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UC-Davis Disobedience

My thoughts on Huffington & Moon’s perspective on the Occupy Protests at UC-Davis ...

For the record … the UC Davis students who were holding the illegal protest on campus were warned that they would be pepper sprayed by the campus police. Not only that.  For some reason this didn’t make it into any of the liberal media reports on the incident, or your article; just like the fact that the protesters were chanting “expletive” the police” never made it into any reports.

As one blogger put it ... “I’m not really sure how these students can even be taken seriously. It’s hardly a Kodak moment that rises to the enormity of what happened at Kent State. I would call it small potatoes by wanna be Hippies in comparison. They need to get off of their collective asses and actually DO something for their cause.”

Sure, to some degree, I can be sympathetic with their frustrations, but what I question is their case of legitimate civil disobedience.  I simply can’t come to terms with a clear cut objective that I can support on these kids` behalf … it’s confusing, bewildering actually, that the students seemed to be upset that there were consequences for their actions.

Many years ago I was once a kid, and I remember how I was dealt with:  (1) being warned of consequences for not complying, and (2) when I refused to comply, administered the consequences.

It certainly seemed to be the case with the kids at UC-Davis.

R.Maui Quizon
Mililani Mauka

Posted by rmquizon  on  12/09  at  01:06 AM

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