Crazy People Are Dangerous: Student SJW Tasered After Disrupting Campus Speech

Posted on | April 13, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Student SJW Tasered After Disrupting Campus Speech

Gerard Dabu (pictured above) has at least two aliases — “Jammie Jammers” and “Delta Chambers” — and was already notorious as a social justice warrior (SJW) before he disrupted a speech Thursday:

A protester was arrested after a substance was thrown at a guest lecturer on the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s campus Thursday night.
A UMKC student group, Young Americans for Freedom, sponsored the event, “A Night with Michael Knowles.”
Knowles, a conservative political commentator and columnist, was set to give a speech titled “Men are Not Women” when protesters disrupted the event.
A spokesperson for UMKC said after several warnings, disruptions to the event continued.
Video posted online of the event shows an individual wearing a mask pushing into the event with a squirt gun and spraying a substance at Knowles before being tackled and shocked with a taser by UMKC police. . . .
Officials with the university issued a statement saying in part, “While we have a responsibility to allow free speech on our campus, we cannot condone physical disruptions of peaceful campus activities. We believe that free speech can be exercised in a constructive way that doesn’t put people at risk.”
Police continue to investigate, while the university officials say they will be reviewing campus policies and procedures.
The individual arrested has been identified as UMKC student Gerard G. Dabu.
UMKC officials said Dabu has been charged with peace disturbance — disturbing schools or lawful assemblies; assault on law enforcement; and property damage in addition to assault and resisting arrest of law enforcement and in the discharge of their duties.

You can watch video of the event, sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation, in which Knowles begins by saying:

“You’ll notice, by the way, our topic this evening — ‘Men Are Not Women’ — should be an uncontroversial statement. You would think it would be like saying, ‘The sky is blue.’ You would think it would be like saying, ‘Fire is hot.’ But no, tonight’s topic is very, very controversial. Nevertheless, it is in fact the case that men are not women.”

Indeed, how crazy do you have to be to get so offended by such an innocuous statement that you end up getting tasered and arrested?

Well, as crazy as Gerard Dabu, the 23-year-old son of a senior enlisted man in the U.S. Navy who, evidently, is alienated from his family. Dabu seems to have moved from Hawaii to Kansas in order to become the roommate of another notorious SJW named Leah Albee.

A self-described “fat femme queer,” Albee was employed by her father’s business until July 2016 when Albee, Dabu and some of their friends decided to have a flag-burning for the Fourth of July. This resulted in Albee’s father firing her from her job and kicking her and her friends out of their house, saying that she had “crossed a line,” and telling her in a text message: “Well I guess you can live without my capitalist money. . . . Go be a socialist. See how well it works.”

All of this drama was played out on social media (it appears Dabu and Albee may have connected via Tumblr). That same year, 2016, Dabu was interviewed by a newspaper in Wyandotte County, Kansas, identified as a member of a local feminist group, explaining that “she” feared for “her” safety if Donald Trump got elected:

“To put it bluntly, while protesting is dangerous, what would happen if Trump becomes president would be even more dangerous to us,” she said, “and even if he doesn’t become president, the white supremacists have been reinvigorated and would pose a threat to all our members.”

Yet here we are, more than two years into the Trump presidency, and we must ask, who poses a threat to whom? Knowles was standing at a lectern in a university classroom, delivering a speech on a topic which, as he says, should not have been controversial at all, when he was assaulted by Dabu. You can watch the video and note how civil Knowles was in responding to the disruptive hecklers:

The incident that led to Dabu’s arrest happens at about the 19-minute mark, and let’s hope law-enforcement authorities inflict the maximum penalty on Dabu, who should be locked up in jail — or perhaps a mental-health facility — for a long, long time. Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Category: Crime, Education, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 04.12.19

