate against them whereas the Islamic regime is obviously oppressive toward women.” And
“That is, not acting White, not being lady-like, wearing butch-tomboy or ragged clothing, is disruptive to academic success.”
https://www.ajc.com/blog/get-schooled/dress-codes-for-female-teachers-their-clothing-seems-more-important-than-their-teaching-skills/8OItBZ4fTyAogV49QaQRjI/
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cleavage-in-a-Tank-Top%3A-Bodily-Prohibition-and-the-Pomerantz/72c6c656aa9cc080907c55ebc3419b799f1702c9#citing-papers
I had kind of figured there had to be faculty involvement in the takeover of the Siemens Hall, won’t be surprised there aren’t a few more directly involved. It does seem more than a bit disingenuous to portray this as a student protest if it was being led and advised by faculty.
Iran was very pro Western, and metropolitan at one point. Post British colonization, the democratically elected prime Minister Mossedegh attempted to nationalize the oil pumped from under their soil by BP and was over thrown in a famous CIA orchestrated coup that installed Shah Reza Palazzi a fierce autocrat. His son inherited power and was an even worse Uday Hussein type torturer, so unpopular, the religious extremist theocracy of the Iranian Revolution seemed like a better choice for average Iranians.
His Bio is very interesting!
roflmao
I don’t understand why the White House is sending that Blinkin guy over to Israel to try and broker a deal when all we have to do to get peace is blow a few bubbles and bang a few bongo drums.
“Until all of my students and me” Hey professor don’t you mean “…all of my students and I…” You do have a degree? Not in English. Typical I fear of cal polyp…..
Lol I saw that too. The illiteracy trickles down from the top.
Ok let me get this straight
They are protesting stolen land by stealing…..how’s that work
The Wiyot Tribe did not ask/hire him either to speak on their behalf.
The university is saying property is more important than lives. Straight up. This is the response for minor property destruction.
Maybe if Tom Jackson was ever in his office itd matter but hes never there anyways.
Ooooh 35 protesters, are you friggin serious, hundreds of cops needed?
I want my money back, this was obviously just a way for the cops to make a bunch of monry off the university system.
I guess HCSO really cant do anything cop related, like fingerprint after a home breakin. Or not sell dead peoples stuff to courthouse employees.
Or not put qtips dipped in pepper spray into young local girls eyes….
https://youtu.be/zDzmyUDIbf4?si=8iCbc8e_X3_CTbex
At least they didnt use a bunch of tear gas & pepper spray that would have spread to all of the neighborhoods surrounding the school. There was no warning given to residents nearby that they need to be ready to shut all windows and doors and stay inside in case large amounts of gas were used.
Thats one reason they need to be in touch with our elected folks.
Boycott the university and lets get CAL POLY OUT OF HUMBOLDT.
Bring back HSU!!!
I was listening to Rev Al Sharpton and he said he has spent 60 days in jail before, during his protesting days in the 60s. If you think the cause is worth jail time, a semester of college and tuition down the drain, then you have to take the consequences of your actions without complaning, they were given fair warning to leave. Did this make a difference in Palestine, probably not, since Netanyahu could care less about american college students. His own people in Israel have been holding protests, it seems the people in Israel are the ones that should be protesting, since it is their country involved in what is happening, this is not a US issue. Israel is a US allie, and all the protesting in the world is not going to change that.
It is a U.S. issue because the U.S. is funding and supplying Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza.
But the protesters went wrong when they shifted from peaceful protesters committing civil disobedience to building occupiers forcefully and violently resisting arrest.
Like I said Israel is a US allie and is a member of the UN, and a bunch of college kids are not going to change a long standing alliance. The west is not going to turn their backs on Israel, it was both parties that passsed the funding. Lets not pretend that the US and other Western countries have been saints in the Middle East, death to America is a popular chant in the Middle East. The US and other Western governments know what they have done in the Middle East, so both parties can turn a blind eye, knowing the US has also done terrible things when it comes to the Middle East. I feel sorry for the Palestinians and the people from Israel who are protesting against Netanyahu, and have to put up with the hate they are receiving for something they are not responsible for, never blame the people for what the government is doing.
