Campus Politics
I just gotta blog on this one. This is too big to miss and I don’t want to let the thought go before I have the opportunity to write about it. Last week, I attended another meeting with the San Francisco College Republicans as I have every Tuesday at 1:00PM this semester. There was a showing there of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West,” which I’ve seen before and thought it was good the second time around as well. But I recognized a few faces in the audience that I knew were going to stir up some trouble.
If you read my “Life’s Not Fair” post from a short while back, you may remember from the videos of the 9/11 memorial a young guy who declares his communism to the camera very rudely. That kid is Giovanni Jackson, a guy who’s been making trouble for the club as far back as I can remember. You may also remember a professor who talks about using the deaths of 9/11 victims to wage an illegal war. He’s had a rather tough time lately, I understand it, and I’ll get to that in a minute.
Here’s what I can tell you about Giovanni. He’s going around now carrying signs that say we should have a “U.S. Fascism Awareness Week” and brings up a number of points as proof towards our supposed fascism. When I’ve tried to talk to him about the signs before, he’s pretty much blown me off just for being part of the College Republicans club. He shuts off any connection he might get with our group as if our beliefs are a disease. So I decided to take a look at his sign and here’s something I remember pretty clearly among a lot of bogus accusations against our government: a woman’s right to abortion is under fire.
That’s right, folks. Fascism is telling people that they can’t abort their babies. Let’s think about this for a second. A common asset of fascist countries is to have people removed or picked off that they think are rather inconvenient to have around. Abortion is a woman’s right to abort a child because they believe that child’s life is inconvenient for them to have around. Do you see a connection here? I’m not saying abortion makes you a fascist, but I think poor Giovanni here does seem to have more in common with fascism than even he realizes. Then again, he’s a communist. Fascism is his specialty.
The professor in the video hasn’t been named for a very good reason. I don’t even know the guy’s name, nor does the video or any other video in the College Republicans video collection have his name in it. But after the 9/11 memorial video was posted, he received a death threat from a man living in Georgia. How in the heck the guy in Georgia found out who he was after watching the video on Youtube, I have no idea. But he’s blamed the College Republicans for the whole ordeal just because they uploaded a video of him to Youtube. Me, I don’t think it’s their fault at all that a yahoo living in Georgia found their video and went crazy enough to do a people search on the professor, but I do feel kinda sorry for the guy. Death threats are just not cool. I should know.
So now, this takes us back to last Tuesday at the club meeting. I recognized Giovanni in the crowd sitting next to another professor who has been named in one of the College Republican videos as Greg Johnson, the man who basically made burning the American flag legal. And yes, as you can see, he’s a troublemaker as well. Big time.
As the movie ended and the lights went on, Greg and Giovanni got up and demanded a debate over the politics in the movie. So suddenly, NOW they want to talk. And Leigh, the CR president, tells them that they have some executive decisions to be made and will debate them in the hallway in ten minutes. So they put up a fight, shouting all kinds of mean, nasty ugly things, accusing Leigh of being a coward, saying that the United States is the worst country in the world, etc. Then they leave without even waiting and just go on to do their business. This is a college professor we’re talking about here acting like a total yahoo and harassing students. Is this at all professional? I think not.
Minutes later, as the club was headed out to the pub on campus (or so I thought), I was distracted talking to another guy. When I turned back around, the club members were gone. Disappeared. I went to the pub and they weren’t there. I went back up to the meeting room and they weren’t there. Instead, I saw a campus cop who got a report on a disturbance in that room. I told him what had happened, he bought it, he continued looking around after that.
I decided to wait a few more minutes in the quad area to see if I could find any club members, but they weren’t there. So I headed back to the bus as usual. On my way out, I passed by Greg at the “U.S. Fascism Awareness” table. I just smiled at him and said “good day.” After he tossed a begrudged grin back at me, I walked off ending my day with a sense of satisfaction that I had just turned the other cheek on a man who was asking for it. Totally made my day worthwhile.
