All Cops Are [Expletive Deleted]
by C.A. Matthews
I really hate
slapping a label onto a particular group of people, but sometimes
the label just fits.
After watching
videos and reading stories about what the police of various
cities/countries have been doing to university students and faculty
members who are attempting to hold down peaceful anti-genocide
encampments, I can’t come to any other conclusion. The cops are not
our friends. The cops are not there to protect and serve the public.
The cops are there for one reason and one reason only.
That reason is to
protect and serve their non-empathetic, zionarcissistic, capitalistic
masters who are afraid that We the People are getting close to taking
them out and shutting down the war machine to make endless profits.
Their tactics give
them away. Teresa Watanabe observes:
https://twitter.com/TeresaWatanabe/status/1785575610469007471
200+ pro-Israel
counterprotestors are attacking the UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment.
They started beating on one student and stomped another under a
plywood board per LA Times’ Safi Nazzal on the scene. Where is UCLA
security?
Good question.
Campus security and the city cops seem to be working side-by-side on
allowing vigilantism to terrorize the students. The cops are definitely not
on our side but, even worse, they’re actually aiding and abetting
acts of violence against peaceful protesters.
From Natasha
Lennard’s article I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests
for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/:
A lone Trash can lay on its side at the intersection of
W. 139th St and Amsterdam Ave in Harlem, in front of the gates of the
City College of New York.
At around 11 p.m. on Tuesday night, this was the extent of damaged
property that I witnessed outside the college campus. At the same
time, New York Police Department officers in riot regalia had amassed
in their hundreds, including members of the Strategic
Response Group — a unit dedicated to public unrest and
“counterterrorism.”
More police had stormed
through the school’s neo-Gothic gates less than an hour before, at
the behest of the college’s president, to arrest protesting
students en masse.
Twenty blocks south, police had locked down and barricaded all
streets in a two-block radius of Columbia University, brutally
arresting students inside the inaccessible campus.
Between Columbia and City College, over 200 protesters — almost
all students — were arrested before the night was out.
There are many more
examples of “unhinged police” actions that have taken place on
college campuses across the country. Why would peaceful protesters
trying to do a good deed by bringing justice and awareness to the
plight of the Palestinians invoke such violent responses? Why
are cops allowing Zionist vigilantes to beat and injure students with their
blessing? Who is calling the shots here?
I think you know who.
(Watch a video with Bibi giving the orders.) Netanyahu ordered the cops to squash the American campus encampments, and his puppet Joe Biden went along with it willingly. Biden's campaign staff is trying
to make him look like a “kinder, gentler genocide-enabler who is also tough
on crime” in this an election year. It’s better to let Netanyahu
take the heat and pretend it’s all his idea than let Geriatric Genocide Joe
draw more attention to the fact that he hasn’t been calling any
shots lately.
But it’s even
worse than a demented commander-in-chief not leading compassionately when it comes
to policing campus protests. Treasonous Americans are actually
causing violence against our students with the blessing of the
police and perhaps even a foreign government. I bet you know which
foreign government that is, too.
From The Grayzone:
Rebecca
Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence
director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on
anti-genocide student protesters and directing the militarized raid
that dislodged them from campus. (...)
During a May
1 press conference, just hours after the New York Police
Department arrested nearly 300 people on university grounds, Adams
praised adjunct Columbia professor Rebecca Weiner, who moonlights as
the head of the NYPD counter-terrorism bureau, for giving police the
green light to clear out anti-genocide students by force.
(...)
Weiner “develops policy and
strategic priorities for the Intelligence & Counterterrorism
Bureau and publicly represents the NYPD in matters involving
counterterrorism and intelligence.”
The NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau
currently maintains an office in Tel Aviv, Israel, where it
coordinates with Israel’s security apparatus and maintains a
department liaison. Weiner appears to serve as a bridge between the
Bureau’s offices in Israel and New York.
The Zionist government of Israel
obviously is in charge
of American security—particularly when it comes to policing college
campus protests. The
New York Police Department
even maintains an office in Tel
Aviv, Israel—that’s not a neighborhood in Brooklyn, either.
Strange how the NYPD
bows so easily to
the wishes of a foreign government without a care to the welfare of its own citizens. Then
again, most large city
police departments
throughout the US have had their officers trained by programs
either conducted or originated by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).
Perhaps that explains how the
cops in New York and Los Angeles had no problems with pro-Israel
vigilantes beating up on peaceful college students. The
Israelis aren’t known for objecting to the abuse and torture of
others or for protecting
free speech. They’re
experts on the use of deadly
violence against civilians as we’ve seen these past seven months in
Gaza and the West Bank.
