By: Diane Benjamin
Keep in mind GAZA was free until they attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. Palestinians elected Hamas and haven’t had elections again since that happened in 2006. Hamas then murdered opposition to keep power. Nice folks.
I wasn’t going to do a story on just Krystle Able, but when Corey Beirne chimed in I had to. Both are County Board members and Beirne is a Unit 5 music teacher. If you missed this story on him, read it now: https://blnnews.com/2022/09/21/the-truth-about-district-10-candidate-corey-beirne/
I’m sure you know seven ISU students were arrested after refusing to leave a GOVERNMENT building: https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/05/03/pro-palestinian-protesters-stage-sit-in-after-meeting-with-illinois-state-universitys-president/
Facebook postings from Krystle Able and Corey Beirne are below. See their pages for more comments. Both consider laws immaterial if they don’t fit the agenda. Arrests were made because the protesters were trespassing on government property. They were removed for being in a closed building.
Note the ISU faculty members who wrote the letter below didn’t provide their names! I’d really like to know who supports terrorists.
Actions have consequences, those arrested must have never been taught that.
Neither has two of your elected officials.
Check out a post on Just Blono Facebook page from Robert Garcia. He states “If you still don’t think Israel is evil it’s because you are too”.
He’s the guy who thinks Trump is a fascist. He doesn’t have critical thinking skills
The cause of today’s campus activism is found in Corey Beirne’s Equity religion. This is a passage from the Equity Audit at Unit 5 where he is a District Equity Leader. He also signed a pledge with the Zinn project which vows to not teach traditional American history. https://www.zinnedproject.org/
He teaches children music but takes opportunities in his classes to teach more than that.
“To understand equity, one must understand inequities and how every major U.S. system – criminal justice, education, employment, health care, housing, – has been designed to be inequitable. In other words, these systems were not created to benefit all members of society. They are inherently unequal.”
For two decades students have been lied to and taught that America is bad. Now we see the results. They believe that racism and bigotry is an acceptable form of activism.
Loss of life on both sides is absolutely awful. Our tax dollars should NOT BE A PART OF THIS!
You must believe the Hamas numbers. The loss of life on 10/7 was horrific. Innocent kids were slaughtered. Are you calling for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia too? Over 500,000 Ukrainians are dead! We are funding that war.
Fox News headline today
Billionaire family bankrolling both anti-Israel groups and these battleground Democrats
The wealthy Pritzker family has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats so far this election cycle
Should be labeled as domestic terrorist and put on a sanction list and lock up their banking activity.
First of all, people like Able, Beirne and the Garcia’s are USDA certified mental cases. That said, OK is correct. The USA should not be funneling money to either Israel, Ukraine, Iran or any of the desert ME people. Total concentration should be securing our borders but it never will be. Hamas and Israel are both bad actors in this instance. Do some research. Israel created Hamas so the mistake has come back to haunt them. It is also no secret they want Gaza back to develop it. Israel’s solution to the Gaza and Palestinian problem is to relocate them to the USA. As many as possible and as soon as possible so the animals can kill us. Wrap your heads around the fact we have no international friends because it’s a fact.
All Lives Matter.
I pray for peace.
It’s good to know you support throwing the book at folks who occupy government buildings without permission. Funny, though, how you care so much about what happened at ISU and so little about the Trumpers who trashed the capital, interupted official proceedings, and threatened violence against a Vice President and members of Congress. But like you said, actions have consequences. So, it’s safe to assume you’re fully behind the prosecutions of the J6 rioters for breaking the law that day and endangering law enforcement members, right? Because, objectively, that was way more serious than what these ISU protestors did.
You mean the ones who walked through open doors? Most didn’t endanger anyone, senior citizens don’t do that. When asked to leave they did. The ISU protestors didn’t leave when they were told to. I suupose you think J6 was an insurrection. Funny definition!
why didn’t the cops just take-a-knee like they did during the BLM/Antifa™️ protests ?
Palestinians need to go the way of the Samartans, Mesopotamians, and Babylonians. The sooner the better!!!
