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[Order a copy of Robert Spencer’s forthcoming book, Muhammad: A Critical Biography, by clicking here.]
It’s a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about it in his monumental exploration of the nightmare of totalitarianism, “The Gulag Archipelago”: “The sharp nighttime ring or the rude knock at the door. The insolent entrance of the unwiped jackboots of the unsleeping State Security operatives.” The left has now adopted this tactic in the United States, not for arrests (yet), but to frighten its foes into submission.
The Jerusalem Post recently reported that “anti-Israel masked men arrived at the homes of University of Michigan Board of Regents members before dawn on Wednesday to protest and demand the adoption of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) policies, according to the university and the regents.” Why before dawn, when the Regents were least likely to be able to carry on a rational discussion about these issues? Because rational discussion is the last thing these masked thugs want. Like those who made nighttime arrests in the old Soviet Union, they want to terrify their targets and catch them off guard.
Intimidation is the stock-in-trade of the ideologues who regard human freedom as the enemy, and so it is no real surprise that anti-Israel thugs have started using the same tactics in Michigan. One of the regents, Jordan Acker, says that it was, to be more precise, “around 4:40 A.M.” when “a masked intruder came to the door of my family’s home with a list of demands, including defunding the police. My three daughters were asleep in their beds, and thankfully unaware of what transpired.”
Acker continued: “This form of protest is not peaceful. Public officials should not be subject to this sort of intimidating conduct, and this behavior is unacceptable from any Michigan community member, especially one led by someone who called for the death of people they disagree with.” He didn’t say whom he was talking about, but there has been a good bit of calling for the death of one’s enemies in Michigan lately.
In the face of the clear threat, Acker was defiant, although he seized the opportunity to affirm his loyalty to the leftist line, irrelevantly invoking 2020 “election deniers”: “I will not be intimidated. In the wake of the 2020 election, public officials here in Michigan were subjected to threats from mobs of election deniers who engaged in similar conduct.”
The leftists went even further at the home of another regent, Sarah Hubbard. She recounted that “at dawn, a group of around thirty protesters came to her home on Wednesday and erected tents, and according to the university, placed fake corpses wrapped in bloodied sheets on her lawn.” Not content with strewing her lawn with trash in an effort to frighten her into doing their bidding, the leftists “used bullhorns, drums, and chants to disrupt the peace of her neighborhood and taped a list of demands to her front door.”
That’ll do the trick. Who could resist such a charming, eloquent appeal? Instead of being outraged at this thuggery, however, all that Hubbard, another loyal leftist, could manage was a bit of schoolmarmish finger-wagging: “Protesting at a public official’s private residence is unacceptable and will not move their cause forward in a satisfactory manner.”
Yikes, she said it was “unacceptable”! That’ll stop these totalitarians from trashing anybody else’s lawn!
Hubbard explained that the board had recently rejected the demands of the BDS thugs, but “representatives of the encampment said that they would not take ‘no for an answer,’ and told her to ‘stop complaining on Twitter and come to the encampment to actually negotiate.’”
For its part, the University of Michigan observed with Sherlock Holmesian perceptiveness that the “tactics used today represent a significant and dangerous escalation in the protests that have been occurring on campus.” No doubt about that. But what will be done? The university’s Public Affairs managed more finger-wagging: “Going to an individual’s private residence is intimidating behavior and, in this instance, illegal trespassing. This kind of conduct is not protected speech; it’s dangerous and unacceptable.”
The problem that the university faces is that the groups behind this intimidation tactic include groups that have been coddled and favored on university campuses all over the country for years: the University of Michigan’s Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), and the Transparency, Accountability, Humanity, Reparations, Investment, Resistance (TAHRIR) Coalition. JVP and TAHRIR also demand the “abolishment of policing on campus.”
Yeah, that’s a great idea while you people are running around in the middle of the night and scaring people half to death. All those involved in this who are students should be summarily expelled. But will the University of Michigan have the courage to cut down a plant it has watered and nurtured for years now?
Time to round up these creatures and Parachute them into the Yukon Wilderness without a weapon to survival Rations
Don’t forget to include the grizzly
Comes free with awareness of their presence. No extra charge.
Send them to the Indonesian Island that is home to the Komodo Dragon.
Send them to Aza
The January sixth political prisoners might have a few things to say about Dirtbagocrat arrests of Americans, “Gulag Archipelago” style. And plenty of other people, all concerned parents or MAGA supporters.
Any students involved should be expelled arrested snd I’d applicable deported
As an alum (1971) I can assure you that the University of Michigan has consistently been coddling Leftist lawbreakers on campus for, now, over half a century. Don’t expect it to do the right thing in this outrageous instance.
You’re being much too kind.
For the human race to live, Islam must die.
I find it difficult to understand that these super educated people never called the police….oh yeah, I forgot, it’s against leftist doctrine. These groups always remind me of toddlers having a tantrum, but it’s gone far beyond that now. They’re dangerous as a mob—don’t know about individually— & I fear someone is going to be killed behind this nonsense. Then once again we will have a new version of the left’s “summer of love”, complete with injuries, riots, & burned buildings. These people should’ve been corrected long ago.
Nothing will scare off these leftist cowards like the sound of a shotgun being racked. I my state, since they are on my property, it is legal to take care of business.
Correction, “in my state” not “I my state”.
God I wish they had an edit function for this site, and a blocking feature.
agree 100% knock on the door at that time by a rabble with covered faces and that is what would greet them a nasty black 3/4inch/75cal .hole .one in the air then the others for those breaking into my property hole ,bird shot enough to cause a hospital vist and and explanation to the Police why ,actually salt petre works well ,every time they shower stings like hell ,no fatal but a second dose would be unlikely.
They come to my door I will shoot to kill.
DEATH TO HAMAS.
God Bless Israel.
God Bless America.
Know what works great for protesters? Itching powder and silly string. Makes them look stupid and feel miserable, all at the same time. Double win.
If someone comes to my door at an unusual hour one has to assume they do not mean you well. I will respond in an appropriate manner. If they are masked I will take it as definite proof they mean me and mine harm.
Well … I’d like to think they’ve been red-pilled …
… but more likely the yellow-bellied cowards will hold therapy sessions and press conferences to blame White Supremacy or Climate Change …
Perhaps there is a market there these days for a sign I’ve envisioned. Itwould read liike this:
Joe Biden is my president
I follow his advice
(below those two lines is a drawing of a man firing a shotgun through the door toward who/whatever is on the outside of that door)
These clowns need to be identified, rounded up, and punished appropriately.
This behaviour is NOT “freedom of speech” or “right to travel” or any such thing. It is open and actionable harassing and trespassing.
One unwoke university president could turn everything around by expelling all students engaging in thuggery. The “protesters” remaining would then not be students, so their real identities would at least be partially revealed behind their Covid masks and Middle Eastern garb.
Good old “Gov.” Witchmer probably secretly helps them.
DISGUSTING.
I can’t help but wonder that, if all of our elections are rigged, and they are, how are we ever going to get rid of these tyrants!?!
The owner of the house should merely stand outside the house holding a Rifle and if they dont go away fire a few shots over their heads and then lower the Rifle directly at them.
These children are spoiled rotten ignorant wee brats that need to be taught a lesson.
This is very disturbing. But it shouldn’t be a surprise. If nasty protestors can gather and disturb the private residence of a US Supreme Court justice, what’s to stop any gang of malcontents from having their way anywhere in this once great country.
So now the intimidation goes door to door, further proof of allowing lawlessness to rear its ugly head without consequences.
B. Hussein is pleased with their progress.