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March 6, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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The Battle of King's College London
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I'm recording this video like this so you can see the anti-far flag I have hanging up behind me.
And you might be thinking, well, why do you have that anti-far flag?
And as you can see by the picture on the screen, it's because I took it from them and I am displaying it as a trophy.
Because they decided that a Jewish objectivist, Jaren Brooke, head of the Ayn Rand Institute, and myself, an English Liberal, and not just a Liberal, but a Liberal is, are Nazis.
This is obviously ridiculous, but on the plus side, in the battle for King's College London, the Liberalists won.
You know about the accident event that happened a minute ago.
Where some people try to silence the body together,
fuck you.
Back away.
Back away.
Fucking go on.
Some people watch it, look from it, the fastest of you.
It's good actually.
Apparently they wanted to knock out the security guards.
As you can see, Antifar burst into the event, they pushed me around, they pushed other people around, and then we defended ourselves to victory by punching the crap out of one or two of them.
And well deserved in my opinion.
I actually did try reasoning with them on the stage.
I didn't throw any punches because none of them threw punches at me.
Although if they had thrown punches at me, I would have defended myself vigorously as well.
And honestly, if they attack you, I recommend you defend yourself as vigorously as you feel necessary.
Don't let these thugs get away with intimidating you or being violent to you.
You have every right to defend yourself, and I recommend you take it.
Looking back on the footage, it seems that they were actually trying to intimidate me, but I didn't feel intimidated at all.
I was didn't think they were going to do anything, to be honest.
I kind of thought they were cowards.
And I would have been prepared to retaliate if they had.
And I'm glad I didn't have to.
As you can see from that video, the communists were physically removed from the premises out of the front of the building.
There were no further problems after that.
It's just that the university had decided that because the fire alarm had been tripped and they were worried about it being a fire hazard, so the event was shut down.
But we went and had a talk in another space relatively near to it that I've recorded and will upload onto my live channel so you can actually hear my talk with Yaron Brooke.
Afterwards, a group called North London Fascists, sorry, anti-fascists, claimed credit for it and took a creep shot of me outside of the building as we were waiting to see what we were going to do, saying, tonight a group of student and anti-fascist activists successfully shut down an alt-right talk at King's College.
Here's alt-right mouthpiece, Sargon of Akkad, after he was forced to leave the building.
No platform for him tonight.
So I just replied to them saying, I have your flag, cucks.
The KCL Action Palestine Society released this statement.
Tonight at King's College London, Yaron Brooke and Carl Benjamin's talk were shut down.
Students protested their event and Benjamin's speech was later stopped by Antifar, independent from our counter-demonstration.
The events of this evening show both the complexity and urgency of the present moment on university campuses.
Wow, that's true.
It's a clear indication of King's failure and inability to protect students while defending freedom of speech and giving platforms to alt-right speakers.
Defend students from you and your far-left lunatics.
I mean, if you knew anything about anything that's going on, you'd know that I am in direct opposition to the alt-right.
I have been debating against them.
I have been harassed by them and they hate me.
You are either stupid or you are liars.
Pick one.
We protested this event because Benjamin is known for advocating violence.
Advocating violence.
That's what I want, is it?
That's not what Antifar want.
I haven't spent the last two years arguing against Antifar on the basis that they promote violence.
And that I think in a liberal democracy that there is no need for violence except in self-defense.
The only violence I would even vaguely think of advocating is self-defense against you.
He incites cyberbullying, racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism.
My god, I've been busy, haven't I?
It's amazing what you can do when you're an individualist.
He has also been a supporter of the alt-right.
Having invited such figures as Millennial Woese onto a live stream, you mean debating these people?
Demonstrating why I think they're wrong.
That's supporting them, is it?
You lunatics.
In the past, Benjamin has been endorsed by the reactionary neo-Nazi blog More Right, I've never heard of them, the English Defence League, So What?
And the far-right news site Breitbart News, okay?
They can endorse whatever they like.
That doesn't change what my beliefs are, does it?
Furthermore, he was present amongst the alt-right supporters of Milo Yiannopoulos.
You can keep calling things alt-right, but now you're calling an English liberal, a gay Jew, an objectivist Jew, all alt-right.
The alt-right is a distinctly anti-Semitic movement.
Do you understand this?
You absolute morons.
You couldn't be more illiterate on this subject if you tried.
I mean, there's no way of being more wrong than saying an objectivist Jew is a Nazi.
I just don't know how else to explain this to you.
It is clear that Benjamin is aligned with a set of far-right ideologies, groups, and individuals whose core belief is that white identity is under attack by multicultural forces using political correctness and social justice to undermine white civilization.
These are not quotes from me because these are not things that I believe.
And these are not things that are believed by people who I am actually aligned with.
This is a lie, KCL Action Palestine Society.
I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of this nonsense.
You are failing to represent reality accurately.
This is why you can turn up at an event for individualists and call them collectivists.
You are liars.
So I just want to go over some of the media coverage of the event since and correct any errors.
The national student, KCL, evacuated after smoke bombs were set off on campus and security guards were injured.
Earlier this evening, a protest was held in response to the Libertarian Society's invitation to controversial figures Carl Benjamin and Yaron Brooke.
Really, a protest?
Is that what it looked like when I was being pushed around on the stage?
When they were shoving and punching other people?
Is that what it was?
Just a protest?
Was there any controversy from the black-clad masked figures with the anti-far flag?
