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Sept. 26, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
11:00
Communists at Berkeley Lose the Argument #DefundBerkeley
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So check this out.
I won't be able to do that.
You promised me a debate on May 4th and you dodged it.
Okay, lying.
There's more lying going on.
You promised a debate on May 15th.
Listen, this is the original free speech movement right here.
With hundreds and hundreds of thousands of students speaking out, climbing on top of a police range.
Speaking out against white supremacy and the restrictions on campus of people who are being banned from taking up off-campus issues.
This is Chancellor Chris, quote-unquote, free speech here.
They locked down Sproul Plaza.
This was the real free speech movement.
They took over Sproul Plaza.
Here it is, locked down.
And look, look, literally, this was us in anticipation.
We made a photo anticipating.
And Chancellor Chris is literally doing that.
What's the role of empathy in this and people's dialoguing?
There is no fascist speech week in the house.
I'm sorry, I do not have empathy for white supremacists and fascists.
Zero.
So zero empathy with zero.
I have a lot of empathy for the victims of white supremacy, for the victims of those being terrorized.
There's a white supremacist in the White House who threatened NFL players yesterday, the day before.
A man has declared war on black people who will not obey him and be humiliated and entertain him obediently.
Are you wanting a more empathetic world?
Is that something you would value?
Do you value more empathy in the world?
Are you lying?
We're out here to stand against the fascist speech week.
We're really glad that Milo got officially canceled.
We're here because fascism is in the White House.
Fascism is on the march.
And they were targeting Berkeley.
They were targeting Berkeley to make an example out of this place, which is a site and symbol of resistance and opposition to white supremacy, misogyny, unjust wars, and everything that the Trump-Pence regime stands for.
And they targeted this school as part of normalizing and attempting to legitimize fascism and white supremacy on the college campuses and at Berkeley in particular.
And we with refusefascism.org are here because we are determined to not let fascists be normalized on campus and to get organized to drive the fascists out of the White House.
November 4th, we're taking to the streets across this country, in cities and towns, everywhere, and not just for one day of protest, but for protests that grow day after day, night after night.
We refuse to leave the streets until this entire regime, the fascist Trump-Pence regime, is driven from power.
Milo Yiannopoulos calls Donald Trump daddy.
He's a salivating sycophant for the fascists in power.
And when he came here and he got humiliated and shut down in February because of massive and righteous outpourings of protest from students and others, Donald Trump tweeted and threatened this university.
This just shows it's not a local issue and Milo is an egomaniac troll swamp, swamp from the internet, troll from the internet, but what he is serving is actually a fascist regime in power.
That's why we're taking this very seriously.
And they had promised to bring Ann Coulter, Steve Bannon, the architect of this fascist regime, to this campus.
These are not small moves.
And this is why people in this country need to get organized and stand up from different perspectives to drive the fascists out of the White House.
We stand with the NFL players who are kneeling today.
We stand just right.
We stand with the people standing up and saying no to white supremacy.
Soldan O'Brien, hardly a radical, Saul Dan O'Brien tweeted, and she was right, that Donald Trump sounded like he was in front of a Klan rally the other day when he was yelling at Kaepernick and the rest of them when he tried to tell Stephen Curry that he is uninvited from the White House.
That's like, you can't break up with me.
I'm breaking up with you.
He didn't want to go to that goddamn White House.
And people need to stand up against the white supremacy.
Everybody knows it's true.
There's white supremacy in the White House, and these were white supremacists coming to Cal.
They were not coming to advance academic discourse.
They were not coming to have a battle of ideas.
White supremacy is a settled issue.
There's nothing to learn from that.
The only reason that shit has a platform is because it's backed up by power.
Because it's backed up by the raw power of the state, the White House, and a whole fascist movement that we saw in Charlottesville taking people's lives, marching with torches and chanting Nazi slogans.
We saw this in Charlottesville, and we saw Donald Trump give it its sanction from the top.
This is a dangerous time.
We saw Donald Trump just three days ago threaten North Korea, the entire country, 25 million people with complete destruction.
This is not a neutral backdrop.
That's why we say the issue is not free speech.
The issue is fascism assaulting the universities and being consolidated in America.
That's right.
