The 'guide' of the Palestine Action USA should be required reading for all Free Pressers. See the link in the article. Among other gems, there are repeating calls to "escalate" the current rowdiness to something that sounds like an armed militia:
"The pro-Palestinian movement must be a movement against the police."
"We are not naïve enough to think the revolution will come through 'peaceful' means or spontaneous uprisings without organized militancy."
As a professional editor, I am sure those words were carefully chosen.
The American campus is about to do a lot worse than just make people "feel unsafe" or prompt them to hide obvious signs of being Jewish. When they "escalate" with "organized militancy", hiding will no longer be enough.
It's no coincidence that Israeli universities are already gearing up to offer Jewish students a streamlined transfer to finish their degrees in the Jewish state.
Not that my personal feelings amount to anything of importance, but I am a worried man. When I read the guff spurted out by the anti-Israeli mob my stomach contracts. I know where this can lead. Many people spout stuff about the Holocaust, I know what it really means. I had a mother who died early from what she went through at Ravensbruck, a father who never got over Mauthausen, a sister who died at the age of eight because she was neglected by the people who were supposed to care for her when our parents were deported, and a grandmother gassed and burned at Auschwitz. Why am I worried? Because I can deal with rational hate. I can argue with disagreement, even censure, but I have no idea how to deal with fantasies. Read the stuff the anti-Israel crowd believes, it is crazy. Read the stuff they say. Students protesting at an American college claim they are being denied "humanitarian aid"?! What are starving Somalis and Sudanese supposed to say? The police are fascists, as they read them their Miranda rights, just like the students at Tiananmen Square, right? Campuses under "siege", I wonder if they ever heard of private property or the siege of Leningrad? They live in a fantasy world in which they are heroes and the "others" are veritable demons. Where have I encountered this before?
Nellie is about to be a superstar. I’ve never seen both print and audio have a wait time, aside from Harry Potter at my Louisiana library. I’m getting hyped up!
Making fun of a child whose dad is President (or President-Elect) is not a conspiracy theory. It is retarded attempted cruelty, whether it’s Rosie O’Donnell making fun of Barron Trump or someone making the crude jokes made against Chelsea Clinton. It’s…well…childish.
Jesus Fuck, AGAIN with our top story being non-news about college students actually showing initiative for the first time in a long time? Not that you want to encourage that.
Do you understand how obviously your hatred of anything remotely anti-Israel shines through? Or do you not care about balance?
This whole Mike Johnson situation is hilarious to me. The crazies on the right want to fire him for working across the aisle…..which is a red line for them…..but for those moderates in the population, which is a majority or at least a plurality of us, the GOP working with the DEMS to compromise on legislation is exactly how congress is supposed to work in the first place. Good for the Dems for saving him. He’s the first decent leader we’ve had in a while.
Dear me, didn’t you get the memo? What we used to call a functioning normal Congress, based on healthy debate, back and forth, ending with compromises and the more than occasional bipartisanship is now disparagingly referred to as the Uniparty and deemed EVIL. Only rule by the MAGA right wing is good and don’t you forget it!
Protesters claim they are being denied humanitarian aid? The protesters are free to leave the campus. They are not prisoners, and they are being denied NOTHING humanitarian.
I hope these domestic terrorists are on the FBI's radar and that they're not still wasting their time worrying about all that "white supremacy" out there.
I have a thought about these protesting kids. I'm interested in trying to learn something from this, even if those kids aren't interested in doing so themselves. I'm quite interested in developmental psychology. Some years ago, the day the light bulb popped on, was when I had a client who was a substance user from adolescence to his mid 50s who had just gotten clean. A very sweet, kind man, he was also stuck in an adolescent stage of development. He hadn't gone through the formative experiences of adulthood. I realized that bodies age linearly but psychological development may, or may not, proceed with age.
Kids play act roles and events in order to try on different ideas. Part of this is based on gender - girls often play house, boys play army games, etc. But it's also very much influenced by the stories parents tell their children. Play is essential to explore experiences and prepare for the possibilities of real life. This is also what I do with adults in psychotherapy, for example as I ask someone what they'd want to say to their partner in a conflict. It gives the person a chance to play out some scenarios before putting it out into the real world. The difference in these stages of play is that childhood play need not be grounded or coherent. When I played with soldier toys with my cousin as a kid, we didn't need to understand real world military strategy or sell our plan to the voters. It was just random, incoherent play, as it should be for kids. But play (and then enactment) in adulthood is different. It's more grounded, coherent, aligned with one's real life and the real world.
When I was in college the US invaded Iraq. Anyone with any sense knew it was a fabricated war. It was a real issue that involved real Americans including enlisted people I was friends with, real American dollars, and real costs for foreigners. We were absolutely on the right side of history. Today protests resemble more and more the play acting of children. Seeing the "confinement" they believe is occurring in Gaza, they dress up like Gazans and confine themselves into a building, make the same demands, and claim the same oppressions ("we need humanitarian aid!"), re-enacting the story. Trying it on, like children. Like children, the coherence of the stories they tell are not relevant to them - "Gays for Gaza", or whatever. Rather, like children, they gather up the incoherent stories they are being told by their "teachers" and whatever garbage they've subscribed to on the internet and then jumble it all together. The out of control energy with which they protest, too, is that of a child. So these kids are failures at an age where they are responsible for themselves, but, it's also the parents and teachers that are equally culpable for the incoherent stories they tell and they way they rile up these dullard kids like dogs for a cage fight.
