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Did anyone see the SF DA's press release about the Golden gate blocking arrests? The perps were booked on a felony conspiracy charge, and it concludes
(Edit: to clarify, this statement was addressed to anyone who the protesters blocked from crossing the bridge, declaring them victims who can seek restitution from the protesters! TTBOMK I'm not aware of a statement like this being issued after a left wing protest/riot before.)
They're not throwing the book at them, but does this seem like a setup to finally go after the leftist orgs funding these protests and inflicting financial harm on them?
It's strange for an SF official to be pursuing a strategy from Rufo's Twitter feed! "False imprisonment by rioters" has been a talking point on the right for years now, but it took urban liberal Jewish/* lawyers to deploy it in practice?
/* Don't @me, you know it's a safe assumption on this issue!
I think urban liberal would have stood stronger on its own.
No, funnily enough the same thing happened at my college, where I have sources on who the factions were.
The PLO occupied the admin building, and the black woman college president announced they're being suspended. But behind the scenes it's a fight between the remaining Jewish senior admins and the new wave of third-worldist profs and deans, who are each doing their best to manipulate procedural outcomes and whip up a mob, respectively.
The schism between senior old-lib Jews and new-left juniors keeps repeating in colleges, newsrooms, and government. I can only imagine the same thing just played out in the Google arrests+firing, but don't have insider information there any more.
Watching people wave Hamas flags and chanting "Al-Qassam you make us proud!" has shaken them out of a trance.
Reminds me of this great Etgar Keret essay:
https://etgarkeret.substack.com/p/boohoo-to-you-too
(Israeli short story author, one of his stories was adapted into an indie movie called Wristcutters: A Love Story which you may or may not have heard of)
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The admin building wouldnt be the same as your username, would it?
That would be a crazy coincidence, but it was the other college where this happened last week. Wish I'd gone to Vanderbilt, but couldn't pass up a no-loan full ride.
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