Weather or not their our Allie, there still our allies.
The US has leverage. Perhaps. Kinda wedgie right before another weirdo election cycle over here.
But we don’t have a great track record! You don’t…remember? Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s support of the Honduran coup that installed a huge narco now in Federal custody Stateside?
I support the cause of stopping the mass murder. Calling it a war is farcical. Civil disobedience has been effective. Damage to the hall, particularly graffiti, was bone headedly counter productive. CPH is not the enemy. Because the situation is not as clear cut as South African apartheid, demands for divestment were/are a brick wall, at least for now. Students could have avoided charges, possibly by accepting negotiable demands. They are paying the price now for civil disobedience always a risk taken. I admire them for putting their beliefs on the line. One war crime never justifies other war crimes. And nothing justifies the slaughter, sponsored by us.
You can’t be meaningful without tangible results. When there are no real tangible results to available, as in CPH being in control of nothing demanded, the only option is pretend there are and keep pushing. Or quit.
That that is not admirable. It smacks of being manipulated for reasons other than announced.
Bibi’s brutal brigades are going bonkers!
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~Rumi~
“Leave in peace, or leave in pieces.”
Ivanhoe
Expel them all. Sue them all for damages to the school. Put them all in jail for at least six months.
OK, so now Dr Jackson has a broken heart to go with his broken brain.
Although I support the protesters in their right to free speech, there does come a time to restore law and order and life needs to carry on. Otherwise we become downtown San Francisco or Portland and nobody people want that.
Good job kids for standing up what you believe in, but don’t idealize life in an Islamic country. Be glad you live in a democracy where you can be lgbtq, exercise free speech and go to school if you’re a woman.
This professor is being a bit of a drama queen. Arrested on stolen land? Also, it’s “all of my students and I”, not all my students and ME. He is teaching at a school I pay tuition for, so I take this personally.
The “I” and “Me” thing has been over-corrected and re-over-corrected, to the point where even intelligent high profile people get it wrong, then the wrong usage is often used more, then that usage evolves into being correct.
Of course the most common error is when someone often says, “My professor gave a flag to my room mate and I.” (Should be “to my room mate and me,” unless I’ve been wrong all these years?) That’s the over-correction from when people were saying “Me” a lot in certain usages when “I” was correct, so then a lot of people just started saying “I” all the time, sounds more intelligent than “Me.”(?)
There are a lot of these misuses which evolve into acceptability, for example do you know if the correct usage is “Chomping at the bit,” or “Champing at the bit.”?
It’s Champing, but I bet nine out of ten people would say Chomping.
(Speaking of Noam Chompsky, a cunning linguist and my mom’s childhood friend, I’m surprised Kym doesn’t put you on moderation for correcting someone’s grammar, just don’t try to correct a fellow commenter because all the under-educated smartphone addicts are Kym’s bread and butter here, and she wants a safe space without ridicule for the under-educated text generation, in my opinion.)
Oh one more thing, maybe you can help me out here, I’m trying to figure out if I’m on moderation: I post a comment, it pops up on the thread for about thirty seconds, it then disappears for an hour or so, or half the day, and then I notice it’s finally up there. Is that normal for everyone, ie you? Just wondering if you or anyone can set me straight…
Dude, it was a professor making the grammar mistake, not a commenter. The rule is easy enough, if you take the other person out (my student) and see how it sounds with me or I, then that’s the one you use. These are the people I pay to teach my child. That’s my point, i really resist being a grammar/spelling nazi when I can, except when it’s glaring.
Exactly, I do the same test, works every time…
Paul, you’re a rascal!
But seriously, did your Mom know Chomsky? Any stories about young-Noam you can share?
Yeah, one famous one: at about nine years old at Country Day School they were playing cowboy and indian and my mom pushed Noam down off the little hill..