If they were adults they would protest something like the Iraq wars of the present day - the hundreds of thousands dying of drugs facilitated by Big Pharma's intentional collusion with thousands of doctors, the fact that their NIMBY boomer relatives spent decades preventing the construction of affordable housing screwing their generation's chance at the American dream, the father crisis that hurts black boys the most, the mental and physical illness crisis that will cripple the economy of the United States, or Joe Biden spending money like an entitled 15 year old with dad's credit card. These are all real issues that affect real Americans. These are things that adults would protest.
In North Carolina energy prices are going up 20 percent. I have heard because of the used EV credit car dealers are getting subprime borrowers to buy used ev's. If I have an ICE car and if have 20 bucks I can make it to payday which is a real life situation a subprime borrower finds themself in all to often. In NC if you don't pay your Duke energy bill in full they turn your power off. I heard neighbor's energy bill went up 160 dollars when they got an EV. It is a FACT that Duke energy bills never go down. I am concerned that these subprime borrowers buying EV's will have a rude awakening. However, there is hope we will have a change in leadership and gas prices will go down. I will keep driving my v6 2002 Kia Optima I have been driving for 22 years for as long as I can and plan to buy an ICE when I do have to buy a car again.
Thanks for responding. And I hear you. The reason the Republicans always have to compromise is largely due to the fact that they are a minority in the Senate and they don’t possess the White House. Thus a few slices will have to do as a half loaf is just not realistic.
The 'guide' of the Palestine Action USA should be required reading for all Free Pressers. See the link in the article. Among other gems, there are repeating calls to "escalate" the current rowdiness to something that sounds like an armed militia:
"The pro-Palestinian movement must be a movement against the police."
"We are not naïve enough to think the revolution will come through 'peaceful' means or spontaneous uprisings without organized militancy."
As a professional editor, I am sure those words were carefully chosen.
The American campus is about to do a lot worse than just make people "feel unsafe" or prompt them to hide obvious signs of being Jewish. When they "escalate" with "organized militancy", hiding will no longer be enough.
It's no coincidence that Israeli universities are already gearing up to offer Jewish students a streamlined transfer to finish their degrees in the Jewish state.
What's with the juvenile Lonely Hearts section? Are there not already enough places to go to seek out a mate virtually? I don't want to see this here.
Not that my personal feelings amount to anything of importance, but I am a worried man. When I read the guff spurted out by the anti-Israeli mob my stomach contracts. I know where this can lead. Many people spout stuff about the Holocaust, I know what it really means. I had a mother who died early from what she went through at Ravensbruck, a father who never got over Mauthausen, a sister who died at the age of eight because she was neglected by the people who were supposed to care for her when our parents were deported, and a grandmother gassed and burned at Auschwitz. Why am I worried? Because I can deal with rational hate. I can argue with disagreement, even censure, but I have no idea how to deal with fantasies. Read the stuff the anti-Israel crowd believes, it is crazy. Read the stuff they say. Students protesting at an American college claim they are being denied "humanitarian aid"?! What are starving Somalis and Sudanese supposed to say? The police are fascists, as they read them their Miranda rights, just like the students at Tiananmen Square, right? Campuses under "siege", I wonder if they ever heard of private property or the siege of Leningrad? They live in a fantasy world in which they are heroes and the "others" are veritable demons. Where have I encountered this before?
Nellie is about to be a superstar. I’ve never seen both print and audio have a wait time, aside from Harry Potter at my Louisiana library. I’m getting hyped up!
It’s 4 weeks wait time on the audio version!
Making fun of a child whose dad is President (or President-Elect) is not a conspiracy theory. It is retarded attempted cruelty, whether it’s Rosie O’Donnell making fun of Barron Trump or someone making the crude jokes made against Chelsea Clinton. It’s…well…childish.
Hyperbolic Bullshit Alert! Hyperbolic Bullshit Alert! “Jan 6-style re-enactments on campus”
Dear AIPAC newsletter,
Jesus Fuck, AGAIN with our top story being non-news about college students actually showing initiative for the first time in a long time? Not that you want to encourage that.
Do you understand how obviously your hatred of anything remotely anti-Israel shines through? Or do you not care about balance?
We are now involved in Muslim Religious World War.
These are Muslim enemy combatants invading America. Please stop calling them left democrats etc etc.
These are not students in colleges.
These are not small town elected politicians.
These are not actors, writers musicians.
Can we please start labeling them for what they are.
Muslim enemy combatants invading America.
Let's name names. Can we name every city council member who votes for a cease fire as a Muslim enemy combatant invading America?