Posted on | April 13, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Obama WH Counsel Greg Craig Indicted For Unregistered Lobbying On Behalf Of Ukraine
Twitchy: Libs Are Noticing Pelosi, Schumer Other Dems Not Defending Ilhan Omar’s 9/11 Comments
Louder With Crowder: Trump Calls Democrats’ Bluff, Wants To Send Illegals To Sanctuary Cities
According To Hoyt: Clearing The Fog
Monster Hunter Nation: My Schedule For FanX
Vox Popoli: Pope Benedict On The Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – We’re Back, Baby!
American Greatness: China Is Slowly Killing King Dollar
American Thinker: Sicko, Southern Border Style
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Reparations Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Food Shortage To Be Solved By Ostriches, Crocodiles, & Rodents, also, Ceremony Honoring Brigade 2506 Heroes this Weekend
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 12
CDR Salamander: Justice Delayed, Then Thrown Away…And A New CNO, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Of Ecclesiastes And Weezer, also, The Holiest Of Weeks
Don Surber: NY Dems Vote For Illegal Aliens & Against Gold Star Families
Dustbury: House Mondelez Enters The Fray
First Street Journal: Bring Back Hanging!
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar – The Most Ungrateful Immigrant In America, also, Fake News CNN Sinks To 15th Place, Maddow Viewership Still Down Double Digits
Hogewash: NIMBYs And Illegals, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Culture War – Google Labels Unplanned As “Propaganda”
Joe For America: Adam Schiff Facing Expulsion From Intel Committee, Loss Of Clearance
Legal Insurrection: Chicago Sues Smollett After His Failure To Reimburse City For Expenses Of Investigating False Hate Crime, also, Senator Wyden (D-OR) Has “Breathtakingly Terrible” Plan To Tax Unrealized Capital Gains
The PanAm Post: In The Midst of A Food Crisis, Cuba Caters To Jet Set Elite
Power Line: We’ve Gone Through The Looking Glass, also, Barr Brings Accountability
Shark Tank: Senate Democrats Continue Blocking Disaster Relief Funding
Shot In The Dark: When The Hail Mary Pass Falls Incomplete
STUMP: Others Notice That A Long Bull Market Hasn’t Improved Public Pension Fundedness
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Warren Report, Fact Or Fiction?
This Ain’t Hell: Yet Another Phony SEAL, also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: White House To Screen Gosnell And The Media Throws A Fit
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Assange Fears Being Beaten In US Prison, also, Conservative Writer Sprayed With Bleach-Like Liquid By Protester At UMKC
Megan McArdle: Irish Cultural Pride Gives This Cosmopolitan Second Thoughts
Mark Steyn: Revenge Of The Deep State

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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | April 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

Crazy Uncle Eddy stared at the room full of fuming relatives from the portrait.
“Screw him and his stupid scarf! I just want my share of the inheritance!” railed John Wentworth.
“He used to sit and knit and mutter ‘String literals, or literal strings?'” said John’s brother Tim.
And Greg knew.
It was all he could do to wait a few weeks and come back alone, with a piece of paper.
Right there, in the picture. Yes. The stripes were Morse code for the digits to the safe combination.
The others could get stuffed, he mused, boarding a Caribbean flight.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Isn’t She Adorable?

Posted on | April 12, 2019 | 1 Comment

My buddy Benny Johnson, who I’ve known since 2007, posted this photo of himself with Candace Owens at Reagan National Airport. According to Benny, he was running to catch a flight when he bumped into Owens, fresh from her recent congressional testimony, wearing a MAGA hat and carrying “a sizable amount of Chic-fil-A.”

When I shared that on my Facebook page, a friend commented, “She is such a doll,” and indeed, she is. You may recall the story of how it was Owens became a conservative. She was a liberal, but during the #GamerGate controversy, she was “doxxed” by the Left, and had a road-to-Damascus awakening: “I became a conservative overnight. I realized that liberals were actually the racists. Liberals were actually the trolls.”

In this, she reminds me of Michelle Malkin. When she was a student at Oberlin College, Malkin became an object of left-wing scorn when she dared to question the school’s “diversity” agenda, and that experience — being called all the awful things the Left calls people who don’t “know their place” in the official victimhood hierarchy — galvanized her.

Going back at least as far as Whittaker Chambers, the ex-Communist who exposed Alger Hiss, some of the fiercest conservatives have been former leftists who got disgusted by the hatefulness and dishonesty of the Left. What happened when Owens testified Tuesday was astonishing:

Tensions at a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing on online hate speech boiled over on Tuesday, when conservative commentator Candace Owens accused Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., of distorting her comments on Hitler so flagrantly for the sake of a smear that he must “believe black people are stupid.”
“In congressional hearings, the minority party gets to select its own witnesses,” Lieu began. “Of all the people the Republicans could’ve selected, they picked Candace Owens. I don’t know Miss Owens; I’m not going to characterize her; I’m going to let her own words talk.”
Lieu then produced a cellphone and played a short clip of Owens’ previous remarks at a conference in December, which were widely circulated in February: “I actually don’t have any problem with the word ‘nationalism.’ I think the defintion gets poisoned by elites that want globalism. Globalism is what I don’t want. When we say ‘nationalism,’ the first thing people think about — at least in America — is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK then, fine. The problem is, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everyone to be German. …”