Any controversy there, the national student?
Oh no, I'm the controversial one, because I'm advocating for classical liberal values.
They're advocating for communism.
Nothing controversial there though.
I'm the controversial one.
A draft letter published online accuses Benjamin of being aligned with far-right groups such as the English Defence League and Milo Yiannopoulos.
I don't have any business connections to either of these groups.
I don't have any personal connections to the English Defence League.
And I speak to Milo infrequently.
What of it?
The peaceful protest quickly turned violent as anti-far protesters arrived at the scene and began assaulting members of staff.
Yes, indeed they did.
And yet I'm the controversial one.
There were indeed reports of smoke bombs and flares being set within Strand campus, and an ambulance was seen at the university entrance because apparently one of the security guards, or maybe two of them, had to go because of head injuries.
This was also covered by a publication called The Backbencher, which gave a much more realistic version of events.
They accurately report that the administration had refused to let us live stream or record the event using proper cameras, and that they had refused admittance to something like 200 people who wanted to come in and had bought tickets but weren't students for bureaucratic reasons.
There was indeed a threatening note left that said, the guy moderating the talk is on whoever wrote this note's course, and he'll have a difficult time once the strike is over.
I wonder what they're planning to do to the chap who organized this talk.
Between two individualists, one of whom is Jewish, and neither of whom are Nazis.
This has been covered quite widely in the press with varying degrees of accuracy, and I have to say, it's the right-wing publications that are covering this accurately.
It's the left-wing publications that aren't.
For example, The Washington Examiner has done quite a solid piece on this.
They point out that the rioting was not spontaneous.
A Facebook event to protest Brooks' talk was organized by the KCL Socialist Students, Intersectional Feminist Society, Kashmir Solidarity Movement, KCL LGBT Plus, KCL Action Palestine Society, KCL Justice for Cleaners, and the Demilitarized King's Campaign.
So a coalition of radical leftists organised to do this to us.
I'm glad they lost.
I was rather disappointed with Reason Magazine's coverage, which initially described me as alt-right, which is bizarre, as I'm remarkably sympathetic to Reason Magazine's positions.
They did end up issuing a correction, though.
I initially described Benjamin as alt-right sympathetic, consistent with how mainstream news outlets have portrayed him.
Yes, well.
I would have thought by now Reason Magazine you would be aware that you can't trust what the mainstream media says about someone else's political position.
Often they just outright lie.
But upon further investigation, those reports seem misleading.
Benjamin claims to stridently reject the alt-right and has quarreled with its members.
Yes, repeatedly, constantly.
They stand against everything I stand for.
I'm really not sure if I can be any more clear about this.
The Daily Mail had a surprisingly informative piece on this as well, accurately pointing out that I wasn't alt-right, and that this was done by self-proclaimed anti-fascist protesters using fascist tactics to try and shut down people who weren't fascists.
And I have to say the comments on the Daily Mail are absolutely woke as well.
The left has turned into such scum.
These filthy scum must be stopped.
They are violent communists and anarchists.
This sort of thing has been happening with alarming frequency in America for some time now, and now it's here in Britain.
George Soros financed.
Don't know about the George Soros financing, but it is happening here in Britain, and we must resist them at all costs.
The Daily Caller did a solid piece on this, accurately representing events and contacting me for a statement.
As did Breitbart.
Despite all of the complaints of them being far-right and evil neo-Nazis, they're doing a surprisingly good job of accurately representing reality as it is.
Unlike Russia today, who decided to call it an alt-right speech at King's College.
I mean the idea that King's College London would host an alt-right speaker is really amazing.
I just can't imagine the situation that would have to take place for that to be the case.
But apparently Russia today think that that's probably true.
That's ridiculous, Russia today.
You should be embarrassed of yourselves.
You should issue a correction and an apology immediately.
There are no white nationalists involved in any of this.
Disgraceful.
And I wasn't the only person who had a run-in with Antifar either.
Alert.
Oh sorry, Alert R. Christina Summers, who is basically an MRA and rape apologist denialist, has three speaking engagements planned for this week in Portland.
This was covered by a journalist called Andy No, and you can see that they just actively disrupted her lecture, but at least they didn't try to assault her and intimidate her.
at least they were just politely standing around and chanting and making as much noise and trouble for themselves as they could.
And this was again well covered by the Daily Caller, especially with the way they called her a known fascist, which is just, Christine Hoff Summers is a lovely woman.
She's a feminist and has been for like 30, 40 years, and she's a professor of philosophy.
She's not a known fascist.
Hey, I suppose when you live in the loopy world of the far left, there are known fascists everywhere and you've really got to watch out because they might steal your flag.
So anyway, after all of this, I had a surprisingly fun time at King's College London.
I didn't mind that they did this, but if it was someone else and not me, this could have been quite scary.
I have been invited to other speaking events at other universities because of this, so I just want to let Antifar know that your thuggish, violent tactics don't work.
I will now be speaking at other places.
I am not afraid of you, and I, and I'm sure the people who want to come and hear me speak, are not afraid to fight back if you attack us, but only if you attack us.
If you want to come and have a conversation with us, then we're happy to do that.
I would absolutely love for an anti-fascist protester to come to my events and actually talk to me.
I will invite you on the stage, and we can have a question and answer session.
We can explore one another's beliefs and why you are insane and think everything that isn't communism is fascism, if you like.
I'm actually very well equipped to have that discussion with you.
I would really like to do it.
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