We need to talk. While you think you’re saving Gaza, back here on planet Earth, we’re shaking our heads at you. I feel for the college administrators and law enforcement trying to deal with these clueless radicals around college campuses. This includes the woke Cal Poly faculty promoting these fantasies. This isn’t 1968. Back then, you could get drafted and sent to Vietnam as a front-line soldier or Marine and die in combat. The 1968 protests were anti-war protests about getting America out of the Vietnam War. America. Our country. Not some other country we have no control over.
Violence, vandalizing and destruction of public property are crimes. All you’re doing is halting higher education for your fellow students and potentially canceling this year’s Cal Poly graduation commencement. You’re facing criminal prosecution and expulsion from the CSU system. For what? I’m not sure you can articulate why you’re protesting or what you think you will accomplish.
“Free Palestine”? Palestine has been offered statehood five times since 1948 and the Arabs have always declined. Why did Israel invade Gaza? Let me give you a hint: On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian militant terrorists tore through walls surrounding Gaza, invading Israel and killing 1,139 primarily Jews, including foreign nationals. They also took 250 people hostage, including 30 children, who still have not been returned to Israel. Palestine declared war on Israel in that surprise attack.
Rumor is, Cal Poly Humboldt has a library. Maybe if you read a history book, you’d understand that war is hell and civilians have taken the brunt of battle for thousands of years. It doesn’t matter who starts a war, it matters who finishes the war. Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, which forced the United States entry into World War II. From 1943-1945 we bombed Japanese and German cities to rubble, killing millions of civilians. Anyone wanna tell me how WWII ended?
“From the river to the sea” is a reference of the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, where Israel is located and how the Arabs want to kill every Jew in Israel and take back the land. If that’s not the definition of genocide, I don’t know what is. Whoever spray painted that on the Cal Poly campus was an antisemitic fool.
Your protest demands? What a joke! “We want the university to promise that there will be no charges, either criminal charges or disciplinary action … taken against any protesters.” The young radical who bashed the law enforcement officer over the head with an empty water jug needs to be arrested, tried, convicted and sent to the Humboldt Hilton for his three hots and a cot for at least a year. You don’t beat on law enforcement. This wasn’t Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. Most of the Jan. 6 violent insurrectionists got five-plus years for beating on the blue. I’m waiting for that clown to be expelled from the CSU system and for law enforcement, the District Attorney and a sane judge to bring criminal justice.
If you want to make a difference in Gaza, then by all means, please travel to Gaza and volunteer. With the Muslim culture, you’ll have to wear a headscarf. As a woman, you’ll have zero human rights in an Arab country. The “Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement” (AKA: the Hamas Charter) calls for the obliteration and dissolution of Israel. In other words, kill all the Jews and take their land. Genocide. Wearing your headscarf on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus just shows your ignorance that you stand with the terrorists.
What you’re doing now on campuses across the country changes nothing. Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister doesn’t care what a bunch of American radical, woke, progressive, socialist college kids are demanding. Israel is his country, not yours. Until Israel gets their hostages returned, it’s war. Palestine can end this war tomorrow by releasing the Israeli hostages, assuming they’re still alive.
Cal Poly dudes, 1968 called … they want their ponytails back. Men’s ponytails went out of style six decades ago. Also, hippies went out with the ’70s. You may think it’s fashionably vogue on college campuses, but you just look like a homeless bum. Look in the mirror. Respect yourself. Buy a razor, comb and groom. Please note radicals, that if you graduate in another six-to-seven years, I like my coffee black.
Matthew Owen resides in Eureka and believes the First Amendment allows for free speech. He can be reached at mowen707@gmail.com.