No other country wants them, except Biden
If you’re interested in what’s REALLY going on over there check this out!! It’s an IDF person assigned to evacuate the civilians conversing with a Palestinian father. Sadly it shows how wrong the west is to stick up for Palestine…..and why they are ostracized in the Arab world, and why we DO NOT need any of them here.
https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1787530064801759279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1787530064801759279%7Ctwgr%5E34e43cb8f0949b220ba16310568e1d35307ae8aa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fmattvespa%2F2024%2F05%2F06%2Fan-idf-officer-called-a-palestinian-civilian-to-evacuate-the-call-is-horrifying-n2638683
If I was an ISU student this would be my course of action.
https://instapundit.com/646263/
For those lazy, here is the summary…
llegal protests on university campuses have already triggered a number of legal actions, but so far the lawsuits likely to be most successful, and most effective at strongly discouraging similar criminal activity in the future – class actions brought by as few as one student or faculty member – seem to be overlooked, says a class action expert.
Public interest law professor John Banzhaf – who has been called a “King of Class Action Law Suits,” “a Driving Force Behind the Lawsuits That Have Cost Tobacco Companies Billions of Dollars,” and “The Law Professor Who Masterminded Litigation Against the Tobacco Industry,” points out than even one individual student or faculty member harmed by illegal actions by protestors can bring a class action lawsuit against each and every one of the criminal protestors who can be identified (e.g. by cell phone or video camera recordings, arrest records, etc.).
In addition to the serious financial and other burdens of having to hire lawyers to defend against such suits, and the impact on their future credit ratings, each protestor could be found legally liable for the entire amount of all the damages to all of the thousands of class action plaintiffs under the well-established legal doctrine of joint and several liability, says the law professor, who promoted such lawsuits against the January 6th rioters.
Indeed, it’s a legal tactic even the Wall Street Journal (as well as others) has recommended, even for far less serious crimes such as simply temporarily blocking traffic:
If DAs won’t prosecute, victims can sue for false imprisonment
Such class action lawsuits could be brought for familiar torts (civil damage actions) such as assault and battery, false imprisonment, and tortious interference with existing contractual advantage, as well as less familiar ones such civil conspiracy and prime facie tort, says Banzhaf, who has already inspired such public interest lawsuits.
University protestors seem largely undeterred by actual or threatened arrests since in many cases the typically minor criminal charges are likely to be dropped by the university and/or by sympathetic prosecutors. If not, a tiny criminal fine may be seen as a small price to pay by students striving to achieve a major social goal, argues Banzhaf.
Similarly, many universities are likely not to impose serious – if any – discipline on students who exceeded their rights of free speech and expressive activities by engaging in criminal tortious conduct such as:
■ Trespass to land (illegally occupying university property, especially with tents),
■ Civil assault and harassment (which need not involve any touching or actual harm),
■ Civil battery (even the slightest touching which proves to be harmful or even simply offensive)
■ False imprisonment (menacingly surrounding a student or professor, not permitting janitors to leave a building)
■ Tortious interference with existing contractual advantage (preventing students from going to classes and/or the library, from taking exams, experiencing graduation, etc.)
A lesser known but very powerful tort action is a civil conspiracy. It allows a plaintiff to seek damages from two or more parties who agree to commit an unlawful act, or to engage in combination even in a lawful act (e.g. hundreds of protestors all telephone or try to withdraw money from their account at the same time to pressure a bank to take some action) and the plaintiff suffers harm (including disruption and/or delay) as a result of that agreement.
Another very powerful legal tool which has been recognized and utilized in many situations is the prime facie tort. It is generally defined as the “infliction of intentional harm, resulting in damages, without excuse or justification, by an act or series of acts which would otherwise be lawful.”
In other words, in addition to all of the other possible civil actions, once a jury found that protestors knew that their actions would harm other students, and that any of the actions (including but not limited to those which violate the law) were not justifiable, it can issue a verdict holding each and every protestor who participated legal liable for all damages to all students who were adversely affected (and therefore make up the “class” in the class action).
Banzhaf notes that his prior articles and other legal analysis inspired civil lawsuits against “cause” lawbreakers, and that similar suits have sometimes led to very large damage awards which shocked the criminal protestors.
Water cannons, batons, and rubber bullets would be a lot simpler.
Krystale is incorrect in saying that ISU is their campus. It is NOT! ISU is funded by TAXPAYERS . Every building and every parking lot and every blade of grass is taxpayer funded. And Krystale is taxpayer funded as well. She is an employee of ISU which makes her a state taxpayer funded employee. The protesters are protesting on Illinois citizens property!
I don’t think she works at ISU