May 23, 2024 • 31 mins
Kris Adler comes on the show live from UCLA with an update on the newest protest on campus. More on the UCLA protest. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block testified in front of Congress today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I have a weird enjoyment of How can I describe this?
What's weird is my definition of entertainment. Nothing funnier to
me than some stuffed shirt university official, a president's chancellor,
whatever the hell they call. These people's getting skewered before
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a Congressional committee trying to defend the indefensible. And this
is about Gene Block, the UCLA chancellor, having to testify
in Washington, DC today, and there's some rabid congress people
who wanted to get a piece of him because what
he allowed to happen at UCLA was just absurd, just preposterous.
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And the committees had been a buzzsaw to college presidents
this year because you had you had the Harvard professor,
the Harvard president being forced to resign. Same thing happened
at the University of penn Cornell professor had to resign
recently and she didn't even testify. Gene Block doesn't matter
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if he resigns or is kicked out or not, because
he's done in two months.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Because the irony of this is is well. Block has
been testifying today. What you had is a protest movement
starting again at UCLA and Chris Adler has been there
and she's going to describe what's been going.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
On all day.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
John.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, I'm actually standing behind these officers LAPD officers that
just rolled in. They are in two lines right now
there right behind them as they're headed to this camp.
This camp was set up early this morning. These protesters
have barricaded themselves behind palette pieces of wood, tables and chairs,
and it looks like laped's coming in right now. They're
probably going to break this up right now, John, That's
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what it looks like. So we've got tons of students,
dozens of students onlookers, media, and I think we've got
about fifty police officers out here from LAPD and campus police,
UCLA police rather and they're rolling in. They've got helmets
on right now, they have zip tie handcuffs. UCLA Police
has zip ti handcuffs and it looks like this might
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get here. The protesters are bluing them and getting really upset.
If you can hear them in the background shouting free Palestine,
as these officers now slowly move into the camp area.
So it looks like this is about to go down here.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Now, John, Yeah, some of the TV stations are covering it,
and so they have a helicopter overhead view of what's
going on. I see a line of officers holding their
bicycles and creating a line of bikes to hold off
the protesters.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Right, And I mean you guys, you could see if
you're looking at this from the overhead, you can see
the dozens of people out here just watching, trying to
see how this is going to unfold. This is protesters, students, onlookers,
probably staff members, and just people who are here to
just see what's going to happen right now. But yeah,
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these protesters are chanting, and I spoke with protesters earlier
today who said they are not going to go without
a fight. They will stay here as long as they can,
and they are doubling down on their demand for divestment.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, I see now it looks like the bicycle cops
were trying to hold off a crowd from coming onto
the campus.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Right, I'm right sharing it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, okay, And now the overhead view is showing a
line of police officers in riot gear marching down one
of the walkways and uh headed towards uh one of
the one of the grass areas. They're kind of partially
hidding out of the trees now. So I don't know where
the flashpoint is inside. I don't even know what entrance
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I'm looking at here. I guess maybe you know where
you're standing.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, So I'm watching his officers that these officers in
tactical gear are facing a lot of this crowd. The
crowd is looking at them right now. They formed a
line here right up in front of this protest, so
we don't know when they're when they're going to move
in and try to break this up.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So there's two there's two crowds.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There's the crowd outside the entrance, and then there's the
crowd protesting on the campus itself.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
John?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Can you repeat that?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Is that there seems to be two crowds, the one
just outside the entrance at U c l A and
then one on the campus itself.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The original protesters.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right right, and there's there's actly yeah, there are there
are two different crowds. Care and as the police were
coming in on the outside, I don't know if there
were students. There was people walking and they were booing them.
There was calling them KKK members, they were saying, calling
them pigs, telling them jolt along on campus. So the cops.
There's a lot of animosity towards the police right here
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at this protest here John right.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And this stunt must have been designed to embarrass Gen Block,
who's busy in Washington, DC this morning apologizing for the
first round of protests. Right.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And these protesters that I spoke with earlier who were
marching said they were so upset with the way that
he handled it. They said that his complicency was just
is outrageous, the way that he stood by after what
they called zionists attacked their camp, put multiple people in
the emergency room. They said they were so upset with
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it that they're furious from Jean Block. They still let down.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So UCLA didn't see this coming, that maybe there was
going to be some kind of protest stunt to coincide
with Block's testimony. They they did they blindsided by this
at UCLA again.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You know, when I got on seam this morning, there
was a lot of U. C. L A Police officers here.
There were a lot, they were scattered, but they got
the camp. They got the camp up. They got all
of this stuff into the camp before the officers got here.
So that was our question was how did they do
this without being stopped before it happened?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So, so the protesters snuck the tents in before the
police showed up.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yes, they got, they got They built this encampment and
were able to erect it before the police were set up.
And so then and then we saw campus UCLA police
scattered from Moor Hall, the different buildings here where it's
set up outside of But they they got there's a
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lot of stuff here. They have flags hanging from the wall,
Palaestidian flags.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And I'm not sure how many people are actually inside
of the camp.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now they is LAPD the primary law enforcement group that's
responding at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What's that done at LAPD?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I assume they're the primary law enforcement group that's responding
this minute.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Well, they just rolled in about ten minutes ago. It
was car after car after car coming in in tactical gear.
But before that, there was probably about thirty or forty
UCLA police officers surrounding these buildings with dip high handcuffs.
