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Kudos to Cornell University’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, for refusing to let a bunch of entitled student protesters maintain him hostage by blocking his car as they bullied him for not kowtowing to their trigger.
Instead, he did what so many viewers of protest footage have silently urged drivers to do: maneuver his car away from the scene — and if one of his attackers suffered from it, that’s on them.
It all performed out on Thursday, after Kotlikoff presided over a (peaceful) campus debate regarding Israel’s response to the assaults of Oct. 7, 2023: A pack of anti-Zionist loudmouths intercepted Kotlikoff on his means to his car, demanding he “dialog” with them then-and-there and insisting it was a free-speech violation to refuse.
The mob encircled his car, reportedly banging on the home windows and hollering; Kotlikoff put the car in gear — whereupon one student leaned into the trunk and jeered, “Am I allowed to stand here?”
The back nook of the car nudged him barely as Kotlikoff slowly pulled away; the child claims the rear tire ran over his toe.
The activists predictably went nuts, claiming that their faculty’s president had tried to mow them down.
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Please: Everyone’s seen such scenes play out throughout the nation: Protesters sit in or in any other case hinder visitors, posturing as in the event that they’re merely exercising their constitutional rights.
These entitled radicals by some means imagine any conduct is legally and morally acceptable if it’s finished for the “right” causes — and that their causes are all the time proper.
OK: You can’t plow into a crowd of protesters blocking the road with no regard for human life.
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But obstructing somebody’s motion in opposition to his or her will is illegal imprisonment, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a yr in jail.
Constitutionally protected political speech and meeting covers a lot of ground, however it doesn’t lengthen to inhibiting anybody’s freedom of motion.
Yet prosecutors in left-leaning jurisdictions virtually by no means charge the “right” protesters with riot or illegal meeting, so the brats suppose suppose they’ll by no means face penalties to violating others’ rights.
The student gang had no proper to block Kotlikoff’s car nor to implicitly threaten his well-being, no matter how passionate their emotions about Palestine or the rest.
America’s campuses need more leaders who refuse to give an inch to these self-righteous bullies.
