We have been following a rise in political violence and property destruction on the left this year. The latest such example is from UCLA where a young man destroyed pro-life posters. This man is accused of previously stealing signs from the group and the group has posted images of the alleged perpetrator wearing a “UCLA Law” sweater.(Note: There has been no official determination or charge that this is the culprit by police).
Justice for All posted the pictures and alleges that this apparent student previously attacked their displays two years ago. The group issued this statement:
A UCLA student vandalized our signs with spray paint. He also stole four of our signs in 2023, and has yet to be found by police. If anyone knows who this is, DM us. A police report has been filed, and we will press charges both for the theft and for the vandalism.
A police report has been filed, and we will press charges both for the theft and for the vandalism. Thankfully, most pro-choice people are not like this. They are respectful and willing to dialogue and wouldn’t think to do something like this. You can hear in the background a man telling him this is wrong even though he disagreed with us. Most of our outreaches are peaceful, and we are able to have respectful conversations with those on the other side. Sometimes that’s not the case though.
We care about this student which is why we want him held accountable. This behavior is unacceptable.
The sweater could be misleading as to his association with the law school. However, the possibility that he is a law student is chilling for a number of reasons. First, it would mean that law students and possibly faculty may be aware of his actions but have not come forward. That may include the person heard in the background telling him to stop.
Second, it shows the sense of impunity and license that some have in committing criminal acts for political purposes. This could be someone who actually wants to practice law, but believes that he has a right to commit such criminal acts.
Students do not come to this sense of license on their own. Faculty have reinforced the sense of impunity with their own actions.
We have seen conservative and pro-life groups attacked on campuses across the country, including by faculty members (here and here). A recent attack occurred at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where a young man tossed a pro-life display while declaring, “I f**king hate you.”
It is now common to hear inflammatory language from professors advocating “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements. One professor who declared that there is “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence as killing conservatives was actually promoted.
Faculty have resigned from UCLA over the intolerance for conservatives and libertarians. UCLA law school has been challenged over its own conduct toward faculty with dissenting views. Faculty at the school have had to secure police protection due to threats.
That is the culture that produces this type of extreme rhetoric among students. These faculty members have normalized violent speech and conduct.
Of course, some professors have gone further and committed acts of political violence. Such conduct should be prosecuted and those faculty members fired. However, even in those extreme cases, liberal faculty have often rallied around their colleagues.
Years ago, many of us were shocked by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click, who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event. Yet, Click was hired by Gonzaga University. Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests.
At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display. Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and received overwhelming support from the students and faculty. She was later honored as a model for women advocates.
At Hunter College in New York, Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was shown trashing a pro-life display of students.
She was captured on a videotape telling the students that “you’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
Unlike the professor, the students remained calm and respectful. One even said “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering for her students.
Rodríguez continued to rave, stating, “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f–king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.” In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table.
Hunter College, however, did not consider this unhinged attack to be sufficient to terminate Rodríguez.
It was only after she later chased reporters with a machete that the college fired Rodríguez. She was then hired by another college.
Another example comes from the State University of New York at Albany, where sociology professor Renee Overdyke shut down a pro-life display and then resisted arrest. One student is heard screaming, “She’s a [expletive] professor.” That, of course, is the point.
In Wisconsin, a department chair was recently shown destroying a table of conservative students.
In such an environment, it is hardly surprising to see an apparent student calmly destroying displays with no sense of fear of repercussions.
The question is whether UCLA, which has had the picture of the alleged culprit since the first incident two years ago, will now take action.
Self-defense against this violence is still permissible. I would soak them with bear spray for starters, and have a Hillerich & Bradsby handy just in case.
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As to tariffs difference, White House just announced to level off to eliminate advantage of any given competitor.
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South Korea pays factory workers mire than India pays its workers? IPhone are far more expensive. Profit is greater?
I would hope that a real UCLA Law student would be smart enough to realize how doing things like this only makes enemies where none existed before.
Then again, it IS UCLA (i.e., no threat of a penalty from the Far Left administration), and he’s only doing it to get laid by those absurdly-insane white women he knows will “love” him for doing this.
Oh, and don’t try this in Texas, losers.
It’s a male trashing a table? 🤔.
Odd, isn’t it, that law students seem most susceptible to legal activism? You’d think they would be among the most critical of thinkers about denying free speech and expression to others.
Oh well, there is a saying that lawyers who can’t practice their craft well, seek appointments as judges.
Brainwashing
So the (kids) hate pro-life.
Seems odd, because of pro-life, they are here.
Foolish lefties
this follows the pattern of “gays for palestine” banners that we see so often.
it is hardly surprising to see an apparent student calmly destroying displays with no sense of fear of repercussions.
As I was reading this post I couldn’t help thinking we need a frame of reference to be shocked. For instance, how often do conservatives attack in the same way? What is the % increase or decrease of these attacks?
As an example: would it shock you to know there were 841 attacks on faith-based organizations in 2024? Well, that’s an 18% decrease from 2023. Context matters.
Indeed. Good to know things are getting better.
Well, you walked right into the trap. The information I provided should lead to more questions, not a conclusion. Why did it drop? Is there underreporting? Did incident classifications change?
As it was reported:
What’s important to understand here is that while Protestant churches experienced the most attacks by volume, Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim institutions are being attacked at rates far beyond their share of total houses of worship in the U.S. In short: they’re being targeted disproportionately.
So no, things are not getting better.
Fewer churches caused a drop?
The context might also be the result of less faith-based organizations available for protest or these protesters may be setting their sights on other matters. Either way there is a growing number of violent encounters with progressive, indoctrinated tools for the left. Yes context matters and a better indicator might be the increase in violence with these demonstrations.