They've been on scene for hours, just kind of standing by,
letting the protesters do what they were going to do.
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But then now LAPD has rolled in, so it looks
like he's getting a little bit more serious now.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean, according to Channel five, the police are
telling him this is an unlawful assembly. You have to go,
or you're going to be arrested, right don in.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
If they say it's in an unlawful assembly and they
don't go, these protests will be arrested. They will be arrested.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Today, all right, Chris, Well, I stay in touch, uh
and and we'll we'll talk with you again, okay, And
if anything crazy happens, UH, come right on and break in.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
With us, all right, He'll be my first call.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Done, all right, Chris Adler from a KFI news and Uh,
this just blew up in the last few minutes, Like
while I was talking and about to introduce uh, Chris
uh suddenly noticed on television that that the police had
start just started marching in from the street, the l
A p D in riot gear, you know, with with
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the with their weapons ready to go, and and and
suddenly what was a standoff I guess between campus police
and these protesters turned into a major event, with la
BT declaring it an unlawful assembly. And this just happened
in the about the last ten minutes. All right, so
we'll be on top of that. This is far from
over and uh eventually we'll get to uh, we're gonna
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get to uh Gene Blocks testimony the UCLA Chancellor in Washington,
d C. Because I am certain that this was timed
to coincide with Blocks testimony. We got some clips of
his statements to play for you. And also just the absurdities.
There's some news stories today what's been going on at
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UCLA that I just it's incredible. It's incredible, how dopey
the administration is. I don't know how these people tie
their shoes. How did they get their doctorates.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
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Speaker 2 (09:37):
All right, now, let's you're just joining us.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You heard Chris adleron as she was broadcasting right from
the UCLA campus. Because it's started up all over again.
The Jew hating pro Hamas pro Palestine crowd is making
a big ruckus on UCLA, and they timed it to
coincide with UCLA's Chancellor, Gene Block, being dragged into Congress
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to explain himself after allowing the protesters the protests were
a few weeks ago to get completely out of hand
because he was inert. I think you got to say this,
butly the man was inert. He didn't react to obvious
danger signs. And now he's trying to explain himself. And
you know what what these university cowards liked to do.
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In fact, a lot of officials do this. Politicians, corporate leaders,
these college presidents. There's one word they like to hide behind,
and it's it's it's a coward move in hindsight. In hindsight,
we should have done X. How could you not have
the foresight? You're paid to have foresight. What did you
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think was going to happen? These Palestinians are supporting one
of the worst terrorist organizations on the planet. You saw
what happened October seventh. You know what these people at
these protest sites are supporting, promoting. You hear what they
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say you read what they write. What do you mean
with hindsight? Where'd you think this was going to go?
They have a lot of foreign students from at UCLA,
some of them from the Middle East, some of them
are diving the wall hamas supporters. And there was one
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other quote that he made, and I've got this from
the La Times, when he was cornered by one of
the congress women, Kathy Manning, a Democrat. Block was getting
beat on by Republicans and Democrats, and she asked Block
whether anti Semitism is a challenge on the UCLA campus.
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Block said, yes, we admit this is a challenge, and
then she says, I have emails dating back to twenty
fourteen from dedicated to alumni trying to alert you to
growing anti semitism.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
She's saying, I.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Got emails sent to you ten years ago. But Block
didn't do anything. You know what his response was, and
this is right up there with hindsight. The university has
tried to respond with training. Ninety percent of students take
an online training course that includes discussion of anti Semitism.
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Do you know those training courses have no effect on people?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
None?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
If you have a rabid religious like belief that Jews
need to be eradicated and Israel should be destroyed. And
you've heard that every day since you were born. You
have people here from Middle Eastern countries and cultures where
they're taught that Jews are horrible and should be exterminated
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and Israel should be destroyed. They've heard that every day.
And you think you're going to offer them an online
training course. Oh, we did training. These training courses don't work.
They don't work in corporate settings, they don't work in
university settings, they don't work in government settings.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
There's something about progressive.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They think everybody can be retrained, reprogrammed with some online
kacamabe course.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I know of no online training course that has changed
anybody's mind about anything. Pray, I've gotta no more training here.
You know, in hindsight, we're sort of had a stronger
training course. Let's actually start to play some of the
clips of Block and uh yeah, let's do the hindsight
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to clip cut number three here, Gene Block, you say, Chancellor.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
With the benefit of hindsight, you should have been prepared
to immediately remove the encampment if and when the safety
of our community was put at risk. We have since
taken decisive action. I created a new Office of Campus
Safety that reports directly to me. UCLA is conducting a
thorough examination of our security processes. The University of California
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has also engaged independent law enforcement experts to initiate a
review of the confrontation, including our planning and safety as
security protocols. Finally, we will hold accountable all those engaged
in violence or violated our policies.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No student should be threatened.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Or excluded based on their beliefs or identity, but they were.
We will always have to strive hard to meet this obligation.
We must also maintain our commitment to academic freedom and
free speech. The balance is central to UCLA's educational mission.
