President Biden said on Thursday that the college protests on campuses across the country have not caused him to rethink his unconditional support for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
Biden made the comment when answering a question from a reporter after he delivered brief remarks about the protest movement.
The president portrayed the demonstrations as “violent,” but the only significant violence occurred when police moved to clear out encampments or occupied buildings and when a pro-Israel crowd attacked an encampment at UCLA.
“So, let me be clear. Peaceful protest in America — violent protest is not protected; peaceful protest is. It’s against the law when violence occurs,” Biden said.
“Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations — none of this is a peaceful protest,” he added.
Biden made clear that he supported the crackdown on the protests, which has led to over 2,000 arrests across the country so far. “We are a civil society, and order must prevail,” he said.
The president also again appeared to smear the movement as antisemitic despite the fact that Jewish students were involved in the protests. “There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students,” he said.
While he condemned the protests, Biden said he did not believe that the National Guard should intervene.
Biden’s position on the protest movement puts him at odds with some Democrats, including the College Democrats of America, the official college outreach arm of the Democratic National Committee, which released a statement strongly backing the demonstrations.
If you talk to people, they question whether Palestinians really lack food and water.
Anyway, the positive is some people here might become more open to questioning past “historical events.” Because we’re witnessing the power of media control. People here will come to realise, some anyway, that modern history is about as true as the Iliad.
If this is so, that they are trying to deny the reality of the deliberately created famine as a means to extermination, then it speaks to their humanity. Presumably they are less than enthusiastic to take part to deliberately hunger people, children always being the primary target, to death or at the very least hinder their growth and health for the rest of their lives.
Simply denying the truth of the situation would solve that cognitive dissonance with they regarding themselves as basically good. A very understandable mechanism, but when you take in consideration the truth of the matter, denying the suffering is to double it.
The US is full of identity groups which don’t necessarily correspond with ethnicity. I talk with conservatives all the time who claim to not know conditions there or to support the war or something similar.
Certain Christians claim the Bible commands they support Israel. They don’t care about Armenians either; they don’t know of their existence.
It amazes me.
Yes, I can understand that people cannot believe that Palestinians lack food or water. Images coming out of Gaza have been heavily censored, intercepted or wiped out. This is the reason for killing of journalists.
But the corrolary to the blatant censorship is the effect of showing. disturbing images, raw and unedited to the naive and trusting average American.
How can you show images of emaciiated children without being shocked? How can you show images of bewildred children, some toddlers, running in streets after bombing, looking for parents? How do you react to the images of mass graves of doctors, still in scrubs, medical staff, patients, dead from gun shot in the back of the head? Images of children in those graves with hands and legs tied up — clearly immobilizing. frightened children running around in panic — before safely shoting them.
How can you show that seven year old walking around dazed with a back pack on his chest, a blood dripping from it. He was carrying his one year dead brother, hoping somebody will helo?
How can you publish in mainstream nedia yesterday’s statement by Israeli finance minister of the need to quickly annihilate the remaining Palestinians, again invoking the Biblical Amalek.
How do you do it without crudhing the belief in
American decency?
This cannot be done. Innocence must be maintained, by firce if need be. So adults can live in the world of delusion while we sacrifice our children in the thousands to the tender mercies of the riot police.
Where the pro-Israeli mobs attack protesters, with metal bars and fireworks, shout the most disguisting obscenities — and they are the ones being protected.
While our ruling clases live in bunker mentality, believing that ANY reverse of policy , any flexibility, is a sign of imperial weakness.
In this light Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was probably the last manifestation of sanity of otherwise mindless, spineless and cowardly ruling elites, egging each other on into the abyss of clinical insanity.
Congress might soon make it illegal to write what you’ve just written.
“This cannot be done. Innocence must be maintained, by f0rce if need be.”
Shades of “The Zone of Interest”!
“The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years and has been recognized as a state by the United Nations, distorts history,” the letter said, never mind that the military occupation of the Palestinian Territories of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights, has been recognized as such by the United Nations since 1967.
