Trump threatens Cal-Berkeley with 'no federal funds'

[BigBearJohn]

President Donald Trump has responded on social media early Thursday to violent protests at the University of California, Berkeley. A planned appearance there Wednesday by controversial internet figure Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor with the conservative website Breitbart, was canceled after protests over the scheduled event turned violent on campus. In response, Trump tweeted: "If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" Protesters took to the streets of Berkeley on Wednesday afternoon and evening local time after police dispersed the crowd at the university. Some protesters broke into several banks and businesses including a Chase location and a Wells Fargo location, according to local news reports.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-raises-possibility-of-cut-federal-funds-for-uc-berkeley-in-response-to-violent-protests-2017-02-02

[pangaia]

1. Just another taste of what is coming.

"Be careful what you say."

[HopeAgain]

2. How is the University responsible for the protesters? nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. Can Trump even do that??

Target an individual school for political punishment
by withdrawing federal funding???

[Turbineguy]

4. It's a Land Grant College.

But yes, personal slights require overwhelming and stupid response.

Of course that uppity leftie Robert Reich is there too.

[Chiyo-chichi]

6. Robert Reich, Breakthrough Prize winners, a Nobel Laureate...

...and another Nobel laureate joining the faculty later this year.

Berkeley is only a hotbed of science and engineering research.

It received almost $400 million last year in federal funding, mostly from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

I think Trump has asked the NIH and NSF directors to stay on, at least for now. But even they don't know for how long. The agencies apparently had little contact with the transition team. And word is he wants to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Yes, overwhelming & stupid responses to personal slights.

Wait till he finds out that a ton of universities have expressed their concern about and opposition to the executive order on immigration.
http://www.aplu.org/members/councils/strategic-communications/immigration-actions/index.html

[thinkingagain]

5. What

He wants to pull their funds for not allowing "free Speech"
But then he & GOP is threatening to arrest peaceful protesters and even allow being to accidentally drive over them
your either for free speech or your against it

I don't agree with these rioters
but I love these peaceful protesters