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Four years ago: “white haired nearsighted old guy standing silently on the quad holding a sign no one can read, upsetting protofascists.”

03 Wednesday Mar 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Donald Trump, First Amendment, missouri, protest

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

The conversation:

UCM Police Officer: Hello.
Me: Hi, how are you doing?
UCM Police Officer: Pretty Good. What’s your connection to UCM?
Me: I teach here.
UCM Police Officer: You teach here?
Me: Yeah.
UCM Police Officer: Okay. I, I don’t understand your sign.
Me: Uh, it’s actually, it’s Russian.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: And, so I’m being sarcastic. It’s in Russian. So, it says “steladt Ameriku velikoy snova”.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: So, translated, it’s, “make America great again”. In Russian.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: So, it’s being sarcastic.
UCM Police Officer: Okay. So, ten four [into radio], um, so, did somebody give you permission to, to be out here holding your sign?
Me: [turn around, pat the bronze Bill of Rights First Amendment Plaque on the base of the flag pole].
UCM Police Officer: I understand that.
Me: Uh, huh.
UCM Police Officer: But in order to put signs out on campus you still have to go through the, the Union. There’s an office over there.
Me: Oh, really?
UCM Police Officer: Yeah.
Me: Well, it’s kind of interesting, ‘cause when I started doing this…
UCM Police Officer: Uh, hm.
Me: …the president of the university…
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: …came up to me…
UCM Police Officer: Uh, hm.
Me: …and we talked, and he’s like, thanks for doing this.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: So, are we getting like, is there a policy problem, that we’re getting like a disconnect?
UCM Police Officer: So, apparently that is.
Me: Yeah.
UCM Police Officer: So, do you have an ID by chance?
Me: Yeah.
UCM Police Officer: Okay, can I see it?
Me: Uh, do you need to see it?
UCM Police Officer: Yes. Just so I know who I’m talking to [inaudible].
Me: Okay. Um, but I’m actually under no obligation to show you my ID, am I?
UCM Police Officer: Well, you’re a UCM employee, right?
Me: Yeah.
UCM Police Officer: So, anybody here at UCM that a Public Safety officer asks for an ID…
Me: Okay. Fair enough. Okay. [hand over UCM ID]
UCM Police Officer: Do you have your driver’s license?
[….]
Me: [hand over driver’s license]
UCM Police Officer: Uh, typically like if people want to put signs out and things, like I say, they go to the Union. [wind noise] Trying to remember what office it is. But, basically they just have you fill out a form and then [inaudible].
Me: And, and I understand in certain…
UCM Police Officer: [responding to radio] I’m sorry, go ahead.
Me: What’s, what’s kind of interesting, ‘cause it’s, like, inconsistent.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: ‘Cause there’ve been Public Safety people that have come by and seen me…
UCM Police Officer: [reading driver’s license number into radio] I’m sorry. I had people talking.
Me: Yeah, yeah. I understand. So, it’s like, so, it’s kind of interesting, ‘cause it’s kind of inconsistent because I’ve been out here probably for a couple of weeks.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: And so, Public Safety people come by, walk by, see me, they’ll walk by.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: Whatever. Ignore me.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: And, so, it’s kind of interesting to me. In, you know, the president of the university knows I’m out here. Other people in the administration, in the university know I’m out here…
UCM Police Officer: [into radio] Go ahead. Okay.
Me: [….] Uh, as long as I’m not interfering, you know, making noise or anything. It’s like, it’s like [gesturing to empty quad] is there like anything going on here that I’m disturbing?
UCM Police Officer: Right. Well, the, kind of what normally happens [crosstalk]. Um, let’s say you weren’t associated with UCM. [crosstalk] and you want to have your signs.
Me: And I understand that, too. [crosstalk]
UCM Police Officer: Basically what we ask is that you move to sidewalks along the [wind noise].
Me: Yeah, and that kind of thing. Yeah. [….] I did his here fourteen years ago.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
[….]
UCM Police Officer: Like I say, you’re being peaceful and all that, [crosstalk] so I don’t really have a huge issue. I just needed to find out what was going on.
Me: Yeah. Oh, I understand that. Hello.
Second UCM Police Officer: How’s it going?
Me: Good. Good.
UCM Police Officer: Typically what they ask that you go through the Union. [to second officer] Do you know the office over in the Union that like approves signs on campus and stuff?
Second UCM Police Officer: Not off hand.
UCM Police Officer: And, um, but they basically authorize it and, and say it’s okay.
Me: Yeah, and, and I understand that. And, but, it’s my understanding is that nobody can really disapprove.
UCM Police Officer: Okay.
Me: You know, other than, especially since, you know, I’m not sitting here with a megaphone screaming at the top of my lungs and, you know, interfering with classes to be able to hear and stuff like that.
UCM Police Officer: Right. Yeah. Like I say you’re not shouting or…
Me: Nah.
UCM Police Officer: …or disturbing the peace. You’re just holding up signs.
Me: Yeah.
UCM Police Officer: Okay. What I’ll do, like I say, I got your name and everything and, and we’ll just kind of go from there.
Me: All right. Awesome.
UCM Police Officer: All right. Well, try to have a good day and enjoy this nice weather.
Me: Yeah, actually, it’s a little cool.
UCM Police Officer: It’s a little chilly, I agree.
Me: Yeah.
UCM Police Officer: Yeah, so, okay, all right, we’ll talk to you later.
Me: All right. Take it easy.

Previously:

A conversation at the flag pole (March 3, 2017)

Four years ago today – women knew

21 Thursday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Donald Trump, Kansas City, missouri, Women's March

Four years ago, in Washington Square Park in Kansas City, Missouri, women knew.