Now, let me say here: Owens is exactly correct. No one could have criticized Hitler if his “nationalism” had consisted solely of attempting to restore Germany’s confidence in the wake of its World War I defeat and the subsequent sufferings under the punitive measures of the Versailles treaty. By the early 1930s, many in the West were willing to heed the argument that Germany had suffered enough and, having not read Mein Kampf nor realizing how serious Hitler was about his hatred of the Jews, many failed to perceive the danger in his brand of “nationalism.” This historical context is relevant to what Owens was saying in the audio clip — she obviously is not pro-Hitler — and is also relevant to the dishonesty of the Left’s propaganda about “white nationalism.”

As Victor Davis Hanson said Wednesday on Tucker Carlson, this propaganda is simply about the “demonization of Trump supporters.” While there certainly are people who might be willing to commit criminal violence in pursuit of “white nationalism” (however that term is defined), the Left is using this term as a smear, implying that all 62.9 million Americans who voted for Trump are crypto-Nazis. With that background, we return to the House hearing Tuesday:

Lieu then asked committee witness Eileen Hershenov: “When people try to legitimize Adolf Hitler, does that feed into white nationalist ideology?”
But Owens soon made clear she felt Lieu had intentionally misrepresented her views to drive a false narrative not just against Owens, but also Trump and Republicans in general.
“I think it’s pretty apparent that Mr. Lieu believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety,” Owens said.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-NY., interrupted, telling Owens, “It is not proper to refer disparagingly to a member of the committee. The witness will not do that again.”
After clarifying that she had not, in fact, called Lieu stupid, Owens continued: “As I said, he is assuming that black people will not go and pursue the full two-hour clip. He purposefully cut off — and you didn’t hear the question that was asked of me. He’s trying to present as if I was launching a defense of Hitler in Germany, when in fact the question that was presented to me was pertaining to whether I believed in nationalism, and that nationalism was bad.”
As Owens went on, Lieu tapped his hands together silently.
“And what I responded is that I do not believe we should be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist,” Owens said. “He was a homicidal, psychopathic maniac that killed his own people. A nationalist would not kill their own people. … That was unbelievably dishonest, and he did not allow me to respond to it.”
Owens concluded: “By the way, I would like to also add that I work for Prager University, which is run by an orthodox Jew. Not a single Democrat showed up to the embassy opening in Jerusalem. I sat on a plane for 18 hours to make sure I was there. I am deeply offended by the insinuation of revealing that clip without the question that was asked of me.”
Turning to her 75-year old grandfather seated behind her, Owens remarked, “My grandfather grew up on a sharecropping farm in the segregated South. He grew up in an America where words like ‘racism’ and ‘white nationalism’ held real meaning.”

Her poise in defending herself won Owens millions of new admirers — the C-SPAN clip set a new record (4.5 million views on Twitter in 24 hours) for the cable network. There are some people who’ve just got it — they were born to be TV stars — and she’s one of them. What she’s got, America loves, and I expect her to be a powerful force in coming years.

Category: Congress, Racism

Crazy People Are Dangerous: She Felt Like ‘She Needed to Hurt Somebody’

Posted on | April 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: She Felt Like ‘She Needed to Hurt Somebody’

Frightening news from New Jersey:

A South Jersey woman charged with torching her boyfriend’s house and displacing seven people told police she set the blaze because she was upset following a threesome she had with him and a second woman.
The Sunday night fire on Centre Street in Woodbury displaced residents from a home that had been converted into two apartments.
The boyfriend lived in one apartment and a family of six lived in the other, according to police. All escaped without injuries.
Two days after the blaze, Tasia S. Young, 33, of Woodbury, arrived at police headquarters and confessed to setting the fire because she felt “like she needed to hurt somebody,” according to her criminal complaint.
Young told police she was in a relationship with a man and that they had a sexual encounter with another woman on Saturday at his apartment.
When it was over, he summoned a cab for Young, but remained at his apartment with the other woman.
Young had been “going through a lot” and grew upset about her relationship, ultimately deciding to “burn his house down,” she told police.
She purchased lighter fluid and matches from a gas station on Sunday and traveled to the house, where she emptied the entire contents of the Zippo lighter fluid container on and under the front door. She lit a match, set a tissue on fire and tossed both on the lighter fluid.
Young told police she believed the other woman from the threesome was still in the apartment with her boyfriend at the time, though the report makes no mention of anyone else being in the apartment. . . .
She was charged with offenses including arson, aggravated assault, criminal mischief and multiple counts of endangering another person.

