the university is not a public space, its private .. so there you go, John Yoo University is now private
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Nicholas Roberts < nicholas at themediasociety.org> wrote:
> I think it should be official, UC Berkeley should be no longer called Cal
> or Berkeley
>
> it should be renamed John Yoo University
>
> years of anti-terrorism, Patriot Act, double think and new speak,
> briefings and trainings have had a very deep impression on an already
> conservative university
>
> Berkeley in 2011 is not Berkeley in 1969
>
> rent control is long gone, rents are exhorbitant thanks to UC professor
> Searle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle#Politics
> free tuition is long gone, tuition has just been further increased, and
> students pay a commercial rate for loans that can never be discharged
> food and other costs are expensive, the food crisis continues
> part-time student employment is hard to get and the conditions hard, pay
> is low
> the average student works 25-35 hours a week, try to study full time on
> that? its impossible
> students are not stoned, on LSD, they drink a lot of coffee and work
> students are not radical and militant, they are conservative and hard
> working, there is no other way to get into Cal and to stay there
> students are not communists, moaists, take your pick, most are
> internet-generation literate and rarely doctrinaire
> students are not political, they are protesting because they are being
> badly screwed, so much so, that only rich kids will be able to afford to
> take the time to study and live in Berkeley
> students are not self indulgent and self-entitled, they have been
> increasingly accepting lower and lower expectations and greater burdens, to
> historic levels
> students are not doing free love, they would get AIDS etc
> students are not violent, they are keyboard kids
> students are not smelly hippies, they are clean, well dressed, fashion
> concious consumers geared up for professional life
>
> there is this notion that its like 1969 in Berkeley and its false for
> students
>
> whereas in Nixonland/Reaganland in the upper echelons of John Yoo's
> university
>
> I stumbled on the Occupy Berkeley event the day when the police batoned
> students, especially with the violent jabbing movement, which can damage
> internal organs, for woman it could be reproductive or foetus damaging
>
> a peaceful protest is unlawful and actually a non-lethal war zone
> holding arms together while protesting is a violent act, deserving batoning
> democratic protest and civil disobedience is unlawful & therefore deserves
> disproprotionate responses
> questioning police, itself is taunting police, is provocative & therefor a
> violent act, as students are clearly spoilt, self-entitle, dirty
> jabbing a student or protestor with a baton made of kevlar or aluminum,
> penetrating their flesh by inches is not violent
> a highly trained, physically fit, large and strong police man is under
> attack from violent students who hold hands
> talking to a police men is taunting and is a provocative and violent act
> arresting students for endangering the the safety of a child, and sending
> that child to welfare care is justified by health & safety
>
>
> George Orwell must be turning in his grave and John Yoo must be writing a
> new book
>
> the Doctrine of Beyond Zero Tolerance
>
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