It's not always easy to strike a perfect balance, yes
it is, but that must be our goal.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know what, and this dope, there were actually pictures
of him with horns and red eyes. It's a classic
Jewish hatred symbol to turn the Jews into images of
the devil. He admitted he saw those, but he still
didn't shut He still didn't shut the protest down because
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it's we have to balance free speech right and if
they had drawings of black students being hung from trees.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
What do you think black would have done?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They would have shut that down in thirty seconds, and
they should have. But here's a guy who's Jewish himself,
and he's pictured in these drawings as being the spawn
of the devil, and he's done nothing but in hide
and sight. We should have had better training, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Wow. And by the way, they started up all over again.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
They snuck tents in and created a new encampment this morning,
and nobody responded until now when the LAPD has come
in and he's trying to evict them. It happened all
over again. While he's talking there was no plan. Got
more eclipse of the gene block coming up here and
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if anything happens at UCLA, Chris Adler will be on immediately.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
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Speaker 1 (16:13):
We're on from one until four after four o'clock John
Cobelt Show on demand. That is the podcast version, and
you could hear what you missed and if you're just
joining us, missed a lot exciting first half hour. The
situation at UCLA just like blew up, not in a
literal sense, but they.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Had snuck in some tents.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
This morning, the UCLA Chancellor, Gene Block is in Washington,
d C. Trying to explain while the last round of
protests got so out of hand, and while the Jewish
students were being so persecuted by these pro Hamas pro terrorist,
this entire crowd, and so he's babbling away and thumfering
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in Washington. Meantime, they stuck more tens in on the
campus and the LAPD has had to get on the
campus now just within the last forty minutes or so,
and according to Chris Adler's last report, they're starting to
tear down whatever the protesters brought in. There was not
only a crowd of protesters on the campus on the inside,
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but a large group has formed outside on one of
the streets outside the entrance to UCLA. Obviously there's many entrances.
There is also television coverage of this, and there's quite
a crowd there. But the police are trying to restore
order and anything happens. Chris Adler is going to be
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back on the air. I want to play more clips
from Gene Block, who really, you know, this is not
a good way to go out. I never heard of
this guy until a few weeks ago, when it turned
out he was a chancellor allowing all these protesters to
run a muck and terrorize the Jewish students. We played
you the clip where he said, well, with the benefit
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of hind site, we should have torn down the encampments
much more quickly.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Here is.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
An exchange between Ilhan and Omar. She is the pro
Hamas pro Palestinian representative from Minnesota, and she's on this
committee in Washington, DC, and she went after she and
Jean Block had a go round here. So play cut
number five.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
You could have prevented this by protecting the diverse groups
of pro Palestinian students that were peacefully gathered on campus
to share meals stand in solidarity against a brutal genocide.
You could have prevented this by protecting these students First
Amendment right to a simple So I would like to
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know if you are truly committed to keeping your students safe.
How did you fail these students at many critical points
where you could have intervened.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Thank you for the question, but I really I'm sorry,
but I reject the premise these students.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
How do you reject the premise.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Are these pictures lying?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Are these pictures?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Are any of these people in jail?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Can I finish my statement?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Are any of these people in jail? Are any of
these people arrested?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
LAPD is working on trying to identify the people who
are sellings that evening. We were committed to finding out
the people's it's.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Been over a month. Stop it for saying, I submit.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And again she's talking about the Jewish guys who attacked
the pro hamas crowd late at night, and she is
on the side of the pro Hamasque group saying, how
could you let these Jewish guys beat them up? If
you remember that incident, because that's what got a big
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police presence that night. So gene Block is taking it
from both sides because he allowed the campus to becomempletely
out of control and there was no law enforcement in charge.
Now they have since reassigned the head of UCLI campus police.
I don't know what he's going to be overseeing. Maybe
he's going to be doing restroom work for the for
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the remainder of his career. Let's continue with ilhan Omar
and Gene Block.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I submit for the record an article that starts the
CNN has.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Produced without objection.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Why did you not immediately send the police that we're
standing by your campus, police law enforcement to intervene.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
We tried, We notified as the violence, we notified all
of our nutral aid partners. We tried to get police
there as quickly as possible. But going back to my
original points, so this encampment was against policy, This violated
chess player time police.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
If I may, the footage from that night reveals that
some of the most dramatic attacks were carried out by
individuals not affiliated with UCLA, not the university students faculty
that were arrested. Why have the violent agitators who you
know have been identified not been held accountable for assaulting
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over one hundred and fifty of your students.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You should be ashamed.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And he never did get the chance to answer. It
apparently went on for some time beyond that. She's right
in a way, but Block had let the Jewish kids
be intimidated and harassed and pushed around for weeks. Finally,
some of the some older Jewish guys not affiliated with
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the school as far as we know, they'd had enough,
and that's when they burst onto the UCLA campus and
started beating the crap out of some of the Palestinian protesters.
But again Block never protected the Jewish students for weeks
and did not in that case protect the Palestinian students
from the retaliation because this virus that infected his brain
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infected Karen Bass's brain. We're going to talk about Metro
coming up after two o'clock. They all bought into the
twenty twenty George Floyd hysteria where all police are bad.
We defund the police, we don't use the police. We
hire people off the street, call them ambassadors and give
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them colorful vests. And that's going to return order, and
that's going to keep order. A stupid, silly, childish belief.
And to think that a guy like Gene Block, with
all his degrees and all his experience, bought into that.
How could a grown man not know that you need
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an armed police force to keep the order anywhere in
a city, on a college campus, on a train or
a bus, you have to have uniformed police with weapons
and permission to use the weapons if necessary. That's the
only way you keep order in a human society. There
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is no successful society without a police department of some kind.
