“Will Ahmadinejad’s Columbia speech and question and answer be made available to the citizens of Iran. Will the citizens of Iran witness thousands of New Yorkers telling Ahmadinejad to go home?
No way. Iran will edit out and censor the negative and use the positive to incite the Iran and Islamic public. Does Columbia care?”
As long as he is here I think it’s great that he will go to Columbia and take questions from students. It’s the only time he will have been challenged like that in his political career. As for censoring the feed back to Iran, big deal. China would do the same thing. Surely the Soviets did too. So would most other countries lacking a free press. The main thing is that he gets to see what freedom is and will have to explain himself.
Time for students at Columbia University to get busy with e-mails, phone calls, or whatever it takes to assure that they will boycott this event. Let him speak to an empty auditorium or to the President of Columbia University...Best thing that could happen is to have a 100% boycott.....