I WAS quite impressed about 8 years ago when she sent Noam an 85th email birthday greeting and he responded immediately…
That’s about it…oh yeah, my mom had a pet duck, it followed her everywhere and the newspaper wrote about it, the duck’s name was Noam..Haha, no, its name was Peeper…
(She also went to college with Coretta Scott King at Antioch)
That’s all folks…
Catch my story in the Independent today, the mystery woman who gave The Guy a place to live was Michelle Bushnell, good for her, and he thinks the world of her…
I use Noam Chomsky monologues to go to sleep while driving.
🤔🧐,
Paul Modic, I can set you straight…
I know the solution to your “disappearing, eventually reappearing comment predicament…
To “keep you in the loop”…
But, I’m just one of those “undereducated smartphone addicts,” you know, one of the ones that you also refer to as, “Kym’s bread and butter”…
Just so you know, you are not on moderation… Relax…
Your comments I find fairly interesting, and unique…
What you are experiencing is perfectly normal, it’s the way virtually everyone’s comments are processed…
There is a simple “hack”, (like me, or would that be “I”…???), test, test.. to speed up the process to instantaneous gratification, that I too, used to not know… (…me too…???) test, test…
Uh oh, my phone is ringing, or is that just my tinnitus…???
I’m going to have to get back to you with the solution…
Don’t touch that dial….
Meanwhile, maybe you could please pass Kym a little “Bread and Butter”, in order to become “one of us”…???
Just a few shekels….???
I’ll catch you on your next comment with that solution…
Honest…
(Seriously)
😁
🤔🧐,
🔮,
Paul Modic,
“dang it”
Polishing up my crystal ball…
My Spidey Senses are telling me that you are trying to contact me…
Crackle, Crackle…
My clairvoyance and hyper-observance are kicking in also…😉
So I’ll reach out to you, in the blind, since we are not getting good reception…
Look I may have erred when I mentioned that I thought you were not on moderation…
It appears that maybe you could be…
Sorry about that…
Anyway, I will tell you that hack…
But I do use a smart phone, guilty as charged, but I don’t know what kind of a device you are using…
After I post a comment, using my device, in order for it not to be temporarily “lost in the matrix”, I “refresh” by tapping once or twice on the triple “semicolon” at the top right of my screen, until the circular arrow appears, and then I tap on it…
Refresh after posting however it works on your device.
Comments, (and any ‘edits”), after initially appearing after posting, go into a “cache”, to be eventually released all at once, periodically, and automatically…
“Refreshing” quickly triggers the release of the “cached” comments, for nearly immediate viewing and prompt “replies”…
When I refresh, as I have tried, it should have released your comments that I sensed, (more on that later), from the “cache”, but it didn’t, so I figure that maybe you could be on moderation…
I hope that helps, but it won’t get you off moderation, if that’s the case…
Only tincture of time, combined with good behavior, will solve that one…
(Been there, done that, more than once…)
😁😉
To find out if you are on moderation, post a comment,
…starting with, “Kym”, (the magic word), asking if you are on moderation…
Usually, she will respond, but sometimes it might take a bit of time…
Don’t give up… You got “listeners”…
PS, I might also be way off base, Paul, forgive me if I am…
Thanks for that feedback. If there’s a temp matrix to be lost in, that’s okay, is your matrix different than other posters because you have a history of questionable behavior here and have been moderated? Or are all matrixes equal? (I could ask Ernie Branscomb, he probably don’t need no stinkin’ matrixes.) I’m not making a big deal out of it, just curious if I’m on mod or not, then if I realize I am, I would be curious enough to ask exactly why. (My high school reunion had a page and I was soon the only one put on moderation by the censorious writer running it. You know how it is, the more interesting and risky and attempted humor you might try to express, the more the powers that be need to put their leash on you, right? The constipated preemptive censors can’t handle the freedom others express, then again the reunion WAS in Indiana, they got hit with a fresh dose of Cali Crazi.)
In other news, check out my article The Last Harvest, available at Redway Liquors in this week’s Anderson Valley Advertiser. (I finally tell all.)