Agreed
that include include mosques or just Christian churches? What about synagogues, they count?
If you have to ask such questions it indicates that you are either ignorant or a tool.
Those are important questions.
The data is on “faith-based.” So yes, those are included.
Gather them all up, teachers, worthless clientele and let them drive railroad spikes for 10 hours per day to eat. They’ll be too tired for nonsense or just give the lot to Xi Xian Ping.
Anyone who has studied the history of great civilizations and their downfall will realize that the turning point that created their fall was when they expanded into, or allowed in, foreign cultural elements.
Once a culture loses it agreeded upon cultural and moral core it loses the cohesion that made it strong and effective and it fractures into the several multicultural sections that do not assimilate into the original values, but begin competing with, and attacking the original core values to install their own factions.
Far too many foreign sections exist within our borders (we are no longer a melting pot but are now experiencing the “Mentos in the Coca Cola” volatility as oppositional ideologies clash).
IF we could eliminate the unassimilated hordes we MIGHT stand a chance but there are so many – whether they are foreign elements such as the various Muslim enclaves or progressive anarchists that are the product of our media/education industries – that it would be a costly and painful slog similar to our previous civil war.
Dumb and pretentious comment.
you are getting boringly repetitious with your hate. you should work on inculcating a more civilized manner to your life – you seem to want to promote yourself as a clueless thug.
If you are referring to Whimsical Momma, then it’s you who post “dumb and pretentious” comments. Real humans do not hide behind anonymity. Only cowards.
You’re probably right. I’m right. No, I’m right begins.
This thug just destroys the opposition. Freedom says laws are about common interests. The remainder is left to the individual. Some say life begins at conception. Others say life begins with the first breath of life. Who can say…
Half of all pregnancies end in miscarriage and women in most cases don’t know it. Conception occurs , failure to implant and is flushed out. Somehow there’s 8 billion people on earth. From goathead sticker weeds to owls to humans be fruitful and multiply is an observation of what nature does. Sticker weeds want to rule the lawn.
This issue came to light because of commerce. Surprising there aren’t tv ads pushing our abortions are the best, painless and fast, lunch time express.
This thug goes straight for destruction as the fastest way to settle it. He’d go directly to war if allowed.
Wasted culture…
News flash! After being convicted of elder abuse, Doctor Jill Biden will loose her license to practice medicine.
My husband was a lawyer and passed away at the hands of the Covid monsters. If he could see what is happening today, he would just be sickened. He took his profession very seriously and was as honest as they come The schools are tainted, and thinking that the law students are the only ones getting a decent education, if this is truly a law student I don’t think they’re being properly educated anymore. There is no one out there that is not a target for the leftist ideology deception – It was common place in our house, to come up with as many LAWYER jokes as possible
But my husband would say; There’s only one joke that that’s real – The rest of them are all true.
Amazing that our wonderful legacy MEDIA follow every syllable spoken by Trump and every moment of his life, looking for anything to criticize, but somehow have not reported on these disgusting incidents on national news.
It seems the ‘right to disagree’ without violence is prevalent because those against a point of view, find it easier to damage than to discuss. As to being against Pro Life means that ‘there by the Grace of God’, is the person who is objecting, alive today. Imagine, he or she could have easily been aborted years before. The person that didn’t abort them, were by the non-action, Pro Life .
There seems to be little objectivity or willingness to engage in dialogue and the outcome can be violence. Violence is build on intolerance. and without a criminal conviction, this will not stop.
In the 2nd act of Shakespeare’s,, “Henry VI,” Dick the Butcher coined the phrase, “Let’s kill all the lawyers!”
Who knew butchers were that smart?
Well, the police are unlikely to lift a hand unless you deliver the offender to them handcuffed with parts of your sign, and pictures of him committing the act. Post his face all over campus, on posts and in hallways, complain to university accrediting organizations about unsafe campuses, sue UCLA for not providing adequate police protection, complain to the federal DA or just plain leave California and go somewhere sane.
Or take baseball bats to your protest area and do some batting practice while a second person takes pictures.
I don’t like violence but too many people are incapable of being talked down to a sane level because of their hate. You have to protect yourself because they will just keep pushing until you are unable to function. Use strength in numbers. Don’t be alone.
You were not a cop, you have no idea what they have to deal with to make an arrest. An order is an order even when the boss is a lib.
So your with your all consuming ignorance is to denigrate all cops?
As a point of law, taking a baseball bat to a demo or just self defense is the best way to get a DA to charge one with battery, at a minimum.
Go back to sleep rip van winkle.
Hate flows from left to right
Much of it is simple opportunism.
A law student should know better than to destroy other’s property. Kids grow up seeing no consequences for bad behavior. Kids of color are often coddled by school counselors who “learn” how to divert kids who disrupt classes into granola programs to keep them unpunished.
ummm. you got some sort of scientific study to support that racist comment?
At least it wasn’t the government that was doing the censoring.
Like the MSN and Biden did about his health.
It is a very short leap from this type of rage to killing. The universities that do not stop it are complicit.
JG
The left and hate strike again, it;s what they do.
Reps are rubes, like this one, always being played by libs. and just too stupid to know what to do. And it keeps repeating..
True
There are places or even entire nations or worlds where hate is never encountered. There really are.
In this case with the punk, there’s no reason to destroy the display because the law is on his side. He’s displaying senseless behavior. It’s antisocial behavior, mental illness.
Today’s campus Leftists, Marxists — and, of course, many Democrats — more resemble the Third Reich’s Schutzstaffel Storm Troopers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel) than do they mirror academics. Ver-i-tas.
Welcome to America!
As Jesus once said, “The douchy will always be with us”, or words to that effect.
A bible thumper who knows nothing about the bible. Gotta love Americans.
So why no real retort.