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Student troop rally - Columbia event rips anti-war prof!
New York Daily News ^
| 4/3/03
Posted on 04/03/2003 8:16:07 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:18:18 AM PST
by
fuzzy122
To: fuzzy122
MEGA-
Stay Strong
Fuzzy
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:19:03 AM PST
by
fuzzy122
To: Jeff Head
FYI - to an encouraging report!
To: All
De Genova's remarks sparked a barrage of criticism and threats, according to university officials, and he has not appeared on campus since last week, even for class. Ahem (Cough Cough!) I wonder why? Sometimes you just gotta love NYC!
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:23:38 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Is he dead yet? He's dead Jim!)
To: fuzzy122
Rooting the rats out!
Little by little, day by day, we are winning.
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:26:07 AM PST
by
x1stcav
(HooAhh!)
To: x1stcav
I swear its gotta be the freepers. The Freepers started the pro-war movement and got the pro-war/pro-bush people off their butts and out on the streets and now people are not afraid to come out. I give all the credit to the Freepers! They are the best!!!
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:30:56 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Is he dead yet? He's dead Jim!)
To: areafiftyone; rmlew
That's too funny! What a lily livered coward. Now we know why he doesn't want to fight..because he's SCARED...
To: areafiftyone
... the college anti-Anti-War movement has begun!
Break down the ESTABLISHMENT walls!!
Liberation NOW!!
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:36:17 AM PST
by
Gritty
To: areafiftyone
This is encouraging. Maybe there is still hope for our liberal universities.
This professor is actually condoning violence.I thought the liberals wanted peace.
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:37:52 AM PST
by
Mears
To: areafiftyone
Freeprs are the third leg of the stool. The other two are talk radio and Fox News. Talk radio disseminates the philosophy amongst the moevement. Fox News presents it in appetizing form for the swayable masses. Free republic? The shock troops.
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:39:02 AM PST
by
x1stcav
(HooAhh!)
To: rmlew; firebrand; Cacique; Dutchy; StarFan; nutmeg; RaceBannon; Coleus; hot august night; ...
ping.
To: x1stcav
Fox News is awesome. Rick Leventhal was reporting this morning and one of the Jeeps had a Fox News Sticker on it. I thought that was wonderful. I love Fox News and so do our Troops!
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:41:05 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Is he dead yet? He's dead Jim!)
To: Hobsonphile
Good story for a change.
To: areafiftyone
For the few war protestors in the crowd I got this email today.
"Wish You Were Here"
For all the free people that still protest.
You're welcome. We protect you
and you are protected by the best.
Your voice is strong and loud,
but who will fight for you?
No one standing in your crowd.
We are your fathers, brothers, and sons,
wearing the boots and carrying guns.
We are the ones that leave all we own,
to make sure your future is carved in stone.
We are the ones who fight and die,
We might not be able to save the world,
Well, at least we try.
We walked the paths to where we are at
and we want no choice other than that.
so when you rally your group to complain,
take a look in the back of your brain.
In order for that flag you love to fly
wars must be fought and young men must die.
We came here to fight for the ones we hold dear.
If that's not respected, we would rather stay here.
So please stop yelling, put down your signs,
and pray for those behind enemy lines.
When the conflict is over and all is well,
be thankful that we chose to go through hell.
Corporal Joshua Miles and all the boys from
3rd Batallion 2nd Marines, Kuwait
SCOUTS OUT!
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:44:27 AM PST
by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: areafiftyone
Rick Leventhal This guy MUST be a relative of Bill Murray, if not his brother. Every time I see him, I remember the movie "Stripes".
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:44:44 AM PST
by
Snardius
To: areafiftyone
I swear its gotta be the freepers. The Freepers started the pro-war movement and got the pro-war/pro-bush people off their butts and out on the streets and now people are not afraid to come out. I'm always amused at how quick everyone is to think FR is the driving force behind so many boycotts, demonstrations, etc.
Why would 3/4 of the population be afraid to come out? I give credit to the Dixie Chicks, Martin Sheen, etc.
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:49:32 AM PST
by
Coop
(God bless our troops!)
To: areafiftyone
Hot diggity dog! This is great to know. Too often the press portrays college students as being only on one side--anti-war side.
To: areafiftyone
De Genova's remarks sparked a barrage of criticism and threats, according to university officials, and he has not appeared on campus since last week, even for class. So we can all safely assume that he's not being paid...right, Columbia?
To: areafiftyone
Written by Prof. De Genova, to explain his comments at the teach-in:
To the Editor: Spectator, now for the second time in less than a year, has succeeded to quote me in a remarkably decontextualized and inflammatory manner. In Margaret Hunt Gram's report on the faculty teach-in against the war in Iraq (March 27, 2003), I am quoted as wishing for a million Mogadishus but with no indication whatsoever of the perspective that framed that remark. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that your Staff Editorial in the same issue, denouncing the teach-in for "dogmatism," situates me in particular as the premier example of an academic "launching tirades against anything and everything American."
In my brief presentation, I outlined a long history of U.S. invasions, wars of conquest, military occupations, and colonization in order to establish that imperialism and white supremacy have been constitutive of U.S. nation-state formation and U.S. nationalism. In that context, I stressed the necessity of repudiating all forms of U.S. patriotism. I also emphasized that the disproportionate majority of U.S. troops come from racially subordinated and working-class backgrounds and are in the military largely as a consequence of a treacherous lack of prospects for a decent life. Nonetheless, I emphasized that U.S. troops are indeed confronted with a choice -- to perpetrate this war against the Iraqi people or to refuse to fight and contribute toward the defeat of the U.S. war machine. I also affirmed that Iraqi liberation can only be effected by the Iraqi people themselves, both by resisting and defeating the U.S. invasion as well as overthrowing a regime whose brutality was long sustained by none other than the U.S.
Such an anti-colonial struggle for self-determination might involve a million Mogadishus now but would ultimately have to become something more like another Vietnam. Vietnam was a stunning defeat for U.S. imperialism; as such, it was also a victory for the cause of human self-determination. Is this a tirade against "anything and everything American"? Far from it. First, I hasten to remind you that "American" refers to all of the Americas, not merely to the United States, as U.S. imperial chauvinism would have it. More importantly, my rejection of U.S. nationalism is an appeal to liberate our own political imaginations such that we might usher in a radically different world in which we will not remain the prisoners of U.S. global domination. ---Nicholas De Genova
Obviously, high intellect is a requirement to teach at this University.
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posted on
04/03/2003 8:57:12 AM PST
by
laotzu
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