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The double standard of the left
Liberal Lunacy ^ | 3/21/2005 | Beckwith

Posted on 03/21/2005 7:09:00 AM PST by Beckwith

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg demonstrates the twisted logic of the left in her article, “Dying in Iraq Is Not a Job Opportunity.” The double standard of the left is evidenced as she describes events at the City College of New York’s (CCNY) Job Fair last week, at which a group of about twenty students stood in front of the National Guard table and began chanting anti-war slogans. She writes, "The situation became aggressive when the security officers came in. They looked like they were ready for action."

Weill-Greenberg continues, “Witnesses say Justino Rodriguez and other students were shoved out of the fair and assaulted by security officers. Rodriguez spent the night in jail, after being charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Fellow students Nicholas Bergreen and Hadas Thier were charged with assault. All three face the possibility of up to a year in prison and were suspended from school, pending a hearing.”

Defending the protestors, Weill-Greenberg writes, “They did nothing wrong and the faculty union has demanded that all charges be dropped."

Weill-Greenberg quotes a spokesman for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who said that the students had a right to protest inside. "If the demonstration was an annoyance, [CCNY] should be able to tolerate it. The students' exercising their first amendment rights should take precedence."

  link:  Dying in Iraq is Not a Job Opportunity


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: confrontation; protest; rights
Well, there you have it. “The students … rights should take precedence." This unwashed rabble truly believes their rights should “take precedence” over the rights of those with whom they disagree.

This guy from The Center for Constitutional Rights represents an organization that, according to its mission statement on their website, is “Committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.” What exactly does “creative use of the law” mean?

What hyphen-woman conveniently forgets to mention is that the students were instructed to demonstrate outside the building after they told the administration of their plans. (Amsterdam News).

"They were not peacefully protesting," CCNY President Gregory H. Williams said in a telephone interview. "They assaulted two police officers." CCNY's public relations director Ellis Simon said that one security officer went to the hospital after being "beaten up fairly badly."

Hyphen-woman. just doesn’t seem to understand that recruiters also have rights. The recruiters were there legally and with the permission of CCNY. The students weren’t. The students broke the rules. The students assaulted the police and security officers. As a result of not respecting the rights of others, the students went straight to jail and didn't get to collect $200.
1 posted on 03/21/2005 7:09:03 AM PST by Beckwith
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To: Beckwith

Let them try this in China and see what happens.


2 posted on 03/21/2005 7:44:08 AM PST by PeterFinn ("Tolerance" means WE have to tolerate THEM. They can hate us all they want.)
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To: Beckwith

What infuriates me about campus radicals is that on the one hand, they yammer on about all wars being a poor man's fight, but on the other hand, when ROTC wants to come on elite college campuses, they fight tooth and nail to keep them off. For the record, though, NYC's university system (CCNY included) is not elite - it once was - but now it stinks.


3 posted on 03/21/2005 8:04:07 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Beckwith
The violence by the left in the '60s institutionalized violence into their political process. IOW, if you believe passionately in your cause (oh, and if your politics are to the left; the right doesn't apply here), feel free to express your passion with violence "civil unrest", "direct action", "protests", etc.

Is it really any wonder that we have such venom and hatred directed by the left towards anyone that doesn't agree with them?

4 posted on 03/21/2005 8:15:12 AM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: randog

Saul Alinsky is generally credited with laying the foundation for the confrontational political tactics that dominated the 1960s.

Alinsky was a ferocious critic of mainstream liberalism. A champion of radical propaganda tactics and propaganda techniques, Alinsky encouraged deception in organizational strategy.

While attending Wellesley College, a young Hillary Clinton was an admirer of Alinsky. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on his work and ideas.


5 posted on 03/21/2005 10:03:55 AM PST by Beckwith (I knew Churchill, and Ward Churchill is no Churchill . . . he ain't no Indian either . . .)
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To: Beckwith

The "hyphen = bitch" rule proves reliable once again. ;)


6 posted on 03/21/2005 1:23:17 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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Saul Alinsky is generally credited with laying the foundation for the confrontational political tactics that dominated the 1960s.

All he did was adapt the practices that labor unions have used since the 1930s during labor strikes.

I continue to wonder what the 60s would have looked like if the University Administration had reacted to the first "sit-in" by rejecting the claim that a "sit-in" was "non-violent" and simply expelled all students who participated in one, and prosecuted non-students for trespassing.

7 posted on 03/21/2005 2:44:14 PM PST by Mack the knife
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