weeelll..I don't know what to say...first off I've been in plenty of political demonstrations and a few street fights during political demonstrations..the SF bay Area is an extremely political culture.and what I witnessed at Berkeley today was the single most tepid political event I can remember.Fist of there were more cops there than I have ever seen in one place.and I've been at rallies where the black block, and communists was heavlly present.I talked to one cop who had been sent from Santa Barbra.I wouldn't be surprised there were between 100-150 cops all told involved in the crowd control.. For the most part the crowd was pretty civil nobody in a mask was anywhere in sight.The heavy police force did indeed prevent violence and violent people from showing up, so yeah police with weapons does seem to work to keep the peace.
The Plaza in which Milo was slotted to speak in had barricades everywhere like Belfast in the 70's....a ring of barricades had been placed so nobody could get within say 40 yards of milo ...to get closer you had to line up and go through a metal detecor, police pat down, and no backpack were allowed within the ring...the cops purposely did this exceedingly slow as to minimize the actual number of people who could get close enough to hear what milo was saying, I'd say about 100 people...For some reason milo did not have a microphone or bullhorn which I found very odd, as ever child in Berkeley born into a family of democrats is issued a bull horn on their bar mitzvah or upon entering public school whichever comes first...Now there is a law in Berkeley that you must obtain a permit to use a bullhorn in a demonstration so it could be they weren't able to obtain the permit I do not know,So the upshot was the mass group of people were cordoned off and from a distance to far away to hear what Milo was saying watched him address the crowd blow kisses and sign people's placards...it was like a fucking rock band....Pamela Geller was their and she addressed the crowd and she was pretty animated,their were police on the rooftops of several building as Pamela Geller has a fatwa for her death imposed by muslim mullahs. but Mike Cernovich was there and he looked bored and annoyed....all in all it was a fucking joke, and Milo has some splaining to do. a note about Berkeley...the first time I spent time in Berkeley was as a kid when my Dad was getting an advanced degree there I spent a summer there in like the late 60's early 70's...the major througfare and cultural hub of the UC campus was a street called Telegraph Avenue at that time it was an open human sewer... as a little kid walking down that street I'd be offered drugs to buy on every single block. the dregs of humanity collected like floatsom on the street.it was worse than the Tenderloin of SF at the time...Berkeley was gritty...I remember walking to the entrance of the University and at the gates there were soap boxes like 4 or 5 set up and anybody could just climb up on one and start speaking..on one box would be a Black Panther spewing race hate on another some guy talking about Jesus and armegedon on another some bespectacled chubby hippie chick reading horrible poetry in a whisper... it was a zoo it was brilliant.Today Telegraph Avenue around the University is starting to transform into something more akin to Rodeo Drive than the Tenderloin....the students nowdays are much much richer much more pron to be forgien nationals or the very wealthy of America. they are not the childeren of the working class and don't have a clue as to what the lives of the working class are like, they are not Social Justice Warriors they are virtue posturing elitists who think they can buy their street creds and absolve themselves of privledge by throwing the working class and especially the white working class up as a sacrifical goat.
The University of Berkeley has done Antifas work for them using the power of the state bueracracy to throw up a barrier to hearing free speech...I was told this event cost the city of Berkeley about 900,000 dollars I have no idea if that is true, but if it is...then milo needs to keep coming back monthly in order to bankrupt the city of Berkeley until the city puts pressure on the University to allow all speakers a safe venue in which to share ideas.
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BAM 