But the letter went on to say that “occupation” did more than just distort history, it invoked history’s worst antisemitic tropes: “It gives credence to the modern blood libel that fuels growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world, in the United States, and in Hollywood.”
The indisputable fact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian land is now apparently a “blood libel”: a millennia-old antisemitic canard, which rose to prominence in the Middle Ages, that Jews murder Christians to use their blood for cultish rituals.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/19/jonathan-glazer-oscars-israel-occupation-antisemitic/
I’m going to rely on the UN concerning the question of whether or not Palestinians really lack food in water.
Note: this article is more than a month old. The situation has gotten even worse.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147312
People in Gaza are starving.
Kamala Harris, March 3rd.
“Peaceful protest in America — violent protest is not protected; peaceful protest is.”
Unless he vetos, HR 6090 would disagree with President O’ Tool.
Protected protest would be helping Rosa Parks to the back of the bus.
Of course not. He’s a Nazi. They never “reconsider.”
Joey Biden is a sick senile angry old clown. FJB
– covered in the blood of innocents from head to toe.
I couldn’t have said it better!
Militarism, support for brutal despots, genocide and WWIII, none of this is a peaceful, democratic president. This very much is causing us to rethink our unconditional support for Joe Biden. Some of us actually learn from our mistakes. Joe is not too old to rule, he’s too old to change.
Yes, he is too old to rule. If we pretend the President is the leader of the free world, we need someone in the prime of life. I don’t care how “sharp” an 80+ year old is, he/she shouldn’t be near the white house. Same with congress. McConnell looks, and sounds, like walking death. How about a bipartisan ticket? Biden/McConnell 2024!
He was always too old to rule. The man always has been a mediocre incompetent and lacking an ethical core.
Then there’s the matter of his senility…
Yes. He had no “prime” that would make him any better than he is now.
I don’t know if you remember Bloom County from the 80’s, Wars, but he had a sketch where the recommended ticket was Jesse Jackson and Jesse Helms (Jesse and Jesse) … “let’s offend everybody” being the motto.
Absurd fiction has become reality more and more as the years go by …
I do. Thanks for the memory jolt.
There is no “Free World”./
The donors have found its easier to control the old and infirm.
Throw in Carvel. He looks like the Crypt Keeper.
https://rumble.com/v4svj28-unhinged-james-carville-lashes-out-at-anti-biden-progressives.html
*carville
So the BLM protests that burned cities were peaceful but the students attacked by a mob were not?
Sorry, but I don’t remember any cities having burned, and I live in one of the cities with the largest and most extended protests. Care to provide some documentation?
One of the candidates for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination claims that he was a Marxist professor until he was “savaged by the woke mob,” after which he became a Trumptard, which apparently qualifies him to be the Libertarian candidate for president.
It turns out that his version of being “savaged by the woke mob” is that someone wrote a mean letter to the editor of the student newspaper about him.
I suspect he got the phrases “savaged by the woke mob” from the same writers who came up with “burned cities.”
He was hounded out of his job as a tenured professor when he was revealed as the author of satiric tweets mocking the woke crowd.
Didn’t Minneapolis get burned a bit? What about Portland? Kenosha?
Some buildings were burned as witnessed by the burning building behind a sympathetic reporter on network news who said it was “mainly a peaceful protest.” Nothing burned on Jan 6th – so that was “extra peaceful?
I saw attacks by small groups of agents intending provocation on behalf of Israel, meant to discredit protests and to misinform the public by creating propaganda and distraction. I did not see a mob, just a small number of criminals engaged in treason against the US in favor of Israel.
Joey Biden is a senile puppet who can barely read a TelePrompter. FJB
But that little coherent thought he has left is in full agreement to what the teleprompter is telling him.
Really, you are too kind.
Wasn’t it the police who broke windows to get in?
Resistance to violence will not be tolerated …
++++
It’s pretty clear now that Biden-Blinken-Sullivan work for the zionists, not the American people.
Words fail when it comes to the creep in the white house, a place whose honor he soils every day he’s there.
Literally “soils”.