A law enforcement group of some kind, because a lot
of people are either bad people or they lose control
of themselves. And that's something you learn when you're a
tiny child. And this weird, sick, cult like belief system that, oh,
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no police are all bad, no more police, fire the police,
defund the police.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That that's an absurd thing. This is lasting four years.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You keep thinking this idea is going to finally die
and go away because it obviously doesn't work. And no,
here we go Jeane Block, another adherent, huge protest goes
on for weeks, no police. People getting stabbed every day
on a metro train.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No police. What's right? There's no other solution to this.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You tried your ambassadors, you tried those colorful vests. It
doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. You actually have
to go through this to prove that it doesn't work.
It doesn't work. It's stupid, it's stupid, stupid, stupid. What's
wrong with you? What to smack up side the head?
That's a chancellor, that's a mayor. They think like you
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sprinkle magic dust and bad people or out of control
people are just gonna go away.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Whatever that temper tantrum was in twenty twenty. That should
have that should have died off in a matter of days.
It became policy for four years. Holy moly. Oh and
by the way, just to get lost in this, there
is no freedom of speech on a college campus where
you can protest all day and night and set up
tent encampments and intimidate minority students whatever the disfavored minority
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of the day is. There is no constitutional protection. The
university is where you go to learn. You go to teach,
you go to read, you go to study, you go
to get tested. There's social events, there's educational events.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It's none of this nonsense, and there's policies against it,
and all these protests violated the policies, but Gene Block
allowed it to happen, like Karen Bass allows the violence
on the trains and the buses.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
But we are tracking what's going on at UCLA and
the police are breaking up a new protest that sprung
up while the UCLA chancellor being Block was testifying. We've
got another clip to play what I noticed just watching
the coverage now on TV is that we're talking to
one young woman who's part of the pro Amas, pro
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terrorist crowd, and she's wearing a black mask on her face,
like surgical mask. And it's so weird that that became
a symbol of progressives to wear a black mask. I
was just reading a story about Portland the other day
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because in Portland they've kicked out their district attorney. He
was a Gascone type and in Portland, which is far left,
they got sick of it too much crime, too much homelessness.
But they were describing what Portland's like. And in most
stories in Portland, you go in and the clerks are
all still wearing the surgical masks, the hospital mask. What
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it's over four years now and I've realized it's it's
become like the symbol of their religious cult. And uh, anyway,
here's Rich Allen, a Republican of Georgia, asking Gene Block,
the u c l A Chancellor, what are they doing
about people who show up with masks? Really it's to
conceal their identity of a lot of these people.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Listen to this exchange.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
What are you doing to those students who are under investigation?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So during this period of time, students are still attending classes.
Nephis says, there is no encampment and there have been
no demonstrations that are problematic.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Uh, doctor Block section wait, stop stop, stop that you
want the truth?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Uh maybe he just wasn't aware. But they had two
tents on the Kirch the Kirkhoff patio Thursday morning, and
access was blocked to Ackerman Union, Kirkhoff and More Hall
because of the encampment. This is this morning morning. Classes
held in those buildings were shifted online. A public safety
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alert was issued to the campus. The Vice chancellor for
Strategic Communications, Well that's our title, Mary Asaka, said, we're
aware of demonstration activity, our safety personnel on site and
monitoring the situation.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah. Well they're monitoring.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Didn't do any good because LAPD had to be called
in within the last hour, So I guess things were
brewing and Block had no idea. But that's not really
a surprise, all right, continue, doctor Block.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Section one eighty found the California Penal co outlaws outlaws
wearing a mask to evade identification and committing a public offense.
Why have you not banned the wearing a mask on
your campus? In courting from California law.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Was still apparently are allowed to wear masks for COVID protection,
and students continue.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
To wear them.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
And there was a medical mask medical right, these are
not medical masks. H.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So you're you're so you're allowing this behavior.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
We've allowed, We've allowed masks on campus aleutical policy. This
should be unmasked. But during the time of COVID, we
allowed medical masking, and uh, we've continued to allow.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
That, except they were in coffeas. That's what they were
doing to wrap their face. The kafia is not a
medical mask. It's got nothing to do with COVID. Nobody's
getting COVID anymore. They're out in the sunlight and the
it's practically summer. We're allowing medical masks because of COVID.
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Oh my god, Where where do they come from? That
they've got They've got some kind of intelligence. I don't
know these days. I mean, he's an older guy. I
mean he got degrees back when degrees were real degrees.
They have to study something real in order to get it.
Now there's all these fake courses and fake degrees and
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fake knowledge going around.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
All right, we'll see if anything more happens.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Chris Adler's there coming up after Devers two o'clock news,
Michael Monks from KFI News, because you know, we've got,
in a way a similar situation on the Metro trains
and buses. You have violence that should have been stopped
a long time ago. Karen Bass, like Gene Block, did
not believe, does not really believe in using police. She's
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got a good shtick going. I'm may be the only
one who saw through it from day one. I don't
know when the rest of the world wakes up, maybe never.
But what she does is she smiles and says the
right things, but never does the right thing. She wouldn't
send the police in which she should have done day
one when she took over. Metro Buses and trains have
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been very dangerous for a long time. She is the
Metro board chair. And there have been so many violent attacks,
so many stabbings, and and if last was it last
week she said there's going to be a surge, surge
of police and and and then the violent attacks kept happening.
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So they had a formal meeting today.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
To see.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To see if they're gonna send in more police officers
from various agencies. Michael Monks was monitoring this meeting and
he'll have a report coming up next Deborah mark Lyden,
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I have a weird enjoyment of How can I describe this?
