UC-Davis Begins Inquiry Into Pepper-Spraying

Maybe you shouldn’t tell students it’s fine to engage in civil disobedience then ask them to leave at a specific time. What additional information is necessary? This is totally the fault of academics who goad the students to do disruptive things knowing someone else will have to respond physically to their acts of disruption. Fire the administrators who told the students they could set up tents then called in cops.

I got amazing news for you:  civilian life is not the same as military life.  Orders don’t always have to be obeyed.  Actually,  there are such thing as illegal orders (look at the Nurenberg trials).  If a cop orders you to kill someone, you are supposed to refuse.  Personally, I would refuse even if I had to give up my life doing so. (I have thought a lot about this….)

You are mistaken:  the chancellor told students they could NOT set up tents.  The next day she ordered campus  police (she’s  their boss after all) to dismantle  the handful of tents that had been set up. 

She  should be fired  for  her  stupidity/power mongering  which has resulted now in over one hundred tents set up on the squad and nobody daring to make a peep.

As for students protesting because their profs encouraged them, think again.  Young people, from Tianamen Square to Syria have and are always going to protest, even if they’re fully aware that they might get shot or tortured to death.  The rest of us oldsters often join them (didn’t you notice the nurses in Chicago and the MDs in NYC, not to mention the grieviously  injured vets who are at the forefront of the Oakland protests?). 

You know protesting is our right as per the US constitution (just as,  since you claim to
be “Christian”, it’s your neighbor’s right to be loved by you –that is if you love yourself)

Dousing a row of students with pepper spray did not make it easier for that campus police.  It appeared harder to drag pepper sprayed people than people simply going limp on their own accord.  Perhaps they wouldn’t have “needed” to drag one female protester by the hair?  (my impression is that women have gotten the worse of the police violence, except for vets  — don’t you have any sense of solidarity for them?). 

UNiversity leaders can chose to do one thing or another and so do the leaders of regular police. Did you notice anyone being pepper sprayed at Penn state when students rioted and destroyed property in support of their coach? I guess they were not thought of as dangerous as as 15  kids sitting down arms linked in a row?   And were any of the Teapartiers pepper sprayed or arrested for spitting at black members of Congress?  And how about showing up visibly armed at town hall meetings and actually chasing out people who disagreed with them? 

Thank you Robert for yet another stimulating discussion.   I wonder, do you really exist?  Or are you so insecure that you can’t ever  defend any of your positions?  Does this mean that your brain has been frozen and you’ll never ever let it grow till the end of your  days? Sorry, old chap!