By going to war against the future intellectual class, this Democratic party might have well lost it’s future. A well deserved death if ever there was one. It was always par excellence the warparty, but now they’re at war with democracy itself. At war with America’s students while shitting on every existing democratic value in the process. And defying belief, the Dems have now reached that miserable depth of human depravity where they are now actually the party of genocide. While the only other party would be even more so. This is part of US history now. Written in the fabric of time. It can never be undone.
I sympathize with any American burdened with at least one last lingering shred of functional conscience, for it must be like having descended hell upon you.
In our name, and with our money. I never asked for this, and I have told whomever “represented” me in Congress repeatedly, in no uncertain terms and not without a little profanity, that I do not support the United States Government’s actions. The USG is going to continue this path, no matter what we say or do. Fortunately for the rest of the world, impending economic collapse has been baked into the cake.
It could very well be that those putting the Nail In Our Coffin will be Russia and China and Iran.
Maybe.
I don’t think the empire will survive another war.
I believed the same thing 60 years ago. I hope you are right this time.
It’s been an American a hellscape since 2003, when the empire slipped the leash imposed on it by the Vietnam debacle and began occupying other nations by force again.
The result has been millions of dead, with the promise of many, many millions more. With no end in sight.
Clearly the gloves are off. Civil disobedience against Israel’s slaughter is met with authoritarian violence, blacklists and imprisonment.
On the bright side, the students have already defeated Biden the politician. He’s ready to sacrifice his re-election prospects for Israel.
This is Biden’s self-professed, Zionist heart. It’s putrid.
Herr Drumpf waits in the wings, plotting revenge on his phalanx of enemies.
In the Senate Chucky rages about student “lawlessness”, while the US tries to obstruct justice at the ICC to stop the warrants against Bibi and his gang of far right war criminals.
The best we can hope for is that Biden is not in the race at convention time.
Solid summary.
I doubt Biden will be the democratic nominee. He is not electable and has no credibility with the voters. But TBTB will make sure the replacement candidate is a Zionist stooge who will serve and protect the same interests Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc. served and protected. The enemy is not one man or one party. It is the two party system. Until Americans vote against both the Republican and Democratic parties our country will remain the greatest impediment to human progress and the greatest enabler of human suffering in our time.
The Republicans are no better than the Democrats. For all his bluster Trump was a Zionist stooge just like Biden. Americans and the world need an end of the phony two party system. We need a new party.
Norm knows: https://youtu.be/FtpgGxeCGpM?si=Lzq91A0iYUt4ELuo
Lest there be any doubt, Biden is a legend… in his own mind.
i cant stand the guy and disagree with so much but, be fair,biden has done more than you i together and his name is known not yours or mine so, gotta be fair..
What remains of it.
Democracy in the US? What a joke.
Of course not, and the war criminal Bibi may be invited to address congress….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schumer-poised-to-join-johnson-invite-for-netanyahu-address-to-congress/ar-AA1o3SLS?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=63ccf43b01684f3fdc867429db4e6cd3&ei=10
Maybe? Bibi has an open invite.
The MIC and oligarchy don’t care who is in office, as long as they provide death, profits and global power. Biden and his family will be richly rewarded and Trump will be handed the baton for same.
What is most important to Biden is finishing off the Palestinians and progressing toward world war.
DUH! Ya think? Biden, nor anyone else in the US government, does not give a rat’s ass about the opinion of anyone in the US population. He only cares if he has enough votes to win an election (which he doesn’t this time) – or his donors are willing to bribe him.
The unconfirmed reports that the US campus protests are all staged events to distract the easily-distracted US media from reporting on the genocide in Gaza (and increasingly the West Bank) ring true. I’m not saying the protesters aren’t sincere, I believe they are and I agree with them. I’m saying the people that may be funding such protests have a specific agenda and that is to turn Americans against support for Palestine by sowing chaos on US campuses.
There is a real risk of unintended consequences producing negative side effects. It could happen, even if it is not intended and even if it is not yet certain. It is a valid concern to address.
The media have eagerly changed the subject from 17,000 dead children and babies in Gaza, to Jewish students feeling potentially threatened by pro-Palestinian rallies on US campuses.
