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Speaker 1: our part. I don't want to send self aggrandizing We
Speaker 1: broke the story written by a fabulous student journalist at
Speaker 1: the University of California and Davis about a professor who
Speaker 1: is on campus teaching openly advocating the murder of police officers.
Speaker 1: And I'm not being you know, I'm not parsoning, I'm
Speaker 1: not being lawyerly about it. The guy openly says cops
Speaker 1: should be killed, and the University of California Davis and
Speaker 1: they're easier to their easier to kill when their backs
Speaker 1: are turned. One of his many comments incredible. He said,
Speaker 1: many people say the police should be reformed, they should
Speaker 1: be killed. That's what he says. And the response from
Speaker 1: the University of California system has been as you might expect,
Speaker 1: mealy mouthed, legalistic and pathetic, citing Title nine among other things. Um.
Speaker 1: But the but the righteous indignation of the good and
Speaker 1: normal people of America is starting to be aroused as
Speaker 1: they hear more about this story, and we've invited James
Speaker 1: Gallagher on. James is an assemblyman in California representing the
Speaker 1: third District who is actually he's the product of the
Speaker 1: University of California system and joins us now to talk
Speaker 1: about it. Hey, James, how are you. Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Good to be with you. It's our pleasure. So listen.
Speaker 1: We here at the Armstrong and Getty Show. We we
Speaker 1: have kind of a libertarian point of view of things,
Speaker 1: and we don't like people faking outrage and demanding people
Speaker 1: lose their jobs because they said some unfortunate or controversial
Speaker 1: and that where you just agree with them, right. We
Speaker 1: don't like that. Um, And so you know, people who
Speaker 1: know us, no, it's pretty extraordinary for us to say
Speaker 1: this is so horrific that the guy should not be
Speaker 1: in front of young people teaching them. What's your point
Speaker 1: of view about Professor Joshua Clover at the you see Davis. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I listened to this show, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's a great show. Thank you. And you know, see
Speaker 1: when I started to read this article and got forwarded
Speaker 1: to me actually by my wife. Um. You know, as
Speaker 1: I went through this thing, I the matter I got,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, I just just to see
Speaker 1: that this guy the things that he had said, and
Speaker 1: then when he was confronted about it, actually would not recant,
Speaker 1: actually said, well, the real answer is to disband the police. Um.
Speaker 1: And so you're you're really in this outlandis stuff. And
Speaker 1: then I you know, I I texted a couple of
Speaker 1: my buddies, you know, sending this study. They also are
Speaker 1: Davis grads, and I said, can you believe you know
Speaker 1: that this is the kind of stuff that's coming out
Speaker 1: of the university that we received our degrees from, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, as I talked to more and more people,
Speaker 1: it's the same response, the same response that you gentlemen
Speaker 1: had yesterday morning when you were talking about this story. Um,
Speaker 1: I will say just one of the same day, as
Speaker 1: I'm reading this article, I'm like, man, this guy is
Speaker 1: a really good writer. A little bit jealous to myself,
Speaker 1: so that that was also the point of Um for
Speaker 1: a college scene is really a hell of a writer
Speaker 1: in journalist anyway, go ahead, yeah, great piece. And then
Speaker 1: you know, just so as we started talking to people
Speaker 1: and and uh, and I actually did put in a
Speaker 1: call to the university, UM saying, hey, if you haven't
Speaker 1: hear anybody else, you know, you can log it for me. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, this guy should be fired period. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no room for this. This is not this is no,
Speaker 1: this is not a legitimate act in academic freedom has
Speaker 1: no legitimate purpose towards you know, anything academic and nature. Um,
Speaker 1: then it's it's clearly an incitement to violence, you know,
Speaker 1: against a selected group of people. What do you think
Speaker 1: is a guy who's pretty up on these issues that
Speaker 1: they fell back on Title nine saying well, police aren't
Speaker 1: a protected class under Title nine, so our teachers can
Speaker 1: navocate murdering them. Well, to be honest, I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly what Title nine says or doesn't say. Um, I
Speaker 1: think everybody it's this is kind of intrinsic. I think
Speaker 1: to all of us, UM, that free speech does not
Speaker 1: mean that, for example, you can go punch someone in
Speaker 1: the face for advocating a certain view on campuses. Happened
Speaker 1: on Berkeley campus a couple of weeks ago. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you can advocate for the death. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, ask people to go out and kill people
Speaker 1: for whom that you have some sort of disagreement with.
