Campus Leftists Don't Believe In Free Speech

Wall St. Journal ^ | April 17, 2009

[Steelfish]

OPINION APRIL 18, 2009

Campus Leftists Don't Believe in Free Speech Conservative speakers now have bodyguards when they visit universities.

By DAVID HOROWITZ

I arrived in Austin, Texas, one evening recently to give a speech about academic freedom at the university there. Entering the hall where I was to give my speech, I was greeted -- if that's the word -- by a raucous protest organized by a professor and self-styled Bolshevik, Dana Cloud. Forty protesters hoisted placards high in the air and robotically chanted "Down With Horowitz," "Racist Go Home," and "No More Witch-hunts."

Fortunately, a spokesperson for the administration was present to threaten the disrupters with arrest if they continued on this course. (The threat was administered very carefully, with three formal warnings before any action could be taken.) This quieted the crowd enough that I could begin my talk, which proceeded without further serious incident.

Even so, there were occasional heckles and demonstrative cheers from the group when I mentioned the name of Sami Al-Arian ( whose organization, Palestine Islamic Jihad, is responsible for the deaths of more than 100 innocent victims in the Middle East), Black Panther Huey Newton (convicted of killing an Oakland police officer in 1967, although he was eventually released on a technicality), or when I uttered the word "communist" -- even though I did so to remind the audience that communists killed 120 million people in the last century trying to implement Marx's ideas.

Among the organizations participating in these outbursts were the International Socialist Organization, whose goal is the establishment of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" in the United States; Iranians for Peace and Justice, supporters of Hezbollah and Hamas; and Campus Progress, the unofficial college arm of the Democratic Party.

[thecabal]

Because that requires actual work and actually caring for the people you claim to care for. It’s much easier to just be a tenured college radical professor.

[ken21]

projection.

[LifeComesFirst]

Is America unique in how its universities are dominated by socialist radicals? Or do other nations have more balanced, diverse points of view in their institutions of higher learning?

[phatus maximus]

Dana Cloud

Saying the Pledge of Allegiance is strange.

“It seems very strange to pledge loyalty to a scrap of cloth representing a corrupt nation.”

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Dear Ms. Cloud. You are free to depart this horrible, corrupt nation at any time. Please know we will not miss you.

Love,

The People of the Republic of the United States of America.

[kellynla]

Funny how the Leftist ignoramuses throw “Mccarthyite” around...
I guess they haven’t been informed that McCarthy was correct after all.

Communism - McCarthy Was Right
http://www.rense.com/politics6/mc.htm

[Poe White Trash]

>>> The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves—the vast majority of the population—are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society. Socialism can’t be brought about from above, but has to be won by workers themselves. <<<

I’m not sure about Trotsky, but if they really believe that Lenin is part of the tradition where “socialism can’t be brought about from above, but has to be won by workers themselves,” they are bigger idiots than I thought. Post-literate communists.