On Protests and Free Speech

we are walking a line. if protests continue to spark violence, protests will begin to be seen as bad by the common citizen, and that is not good. protests in the name of equal rights and liberties for American citizens are a proud part of our heritage. we welcome and protect protests even though throughout our history many have led to violence, to riots, to death. and it is impossible to ensure no one uses a protest as a gateway to inflict violence on others. but protests like these will speak louder than the ones that actually matter. if we have a brilliant women's march and preachings of love and peace in airports all across the country, those will be forgotten and the violence will be remembered. watch what our president focuses on. he will gladly use even something as contained as a protest at UCBerkeley as an example of why dissenters to him and his way of thinking are dangerous. 62 million Americans voted for him. and he is willing to pull federal funding from universities in the name of suppression disguised as a fight for freedom of speech. and those Americans that voted for him, i believe, will fall right in line with that. strategy is more important now than ever. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/02/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley-riot-self-defeating-for-social-justice-left.html