Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide.
Video footage showed protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locking arms in front of Hamilton Hall early Tuesday and carrying furniture and metal barricades to the building, one of several that was occupied during a 1968 civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protest on the campus. Posts on an Instagram page for protest organizers shortly after midnight urged people to protect the encampment and join them at Hamilton Hall. A “Free Palestine” banner hung from a window.
If it was wrong to break into a public building on 1/6/21, an act for which a lot of people have gone to jail, it is even more wrong to break into a privately-owned building to throw political temper tantrums.
More than that, who the fuck do they think they are convincing of the righteousness of their cause? Public and legal protests are one thing, they can show large support for a cause. But riots (and this is now a riot) do nothing. Did the BLM riots in Portland a few years ago do anything butlose support for their cause? Did the Capitol invasion as part of the TOFF's Coup Attempt do anything other than put a lot of people in prison?
If it was OK to go after the Capitol Hill insurrectionists with the full force of the criminal justice system, then it's OK to go after these turdlets.