College Cancels Speech by Professor Who Disparaged 9/11 Attack Victims

NY Times ^ | February 2, 2005 | PATRICK D. HEALY

[nina0113]

Vernon Bellecourt, an American Indian Movement activist in Minneapolis, calls him a fraud.

I knew VB when I lived up there - not well, but enough that I'd take his word over WC's.

[Verginius Rufus]

Clinton has been known to claim Cherokee ancestry. That is about as reliable as most things he says.

[Verginius Rufus]

Hamilton College is a very pricey institution--the tuition is over $30,000 a year (more expensive than Harvard or Princeton).

The one concept which seems to elude President Stewart and the Hamilton faculty is decency--that inviting this piece of pondscum to the campus offends a sense of decency.

[nicollo]

On Jan. 26, the Hamilton College president declared:

Hamilton, like any institution committed to the free exchange of ideas, invites to its campus people of diverse opinions, often controversial.... We expect that many of those who strongly disagree with Mr. Churchill's comments will attend his talk and make their views known. This is the process of both academic freedom and freedom of speech.

Today, we get:

We have done our best to protect what we hold most dear, the right to speak, think and study freely. But there is a higher responsibility that this institution carries, and that is the safety and security of our students, faculty, staff and the community in which we live .... I have made the decision to cancel this event in the interest of protecting those at risk.

Hmmm... the First amendment must be upheld above all, except, oops, fear. So much for principle.

What a disgusting spectacle coming in and around the world-shaking vote in Iraq, where where husbands and wives went to the polls separately so that should one be killed their children would still have a parent. People risked death and some got it in expressing their democratic rights. And Hamilton College is afraid.

Heh, Hamilton, you who so love the First amendment (except that nasty bit about free assembly when it comes to fraternities): try out the Second amendment for a change if you really mean to defend your free speech. Or is it not so free, after all?

[nicollo]

Dear Hamilton College:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Sincerely,
Benjamin Franklin

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Heeheeheeheeheehee...

Looks like "big eichmann's" nonsense didn't pay off.

I like the direction the country's moving in.

[hellinahandcart]

Someone reposted one of those threads yesterday, and I bookmarked it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333438/posts

[hellinahandcart]

Doncha love how the Times manages to portray the anti-abortion speaker as the offensiveness equivalent of Ward Churchill?

In life and in art, the left celebrates dysfunction and ugliness. That's the problem.

[spookycc]

In his original essay, Mr. Churchill wrote that the thousands killed at the World Trade Center had played a role in American sanctions on Iraq that "translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants."

Typical America hating liberal. I really wish these folks would learn about what they are talking about. I've seen reports that Saddam would not allow the kids to receive the medicines sent. He wanted them to die in a ploy to have the sanctions removed. I wish I could find that thread.

I also wish the libs would stop referring to UN sanctions as "US" sanctions.

[appalachian_dweller]

UN sanctions vs. US sanctions - good point.

Honest mistake? I don't think so.

[eastsider]

Great letter. And thanks for kicking in their teeth in the prior post for seizing the fraternity houses. They will never see another cent of my money because of that farce.

Best regards.

[Helms]

Student thinking......... "If I could only just punch out this old radical 60's era bitch /I wish I brought my Crucifix with me to class."

[nicollo]

Helms, that's one scary photo. Scary.

Tobin was my freshman year advisor. We hated each other. So, I didn't take any history classes that year. Moving to another advisor sophomore year, I got up the courage to take a history course. Ended up in Esther Kanipe's class on the French Revolution.

Really, it had nothing to do with the fact that Kanipe taught the French Revolution through the eyes of a feminist communist -- nothing to do with it. But, as it was, and unrelated to Kanipe's inane politics, I was late to almost every class, which was taught in that little red building along Campus Dr. -- can't remember the name. Her classroom had a peculiar feature in that the blackboard was built across the doorway. Whenever I'd barge into class, late, I'd barge through her blackboard. One day, I smacked her as she was chalking up the board.

She HATED me. I never worked harder for a C-minus.

These fools are all smug over this episode. Nobody is fooled, but by themselves. Thank God for the open society that this internet thing has brought about. This story wouldn't have happened with but the MSM.