For the record we now
know critical thinking skills and common sense are not a prerequisite for being
a professor at the University of California-Berkeley.
Earlier this month,
firebrand Milo Yianoppoulos was scheduled to speak at the school about how The
Left has been shutting down free speech. Police had to cancel the talk when
about 150 masked agitators threw Molotov cocktails, smashed windows, threw
rocks and fireworks at the police.
“I want to be very, very clear. I was there for part of
last night and I know what I saw. Those people were not Berkeley students.
Those people were outsiders, agitators. I’ve never seen them before. There’s
rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a group that
were organized and ready to create the kind of tumult and danger you saw that
forced the police to cancel the event. So Donald Trump, when he says Berkeley
doesn’t respect free speech rights, that’s a complete distortion of the truth.
I mean, Berkeley opened its biggest auditorium to this right-wing Breitbart
News character, this hateful odious person. They said, ‘Free speech is the most
important thing we stand for,’ and it was these outsiders who caused the police
to finally come in and have to cancel it.”
When President Trump
made a campaign-style stop in Melbourne, FL last Saturday he said:
“You look at what’s happened last night in Sweden.
Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re
having problems like they never thought possible.”
His language was
imprecise and sloppy, but he never
claimed there had been a terrorist attack in Sweden. Violence, however, did erupt in Rinkeby, a suburb of Stockholm, two days later as cars
were burned, businesses vandalized and police were attacked with rocks and a
reporter was beaten. Rinkeby is predominantly
made up of immigrants.
Reich proceeded to go
for a second helping of stupid by tweeting and then deleting this:
Trump's lies have
consequences. 48 hrs after his comments on Sweden, riots broke out in an
immigrant community. https://t.co/1k2BOl2jdw—
Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 21, 2017
He apparently was
commenting on The Washington Post’s report of the violence believing the
President’s comment was so incendiary it drove those poor Swedes to unbridled violence.
“The neighborhood, Rinkeby, was the scene of riots in
2010 and 2013, too. And in most ways, what happened Monday night was
reminiscent of those earlier bouts of anger. Swedish police apparently made an
arrest on drug charges at about 8 p.m. near the Rinkeby station. For
reasons not yet disclosed by the police, word of the arrest prompted youths to
gather.”
Herr Reich is so
short the only thing he’s good for is tying my shoelaces. His lunacy and those of his comrades are exactly
what got Trump elected. Keep it up fella.