FBI, DHS Officially Classify Antifa Activities As "Domestic Terrorist Violence"

Ben Shapiro, a thoughtful conservative according to Leftist Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, is scheduled to speak at Berkley tonight. Attendees are by ticket only, which were obtained in advance. He has no connections with the Nazis or the KKK, and is not a believer in white supremacy.

According to Professor Dershowitz, it is important that Ben Shapiro be allowed to speak and that Berkley not capitulate to the Antifa terrorists who have attacked and brutalized conservatives for trying to attend other conservative lectures at Berkley over the last year or so. Berkley has also cancelled several scheduled conservative speakers because of the threat to civil order that the lawless Antifa thugs have presented. In fact, this lecture was initially blocked by Berkley. Below are Dershowitz's comments published today:

I am curious to see what happens tonight in Berkley. The Berkley campus is apparently under very tight security, with police given permission to use pepper spray on the Antifa terrorists if needed, which one might think is a no-brainer given the previous conduct of this group at Berkley.

 

Ben Shapiro's speech at Berkeley. See for yourselves if he is the supporter of neo-nazis or white supremacists that some on the left have tried to smear him as:

 

177 professors and graduate students at Berkeley are urging all classes to be cancelled and for all students to boycott the University during the upcoming "Free Speech Week" festivities over the September 24-27 period. The state reason is to ensure their "physical and mental safety".

As far as their mental safety, how can you be made mentally unsafe from a speech or a lecture that you do not attend?

How does that work? Can someone please explain that to me? I presume these students have classes to attend and then they can go home or to the library, or wherever. The students and professors that consider themselves to be mentally at risk were not planning to actually sit in and listen to Milo speak, where they?

Anyone who participates in this boycott actually believing that they are mentally unsafe because someone is delivering a speech in a hall that they are not in and that they do not hear is already mentally unwell, and should take steps immediately to try to get help with that.

As far as the supposed concerns about these people being physically unsafe, who is it that is potentially the source of the physical injuries that they believe that they are at risk of receiving?

It is Antifa! There will be no violence other than that instigated by these leftist thugs. Milo is not going to try to beat anyone up and neither will anyone who attends his lecture at Berkeley. These Antifa criminals are presumably the allies of these students and professors who are claiming to be at risk of physical harm.

Proposed Solution: Have Antifa boycott the Berkeley campus during the September 24-27 period. Problem solved. Also, suggest that all those that are concerned that they are too mentally fragile to sit through a Milo Yiannopolous lecture without being "mentally harmed" should not attend.

This really isn't that hard. Why are they making a spectacle out of themselves in this way? Do these leftist snowflakes really not realize how pathetic they are making themselves look by acting this way?

 

Again, the risk of that comes from Antifa, as you know very well. They have repeatedly been the instigators of criminal violence on the Berkeley campus over the last year for events like these. Nobody else has.

If these student and professors are being legitimately terrorized in that way by the threat of Antifa's criminal violence on campus, then these Antifa thugs really do need to be hunted down and locked up in the most serious possible way.

 

Berkeley - "The Birthplace of Free Speech"

Not anymore.