Glenn Reynolds: Time to crack down on violent rioters who seek to silence speakers

Ace of Spades posts these comments by Glenn Reynolds:

Whether or not Berkeley loses its federal funding over the Milo riots (and it won't), I think it's time for action to address this double standard. First, state and local law enforcement agencies need to target violent rioters who seek to silence speakers. It is a felony under federal civil rights law to conspire to deprive citizens of their constitutional rights, among which is free speech. In addition, many states have laws (generally called Klan laws) that punish people who engage in mob violence or intimidation while masked. These should be applied as well.

Second, perhaps it's time to have a Title IX-style law banning discrimination according to political viewpoints on campus. Many states (including California) already have laws banning discrimination in hiring and firing based on political viewpoints. Perhaps we need a federal civil rights law providing that colleges that receive federal funds (which is pretty much all of them) can lose those funds if they discriminate against students because of their political views.

Glenn's comments were made in his USA Today column here.

"I'm not claiming to be smarter than the next guy. I just have the balls to stand up to you."

If you are out walking with a rifle slung over your back in a state that has an open carry law, it still might be a good idea for you to have a smart phone, too.

"It's not just my Constitution, it's yours as well."



Thanks to The Blaze

They're here to help, remember?

Another gem linked to by Mushroom! Brilliant!

Scare them!

Sarah Hoyt writes,

The only way to return freedom to the people is to break the mental chains holding them. This involves breaking the back of the media-entertainment complex.

We’re not there yet. We might not be there for the rest of our lives. The process takes time.

However, it has begun. And even in its beginning, its scaring the living daylights out of the statists, the state-worshippers, the enemies of freedom.

It is our duty as free men and women, to continue scaring them. It is our duty to scare them as much as possible, and to free as many people as possible from their rotten doublethink.

Crossing the line

Rear Admiral Lee speaks out against those in the government who would require him to hide his light under a basket. He is "not going to run from my religious freedoms," from his right under the Constitution to tell a young man that there is Hope. "The best book of leadership is the Holy Bible, which teaches you first and foremost how to be a follower." He does not want to have to put aside his Constitutional rights. He wants to take a stand, and not run.



thanks to My Underwood Typewriter for posting this video.

Good thing we have a Constitution!

Andrew Klaven writes,

A gun is not just a tool, it is the great democratic tool, the tool that put an end to knights in armor and gave (and gives) the little guy and gal a fighting chance against the powers that be.

Nevertheless,

The left claims it is determined to violate, if not end, the Second Amendment’s guarantee to our right to bear arms in the name of safety. “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them… ’Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,’ I would have done it,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein after she and Bill Clinton managed to enact an “assault weapon” ban in 1994.

Good thing we have a Constitution!

Criminalizing children's imagination and childhood play

An Oklahoma legislator says, "We need to stop criminalizing children’s imagination and childhood play,” Under Rep. Sally Kern's bill,

students couldn’t be punished for possessing small toy weapons or using writing utensils, fingers or their hands to simulate a weapon. Students also couldn’t be punished for drawing pictures of weapons or wearing clothes that “support or advance Second Amendment rights or organizations.”

the bill has been dubbed the Common Sense Zero Tolerance Act.

Jim Treacher writes in The Daily Caller,

Telling kids that Americans have the right to speak freely and bear arms? Refusing to punish them for using their imaginations improperly? This is just crazy teabagger talk. How are be supposed to bring about Utopia if people are allowed to think in unapproved ways?

As I write this, New York is being leveled to the ground in World War III in the video game my sons are thoroughly enjoying.