What's weird is my definition of entertainment. Nothing funnier to
me than some stuffed shirt university official, a president's chancellor,
whatever the hell they call. These people's getting skewered before
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a Congressional committee trying to defend the indefensible. And this
is about Gene Block, the UCLA chancellor, having to testify
in Washington, DC today, and there's some rabid congress people
who wanted to get a piece of him because what
he allowed to happen at UCLA was just absurd, just preposterous.
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And the committees had been a buzzsaw to college presidents
this year because you had you had the Harvard professor,
the Harvard president being forced to resign. Same thing happened
at the University of penn Cornell professor had to resign
recently and she didn't even testify. Gene Block doesn't matter
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if he resigns or is kicked out or not, because
he's done in two months.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Because the irony of this is is well. Block has
been testifying today. What you had is a protest movement
starting again at UCLA and Chris Adler has been there
and she's going to describe what's been going.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
On all day.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
John.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, I'm actually standing behind these officers LAPD officers that
just rolled in. They are in two lines right now
there right behind them as they're headed to this camp.
This camp was set up early this morning. These protesters
have barricaded themselves behind palette pieces of wood, tables and chairs,
and it looks like laped's coming in right now. They're
probably going to break this up right now, John, That's
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what it looks like. So we've got tons of students,
dozens of students onlookers, media, and I think we've got
about fifty police officers out here from LAPD and campus police,
UCLA police rather and they're rolling in. They've got helmets
on right now, they have zip tie handcuffs. UCLA Police
has zip ti handcuffs and it looks like this might
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get here. The protesters are bluing them and getting really upset.
If you can hear them in the background shouting free Palestine,
as these officers now slowly move into the camp area.
So it looks like this is about to go down here.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Now, John, Yeah, some of the TV stations are covering it,
and so they have a helicopter overhead view of what's
going on. I see a line of officers holding their
bicycles and creating a line of bikes to hold off
the protesters.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Right, And I mean you guys, you could see if
you're looking at this from the overhead, you can see
the dozens of people out here just watching, trying to
see how this is going to unfold. This is protesters, students, onlookers,
probably staff members, and just people who are here to
just see what's going to happen right now. But yeah,
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these protesters are chanting, and I spoke with protesters earlier
today who said they are not going to go without
a fight. They will stay here as long as they can,
and they are doubling down on their demand for divestment.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, I see now it looks like the bicycle cops
were trying to hold off a crowd from coming onto
the campus.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Right, I'm right sharing it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, okay, And now the overhead view is showing a
line of police officers in riot gear marching down one
of the walkways and uh headed towards uh one of
the one of the grass areas. They're kind of partially
hidding out of the trees now. So I don't know where
the flashpoint is inside. I don't even know what entrance
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I'm looking at here. I guess maybe you know where
you're standing.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, So I'm watching his officers that these officers in
tactical gear are facing a lot of this crowd. The
crowd is looking at them right now. They formed a
line here right up in front of this protest, so
we don't know when they're when they're going to move
in and try to break this up.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So there's two there's two crowds.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There's the crowd outside the entrance, and then there's the
crowd protesting on the campus itself.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
John?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Can you repeat that?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Is that there seems to be two crowds, the one
just outside the entrance at U c l A and
then one on the campus itself.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The original protesters.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right right, and there's there's actly yeah, there are there
are two different crowds. Care and as the police were
coming in on the outside, I don't know if there
were students. There was people walking and they were booing them.
There was calling them KKK members, they were saying, calling
them pigs, telling them jolt along on campus. So the cops.
There's a lot of animosity towards the police right here
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at this protest here John right.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And this stunt must have been designed to embarrass Gen Block,
who's busy in Washington, DC this morning apologizing for the
first round of protests. Right.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And these protesters that I spoke with earlier who were
marching said they were so upset with the way that
he handled it. They said that his complicency was just
is outrageous, the way that he stood by after what
they called zionists attacked their camp, put multiple people in
the emergency room. They said they were so upset with
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it that they're furious from Jean Block. They still let down.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So UCLA didn't see this coming, that maybe there was
going to be some kind of protest stunt to coincide
with Block's testimony. They they did they blindsided by this
at UCLA again.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You know, when I got on seam this morning, there
was a lot of U. C. L A Police officers here.
There were a lot, they were scattered, but they got
the camp. They got the camp up. They got all
of this stuff into the camp before the officers got here.
So that was our question was how did they do
this without being stopped before it happened?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So, so the protesters snuck the tents in before the
police showed up.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yes, they got, they got They built this encampment and
were able to erect it before the police were set up.
And so then and then we saw campus UCLA police
scattered from Moor Hall, the different buildings here where it's
set up outside of But they they got there's a
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lot of stuff here. They have flags hanging from the wall,
Palaestidian flags.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And I'm not sure how many people are actually inside
of the camp.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now they is LAPD the primary law enforcement group that's
responding at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What's that done at LAPD?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I assume they're the primary law enforcement group that's responding
this minute.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Well, they just rolled in about ten minutes ago. It
was car after car after car coming in in tactical gear.
But before that, there was probably about thirty or forty
UCLA police officers surrounding these buildings with dip high handcuffs.
They've been on scene for hours, just kind of standing by,
letting the protesters do what they were going to do.