It’s probably part of the
IDF’s training to teach American cops like Rebecca Weiner to see their
fellow Americans (such as the college students) as lesser beings,
such as animals, who are only fit for abuse and imprisonment. It’s
how the Israelis see the Palestinians. Israeli government officials have said as much on camera more than once.
American cops trained to think
of pro-Palestine protesters as less than human. What could go wrong?
Indie
journalist Michael Tracey adds:
Rebecca Weiner, head of
the NYPD "counter-terrorism" bureau, identifies one of the
threats that supposedly necessitated the Columbia raid:
"Mainstreaming of rhetoric associated with Terrorism." No
question this is recasting political speech as "Terrorism."
She also blames TikTok.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1785707101676773621
Rebecca Weiner, an adjunct
professor that the students at Columbia would have trusted spied upon
them, then turned
over the information
to the police units that violently stormed their symbolic
occupation of Hamilton Hall, a
building which was also
taken by students in a 1968 protest against the Vietnam War. The
students trusted
Weiner,
and she consequently
betrayed them and had them
beaten and arrested.
Judas Iscariot looks like your
favorite great-aunt—you know the one, your auntie who makes your
favorite chocolate chip
cookies and knits you warm fuzzy sweaters for Christmas—compared to
this Weiner woman.
How can a traitor like Weiner live with
herself knowing how much she has hurt these kids and their futures? And for what? To
further the Zionist plans of Israel in the USA? Or
is it the United States of Israel now?
Fortunately not all professors are as traitorous or vicious
as undercover cop Rebecca
Weiner.
Annelise Orleck, Head of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, was banned
from campus for six months for trying to protect her protesting students from riot police.
(Watch it here: https://twitter.com/Zephyr_8______/status/1786149558625382830 )
So,
for every traitor like Weiner, there’s a hero like Orleck. Of
course, Professor Orleck
has been harshly punished
for her compassion, but
somehow I doubt she regrets her actions. The students at Dartmouth
were lucky to have her on their side.
Is there anything
the students of Columbia can do to fight the injustices that their
pro-Israel university directors have inflicted upon them? Yes, there
is.
From the Twitter/X
thread that starts here:
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1786103595277992177
BREAKING: The
Department of Education has announced that Columbia University is
under federal investigation for anti-Palestinian discrimination and
harassment. Palestine Legal is representing four Palestinian students
and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.
“The law is clear—
if universities do not cease their racist crackdowns against
Palestinians and their supporters, they will risk losing federal
funding” said senior Palestine Legal attorney Radhika Sainath
This comes less than
48 hours after Columbia President Shafik called in the NYPD, which
violently arrested and brutalized dozens of student protesters, some
with guns drawn, using sledgehammers, batons, and flash-bang
explosives.
“Palestinian
students at Columbia deserve justice and accountability, not only for
Israel’s decades-long oppression and violence against our people,
but for the racism and discrimination we’ve experienced here on
Columbia’s campus,” said Mayam Alwan.
Palestinian students
have dealt with immense repression and a hostile campus environment.
A complainant received a conduct notice for stating her family was
bombed in Gaza. Read the full complaint here:
https://palestinelegal.org/news/2024/4/25/columbia-students-file-civil-rights-complaint-after-nypd-arrests-national-guard-threat
The
owned-and-operated-by-Israel Columbia University and the racist,
traitorous cops of the NYPD aren’t going to get away with their
crimes if the justice system allows the students to sue. That’s a
very big “if” considering how infiltrated the US apparently is by
Zionists. Who really knows how many American judges are under Israel’s direct control?
A silent coup d’etat of the US by Israel has occurred, and it didn’t
happen overnight. This shows you just how long the Israelis have been
setting things up to guarantee America’s support before they
started in on their genocide of the Palestinian people. This so-called Israel-Hamas War is
premeditated mass murder. This is exquisitely planned ethnic
cleansing. Nothing was left to chance. The Zionists knew then and know now what they're doing in Gaza is illegal under international law as well as being utterly heinous and immoral. They knew it would more than likely cause huge protests around the globe, but they still keep doing it. Bombs are raining down on Rafah and thousands of innocent Palestinians are running for their lives from this supposed "safe place" even as I type this sentence. Shutting down student encampments won't change anyone's mind who has already determined that this is a genocide.
