{"id":380257,"date":"2018-10-09T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-kavanaugh-flyers-torn-down-students-threatened-with-violence\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T10:59:19","slug":"prison-planet-com-kavanaugh-flyers-torn-down-students-threatened-with-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-kavanaugh-flyers-torn-down-students-threatened-with-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Kavanaugh flyers torn down, students threatened with violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11389\"><strong>Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 9, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students from the Young Americans for Freedom organization (UC YAF) posted fliers around the University of Cincinnati campus in support of then-Supreme Court justice nominee Kavanaugh on Thursday. But shortly after the posters were put up, other students at the University of Cincinnati began ripping the fliers down and posting about it on Twitter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The University of Cincinnati student government public relations director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Giannatsv\/status\/1047986488154247171\"><strong>posted a video<\/strong><\/a> of the flyers being torn down with the caption, \u201cNot on my campus. #MeToo.\u201d The fliers included phrases like \u201cKava-Not Guilty\u201d and \u201c#ConfirmKavanaugh.\u201d They then posted a group photo on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/campusreform\/11389\/UC_YAF_51.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"809\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The post caught the attention of the national Young America\u2019s Foundation, which quoted the tweet and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yaf\/status\/1048656639497261057\"><strong>commented<\/strong><\/a>, \u201cAnd the tolerant Left strikes again!\u201d Other students and Twitter users began posting pictures of the UC YAF members putting up the fliers with the expletive and threatening comments. One exchange included \u201c[I]\u2019m willing to fist fight those girls in that pic,\u201d to which a male student replied, \u201cNah you take the guys I\u2019ll take the girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/campusreform\/11389\/UC_YAF_3.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Another student tweeted the picture and said, \u201c[I]f i see any one of these mfs on campus [I]\u2019m tripping them on the steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/campusreform\/11389\/UC_YAF_4.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>These were only some of the threatening and violent things written about the UC YAF members. The number of posts by UC students caught the attention of the president of the UC student government, Sinna Habteselassie, who sent a message to the official UCSG GroupMe accusing YAF members, who were exercising their free speech, of engaging in \u201cpetty discourse\u201d and merely attempting to \u201cstart a fight.\u201d She even threatened \u201cto go to the administration\u201d if it continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[RELATED: University promotes study linking \u2018anger\u2019 to \u2018conservatism\u2019]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regina Barton, president of UC YAF, had this to say in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/kavanaugh-flyers-torn-down-students-threatened-with-violence.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformOctober 9, 2018 Students from the Young Americans for Freedom organization (UC YAF) posted fliers around the University of Cincinnati campus in support of then-Supreme Court justice nominee Kavanaugh on Thursday. But shortly after the posters were put up, other students at the University of Cincinnati began ripping the fliers down and posting about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}