Ev, as a nearly lifelong activist, I know that statutes like "trespass, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct", ah, and public mischief and conspiracy are used on nonviolent protesters when they can't find anything else. How do I know this? Because I have been arrested at least once for each of these and sometimes more than once! Convicted and served time for a few, too. This nonsense about public order doesn't wash. Walk on the other side of the street. "EvilPenevil": Between 300 and 400 foreign Pro-Palestinian university student activists have had their visas revoked or have "self-deported" for violating the terms of their visas since October, 2023. Considering the U.S. had 1.2 million foreign students at the university level in 2025, that's way under 1%. And they hadn't just protested peacefully or expressed anti-Israel sentiment. They either broke the law or had done something that violated the terms of their visas, like lying on the visa application or not attending class, breaking the student code of conduct, etc. UNBLOCK: The numbers, the percent doesn't matter. An injustice to one is an injustice to all. You're surmise that they must have broken some law, lied or didn't attend class, is exactly that: a guess. The fact is, that the Trump govt wanted to force tertiary education to its knees by financial means. Few universities were able to withstand loss of govt funding so they caved, including my alma mater, Columbia. IOW, Trump was brazenly fortifying his alliance with Israel by trying to get rid of the keffiyeh-wearers. You and I both know, these kids were neither rioters nor terrorists. They did not deserve to be deprived of an education because they were idealists. That's what I did during all three rounds of education, four if I count secondary. I stood up to be counted for what I believed. It's our human duty to do so. I don't believe in law. I believe in justice. Hehe, and no shouting...
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