Look, I hate to be judgmental, but shouldn’t the fulfillment of wild erotic fantasies involve, y’know, attractive people? I mean, it was one thing when Hef was doing centerfold models two at a time at the Playboy mansion in Hollywood, but by the time this swinging lifestyle makes its way to New Jersey, it’s lost whatever excitement and glamour it once had. And then you call a cab for your girlfriend and she tries to kill you, so maybe you should just reconsider this whole “erotic fantasy fulfillment” thing before it gets you killed. Meanwhile, in Florida . . .

Say hello to Oasis McLeod, 18, Jeniyah McLeod, 19, and Cecilia Young, 19. They had fun Wednesday in Pasco County:

Three naked women fresh from the shower at a Florida rest area told cops they were “air drying” in public when spotted by a witness who called 911, precipitating high-speed chases that resulted in the trio’s arrest on multiple felony charges.
The witness, cops say, reported that the women were at an Interstate 75 rest stop Wednesday morning, and that “all three of them” were “standing in the nude putting on suntan lotion.”
When a Florida Highway Patrol trooper arrived at the rest stop, the naked women explained that they had simply been “air drying” in the nude after showering. Before the cop could complete her investigation, however, the trio jumped into their Nissan Sentra and drove off on the highway.
The car was subsequently tracked to the parking lot of a convenience store that the trio — now apparently clothed — had entered. When a trooper sought to arrest one of the women leaving the store, the driver of the Nissan allegedly tried to strike him with the vehicle.
At that point, another woman exited the car with a pink baseball bat and approached the trooper, prompting another officer to ram the Nissan. The car drove away, prompting another police chase.
After cops deployed stop sticks that deflated the Nissan’s right side tires, a PIT maneuver brought the chase to a conclusion.
When the women refused to exit the auto, a cop broke out a window. The trio, arms interlocked, resisted arrest to the point that each was tasered before being taken into custody.
Investigators identified the car’s driver as Oasis Shakira McLeod, 18, and the passengers as Jeniyah McLeod and Cecilia Eunique Young, both 19. The women were charged with fleeing to elude, resisting arrest, aggravated assault, indecent exposure, and marijuana possession. The younger McLeod was also hit with a DUI count.

We need a new hashtag: #CrazyLivesMatter!

Category: Crime

Jew-Haters Hold Pro-Hamas Conference in North Carolina — at Taxpayer Expense!

Posted on | April 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

Support for the terrorist Hamas regime in Gaza and demonization of Israel were major themes of a three-day conference last month at the University of North Carolina entitled, “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics and Possibilities.” Peter Reitzes of The Tower reports:

The large lobby area served as the central gathering place with vendor tables and catered snacks. It featured a large screen that played a photo collage on repeat, celebrating and glorifying Palestinian terrorism against Israel. Conference attendees continually saw photographs of Palestinians attacking Israel with incendiary devices . . .
Nowhere were there photographs of Israeli children hiding and crying in shelters as rockets from Gaza exploded around them.
There was a table with hundreds of free conference t-shirts that prominently said “Gaza,” which conference staff were busy folding and handing out. There were hundreds of free tote bags, as well, with regular announcements throughout the day to get your free gear. . . . When the UNC and Duke Consortium for Middle East Studies applied for and received a federal grant through the Department of Education (DOE) worth $235,000, I wonder if the federal government imagined that free Gaza “swag” was part of the plan.
There was a “UNC Student Stores” bookstore setup with more than 20 titles that shared central themes of anti-Israel and Hamas apologetics. . . .
The book store attendant informed me that the Conference Director chose the books being sold at the event.

You can read the rest of that, as well as Part 2 and Part 3 of Reitzes’ report on the conference at UNC, including the fact that conference organizer Shai Tamari forebade attendees to record the proceedings. So they sent the bill to U.S. taxpayers, but U.S. citizens cannot be allowed to see what they paid for? Jew-haters don’t want any video cameras around to record them avowing support for Islamic terrorism, I guess.

Here’s video by Ami Horowitz: