Im not going to just say yes, and i didnt last time either. Gerry the howls from the left were deafening. House peeker nancy pelosi, grilled as usual by yet another hardhitting interview on msnbc, seemed to suggest the president would be out of office whatever the outcome. The fact is whether he knows it yet orbit, he will be or not, he will be leaving. Just because he might not want to move out of the white house doesnt mean we wont have an inauguration ceremony to inaugurate a duly elected president of the united states. But there is a process. It has nothing to do with the certain occupant of the white house doesnt feel like moving and has to be fume dated out of there fumigated out of there. Gerry other president ial critics joined in the outrage. Who would ever dare to refuse to abide by a constitutional hiproffered election . Discrediting, undermining and perhaps even reversing the result of the election . Well, the democrats, for a start. Thats exactly what they did in 2016. Even before the Trump Victory that year, officials inside the last administration helped ace hong by a willing and compliant press corps made a concerted effort to discredit the president s campaign and, of course, the election results. An effort to criminalize members of the campaign and undermine the legitimacy and effectiveness of the new president su e. For month, senior officials in the Obama Administration put it about that mr. Trump had worked with the russian government to get himself elected. Thats essentially treason. Its my assessment that they clearly had a more favorable view toward mr. Trump, and actions they were taking were trying to increase his prospects. Cast doubt on the legitimacy of his victory e in the election. I am deeply concerned about what went on with russia. A foreign power melded with our election. Meddled with our election. Gerry more enforcement officials pursued an investigation against Trump Officials and worked with their friends in the media to destroy president trump. And you remember this gem from february 2017. Trump Campaign Aides had repeated contacts with russian intelligence, it said. Now, that was completely false. And, indeed, we know now it was the whole russia collusion story. New documents, in fact, published by Lindsey GrahamsSenate IntelligenceCommittee Last week show that the fbi or knew there was no substance to most of those claims about russian collusion right back then, but they still spent more than two years investigating. So in other words, thats the message from democrats on abiding by the result of a democratic election. Do as we say, dont do as we do. This election is about many things, but perhaps the most important could be the fundamental american principle of free speech. We live in an age when its not safe to express your views if you descent from the prevailing orthodoxies that dominate our campuses, newsrooms and increasingly workplaces. There are thousands of people who are increasing wily afraid to speak out lest they be accused of being racist or bigots. In fact, a new cay toe Institute Poll found that 62 percent of americans say the Political Climate prevents them from saying things that they believe because others might find them offensive. Now, all this is happening when republicans controlled one and a half of the elective branches of the federal government. Just imagine what it would be like if the democrats take over in november. Now, of course those on the left say the socalled cancel culture isnt real at all. Thats not what the evidence suggests. This week were going to take a closer look at whats going on. Ill start with someone in academia who saw the full force personally. William jacobson is a political law professor at Cornell University, and the founder of the web site legal insurrection. Thank you very much for youing us. Thank you for having me on. Please explain what exactly happened to you. I think it all started with a blog post that you wrote about the protests, about some of the protests around the black lives Matter Movement. Yes. Ive been at cornell for 12 years. Ive had a web site for 0 years, and ive 10 years, and ive never seen anything like what is going on now. So in early june, i wrote two blog posts. One had to do with the slogan that people are chanting, hands up, dont shoot. And im very familiar with that because i have followed that, the black lives Matter Movement since 2014 after the shooting of Michael Brown. And that was the phrase attributed to Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri, that he was shot when his hands were up and he was saying dont shoot, and that became, essentially, the slogan and the founding narrative of the black lives Matter Movement. Well, i knew that to be false because the Justice Department investigated it, and they found that that never actually happened. Mike brown was shot by police [audio difficulty] so when i saw protesters chanting that recently, i wrote a blog post which is something ive done before, pointing out that is a fabbri e case. The hands up, dont shoot, is a fabrication. And i wrote that. That created a fury by a variety of people. I also gerry sorry, professor. Explain what sort of people, what did they do, what happened to you . Sure. What happened is that combined with the second post where i criticized the rioting led to a series of events. The first thing that happened was an Alumni Campaign to get me fired. That campaign was emails to the law school as well as an online petition. I then was denounced by 23 of my colleagues 21 of my colleagues in a public letter, essentially accusing me of