Can we name every student arrested on every college campus as a Muslim enemy combatant invading America?
Can we name every actor, musician, author who supports a cease fire as a Muslim enemy combatant invading America?.
Can we name every Federal and State politician who supports a cease fire as a Muslim enemy combatant invading America?
I’m disappointed Free Press printed the article on Barron Trump. He’s not a public figure and just a kid. It’s beneath you guys
This whole Mike Johnson situation is hilarious to me. The crazies on the right want to fire him for working across the aisle…..which is a red line for them…..but for those moderates in the population, which is a majority or at least a plurality of us, the GOP working with the DEMS to compromise on legislation is exactly how congress is supposed to work in the first place. Good for the Dems for saving him. He’s the first decent leader we’ve had in a while.
Dear me, didn’t you get the memo? What we used to call a functioning normal Congress, based on healthy debate, back and forth, ending with compromises and the more than occasional bipartisanship is now disparagingly referred to as the Uniparty and deemed EVIL. Only rule by the MAGA right wing is good and don’t you forget it!
Protesters claim they are being denied humanitarian aid? The protesters are free to leave the campus. They are not prisoners, and they are being denied NOTHING humanitarian.
I hope these domestic terrorists are on the FBI's radar and that they're not still wasting their time worrying about all that "white supremacy" out there.
I have a thought about these protesting kids. I'm interested in trying to learn something from this, even if those kids aren't interested in doing so themselves. I'm quite interested in developmental psychology. Some years ago, the day the light bulb popped on, was when I had a client who was a substance user from adolescence to his mid 50s who had just gotten clean. A very sweet, kind man, he was also stuck in an adolescent stage of development. He hadn't gone through the formative experiences of adulthood. I realized that bodies age linearly but psychological development may, or may not, proceed with age.
Kids play act roles and events in order to try on different ideas. Part of this is based on gender - girls often play house, boys play army games, etc. But it's also very much influenced by the stories parents tell their children. Play is essential to explore experiences and prepare for the possibilities of real life. This is also what I do with adults in psychotherapy, for example as I ask someone what they'd want to say to their partner in a conflict. It gives the person a chance to play out some scenarios before putting it out into the real world. The difference in these stages of play is that childhood play need not be grounded or coherent. When I played with soldier toys with my cousin as a kid, we didn't need to understand real world military strategy or sell our plan to the voters. It was just random, incoherent play, as it should be for kids. But play (and then enactment) in adulthood is different. It's more grounded, coherent, aligned with one's real life and the real world.
When I was in college the US invaded Iraq. Anyone with any sense knew it was a fabricated war. It was a real issue that involved real Americans including enlisted people I was friends with, real American dollars, and real costs for foreigners. We were absolutely on the right side of history. Today protests resemble more and more the play acting of children. Seeing the "confinement" they believe is occurring in Gaza, they dress up like Gazans and confine themselves into a building, make the same demands, and claim the same oppressions ("we need humanitarian aid!"), re-enacting the story. Trying it on, like children. Like children, the coherence of the stories they tell are not relevant to them - "Gays for Gaza", or whatever. Rather, like children, they gather up the incoherent stories they are being told by their "teachers" and whatever garbage they've subscribed to on the internet and then jumble it all together. The out of control energy with which they protest, too, is that of a child. So these kids are failures at an age where they are responsible for themselves, but, it's also the parents and teachers that are equally culpable for the incoherent stories they tell and they way they rile up these dullard kids like dogs for a cage fight.
If they were adults they would protest something like the Iraq wars of the present day - the hundreds of thousands dying of drugs facilitated by Big Pharma's intentional collusion with thousands of doctors, the fact that their NIMBY boomer relatives spent decades preventing the construction of affordable housing screwing their generation's chance at the American dream, the father crisis that hurts black boys the most, the mental and physical illness crisis that will cripple the economy of the United States, or Joe Biden spending money like an entitled 15 year old with dad's credit card. These are all real issues that affect real Americans. These are things that adults would protest.
In North Carolina energy prices are going up 20 percent. I have heard because of the used EV credit car dealers are getting subprime borrowers to buy used ev's. If I have an ICE car and if have 20 bucks I can make it to payday which is a real life situation a subprime borrower finds themself in all to often. In NC if you don't pay your Duke energy bill in full they turn your power off. I heard neighbor's energy bill went up 160 dollars when they got an EV. It is a FACT that Duke energy bills never go down. I am concerned that these subprime borrowers buying EV's will have a rude awakening. However, there is hope we will have a change in leadership and gas prices will go down. I will keep driving my v6 2002 Kia Optima I have been driving for 22 years for as long as I can and plan to buy an ICE when I do have to buy a car again.
Thanks for responding. And I hear you. The reason the Republicans always have to compromise is largely due to the fact that they are a minority in the Senate and they don’t possess the White House. Thus a few slices will have to do as a half loaf is just not realistic.
"The People’s Forum put out a call on Twitter to its *useful idiots* Tuesday afternoon ..."
There, fixed it for you.