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In reply to the discussion: Columbia protesters occupy building, smashing windows; worker: 'They held me hostage' [View all]
wnylib
(26,035 posts)70. If they became desperate enough for attention,
Would they physically hurt (but not kill) someone in the building and push them out through a first floor window with a note listing their demands and a threat of worse to follow if their demands were not met?
Would they be fanatically extreme enough to set part of the building on fire?
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Columbia protesters occupy building, smashing windows; worker: 'They held me hostage' [View all]
sheshe2
Apr 2024
OP
Authorities should have let these protesters sit inside the building without food and see how long they last.
LisaL
Apr 2024
#5
But they look so cool wearing those Hamas-style keffiyehs they bought on Amazon!
SunSeeker
Apr 2024
#12
They put out a Statement that they won't get involved until officially requested.
jimfields33
Apr 2024
#51
All of these students could elicit real change with a big financial message
Dorian Gray
Apr 2024
#16
These people must be arrested and charged, and if they are students expelled
Demsrule86
Apr 2024
#24
They need to have their masks pulled down if they insist on being physical!
mymomwasright
Apr 2024
#85
I want every one of these people investigated to figure out which ones are right wing agitators.
Takket
Apr 2024
#28
Holding someone hostage is not what passionate, idealistic people should be doing.
shrike3
Apr 2024
#49
totally agree. but they are. and where we veer off course is in then postulating
stopdiggin
Apr 2024
#60
Peaceful protest does not involve seizing and destruction of property. Lock them up.
Takket
Apr 2024
#36
Keep them bottled up in the building, then, but enforce a total media blackout.
Jedi Guy
Apr 2024
#61
If they progressed to something that extreme, I feel like NYPD would have no choice but to act at that point.
Jedi Guy
Apr 2024
#73
"I suspect that the protesters hope for an ending that they can dramatize to fit their projected martyrdom image."
Jedi Guy
Apr 2024
#80
Rumor has it that Lisa Fithian is on campus and was in Hamilton Hall last night and is on campus this AM.
LeftInTX
Apr 2024
#38
GQP gonna use this to equivocate on Jan 6. Both-siderisms. Not good at all.
lindysalsagal
Apr 2024
#34
Seems like yesterday when I was reading sanctimonious comments about how wonderful these kids are
BannonsLiver
Apr 2024
#50
Smashing windows, harassing students, holding university employees against their will is so "flower power".
LeftInTX
Apr 2024
#56
they're still around. the like minded just tend to congregate in seperate corners of the room. -(nt)-
stopdiggin
Apr 2024
#65
I'm starting to wonder about the nexus of this whole "movement." It seems convenient
Vinca
Apr 2024
#57
The Floyd protests too. These election year "movements" always seem to start out
Wingus Dingus
Apr 2024
#58
I believe (w/ no evidence for or against) that the majority of the protesters are sincere
Torchlight
Apr 2024
#84