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But then now LAPD has rolled in, so it looks
like he's getting a little bit more serious now.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean, according to Channel five, the police are
telling him this is an unlawful assembly. You have to go,
or you're going to be arrested, right don in.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
If they say it's in an unlawful assembly and they
don't go, these protests will be arrested. They will be arrested.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Today, all right, Chris, Well, I stay in touch, uh
and and we'll we'll talk with you again, okay, And
if anything crazy happens, UH, come right on and break in.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
With us, all right, He'll be my first call.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Done, all right, Chris Adler from a KFI news and Uh,
this just blew up in the last few minutes, Like
while I was talking and about to introduce uh, Chris
uh suddenly noticed on television that that the police had
start just started marching in from the street, the l
A p D in riot gear, you know, with with
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the with their weapons ready to go, and and and
suddenly what was a standoff I guess between campus police
and these protesters turned into a major event, with la
BT declaring it an unlawful assembly. And this just happened
in the about the last ten minutes. All right, so
we'll be on top of that. This is far from
over and uh eventually we'll get to uh, we're gonna
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get to uh Gene Blocks testimony the UCLA Chancellor in Washington,
d C. Because I am certain that this was timed
to coincide with Blocks testimony. We got some clips of
his statements to play for you. And also just the absurdities.
There's some news stories today what's been going on at
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UCLA that I just it's incredible. It's incredible, how dopey
the administration is. I don't know how these people tie
their shoes. How did they get their doctorates.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (09:37):
All right, now, let's you're just joining us.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You heard Chris adleron as she was broadcasting right from
the UCLA campus. Because it's started up all over again.
The Jew hating pro Hamas pro Palestine crowd is making
a big ruckus on UCLA, and they timed it to
coincide with UCLA's Chancellor, Gene Block, being dragged into Congress
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to explain himself after allowing the protesters the protests were
a few weeks ago to get completely out of hand
because he was inert. I think you got to say this,
butly the man was inert. He didn't react to obvious
danger signs. And now he's trying to explain himself. And
you know what what these university cowards liked to do.
(10:24):
In fact, a lot of officials do this. Politicians, corporate leaders,
these college presidents. There's one word they like to hide behind,
and it's it's it's a coward move in hindsight. In hindsight,
we should have done X. How could you not have
the foresight? You're paid to have foresight. What did you
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think was going to happen? These Palestinians are supporting one
of the worst terrorist organizations on the planet. You saw
what happened October seventh. You know what these people at
these protest sites are supporting, promoting. You hear what they
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say you read what they write. What do you mean
with hindsight? Where'd you think this was going to go?
They have a lot of foreign students from at UCLA,
some of them from the Middle East, some of them
are diving the wall hamas supporters. And there was one
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other quote that he made, and I've got this from
the La Times, when he was cornered by one of
the congress women, Kathy Manning, a Democrat. Block was getting
beat on by Republicans and Democrats, and she asked Block
whether anti Semitism is a challenge on the UCLA campus.
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Block said, yes, we admit this is a challenge, and
then she says, I have emails dating back to twenty
fourteen from dedicated to alumni trying to alert you to
growing anti semitism.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
She's saying, I.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Got emails sent to you ten years ago. But Block
didn't do anything. You know what his response was, and
this is right up there with hindsight. The university has
tried to respond with training. Ninety percent of students take
an online training course that includes discussion of anti Semitism.
(12:29):
Do you know those training courses have no effect on people?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
None?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
If you have a rabid religious like belief that Jews
need to be eradicated and Israel should be destroyed. And
you've heard that every day since you were born. You
have people here from Middle Eastern countries and cultures where
they're taught that Jews are horrible and should be exterminated
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and Israel should be destroyed. They've heard that every day.
And you think you're going to offer them an online
training course. Oh, we did training. These training courses don't work.
They don't work in corporate settings, they don't work in
university settings, they don't work in government settings.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
There's something about progressive.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They think everybody can be retrained, reprogrammed with some online
kacamabe course.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I know of no online training course that has changed
anybody's mind about anything. Pray, I've gotta no more training here.
You know, in hindsight, we're sort of had a stronger
training course. Let's actually start to play some of the
clips of Block and uh yeah, let's do the hindsight
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to clip cut number three here, Gene Block, you say, Chancellor.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
With the benefit of hindsight, you should have been prepared
to immediately remove the encampment if and when the safety
of our community was put at risk. We have since
taken decisive action. I created a new Office of Campus
Safety that reports directly to me. UCLA is conducting a
thorough examination of our security processes. The University of California
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has also engaged independent law enforcement experts to initiate a
review of the confrontation, including our planning and safety as
security protocols. Finally, we will hold accountable all those engaged
in violence or violated our policies.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No student should be threatened.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Or excluded based on their beliefs or identity, but they were.
We will always have to strive hard to meet this obligation.
We must also maintain our commitment to academic freedom and
free speech. The balance is central to UCLA's educational mission.
