Chancellor acts
Unlike some Ivy League Schools such as Harvard and Columbia, Chancellor Ray Rodrigues of Florida’s 12-university system wants the Florida chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine deactivated.
His action came after that organization released its so-called “toolkit,” which refers to the Hamas serial slaughter of Israeli infants and families in their homes as “the resistance” and “unequivocally states: ‘Palestinian students in exile are part of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.’”
The Miami Herald said Rodrigues’ letter contends the national student organization has “affirmatively identified” it was part of the attack, which constitutes a felony in Florida to “knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.”
Rodrigues said the university system is working with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “to ensure we are all using all tools at our disposal to crack down on campus demonstrations that delve beyond protected First Amendment speech into harmful support for terrorist groups.”
The University of Florida’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine wasn’t pleased and called the move to disband it “disgraceful.”
Scores of innocent butchered Israeli families sadly were unavailable to offer their opinions. I wonder how many Hamas-cheerleading students everywhere would still be screaming incoherently if the media would only show them (and the world) the horrifying photographs of exactly what these subhumans did on Oct. 7.
The Students for Justice in Palestine organization apparently will be allowed to regenerate on Florida campuses if done so in accordance with state law.
I’d agree Rodrigues’ action could create a First Amendment issue for the courts to decide. Yet I also understand his actions and the wisdom of the existing state law against knowingly providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. And, make no mistake, Hamas, a nurtured proxy of “Death to America” Iran, qualifies as a terrorist organization.
STILL WAITING
Here I continue to patiently sit, waiting for the mail to arrive, believing I’ll receive a letter prominently marked “The White House” with a response to my simple question posed in the column three weeks ago.
Some may recall I was asking our president why our southern border stands wide open to released convicts, killers with terrorism on their mind and everyone’s fourth cousin who cares to meander in from anywhere so we then give them tax money for plane rides to states that have run out of space for them.
It had always been my understanding from civics class, back when that was still taught in high school, that government’s first priority was defense of the people. Was Miss Abernathy lying to us?
Why did this administration take a border that had been under effective control and needlessly throw it wide open to millions of strangers without proper vetting? Authorities have managed to capture over 150 infiltrators on the terrorist watch list, and we have no idea how many unknown thousands have come into the country. What madness is this?
Anyway, valued readers, I just continue sitting here waiting for Joe Biden to send me a simple honest explanation in 10 words or less.
As an example of what we have potentially wrought by such inexplicable gross malfeasance, we watched a documentary the other night about John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, who during three weeks in October 2002 shot and killed 10 and injured three more innocent bystanders in and around Washington, D.C.
The pair spent their rampage firing their stolen sniper rifle indiscriminately at people going about their lives on the streets through a small hole cut in the trunk of their 1990 Chevrolet Caprice.
As shown in several films since about their unexplained rampage, an entire region was frozen in fear by the terrorists before they were finally captured and imprisoned. People had been afraid to go to the grocery store, pump gas or mow their lawns.
Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in 2009. Malvo, who was 17 when he was convicted, remains in a Virginia prison after receiving multiple life sentences for his role. His pleas for parole have been rejected.
And that was widespread terror inflicted by only two males.
Now imagine who and what evil we likely have unleashed into these United States over the past two-plus years and the incredible pain and suffering they could just as easily inflict on so many innocent Americans. So, care to join me in asking President Biden why, when this never had to be?
GODNOD?
I want readers to know I remain on the search for those who’ve experienced what I call GodNods, those events in life that cannot rationally be explained but indicate a higher force was involved. Had one? I have. Shoot me an email.