Natasha Lennard sums
it up well:
Israel’s
decimation of Gaza has — at least for millions more people —
given lie to the redemptive myths of the post-World War II political
liberal order. Young people, even the children of the elite, even
children of Zionists, are standing with Palestine. Their peaceful
acts of protest count as disruptive because they count as un-American
— which should be a badge of honor amid a US-backed genocide.”
—I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years.This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Are
all cops in the US working for the Zionists’ agenda? Maybe not. There is at least one outlier.
Denver’s Police
Chief Ron Thomas declined to
clear the students’
pro-Palestine encampment
at Auraria University because he felt to do so was a violation of
their
rights to peaceful protest.
Chief Thomas’ refusal to
arrest the students is
impressive. He
actually sees
the protesters
as human beings, not animals, and worthy of having the rights guaranteed under
the First Amendment of
Constitution to free speech.
We can only
hope his actions are copied by others.But
if we continue to see police violence against peaceful students and flat-out
refusal to honor the pro-Palestine protesters’ rights of free
speech on university
campuses—or street corners—across the US, then the old saying
will still
apply. The label will stick. You know the one I'm alluding to:
ACAB
Seen on Twitter/X from Fadi Quran:
https://twitter.com/fadiquran/status/1787065255677378638
Every
student protesting should know these three things:
1. You are a ray of hope for Gaza: Every person I’ve spoken to in and
from Gaza has told me they were losing hope in international solidarity,
until these protests started. They said the encampments are their main
(for many the ONLY) source of hope now.
2. Your pressure is working: Despite what the US government is saying
publicly, under the table these protests have forced them to urgently
pursue a ceasefire, including significantly increasing pressure on the
Israeli war cabinet.
3. Boards of Trustees across campuses are now divided, with some
shifting towards divestment, and asking themselves the question of: Why
risk everything to protect weapon companies and war criminals?
Given this rising impact, different tools of deception and oppression
are going to be used to shut down your momentum.
Maintaining your eyes on the prize, your unity, coherence of messaging
and the moral high ground are central.
You are at the forefront of the struggle for freedom and dignity.
Millions across the world have your back.
Until Victory.
Related Articles and Interesting Links
Columbia crackdown led by university prof doubling as NYPD spook https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/columbia-crackdown-university-nypd/
I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/
Students in Cuba Stand with U.S. Student Encampments for Gaza https://youtu.be/hCn1jtHSj8E?si=wDX_KUWkhComRJNq
Bipartisan Bill Would Create ‘Antisemitism Monitors’ at College Campuses
Pro-Palestine protests have been falsely labeled as 'antisemitic' even though many Jewish students are involved https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/29/bipartisan-bill-would-create-antisemitism-monitors-at-college-campuses/
Israel Orders Evacuation in Rafah, Hours After Raiding Al Jazeera Offices https://truthout.org/articles/israel-orders-evacuation-in-rafah-hours-after-raiding-al-jazeera-offices/
The Press Freedom Clock is TikToking https://www.projectcensored.org/press-freedom-clock-tiktoking/
Israeli Finance Minister Denounced for Calling for 'Total Annihilation' of Gaza https://www.commondreams.org/news/smotrich-gaza-annihilation
The 'Antisemitism' Moral Panic Has Officially Jumped The Shark https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-antisemitism-moral-panic-has
The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-bizarre-gymnastics-of-the-gaza
Sermon for Gaza https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/sermon-for-gaza
Support Palestine. Boycott Israel https://boycott.thewitness.news/
Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah, source says https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-israel-planning-ring-checkpoints-prevent-men-fleeing-rafah
State Dept. Claims it Upholds Laws, but Won't Acknowledge Israel's Nukes, Flouting Law Requiring Funding Cutoff to Proliferators
https://husseini.substack.com/p/state-dept-claims-it-upholds-laws
How Israel Violates International Law in Gaza: Expert Report https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/01/how-israel-violates-international-law-in-gaza-expert-report/
"Vote Biden to save democracy" is not going according to plan, is it? https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/what-happened-to-vote-biden-to-save (Good links to articles on the student protests and Zionist vigilantism.)
Pro-Palestine Protesters Occupy University Hall After Columbia Refuses to Divest https://truthout.org/articles/pro-palestine-protesters-occupy-university-hall-after-columbia-refuses-to-divest/
America is Rising for Gaza: What Should We Expect? https://www.mintpressnews.com/america-gaza-protests-what-should-we-expect/287313/
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CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to
Remember, All This Fascism Would Feel Way More Fascismy Under Trump https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/remember-all-this-fascism-would-feel
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