It's not always easy to strike a perfect balance, yes
it is, but that must be our goal.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know what, and this dope, there were actually pictures
of him with horns and red eyes. It's a classic
Jewish hatred symbol to turn the Jews into images of
the devil. He admitted he saw those, but he still
didn't shut He still didn't shut the protest down because
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it's we have to balance free speech right and if
they had drawings of black students being hung from trees.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
What do you think black would have done?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They would have shut that down in thirty seconds, and
they should have. But here's a guy who's Jewish himself,
and he's pictured in these drawings as being the spawn
of the devil, and he's done nothing but in hide
and sight. We should have had better training, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Wow. And by the way, they started up all over again.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
They snuck tents in and created a new encampment this morning,
and nobody responded until now when the LAPD has come
in and he's trying to evict them. It happened all
over again. While he's talking there was no plan. Got
more eclipse of the gene block coming up here and
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if anything happens at UCLA, Chris Adler will be on immediately.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
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Speaker 1 (16:13):
We're on from one until four after four o'clock John
Cobelt Show on demand. That is the podcast version, and
you could hear what you missed and if you're just
joining us, missed a lot exciting first half hour. The
situation at UCLA just like blew up, not in a
literal sense, but they.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Had snuck in some tents.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
This morning, the UCLA Chancellor, Gene Block is in Washington,
d C. Trying to explain while the last round of
protests got so out of hand, and while the Jewish
students were being so persecuted by these pro Hamas pro terrorist,
this entire crowd, and so he's babbling away and thumfering
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in Washington. Meantime, they stuck more tens in on the
campus and the LAPD has had to get on the
campus now just within the last forty minutes or so,
and according to Chris Adler's last report, they're starting to
tear down whatever the protesters brought in. There was not
only a crowd of protesters on the campus on the inside,
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but a large group has formed outside on one of
the streets outside the entrance to UCLA. Obviously there's many entrances.
There is also television coverage of this, and there's quite
a crowd there. But the police are trying to restore
order and anything happens. Chris Adler is going to be
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back on the air. I want to play more clips
from Gene Block, who really, you know, this is not
a good way to go out. I never heard of
this guy until a few weeks ago, when it turned
out he was a chancellor allowing all these protesters to
run a muck and terrorize the Jewish students. We played
you the clip where he said, well, with the benefit
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of hind site, we should have torn down the encampments
much more quickly.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Here is.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
An exchange between Ilhan and Omar. She is the pro
Hamas pro Palestinian representative from Minnesota, and she's on this
committee in Washington, DC, and she went after she and
Jean Block had a go round here. So play cut
number five.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
You could have prevented this by protecting the diverse groups
of pro Palestinian students that were peacefully gathered on campus
to share meals stand in solidarity against a brutal genocide.
You could have prevented this by protecting these students First
Amendment right to a simple So I would like to
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know if you are truly committed to keeping your students safe.
How did you fail these students at many critical points
where you could have intervened.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Thank you for the question, but I really I'm sorry,
but I reject the premise these students.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
How do you reject the premise.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Are these pictures lying?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Are these pictures?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Are any of these people in jail?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Can I finish my statement?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Are any of these people in jail? Are any of
these people arrested?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
LAPD is working on trying to identify the people who
are sellings that evening. We were committed to finding out
the people's it's.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Been over a month. Stop it for saying, I submit.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And again she's talking about the Jewish guys who attacked
the pro hamas crowd late at night, and she is
on the side of the pro Hamasque group saying, how
could you let these Jewish guys beat them up? If
you remember that incident, because that's what got a big
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police presence that night. So gene Block is taking it
from both sides because he allowed the campus to becomempletely
out of control and there was no law enforcement in charge.
Now they have since reassigned the head of UCLI campus police.
I don't know what he's going to be overseeing. Maybe
he's going to be doing restroom work for the for
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the remainder of his career. Let's continue with ilhan Omar
and Gene Block.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I submit for the record an article that starts the
CNN has.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Produced without objection.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Why did you not immediately send the police that we're
standing by your campus, police law enforcement to intervene.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
We tried, We notified as the violence, we notified all
of our nutral aid partners. We tried to get police
there as quickly as possible. But going back to my
original points, so this encampment was against policy, This violated
chess player time police.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
If I may, the footage from that night reveals that
some of the most dramatic attacks were carried out by
individuals not affiliated with UCLA, not the university students faculty
that were arrested. Why have the violent agitators who you
know have been identified not been held accountable for assaulting
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over one hundred and fifty of your students.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You should be ashamed.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And he never did get the chance to answer. It
apparently went on for some time beyond that. She's right
in a way, but Block had let the Jewish kids
be intimidated and harassed and pushed around for weeks. Finally,
some of the some older Jewish guys not affiliated with
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the school as far as we know, they'd had enough,
and that's when they burst onto the UCLA campus and
started beating the crap out of some of the Palestinian protesters.
But again Block never protected the Jewish students for weeks
and did not in that case protect the Palestinian students
from the retaliation because this virus that infected his brain
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infected Karen Bass's brain. We're going to talk about Metro
coming up after two o'clock. They all bought into the
twenty twenty George Floyd hysteria where all police are bad.
We defund the police, we don't use the police. We
hire people off the street, call them ambassadors and give
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them colorful vests. And that's going to return order, and
that's going to keep order. A stupid, silly, childish belief.
And to think that a guy like Gene Block, with
all his degrees and all his experience, bought into that.
How could a grown man not know that you need
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an armed police force to keep the order anywhere in
a city, on a college campus, on a train or
a bus, you have to have uniformed police with weapons
and permission to use the weapons if necessary. That's the
only way you keep order in a human society. There
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is no successful society without a police department of some kind.
