How ridiculously entitled are the pro-Hamas “protesters” storming college campuses and setting up illegal encampments across the country? With numerous arrests and suspensions taking place, some are now demanding “amnesty” so that their actions don’t impact their future careers.
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No, I’m not kidding. The terrorist supporters want to avoid the whole reaping part of sowing and reaping.
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours.
But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “ Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
Why would Maryam Alwan think the worst was over after she was taken into custody? Did she think that being arrested was just a performative exercise to provide her with clout among the pro-Hamas contingent? The answer is that she probably did think that. I’m sure Alwan fully expected not to be charged and for her suspension to be lifted immediately. That didn’t happen, and now she wants “amnesty.”
Well, I’m sorry to break it to her, but that’s not how any of this works. In the real world, when you lash out and break the law, leading to your arrest, that record follows you. To the extent that it prevents her from getting a good job later, those are the justified consequences of her actions. If these terrorist simps didn’t want to take the ride, they shouldn’t have bought the ticket.
For international students facing suspension, there is the added fear of losing their visas, said Radhika Sainath, an attorney with Palestine Legal, which helped a group of Columbia students file a federal civil rights complaint against the school Thursday. It accuses Columbia of not doing enough to address discrimination against Palestinian students.
“The level of punishment is not even just draconian, it feels like over-the-top callousness,” Sainath said.
Every single one of them should lose their visas. Being in America as a foreigner is a privilege, not a right. If you come here and break the law, you have no business remaining here. To call that draconian is ridiculous. If anything, the punishments doled out so far have been too lenient. Truth be told, these students should have all been expelled, not just suspended.
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More than 40 students were arrested at a Yale demonstration last week, including senior Craig Birckhead-Morton. He is due to graduate May 20 but says the university has not yet told him if his case will be submitted to a disciplinary panel. He worries about whether he will receive a diploma and if his acceptance to Columbia graduate school could be at risk.
“The school has done its best to ignore us and not tell us what happens next,” said Birckhead-Morton, a history major.
Notice that Craig Birckhead-Morton expects the university to operate with order and fairness. Yet, he provided none of that when he helped set up an illegal encampment that prevented Jews from entering buildings and harassed them with genocidal slogans. He shouldn’t get his diploma, and he certainly shouldn’t be accepted into graduate school after his behavior.
All of this makes sense when you realize most of these “protesters” think like children. Many of them are affirmative action students who got into these schools over far more qualified individuals because of the identity boxes they check. Their entire lives, the system they detest has given them special treatment and helped them move forward. Is it any wonder they expect that same treatment again?
