Rioting at U.C. Berkeley: Protesters smashed windows and set fires on the U.C. Berkeley campus Wednesday night in a successful effort to cancel a sold-out talk by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. CBSNews San Francisco reports that a crowd estimated at 1,500 gathered at the birthplace of the "free speech" movement in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building early in the evening armed with bricks and commercial fireworks to shut down the event. Among the protesters were masked 'black block" activists who used police barriers to break down one of the doors to the building. After the event was cancelled the protesters moved off campus to the busy Telegraph Avenue area to smash the windows of several banks and attack motorists stopped at traffic lights. There were several reported injuries, and video of a young female Trump supporter talking to a reporter who was pepper-sprayed in the face by one of the protesters.
One Dead In Delaware Prison Riot: A riot which began Wednesday morning at Delaware's largest prison ended early Thursday morning, leaving one corrections officer dead. ABC Action News reports that at around 10:30 am Wednesday, inmates took control of building C of the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center and held dozens of hostages including three corrections officers and a female counselor. Over the 20 hour standoff, 46 hostages were released. At about 5:00 am Delaware State Police used a backhoe to breech the building and end the standoff. Corrections Sgt. Steven Floyd died was found unresponsive and was later pronounced dead. During the standoff one of the inmates telephoned a reporter at the Wilmington News Journal to explain "for doing what we're doing" included "Donald Trump. Everything that he did. All the things that he's doing now. We know that the institution is going to change for the worse."
Trump's Immigration Order: Since last Friday's announcement of President Trump's executive order suspending immigration from seven majority Muslim countries infected with terrorism, the national media and several politicians have called it an illegal Muslim ban. Several entries on this blog have effectively addressed these claims, as does Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald in this city journal piece. But MacDonald also notes that the announcement of this order was poorly timed and planned, providing the President's opponents the opportunity to define it in their own terms.
One Dead In Delaware Prison Riot: A riot which began Wednesday morning at Delaware's largest prison ended early Thursday morning, leaving one corrections officer dead. ABC Action News reports that at around 10:30 am Wednesday, inmates took control of building C of the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center and held dozens of hostages including three corrections officers and a female counselor. Over the 20 hour standoff, 46 hostages were released. At about 5:00 am Delaware State Police used a backhoe to breech the building and end the standoff. Corrections Sgt. Steven Floyd died was found unresponsive and was later pronounced dead. During the standoff one of the inmates telephoned a reporter at the Wilmington News Journal to explain "for doing what we're doing" included "Donald Trump. Everything that he did. All the things that he's doing now. We know that the institution is going to change for the worse."
Trump's Immigration Order: Since last Friday's announcement of President Trump's executive order suspending immigration from seven majority Muslim countries infected with terrorism, the national media and several politicians have called it an illegal Muslim ban. Several entries on this blog have effectively addressed these claims, as does Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald in this city journal piece. But MacDonald also notes that the announcement of this order was poorly timed and planned, providing the President's opponents the opportunity to define it in their own terms.
Re: Heather MacDonald. Trump's EO could have been better handled no doubt, but we need to be careful about pointing out the double-standardism employed by Trump's critics.
Obama's non-deportation to Haiti order forgot to exempt criminals from the non-deportation order, and the result was three body bags. I don't recall the press getting worked up about that.
Another problem. The government bureaucracy should have been smart enough to interpret the EO to allow permanent residents, absent suspicion, to return to the US.
Regarding the government bureaucracy, there are reports that factions of employees are organizing to actively or passively subvert the directives of the Trump administration. Unfortunately, they can cause much damage to the administration before they are fired under the antiquated due process of civil service.