FBI should uncover who organized, funded radical student encampments
By
Mike Gonzalez
May 3, 2024 6:00 am
If the FBI has time to spare after harassing mothers at school board meetings, it may want to look into the groups participating in, and funding, pro-Hamas disturbances at universities across the country. Clearing out Columbia University on Tuesday night doesn’t mean the job is done.
Yes, some of the protests have been peaceful, engaging in constitutionally protected speech. But, unlike the concerned parents who simply decided to get more involved in local politics, the groups behind the protests — violent and peaceful ones — want to dismantle society. And things could turn even more violent this summer.
Authorities — not just the Federal Bureau of Investigations, but law enforcement at all levels — have presumably been keeping tabs on who’s taking part, who broke the law, who are the non-students sneaking into university property to agitate, etc. If they haven’t, Congress ought to weigh in.
The arrests in New York and Los Angeles, where the LAPD entered UCLA early Wednesday, will furnish the identity of many. Other technology, such as police drones that flew over the encampments, and the geo-fencing that tells authorities who used a phone within a space, should also help.
Most importantly, law enforcement must investigate who is funding these well-organized and well-orchestrated protests. This is particularly the case if it is a foreign power such as Iran or its terrorist proxy Hamas (which, again, would mean Iran). And if the funders are domestic, aiding and abetting violence across state lines is a federal crime.
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