And refusefascism.org says, put your fist up and say this with me.
In the name of humanity.
In the name of humanity.
We refuse.
We refuse.
To accept.
To accept.
A fascist America.
A fascist America.
This is a dangerous time, and we do this not for ourselves.
We do this because there is a death sentence being threatened against the people of North Korea by this regime in power.
We do this because Muslims are being banned and attacked by this regime and by the fascists who are targeting this campus.
We do this because immigrants are being detained, deported, torn from their families.
That's right.
And Milo was encouraging people to out undocumented students, to get them deported, to call ICE on them.
This is not free speech.
This is fascism.
That's right.
This is a fascist assault on the students and the faculty of this campus.
But even that is just a small taste of the fascism that this is serving.
The nightmare for humanity that the Trump Pence regime is imposing as we speak with the force of the state.
Please define fascism.
Fascism is a qualitative change in the form of rule, whereby those in power demonize whole groups of people, dehumanize them, strip them of their rights, and unleash the mob against them and the violence of the state against them.
Fascism is where they strip and remove what have been at least proclaimed democratic protections of the people.
Fascism is when you have a man in the White House who calls the press the enemy of the people, who says the courts are so-called judges and diminishes judges because of their birthplace and their national origin of their families.
This is a fascist regime.
It's when Stephen Miller, a top White House aide who was mentored, who was mentored by David Horowitz, that witch hunter, that anti-Muslim bigot who was planning to speak here as part of Fascist Week, who had put his posters up on this campus, slandering 13 professors here, calling them terrorist sympathizers.
Stephen Miller, who was the main protégé of David Horowitz, who is coming to speak here, is the man who wrote the Muslim ban.
And he's the man who stood in front of the world after the courts blocked the Muslim ban and said, soon everybody's going to see that Donald Trump's power is supreme and will not be questioned.
And the courts will learn to bend to the executive authority.
That's fascism.
And that's coming from the top.
Okay, so here's an interesting question.
He says, I demonize everybody I disagree with.
No, I don't.
If anybody paid any attention, I stood next to a woman yesterday, as I have all week, who supported Hillary Clinton, who opposes this fascist regime.
I think Hillary Clinton's a war criminal.
I would never support her.
But I was proud and happy to stand next to a Hillary supporter, a Bernie supporter.
I'm out here with by any means necessary today.
I'm out here as a revolutionary communist willing to unite with anybody who's standing up against fascism.
If you don't agree with me, we can have an argument.
But if you want to deny the humanity of black people, you want to ban a whole religion because people are Muslim, you want to strip women of their right to reproductive freedom and force women to have children against their will, then you are a fascist and I do not have common ground with you and no one should.
Yeah, but who cares what you think?
You're a communist.
Okay.
Who cares what you think?
You're just as bad.
Your body count is like 10 times higher.
Fuck your opinion.
Okay, I'm sorry.
You're talking about a country founded on slavery.
Let's talk about the body count of your fucking system.
You don't talk about the body count.
America is not.
How about that body count?
How many people did the United States actually kill in Korea already?
How many people killed?
Three million people.
United States leveled.
The United States leveled every building over one story in North Korea already.
How many people did the United States kill in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The U.S. has no right to go around the world talking about freedom and democracy, threatening other countries for developing nuclear weapons when this country has more nuclear weapons than any other country.
When this country is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons, don't talk to me about violence.
Don't talk to me about body count when you're a defender of this government and this system.
How about talking to you about starvation?
Millions of people.
Yeah, let's talk about starvation.
Let's talk about the 10 million children that die every year of starvation and preventable disease.
Why?
Because of capitalism in the world today.
Okay, that is a reality.
10 million children.
Are you okay?
Are you okay with putting 10 million children up against the wall and shooting them one by one?
Where's it happening?
Where is it happening?
No KKK, no fascist USA.
No Trump!
No KKK, no fascist USA!
No Trump!
No KKK, no fascist USA!
Mike Chuck!
No KKK!
No fascist USA!
No KKK!
No fascist than the USA!
No Trump!
No KKK no fascist USA!
No Trump!
No KKK no fascist USA!
No Trump!
No KKK no fascist USA!
No Trump!
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