Outside Agitators on Campus

The outside agitator narrative has been misued for decades, but the real outside agitators are often politicians and police.

Sometime during either the very end of the Reagan years or the early days of the George H. W. Bush’s presidency, some friends and I drove up from Santa Cruz, where I was going to school at the time, to Berkeley to participate in a demonstration near the campus. As we were marching along, I ran into a friend from high school who was a student at Berkeley…