No tactical gear, no tactical helmets, no bear spray, no assault on law enforcement.

There were thousands of people. There were thousands of knitted pink hats.

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Law enforcement had the only noticeable supply of plasticuffs.

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women knew.

Previously:

Women’s March – Kansas City – Washington Square Park – January 21, 2017 (January 21, 2017)

Rally and March in Columbia, Missouri – January 20, 2018 (January 20, 2018)

Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 1 (January 18, 2020)

Four years ago – we knew (January 19, 2021)

“Women hold up the sky…” (January 20, 2021)

@^$# Trump – four years ago today (January 20, 2021)

It took four years (January 20, 2021)

@^$# Trump – four years ago today

20 Wednesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Donald Trump, Kansas City, missouri, protest, protest signs

We knew.

At the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri on January 20, 2017:

Kansas City, Missouri – January 20, 2017

Kansas City, Missouri – January 20, 2017

Kansas City, Missouri – January 20, 2017

We knew.

Previously:

Four years ago – we knew (January 19, 2021)

“Women hold up the sky…” (January 20, 2021)

“Women hold up the sky…”

20 Wednesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Donald Trump, Kansas City, missouri, protest

Four years ago, today.

January 20, 2017 – Inauguration Day Protest – Kansas City, Missouri – Michael Bersin

They still do.

Previously:

Four years ago – we knew (January 19, 2021)

Four years ago – we knew

19 Tuesday Jan 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Donald Trump, Inauguration Day, Kansas City, missouri, peaceful demonstration, protest

January 20, 2017:

January 20, 2017 – Inauguration Day Protest – Kansas City, Missouri – Michael Bersin

On Inauguration Day close to two thousand people gathered on the grounds of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City for a rally and march to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump. Like many of the early demonstrations opposed to the new administration this was loosely organized by word of mouth and on-line. The march started from the ground of the memorial, across Washington Square Park, and then up Main Street. There was a significant Kansas City Police presence. The sky was overcast with a light drizzle as the march proceeded across the park.

The organized Women’s March was scheduled for Washington Square Park the next day. It was when we saw the size of this demonstration that we understood that the Women’s March was going to be big.

It was a peaceful demonstration. No one (that we saw) carried a firearm. They just carried signs and banners, all homemade.

“Not paid for by any candidate or candidate’s committee”

22 Tuesday Sep 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Donald Trump, Fascism, missouri, yard sign

This morning, in west central Missouri:

Welcome to America in 2020.

Joe Biden (D) on Ruth Bader Ginsburg

19 Saturday Sep 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Joe Biden, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].

Last night:

Biden Harris
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2020

Statement by Vice President Joe Biden on the Passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Tonight our nation mourns an American hero, a giant of legal doctrine, and a relentless voice in the pursuit of that highest American ideal: Equal Justice Under Law.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for all of us. She fought for all of us. As a young attorney, she persisted through every challenge that an unequal system placed in her way to change the laws of our land and lead the legal charge to advance equal rights for women. It was my honor to preside over her confirmation hearings, and to strongly support her accession to the Supreme Court. In the decades since, she was consistently and reliably the voice that pierced to the heart of every issue, protected the constitutional rights of every American, and never failed in the fierce and unflinching defense of liberty and freedom. Her opinions, and her dissents, will continue to shape the basis of our law for future generations. May her memory be a blessing to all people who cherish our Constitution and its promise.

Tonight, and in the coming days, we should be focused on the loss of Justice Ginsburg and her enduring legacy. But just so there is no doubt, let me be clear: The voters should pick a President, and that President should select a successor to Justice Ginsburg. This was the position that the Republican Senate took in 2016, when there were nearly nine months before the election. That is the position the United States Senate must take now, when the election is less than two months away. We are talking about the Constitution and the Supreme Court. That institution should not be subject to politics.

###

Previously:

Fight! (September 18, 2020)

A fight it is, then (September 18, 2020)

Sen. Roy Blunt (r) has already weighed in (September 19, 2020)

A fight it is, then

18 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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Tags

#resist, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court

A t-shirt distributed by NARAL to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in 2000.

Indeed it is.

This evening:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
September 18, 20207:28 PM ET

…Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: ‘My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.’…

Let’s all do what we can to make that fervent wish come true.

Previously:

Fight! (September 18, 2020)

Fight!

18 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist, social media

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#resist, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, social media, Twitter, U.S. Supreme Court

This evening:

Erin Matson @erintothemax
Do NOT give up.

This is NOT a done deal.

RBG never gave up. Put on your damn big girl pants and get ready to fight with every fingernail you have.
6:41 PM · Sep 18, 2020

Fight. Vote. Fight some more.

William Barr (r) was kissing Donald Trump’s (r) ass and it just accidentally went off

17 Thursday Sep 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist, social media

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#resist, 4th Congressional District, Donald Trump, Fascist, First Amendment, gaslighting, Lindsey Simmons, missouri, peaceful protest, protest, social media, sycophant, tear gas, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler, William Barr

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Alternative history:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Our #CommitmentToAmerica is to protect the fundamental principles that keep our communities safe.

I condemn ALL who hijack a legitimate national conversation and use it as an excuse to loot, destroy, and kill. Their actions are reprehensible and have no place in our nation.
[….]
8:39 AM · Sep 16, 2020

In the 4th Congressional District?

Lindsey Simmons (D) [2020 file photo].

The reality:

Lindsey Simmons @LynzforCongress
Hard to keep communities safe when the President of the United States gasses his own citizens.
[….]
5:44 AM · Sep 17, 2020

“It was an accident, I swear.”

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

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