🤔🧐,
Confusing the proper use of “I” with the proper use of “me”…
Heaven forbid, because…
…”Nobody people want that”…
Then again, what’s with the racist, discriminatory reference to “nobody people”…???
Nobody happens to be a friend of mine…
“So, I take this personally.”…
🤷♂️😁
Riiight.. ya got me.
Ooh!
Member status…
Nice.!
Let me be among the first to thank you for your very important contribution…
It’s very generous and considerate of you…
I’m dead serious in case you were wondering…
In appreciation, I will post the “tenets of fascism” for you to peruse, just in case you are interested, and/or hadn’t already done so…
It may or may not be a meaningless gesture to you, but I will take that chance…
Gimme a second or two…
I’ll be back…
Tenets of fascism:
“Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”
I count 5 out of 7 that apply to Israel…
All but the second and last…
How about you…???
More tenets of fascism…
Laurence W. Britt
“Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism”
“Disdain for the importance of human rights”
“Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause”
“The supremacy of the military/avid militarism”
“Rampant sexism”
“A controlled mass media”
“Obsession with national security”
Six of seven here, are easily associated with Israel and fully apply to it…
All but “rampant sexism” as far as I know…
But maybe that so applies, in a way…
I’ll stick with 6 out of 7.
You…???
Millions of dollars in damages? For what Uncle Tom Jackson’s broken heart? That must be some super expensive paint they are going to use to cover the grafitti. This started out as a peaceful exercise of free speech but Jackson ran away and called in the calvary instead of engaging in a dialogue. Some educator!
it’s prevailing wage work.
And the out of county field trip slumber party cops swapped out the un poop able toilet seat covers. I’m sure. Their moms paid for the trip.
Those employees should be terminated and students expelled. I hope those on hunger strikes enjoy it and lose weight. I’m sure it will do them some good.
Ahh, poor lil red guard Democrat Party chumps and their Antifa Brothers in Arms lost. The failed revolution was a failure. You suck. Try harder next time. Go away. Don’t come back, ever.
Great job!!!! These students and others have no idea how dangerous Hamas is. Easy to sit and damage the campus, just try to last one day under Hamas control. You think US law enforcement is threatening, just tell hamas you support gays snd lesbians. See where that gets you. Sheep!
For what it’s worth, as of 1:45pm today, Tuesday, there is one Dept of Homeland Security vehicle in the parking lot of Victoria Place on Broadway behind Carl’s Jr. Been there for about a half hour.
Gone at 2:20pm. Don’t know which direction on Broadway. My guess? Toward the courthouse.
All I’m going to say if they were black and doing this in the neighborhood they would have received a tremendous amount of police pressure to the likes of which involves death usually. These children are overly privileged and entitled and have never had a reason to fight in their lives including this incident. I doubt these people have ever been hungry in their lives and I can safely assume they are lacking in a developed set of skills to be proficient in work. I hope they can find a good productive path in society that benefits their interests other than destroying property and their educational foreground.
Not nearly enough arrested and consequences for violence against the most beautiful campus in America ought to include long jail terms with steep fines.
Those asshats made ALL protestors look like loonies, nazis, and children. Who is going to have to pay to clean up after them? We are. They won’t. And their parents won’t
Shame on them and their parents. Regardless whether we favor one side or no side in Gaza, hurting other people is always wrong.
I love that we both love Cal Poly Humboldt so MUSCH!
We should go up and enjoy a decaf latte together on campus one day!
Farewell my brave and noble freedom fighters, take your shit show some where else 🤠
“One faculty member who was arrested has vowed a hunger strike.”
Good, I hope many other join him.
I hope they all opt out of Calpers retirement and other benefits as well out of principle! Probably shouldn’t accept a pay check from the State of California either.
As an alumni, i am disheartened that HSU/ Cal Poly became a police state where free speech and the right to protest for peace was suppressed. These brave students understand if we do not stand up to the war machine, we may not have many days left on this planet as the threat on nuclear looms on the horizon. For decades deep in my heart I do believe STILL that we will live in peace one day. Perhaps increasing mental illness and drug abuse increase when hope for the future is lost?