supporting institutional racism and police violation. I was violence. I was denounced by the dean of the law school as my writing being not consistent with Cornell Law School values and over a dozen student groups have organized a boycott of my course. My course is on investment disputes. And they have called on all other students to boycott my course. Gerry did you get any i mean, you do enjoy academic e tenure, you do enjoy the freedom that comes with that. Did you get any expressions of support at all . Ive received zero support from the institution other than the statement by the dean because i have Academic Freedom and job protection that i i wont be fired. Not a single faculty member has reached out to support me and to express concern over a boycott of a professors course. But i are have received a lot of support from students who have emailed me and said that i have a lot of quiet support in the building, but everyone is afraid to speak up. And thats really the problem here because they dont want to be targeted by people the way ive been targeted. And i completely understand that because they dont have protection for their future careers. Accusations are made against them on the internet the way theyve been made against me, they may have trouble getting a job. Gerry sorry, professor. Yeah, go ahead, go on. So what this has done is its created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in the law school as it has in other parts of the society. So i may be the target, but im not really the victim here. The victim here are the students who are bullied into silence and the culture of the law school which now is, at least as it relates to black lives matter, is completely repressive. Gerry professor, we need to take a short break. 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You expressed your opinion, you were criticized for out, people didnt like it, youve still got your job, youve still got your act dem ig position, youre on this program and others and this whole thing is, you know, people dont like whats going on and dont like being told by people who dont agree with their views. Tell us why thats wrong. Well, its very different. This is not merely criticism, what ive received, its an attempt to get me fired. And the fact that it was unsuccessful so far doesnt mitigate the maliciousness of that attempt, an attempt to interfere in my employment and, most important, its an interference with students education. Why should a student have to make a political decision when whether or not to take tear course . They shouldnt have to cross a virtual picket line. But dont focus on me, dont focus on j. K. Rowling, any of the other hypofile people who can withstand this sort of pressure. Its really this cancel culture is meant to silence the people who dont have protection, who dont have power, who dont have a platform to appear on their web site or on tv. Those are the people who are really is suffering, and thats really the vice and the negative aspect of cancel culture. There was a poll recently out that Something Like twothirds of people in the u. S. And i think almost 80 of conservatives feel that they cannot speak their minds on issues. Thats the really pernicious aspect of it. So cancel culture is a lot more than mere criticism. Gerry yeah, youre right. Its not just people like you who speak out publicly and, you know, get denounced and an effort to fire you, but for every one person like you, there are many, many people who are even silenced, who are shocked into silence by that kind of behavior because they dont want to risk getting out there and being denounced. Thats right. So when the dean of the law school announces that were not going to fire this person, this professor because he has Academic Freedom and job security, what message did that send to the people who dont have that . To the students . To the staff . To junior professors who are at risk in thats a message of saying that you are at risk, so you better keep your shut on this issue. Thats really the harm thats taking mace here. Gerry interesting that you said youve got quite a lot of expresses of quiet, private support from students, perhaps more from students, it sounded like, than from other faculty members. There a message in there, a lesson that we can learn from that about how were going to tackle cancel culture . Yes. Ive gotten zero support from faculty, a lot of support from students. And i think we have to recognize that you cant just view things at the surface. People speaking out dont necessarily represent the majority of people and, therefore, we need to gear our efforts towards emboldening people who are silenced to feel comfortable in peeking up. I dont know how speaking up. I dont know how thats going to take place, i dont have a magic answer to that, but i think shining a light on it is the first step. But its a real problem in institutions like in academia which are overwhelmingly controlled by one political id lolling which is liberalism, leftism, whatever you want to call it. Its almost a uniformity of opinion, and thats, i think, the heart of the problem. We need to diversify the ideological foundations of academia. Were not going to to change this can el culture on campus. Gerry youre right. It started in academia with, perhaps, and spread to the media and now increasingly embedded in the corporate world. Thank you very much, indeed, professor, for joining us and for sharing that ree mark bl and very instructive story with us. 