Feminist University Professor Steals Anti-Abortion Protester Sign, Assaults Minor On Elevator

[dannno]

Article: http://www.independent.com/news/2014/mar/11/ucsb-professor-accused-assaulting-pro-life-activis/

Video:


I'm personally against using the tactics that this anti-abortion group uses by placing large violent imagery in public and in fact their organization seems to possibly be modeled similarly to the Westboro Baptist Church model where they attempt to troll and inflame people, causing violent outbursts which in turn lead to profitable lawsuits for the group.

However I have to defend the anti-abortion group in this instance, at least from a legal standpoint based on the evidence I've seen.

While we don't get to see the incidents that led up to this, it appears that two students and a professor steal her sign and attempt to take it into a school building to hide or destroy. When they get on the elevator, the 21 year old girl (not a student at the University) and her younger sister who is a minor follow them and attempt to stop the elevator or get on so they can follow their stolen property.

The comments on this article have gone off the charts (150 comments so far - aka 15 pages of an RPF thread) - there are, as you guessed it, quite a few people on the left defending the theft and assault by the professor and two students for at least a couple reasons -

1. The images are inappropriate and should not be displayed as a lot of people enjoy their lunch in this area (even though PETA and anti-war groups show similarly violent images in the same spot on different days)

2. They purposely troll and try to get people to mess with them for lawsuits, so their past behavior should remove their right to protest

 

[dannno]

bump

 

[phill4paul]

The comments on this article have gone off the charts (150 comments so far - aka 15 pages of an RPF thread) - there are, as you guessed it, quite a few people on the left defending the theft and assault by the professor and two students for at least a couple reasons -

1. The images are inappropriate and should not be displayed as a lot of people enjoy their lunch in this area (even though PETA and anti-war groups show similarly violent images in the same spot on different days)

2. They purposely troll and try to get people to mess with them for lawsuits, so their past behavior should remove their right to protest

What is inappropriate about the pictures? It is reality. People shouldn't be offended by the images but by the action which caused the images.

 

[dannno]

What is inappropriate about the pictures? It is reality. People shouldn't be offended by the images but by the action which caused the images.

Well a comment someone made was what if a girl was raped and had an abortion and then was subjugated to viewing the images of the abortion. I don't think that's a very strong argument, it is what it is, as Juan Pablo would say.

 

[Paulbot99]

"If you're not a student, you cannot have an opinion that we find offensive." The stupidity of some people...

 

[John F Kennedy III]

I see nothing wrong with showing the images. Damn "progressives" can't stand seeing the results of their murders. Yes it is still murder if you were raped.

I can't get away with walking into a liquor store and killing the clerk by claiming i was raped beforehand....at least i hope not.

 

[fr33]

I assume the professor is a progressive. Theft and using violence to back up her theft is just the progressive modus operandi. That's why she's smiling the whole time.

 

[Danke]

Well a comment someone made was what if a girl was raped and had an abortion and then was subjugated to viewing the images of the abortion. I don't think that's a very strong argument, it is what it is, as Juan Pablo would say.

She could avoid the designated "free speech zone" on that campus.

 

[aGameOfThrones]

Well a comment someone made was what if a girl was raped and had an abortion and then was subjugated to viewing the images of the abortion. I don't think that's a very strong argument, it is what it is, as Juan Pablo would say.

2 wrongs don't make a right?

 

[jbauer]

Well a comment someone made was what if a girl was raped and had an abortion and then was subjugated to viewing the images of the abortion. I don't think that's a very strong argument, it is what it is, as Juan Pablo would say.

If the woman reported her rape and took the morning after pill during the investigation there wouldn't be an abortion.

 

[gwax23]

"I support murder but I refuse to see the consequences of what I support" = 100% of people thinking this person is stupid.

"I support the Iraq War but refuse to see or look at the consequences of what I support" = 80% of people think this person is stupid.

"I support abortion but I refuse to see or look at the consequences of what I support" = 50%+ think this person is completely right.

 

[dannno]

Update:

UCSB Police Department Releases Professor-Protestor Incident Report

Mireille Miller-Young Said She Had ‘Moral Right’ to Take and Destroy Anti-Abortion Activists’ Sign


In the report, Miller-Young, who is pregnant, said she was “triggered” by the graphic images of aborted fetuses on the large posters and said she felt the demonstrators didn’t have a right to be on the university’s campus, because their messages were upsetting to her and students. When asked by police if there had been a struggle between her and the activists when she took the poster, Miller-Young responded, “I’m stronger, so I was able to take the poster.”

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In the report, Miller-Young also stated she’d be willing to pay for the cost of the sign but would “hate it.” She said she was “mainly” responsible for its destruction in her office — which she called a “safe space” — because she was the only one with scissors at the time. Miller-Young admitted to authorities that she probably shouldn’t have taken the poster but said she did the “right thing” because she believed the group was violating university policy and infringing on her rights. She likened her actions to that of a “conscientious objector.”

http://www.independent.com/news/2014/mar/18/ucsb-police-department-releases-professor-protesto/

 

[aGameOfThrones]

Update:



http://www.independent.com/news/2014/mar/18/ucsb-police-department-releases-professor-protesto/

 

[Paulbot99]

Hmm... Guilty conscience maybe?

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Well a comment someone made was what if a girl was raped and had an abortion and then was subjugated to viewing the images of the abortion. I don't think that's a very strong argument, it is what it is, as Juan Pablo would say.

Subjected, not subjugated.

 

[Barrex]

Joan said that at around 11 a.m., Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies Department

I am sorry but my caveman side of the brain cant take it anymore:

WHAT IN THE FUCUKING, FUCKIDY HELL IS THAT?

First time i hear of it. I am serious what is that?

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I am sorry but my caveman side of the brain cant take it anymore:

WHAT IN THE FUCUKING, FUCKIDY HELL IS THAT?

First time i hear of it. I am serious what is that?

As an American, I can tell you in no uncertain terms and with great conviction that that is... a very good question.

 

[dannno]

Subjected, not subjugated.

I think both work, could have been an auto-correct thingy tho.

 

[Petar]

I am sorry but my caveman side of the brain cant take it anymore:

WHAT IN THE FUCUKING, FUCKIDY HELL IS THAT?

First time i hear of it. I am serious what is that?

Oh dude, you have no idea...

Look at the animals that we are growing in Canada:



This type of creature is more common than you can possibly imagine, all of the young "idealistic" type woman are being propagandized into this now...

Can you say "armageddon"?

 

[dannno]

As an American, I can tell you in no uncertain terms and with great conviction that that is... a very good question.

I posted this comment recently on the website for this story:


http://www.independent.com/news/2014/mar/14/why-i-oppose-gang-injunction/



Tabatha -

The Libertarian mantra - teach a person how to fish.

Libertarian actions in that regard - zero.


My response:

The Progressive mantra - teach a person how to fish.

Progressive actions in that regard - steal fish from other people to give to a teacher, but then instead of teaching them how to fish teach them Feminist Studies.