Will NJ Governor Murphy Defend The First Amendment and Free Speech?
Or Will He Continue To Support A Genocide In Gaza?
The National Police Crackdown Is Well Underway
As University campuses explode across the country in support of Palestinians and in opposition to Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the official crackdown has begun.
Almost exactly like the national police crackdown that crushed the Occupy Wall Street movement – coordinated by the Obama administration – a series of heavily armed and sometimes violent police crackdowns is underway at Universities across the country, where police are arresting students and violently dismantling tents in occupied college squares.
I would not be surprised if the Biden Administration put out the word, like Obama did to crush Occupy.
Thus far, students are standing their ground and the movement appears to be expanding to additional universities. Let’s hope the courage continues and the movement expands! Chicago ’24!
The protests follow closely on a McCarthyite spectacle in Washington last week, where House Republicans were seeking the scalp of another elite University President of Columbia University. They’ve already driven out Presidents at Harvard and Penn, with the MIT President still hanging in there.
Academic freedom has been virtually terminated, and the Israeli lobby, billionaire bullies withdraw funding, and now even Netanyahu himself is calling student protesters Nazi’s and seeking to kill their political freedoms, like free speech, assembly, and protest rights.
So, I was not surprised to learn that Princeton University has just written to students to threaten to expel protesters there.
Which poses a political challenge to “liberal” NJ Governor Phil Murphy.
Will he speak out to defend the First Amendment and push back against Princeton’s threats?
Or will he continue the cowardly complicity of silence, as not only US rights and academic integrity are destroyed, but the US funded and supplied Israeli genocide continues?
Hey Phil – I even Googled mapped the route for you – why don’t you and Tammy wife take a stroll from the Governor’s Mansion at Drumthwacket – a 1 mile, 23 minute walk – to Princeton and have a chat with the University President about so called liberal values?
Then issue a Press Release statement?
The whole world is watching. Silence is complicity.