THREE THINGS I AM THINKING ABOUT ON THE FIRST OF MAY.

I plan to expand on these thoughts, but for now I want to throw them out to you and to me for us to think about.

1. The reaction of people in power to the campus protests over Gaza and Israel has revealed that universities and colleges have shifted their focus.  Universities are now for money not for students.  School presidents are calling the cops because their rich donors want the students to get off their lawns, literally.  In the vast majority of cases, there is no violence until the police arrive on campus.  Students who paid tuition are arrested as trespassers but once arrested, most of them are released because there are no charges against most of them.  Even the New York Police Department says that the protestors they have encountered have been nonviolent and peaceful. 
2. People in charge are willing to use violence if they can get away with it.  It once was unthinkable that people in charge would call the cops on other people who are not injuring anyone or destroying property, just because the people in charge are afraid.   The people in charge who do this will not do it themselves, however; they are only willing to use violence on you if they can use others to commit violence for them.
3. The Washington, D.C. Police stand tall.  They know how to deal with protestors; they are experienced in handling protests.  When the people in charge at George Washington University called the cops to arrest student protestors, the Police said "no."  The police in Washington, D.C. said that they would not arrest people who had done nothing wrong.

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