Physically assaulting Jews in California is now protected free speech

[Mediocrates]

http://news.yahoo.com/ca-judge-deems...003506015.html

From news article:

Back in June of 2010 a leader of a pro-Palestinian student group at University of Berkeley allegedly rammed a Jewish woman with a shopping cart as she staged a counter-protest to an anti-Israel “Apartheid Week” rally conducted by the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine. The counter-protest was dubbed “Israel Wants Peace Week.”

Now, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg has deemed that the Muslim students who harassed Jessica Felber and other Jewish students were simply engaging in protected political speech.
The Greeley Gazette reports:

On Thursday U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said the harassment, even if true, constituted protected political speech and dismissed the case against the university.


Seeborg said the university did not have any obligation to intervene in any dispute where a private individual on campus was allegedly interfering with another’s constitutional rights. He instead appeared to indicate that the incident was an outcome of Felber’s counter protest.


Felber and another Jewish student claimed the University did not do enough to prevent the harassment which included the Muslim group conducting checkpoints around the campus. Students were asked if they were Jewish while passing the checkpoints.

Kalifornia Kristalnacht 2012. It's coming.

[Ziggy]

"Kalifornia Kristalnacht 2012. It's coming."

Indeed Mediocrates - I suspect in a few other places but definitely in California, Berkeley; a breeding ground for anti-Semites. This so-called judge definitely is of the same mindset... I would think that ramming this woman with a shopping cart has nothing to do with freedom of speech but is out-and-out assault. If a car had been used, undoubtedly this judge would have come to the same conclusion.
It may only be me but anti-Semitism today is becoming more reminiscent of the 30's: Germany, of course, but America was not without its shame back then nor Canada.

[Pleepleus]

A pity that Seeborg can't tell the difference between constitutionally protected free speech and assault. I wonder how he would feel if people waited with shopping carts for him to leave his courtroom to use their free speech rights to ram him with shopping carts in protest against his ruling?

[Ziggy]

A pity that Seeborg can't tell the difference between constitutionally protected free speech and assault. I wonder how he would feel if people waited with shopping carts for him to leave his courtroom to use their free speech rights to ram him with shopping carts in protest against his ruling?

Exactly my take on the entire fiasco... he likely wears shin pads, that's how he got to become a judge in the first place.

[Aliyah1995]

Can I have the first shopping cart?!?!

[Ziggy]

Can I have the first shopping cart?!?!

Sure, as long as I can have the second. Let's soup them up a bit... just a tad!