As for the CR club, whatever happened to them, you ask? I believe I now know. This video was shot last Tuesday after the meeting. I believe this pretty much explains everything:
Giovanni Jackson, a man who proclaims his enemies as fascist while using fascist tactics to silence his opponents and defend his own fascist beliefs. Complete ignorance.
If you read my “Life’s Not Fair” post from a short while back, you may remember from the videos of the 9/11 memorial a young guy who declares his communism to the camera very rudely. That kid is Giovanni Jackson, a guy who’s been making trouble for the club as far back as I can remember. You may also remember a professor who talks about using the deaths of 9/11 victims to wage an illegal war. He’s had a rather tough time lately, I understand it, and I’ll get to that in a minute.
Here’s what I can tell you about Giovanni. He’s going around now carrying signs that say we should have a “U.S. Fascism Awareness Week” and brings up a number of points as proof towards our supposed fascism. When I’ve tried to talk to him about the signs before, he’s pretty much blown me off just for being part of the College Republicans club. He shuts off any connection he might get with our group as if our beliefs are a disease. So I decided to take a look at his sign and here’s something I remember pretty clearly among a lot of bogus accusations against our government: a woman’s right to abortion is under fire.
That’s right, folks. Fascism is telling people that they can’t abort their babies. Let’s think about this for a second. A common asset of fascist countries is to have people removed or picked off that they think are rather inconvenient to have around. Abortion is a woman’s right to abort a child because they believe that child’s life is inconvenient for them to have around. Do you see a connection here? I’m not saying abortion makes you a fascist, but I think poor Giovanni here does seem to have more in common with fascism than even he realizes. Then again, he’s a communist. Fascism is his specialty.
The professor in the video hasn’t been named for a very good reason. I don’t even know the guy’s name, nor does the video or any other video in the College Republicans video collection have his name in it. But after the 9/11 memorial video was posted, he received a death threat from a man living in Georgia. How in the heck the guy in Georgia found out who he was after watching the video on Youtube, I have no idea. But he’s blamed the College Republicans for the whole ordeal just because they uploaded a video of him to Youtube. Me, I don’t think it’s their fault at all that a yahoo living in Georgia found their video and went crazy enough to do a people search on the professor, but I do feel kinda sorry for the guy. Death threats are just not cool. I should know.
So now, this takes us back to last Tuesday at the club meeting. I recognized Giovanni in the crowd sitting next to another professor who has been named in one of the College Republican videos as Greg Johnson, the man who basically made burning the American flag legal. And yes, as you can see, he’s a troublemaker as well. Big time.
As the movie ended and the lights went on, Greg and Giovanni got up and demanded a debate over the politics in the movie. So suddenly, NOW they want to talk. And Leigh, the CR president, tells them that they have some executive decisions to be made and will debate them in the hallway in ten minutes. So they put up a fight, shouting all kinds of mean, nasty ugly things, accusing Leigh of being a coward, saying that the United States is the worst country in the world, etc. Then they leave without even waiting and just go on to do their business. This is a college professor we’re talking about here acting like a total yahoo and harassing students. Is this at all professional? I think not.
Minutes later, as the club was headed out to the pub on campus (or so I thought), I was distracted talking to another guy. When I turned back around, the club members were gone. Disappeared. I went to the pub and they weren’t there. I went back up to the meeting room and they weren’t there. Instead, I saw a campus cop who got a report on a disturbance in that room. I told him what had happened, he bought it, he continued looking around after that.
I decided to wait a few more minutes in the quad area to see if I could find any club members, but they weren’t there. So I headed back to the bus as usual. On my way out, I passed by Greg at the “U.S. Fascism Awareness” table. I just smiled at him and said “good day.” After he tossed a begrudged grin back at me, I walked off ending my day with a sense of satisfaction that I had just turned the other cheek on a man who was asking for it. Totally made my day worthwhile.
As for the CR club, whatever happened to them, you ask? I believe I now know. This video was shot last Tuesday after the meeting. I believe this pretty much explains everything:
Giovanni Jackson, a man who proclaims his enemies as fascist while using fascist tactics to silence his opponents and defend his own fascist beliefs. Complete ignorance.
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