Speaker 1: It's clearly not free speech. You know. In common a
Speaker 1: place we are in our politics is U Republicans. Um,
Speaker 1: how about how awful university campus are in Democrats stand
Speaker 1: up for university campuses. Do you have colleagues that are
Speaker 1: Democrats that think this is a bridge too far that
Speaker 1: they're willing to to side with you? Um? Well, I
Speaker 1: haven't had a whole lot of conversations with my Democratic
Speaker 1: colleagues yet on this, but yeah, I think that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of Democratic members of the legislature who would
Speaker 1: also say this is completely unacceptable. And I think it's
Speaker 1: only people on the very radical, you know, very very
Speaker 1: radical left who might stand up for this guy. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine how many people are that far out there.
Speaker 1: James Gallagher's a California assemblyman and uh, and we are
Speaker 1: aiding him in an online petition to get this Joshua
Speaker 1: Clover fired from the University of California at the very least, um,
Speaker 1: and and we'd love for you to go to Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty radio dot com and and sign it. Uh.
Speaker 1: The response from the University of California is unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 1: The basis for academic freedom is to make sure that
Speaker 1: the university is a place where unpopular and different views
Speaker 1: are heard in the way of banning any speaker to
Speaker 1: the right of Mitt Romney for years, allowing the Heckler's veto,
Speaker 1: and the fact that self identified liberals out the out
Speaker 1: number self identified conservatives roughly seventy to one on California
Speaker 1: college campuses. That is some of the finest most dry
Speaker 1: humor I have heard, uh in a lifetime. And I
Speaker 1: credit the who is at the chancellor, whoever it is,
Speaker 1: um with some really hilarious stuff there. Um, what do
Speaker 1: you say to the argument that they make, Well, it's
Speaker 1: academic freedom, assemblyman. You know, we have to have unpopular
Speaker 1: views on campus. Who as a as an someone who
Speaker 1: went to undergrad at Berkeley, I'm kind of used to
Speaker 1: this type of stuff actually, And um, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I was a conservative student who was part of the
Speaker 1: college Republicans on campus often said, never trust a college republican.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of liberals. But anyway, that's I
Speaker 1: haven't heard you say that, but you know, on that campus,
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was pretty clear that the
Speaker 1: university you know, oftentimes uh, you know, talks about diversity,
Speaker 1: he talks about diversity of thought, UM, but in many
Speaker 1: cases it was, you know, as long as it's a
Speaker 1: liberal perspective, um. And then you know, in these cases,
Speaker 1: I just like, why can't they figure this out? You know,
Speaker 1: of course we want to diverse uh, diverse viewpoints and
Speaker 1: and ideas expressed and talked about, UM. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that you allow for this kind of hateful dialogue
Speaker 1: that's calling for death and hart and bodily harm to people.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you allow for people with viewpoints to
Speaker 1: be shouted down, you know and beaten, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and when Ben Shapiro comes to campus, you know, allowing
Speaker 1: people to you know, basically beat people and throw molotov
Speaker 1: cocktails at the uh, you know, campus buildings, you know,
Speaker 1: white you see, and some of these other you know,
Speaker 1: the University of California and others figure this out that
Speaker 1: what free speech actually means. James Gallagher California Assemblyman James.
Speaker 1: We appreciate at the time and you're helping out on
Speaker 1: this because we think it's important. You know, one note
Speaker 1: just for folks who don't remember, are not familiar with it, Davis, California,
Speaker 1: is where very close to the campus on one of
Speaker 1: the main arteries where students come and go. A a
Speaker 1: beautiful in spirit. Twenty two year old young woman was
Speaker 1: a young police officer, was executed by an anti cop guy.
Speaker 1: He was a troubled guy, obviously, but she was murdered
Speaker 1: in cold blood. You know, a ten minute walk from
Speaker 1: where this guy teaches, advocating the murder of police officers.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's absolutely unconscionable. And again we don't
Speaker 1: twist words around here. I mean, it's easier to shoot
Speaker 1: cops when their backs are turned. No, he tweeted. I'm
Speaker 1: thankful that every living cop will one day be dead.
Speaker 1: He tweeted. In an extended and review with San Francisco Weekly,
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago, people think that cops
Speaker 1: need to be reformed, they need to be killed, he said.
Speaker 1: Beautiful teaching your kids at an extremely high cost. If
Speaker 1: you're a professor who said abortion is murder regularly in
Speaker 1: your class. You'd be done right right, hope please, you'd
Speaker 1: never get hired. No immigrants should be deported immediately. You'd
Speaker 1: never get you wouldn't get an interview. I like to murder.
Speaker 1: I think you should murder cops. Oh sure, remember in
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