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So we live in a society that literally lives for cancel culture. Theyre vultures and hate on people. And in my case, the internet had a massive in canceling me, yet there was so much misinformation x. Thats actually how cancel culture thrives, through misinformation. In my case, i just documented all the damage to downtown santa monica following the riots expect death of george floyd. I was talking to a construction worker in santa monica, getting his, you know, take on damages, and i wanted to know exactly what he was doing because i feel like theyre some of the heroes that arent really recognized by the mob. And this were two activists that were onlooking, and thaw started heckling me they started heckling me and filming me x that ended up the viral video that was shared by everyone from lebron james to pink, and it got 550 theyve got 550 million follow ors. Gerry you took a picture with these guys. They were clearing up, i think, store fronts that had been looted the night before, i think, is that right this. They were. They were boarding up the businesses that were looted in downtown santa monica. Gerry and so then you get absolutely the full social media blow torch on you with. We can show, actually, one or two of the tweets or posts that we saw, as you mentioned i think pink came up with a particularly colorful denunciation. Lebron james, we can see there, did too. And to be absolutely clear, you werent somehow sort of boasting about you werent doing this as an act of vanity. You werent even, you know, like publicly denouncing black lives matter, you were just doing something to express some solidarity with someone who happened to be cleaning up the mess. Of course not. I was just documenting the damage, and thats exactly what people dont want. They dont want people speaking up. They wanted to silence me. The mob uses cancel culture as a way of silencing opinions they dont agree with. They try to destroy people with harassment and intimidation. In my case, it was beyond just silencing me. I was publicly dossed and harassed, so the mob had my phone number, even my home addresses gerry what happened . Did you get actual harassment from people as a result . Yes. Unfortunately, i did. The police really didnt do anything about it. Gerry what do we do about this, fiona . It is so prevalent now and especially, you know, among people of your generation in particular, this intolerance seems to start i off on University Campuses and has migrated into the much wider public field. How do we deal with this . How do we stop this steadily encroaching culture of intolerance and canceling people this. I think it goes back to social media platforms themselves. The platforms that empower the mob. I i think i if those platforms took responsibility, there would really be no room for cancel culture. In a way, these celebrities build platforms on a, you know, social media, you know, site. And thats the way they can el people. And cancel people. And unfortunately, in my case, they publicly dossed me. I dont want anyone to go through me, and its actually empowered me to talk about the threat of cancel culture. Gerry you know, whats so so extraordinary about this is that these people who are protesting are talking about hatred and about protesting against hatred and racial hatred and yet the hatred demonstrated against someone like you, i think you even had death threats, isnt that right . Of course i did. Yes. I i think overall b. L. M. Is contributing to this cancel culture of every institution in america. Theyre starting with defunding police. If they can cancel the police, they can cancel any institution many america. Gerry thank you very much for joining us, and good for you for standing up to the mob, and we hope you continue to do so. 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In chicago, shootings and murders rose more than 70 n. Portland, oregon, rioters have been roaming the city for weeks now. On wednesday they burned td the federal courthouse. President trump has now sent federal Law Enforcement officers into the city. This week he announced hes doing the same in otherities. This bloodshed must end, this bloodshed will end. Gerry well, of course the media screamed. New york times columnist actually said trumps occupation of American Cities has begun. More than a dozen democratic mayors including new yorks bill de blasio demanding the president stop these efforts. Mayor de blasio, who seems much more interested in painting black lives matter sign on city streets than stopping the killers roaming city neighborhoods, also threatened to take the president to court. The fact Democratic Leaders have willfully abandoned their streets to rioters, violent protesters and killers. Public safety is or should be the First Priority of every leader. If they wont take the measures necessary to restore orders to their own cities, they can hardly object when the federal government does the job for them. Well, thats it for us this week. Be sure to follow me on twitter, facebook and instagram. And ill be back next week with more indepth interviews right here on the watr at large. Thank you for joining us. Jack welcome to barrons roundtable where we get behind the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. Coming up, sir Martin Sowell on the shift to digital and whats in store for his growing media empire. But we begin with the three most important things investors should be thinking about right now. Tech ran into a brick wall this week despite strong earnings reports from microsoft and tesla. What to expect from apple, amazon, facebook and alphabet next week. Chevron makes a 5 billion deal to take ove