They were not advocating for peace based on the language they were using.
Intifada
: UPRISING, REBELLION
specifically : an armed uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intifada
Perhaps ‘hope for the future is lost’ because they’re looking at their damn phones and playing video games all the time instead of developing real face to face relationships and getting laid. All this ‘protest’ activity is probably the only exercise they’ve had in years. I support peaceful protests but somewhere these knuckleheads lost the plot and just started destroying things. Ahem, ok back to my good life🫶
As a a college graduate it is unfortunate you do not understand these occupiers of a building supported a cause that calls for the murder of all Jews in Israel. If that isn’t genocide nothing is.
Yo, when did protesters go from hardcore to a bunch of mean girls in highschool? Back in the day they’d have thrown molotovs at the pigs, not asked them how their dad abused them.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/770726141660777?mibextid=xCPwDs&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
I have friends from Isreal who have experienced hard antisemitic behavior from both adults and children, for years.
So sad a path to peace has been disrupted by the same racially charged rhetoric for centuries. Nothing going on here will change anything…just increase destabilizing our suffering nation.
The professor should not be employed.
They’re terrorists. Hope they become convicted felons for life
They caused destruction and mayhem. They defaced the President of the Colleges office. He did nothing to warrant this. He is one guy managing a school. They defaced our college. They have no excuse. They will get nothing in terms of personal responsible retribution from our legal system. The mascot should remain the Lumberjacks just because they don’t like it. Go figure. Vote accordingly or succumb.
Can I just take this opportunity to say how happy I am that I never had children🤷♀️ I don’t understand, but I also don’t care. So it works out👍
What would Martin Luther King Say?
Probably nothing about the middle east because America is still divided
Wonder what the ol prof Tony Silvaggio felt about this stuff. He always kinda liked shenanigans.
I can see why people that go to college here turn out the way they do. They think they can do whatever they want and not pay for it but real life doesn’t work that way. As for the professor I would like to see him stay in jail for condoning this fiasco along with the non students that were arrested. Yes in real life if you pull this type of thing you have to pay a price. There will be a lot of people who will be out of a lot of money because of everything that was cancelled. Some parents paid for their kids to go to college and were planning on going to the graduation that definitely won’t be the same.
That’s right. It’s not the education that’s important, but the ceremony!
NEVER impune our luscious benefactor Cal Poly Humboldt! We never knew how much we loved you until the underside of your toilet seat got tagged.
smell the fascism
https://twitter.com/UserFrIENDlyyy/status/1785537294520201539
The best way to deal with these ass hats ,is to
have no news coverage, and ignore them. They are allowed on school property, and have no right of ownership, therefore they are destroying public property, and trespassing when not indulging in school activities
This Country had its beginning as a protest. We have been protesting ever since. It is a part of our culture. The entire Revolution was a protest. The Civil War was a protest. And our elected officials and Gov’t as a whole has been protesting all over the world. And we have Kent State University where National Guard killed students. And the protests over Vietnam. And Unions protesting. And one should include the Mass killings of children and adults in the Country. Over 400 this year. Protesting is in our blood. Maybe all of us should think about the message protesters are telling us.
How many of those arrested were students?
“evict them from a sit in “
You call the occupation of a public building, using violence and resulting of destruction of much property, a sit in?
For the record, the first sits ins were peaceful protests when Blacks sat in seats in restaurants and buses back in the early 60s.
What occurred on campus was a violent take over of a building not in the name of individual liberty but to promote the terrorist regime of Hamas in Gaza which raped and burned, beheaded and shot, 1400 Jews and Arabs in Israel on Oct. 7th.
It is delusional to call these folks peaceful sit iners. They protests enables Hamas to continue to hold over 130 hostages underground in Gaza including a two year old and grandparents and women raped daily.
Let’s hope the professor holding a fast gets expelled from his job as a teacher of future teachers. God help us.