Zachary Greenberg Charged With Three Felonies, Including Assault, Battery Causing Serious Bodily Harm and Making Criminal Threats (for Threatening to Shoot His Victim)

He pled "not guilty," which in Berkeley means "I'm guilty as hell but you lefties gotta have the back of a Fellow Traveler."

The man he sucker-punched, Hayden Williams, writes in USA Today.

Conservative students across the country have suffered verbal and physical assault, social ostracism and even academic persecution for voicing their opinions on political topics. This is because young liberals believe that they are on the morally righteous side in a culture war and, in order to win, they must silence any form of dissent. Leftists and the progressives aspire to nothing less than to make it de facto impossible to be conservative in public....

Increasingly, leftists believe they are justified to respond to ideas disagreeable to them with open hostility and even force. Students are commonly told now that words are literally violent and can be responded to with physical force. I don't mean verbal threats of violence or efforts to intimidate, I mean words that express ideas that the listener finds offensive or disagrees with.

The message that provoked my attacker was our sign that read "Hate Crime Hoaxes Hurt Real Victims," a reference to the recent case of Jussie Smollett, who was charged by Chicago police with filing a false police report about an apparently fictitious attack. My attacker said we were promoting violence, which, in his view, gives him permission to use any means necessary to shut us down. The irony is that the sign was intended to warn of the danger of disregarding facts and jumping to judgment in an effort to confirm a narrative our feelings tell us is true.

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The Berkeley administration in particular has allowed a culture of intolerance and violence toward conservatives to grow. The College Republicans club has had its property vandalized, and critics have called for the members to be lynched. When there was a pro-Trump rally in April 2017, a former community college professor was arrested for allegedly assaulting multiple supporters with a bike lock. He later accepted a plea deal.

When Milo Yiannopoulos visited in February 2017, the campus became the site of violent riots. Some people even threw Molotov cocktails and fireworks, injuring students and causing $100,000 worth of damage to the school. Berkeley police canceled the speech after "an apparently organized violent attack and destruction of property" forced them to evacuate Yiannopoulos for his own protection.

After I was assaulted, a university employee tweeted (now deleted), "The MAGA people on UC Berkeley campus yesterday got punched in the face by someone this makes me feel emotionally so much better."

Since the arrest last week of the person who assaulted me, we have learned that he was once a student and employee of UC Berkeley.

Trump, of course, brought Hayden Williams up to the stage at CPAC so he could tell his story and talk about the dangers of Democrat/Media Maoism.

I have yet to see any coverage of this in The Bulwark, which, you might have heard, is either "Conserving Conservatism" or engaging in a petty social smearing campaign to "make some conservatives feel uncomfortable at dinner parties and in green rooms."

Meanwhile, another anarchist shut down a College Republicans meeting at Portland University while police just watched and did nothing, refusing to escort the disruptor out of the room.

And if police won't act, citizens begin considering their own capacity to enforce the law:

And this is become more and more common as blue city mayors tell the police to give antifa, BLM, and BAMN free reign over their cities.

NeverTrumpers continue to be mystified as to why conservatives support Trump.

It's pretty simple: He takes our side when antifa attacks us, while you cover up for antifa, make excuses for them, and suggest they are justified in attacking us.

Not so complicated, really.

For smart guys, shit, you sure are stupid as everloving fuck.

posted by Ace of Spades at 05:31 PM

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