Biden says dissent must not lead to disorder and his support for Israel remains unwavering amid college protests | CNN Politics

Washington CNN — President Joe Biden on Thursday attempted to balance the right to free speech and his desire for law and order in his first extensive remarks on campus protests against the war in Gaza – but insisted he has not changed his support for Israel.

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“We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent,” Biden said. “… Peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues.”

“But,” Biden added, “neither are we a lawless country.”

Destroying property, Biden said, “is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law.”

“Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancelation of classes and graduation – none of this is a peaceful protest,” the president said. “Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest. It’s against the law.”

Biden said dissent “is essential to democracy” but that it “must never lead to disorder, or to denying the rights of others.”

  • T34_69 [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    Biden is the one who denied the rights of others! The protests are peaceful until the cops show up! It's against the law because the authorities declared it as such. Oh, everyone's a criminal because you declared everyone a criminal? The assembly is unlawful because you said so? Damn that's crazy!

    galaxy-brain

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      They are also mow antisemitic because the government up a definition that makes them antisemitic. Everything is 1984 to these lib dipshits except actual 1984 shit lol