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Too bad we don’t have enough adults on campuses like him right now

University of California Berkeley is the “fabled” home of the free speech movement back in the 60s.  Nowadays, not so much as we’ve seen the political correctness/cultural Marxism reach its nadir with respect to LIMITING that same concept.  You know, some dribble about offense, safe spaces, and oppression except it hasn’t stopped at just debate – the Left, as Steve notes, is more and more willing to resort to either the threat or actual violence to limit other peoples’ speech as the we saw at UCB (first with Milo and now with Ann Coulter) and other college campuses (notably Middlebury College where Charles Murray and a Middlebury College professor were physically assaulted).  It is, I’m afraid, going to get much MUCH worse before (if?) it gets better as it seems that the radicals of the 60s have made good at “turning” students into anti-American droids (all the while using our tax monies to do so).

A reminder of how a former CA Governor handled similar problems at UCB (emphasis mine):

In an extremely controversial move, for which he never apologized, Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent in 2,200 National Guard troops. He enacted a curfew and banned public assembly for two weeks. The National Guard patrolled the streets of Berkeley, dispersing any crowd of four or more. It wasn’t pretty, but they restored order.

There is a classic, should-be-in-the-Smithsonian clip of Reagan at a press conference after the fact with university administrators. He says: “Those people told you for days in advance that if the university sought to go ahead with that construction, they were going to physically destroy the university.”

And now for THE line that says it all:

Someone in the crowd shouts that Reagan should have negotiated with the students. Reagan, with the incredulity of someone who understands that youth don’t run the world for a reason, says: “Negotiate? What is to negotiate? All of it began the first time some of you who know better and are old enough to know better let young people think that they have the right to choose the laws they would obey as long as they were doing it in the name of social protest.”

To underscore the point, Reagan got up and walked out of the room.

But it is worse now as we have seen at the local, state, and national level where “adults” that ought to know better refuse to enforce duly legislated and signed laws because SOCIAL PROTEST. It’s just that those “social protest” (now called “social justice”) college kids went for the levers of power and have kept right on with the same antics but have cloaked themselves in the full cloth of the Left but with more ambiguous wording.

Reagan called out the “adult leaders” of the day who weren’t leaders at all – just scared of these grown up children that were pulling temper tantrums.  And now we see history repeating itself all over except the faculty and staff seem to be supporting them implicitly.

This will not work out well.

(H/T: Instapundit)

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