A law enforcement group of some kind, because a lot
of people are either bad people or they lose control
of themselves. And that's something you learn when you're a
tiny child. And this weird, sick, cult like belief system that, oh,
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no police are all bad, no more police, fire the police,
defund the police.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That that's an absurd thing. This is lasting four years.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You keep thinking this idea is going to finally die
and go away because it obviously doesn't work. And no,
here we go Jeane Block, another adherent, huge protest goes
on for weeks, no police. People getting stabbed every day
on a metro train.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No police. What's right? There's no other solution to this.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You tried your ambassadors, you tried those colorful vests. It
doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. You actually have
to go through this to prove that it doesn't work.
It doesn't work. It's stupid, it's stupid, stupid, stupid. What's
wrong with you? What to smack up side the head?
That's a chancellor, that's a mayor. They think like you
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sprinkle magic dust and bad people or out of control
people are just gonna go away.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Whatever that temper tantrum was in twenty twenty. That should
have that should have died off in a matter of days.
It became policy for four years. Holy moly. Oh and
by the way, just to get lost in this, there
is no freedom of speech on a college campus where
you can protest all day and night and set up
tent encampments and intimidate minority students whatever the disfavored minority
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of the day is. There is no constitutional protection. The
university is where you go to learn. You go to teach,
you go to read, you go to study, you go
to get tested. There's social events, there's educational events.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It's none of this nonsense, and there's policies against it,
and all these protests violated the policies, but Gene Block
allowed it to happen, like Karen Bass allows the violence
on the trains and the buses.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
But we are tracking what's going on at UCLA and
the police are breaking up a new protest that sprung
up while the UCLA chancellor being Block was testifying. We've
got another clip to play what I noticed just watching
the coverage now on TV is that we're talking to
one young woman who's part of the pro Amas, pro
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terrorist crowd, and she's wearing a black mask on her face,
like surgical mask. And it's so weird that that became
a symbol of progressives to wear a black mask. I
was just reading a story about Portland the other day
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because in Portland they've kicked out their district attorney. He
was a Gascone type and in Portland, which is far left,
they got sick of it too much crime, too much homelessness.
But they were describing what Portland's like. And in most
stories in Portland, you go in and the clerks are
all still wearing the surgical masks, the hospital mask. What
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it's over four years now and I've realized it's it's
become like the symbol of their religious cult. And uh, anyway,
here's Rich Allen, a Republican of Georgia, asking Gene Block,
the u c l A Chancellor, what are they doing
about people who show up with masks? Really it's to
conceal their identity of a lot of these people.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Listen to this exchange.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
What are you doing to those students who are under investigation?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So during this period of time, students are still attending classes.
Nephis says, there is no encampment and there have been
no demonstrations that are problematic.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Uh, doctor Block section wait, stop stop, stop that you
want the truth?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Uh maybe he just wasn't aware. But they had two
tents on the Kirch the Kirkhoff patio Thursday morning, and
access was blocked to Ackerman Union, Kirkhoff and More Hall
because of the encampment. This is this morning morning. Classes
held in those buildings were shifted online. A public safety
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alert was issued to the campus. The Vice chancellor for
Strategic Communications, Well that's our title, Mary Asaka, said, we're
aware of demonstration activity, our safety personnel on site and
monitoring the situation.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah. Well they're monitoring.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Didn't do any good because LAPD had to be called
in within the last hour, So I guess things were
brewing and Block had no idea. But that's not really
a surprise, all right, continue, doctor Block.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Section one eighty found the California Penal co outlaws outlaws
wearing a mask to evade identification and committing a public offense.
Why have you not banned the wearing a mask on
your campus? In courting from California law.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Was still apparently are allowed to wear masks for COVID protection,
and students continue.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
To wear them.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
And there was a medical mask medical right, these are
not medical masks. H.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So you're you're so you're allowing this behavior.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
We've allowed, We've allowed masks on campus aleutical policy. This
should be unmasked. But during the time of COVID, we
allowed medical masking, and uh, we've continued to allow.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
That, except they were in coffeas. That's what they were
doing to wrap their face. The kafia is not a
medical mask. It's got nothing to do with COVID. Nobody's
getting COVID anymore. They're out in the sunlight and the
it's practically summer. We're allowing medical masks because of COVID.
(29:38):
Oh my god, Where where do they come from? That
they've got They've got some kind of intelligence. I don't
know these days. I mean, he's an older guy. I
mean he got degrees back when degrees were real degrees.
They have to study something real in order to get it.
Now there's all these fake courses and fake degrees and
(30:01):
fake knowledge going around.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
All right, we'll see if anything more happens.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Chris Adler's there coming up after Devers two o'clock news,
Michael Monks from KFI News, because you know, we've got,
in a way a similar situation on the Metro trains
and buses. You have violence that should have been stopped
a long time ago. Karen Bass, like Gene Block, did
not believe, does not really believe in using police. She's
(30:30):
got a good shtick going. I'm may be the only
one who saw through it from day one. I don't
know when the rest of the world wakes up, maybe never.
But what she does is she smiles and says the
right things, but never does the right thing. She wouldn't
send the police in which she should have done day
one when she took over. Metro Buses and trains have
(30:53):
been very dangerous for a long time. She is the
Metro board chair. And there have been so many violent attacks,
so many stabbings, and and if last was it last
week she said there's going to be a surge, surge
of police and and and then the violent attacks kept happening.
(31:15):
So they had a formal meeting today.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
To see.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To see if they're gonna send in more police officers
from various agencies. Michael Monks was monitoring this meeting and
he'll have a report coming up next Deborah mark Lyden,
the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
the show live on KFI a M six forty from
one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,
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