Suddenly, when protesters are against Israel, THEN the Left talks about violent protests.
The leftists loved violence when the BurnLootMurder rioters were looting and burning stores all across the country, causing $4 billion in damage, attacking Whites in the streets, murdering more than 40 people. The police in Oregon were ordered to abandon a police station so the leftist criminals could burn it, and the leftist media, politicians and activists praised the attack and declared that the police should be de-funded.
They let criminal leftists take over a large part of Seattle and sexually assault women, steal from stores and demand money from shopkeepers.
Before the election in 2020 stores in Washington had to barricade their windows as they knew the communists and BLM criminals would take the chance to attack them if Trump won.
Back when Trump was inaugurated in 2016 the leftists were also smashing windows and burning cars in Washington, and tried to force their way in to the inauguration to stop it.
How’s all that for “attack on democracy”? But when the media is in the hands of a pro-crime clique, that won’t be mentioned.
Nothing can change Genocide Joe’s mind, what a surprise.
Robinette’s handlers will tell him when he’s changed his mind.
AIPAC gave Biden $12 million this years, the students have given him any money.
Now, do you think he declares any of that on his taxes?….
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Is there any kind of constitutional challenge, in this regard?….
Hmmmmm…..
His choice of VP said “…and they’re going to keep on doing it”, referring to the looters, arsonists, berserkers, etc., that she was defending in the summer of 2020. According to Biden, she’s guilty of siding with those who were committing crimes that he falsely accuses the “freedom of speech” demonstrators of doing.
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression… Ring a constitutional
bell anyone?
Whatever happened to the America that we loved, where the proudest boast of an American patriot was, “I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend with my life your right to say it!” Where did that country go?
He’ll go down in history as “Genocide Joe”
Nixonian.
Not even close. Compared with today’s crop of idiots and charlatans, Nixon would be considered a civil rights champion of liberal democratic ideals:
Among others: During his presidency, Nixon signed the Clean Air Act of 1970, and the Clean Water Act. He signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the primary law for protecting imperiled species from extinction as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation.
The Vietnam war came to a close, and the door to relations with China was finally opened.
Also, Nixon opened the doors for women in collegiate sports when he signed Title IX in 1972, a civil rights law preventing gender bias at colleges and universities receiving Federal aid. A great proponent of the 26th Amendment, Nixon lowered the voting age
from twenty-one to eighteen, extending the right to vote to America’s youth.
Nixon became the first President to give Native Americans the right to tribal self-determination by ending the policy of forced assimilation and returning their sacred lands.
Not my favorite by any means, as he had his dark side, but neither he nor others of his generation can be compared – using any metric you care to choose – to the corporate incompetent asswipes we have today.
What we have in point of fact, is a degradation in the quality and quantity of political figures to a level I’ve not witnessed in my life.
The current resident of the WH is an accurate representation of the slide into darkness our entire political class has undergone.
Well said.
Thank you.
It was quite the dark side and given he and Kissinger deviously extended the Vietnam war by about 4 years and you completely ignored the death and devastation they dealt Indochina – the Cambodians are still dying every year, mostly children, from the unexploded bombs of the 2.8M! tons we dropped on them.
But you’re right about the greatest generation, even Nixon, he’d never have dealt the homeland the death and destruction our crop of cretinous cray-cray have and are – 10 years later 7K Flint children are brain damaged, the water’s still unsafe, no official’s been held accountable thx to the AG and that’s the SOP… I just saw a Flint doc that’s what jumped to mind, but then you know Iraq ,TWOT and the lunatics 3-war strategy. So given the choice Nixon’s deep deep dark wins in a New York minute – though I’d prefer Jack or Bobby 🙂
Who can forget the impassioned words of CNN’s Chris Cuomo back in the summer of 2020:
“No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets: persistent, and poisonous, inequities and injustice,” Cuomo said. “Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.”
He continued, “I can show you outraged citizens are what made America what she is and led to any major milestones.”
Biden will make Stalin look like the Easter bunny.
Of course he won’t reconsider because he’s now quite literally a deranged, delusional crazy man with a god-complex and a brain like rancid melted cheese.