Ahmadinejad Goes to College
When Bruce Dern's character, Long Hair Asa Watts shot and killed John Wayne's character, Wil Andersen in the 1972 release, The Cowboys, the left in America erupted with joy that the stand-up, brave, no nonsense figure-head played by the Duke had cinematically been silenced. Berkley University even went so far as to laud Dern with a standing ovation when he was invited to the far-left think tank.
Fast-forward 30+ years and we have another liberty-killing totalitarian-dictator (not that Dern was one, but a Marxist/communist hero all the same) receiving accolades at a prominent American educational institution.
Columbia University did just that with the invitation and whole-hearted acceptance of the Aqua-Velva man from Iran.
What suspends disbelief for me (and not the "force yourself" kind like Hillary Clinton) is not the anti-Semitic and "death to the West" drivel that came out his mouth, but the fact that he was invited in the first place. We've all heard the "Israel should be wiped off the map" derelict before, but why would an American university, even a lefty university allow a fountain of hatred like this to speak on American soil.
Don't give me that "free speech" stuff. These same marxists and their ideology weren't claiming free speech when Donald Rumsfeld, Ann Coulter, the Minutemen or the ROTC were invited to convey their messages. No, they were shouted down, their mics cut off, booed from start to finish and had pies thrown at them. All sure signs of the "tolerant" left.
Are we really going to grant people like this the platforms for espousing their propaganda, lies and hatred against us while our troops-the very same troops that he is killing with his al Queda-assisted weapons and bombs-are still in the theatre of battle. In case people don't know this (again, the MSM y'know) Iran is directly responsible for most (if not all) of the IEDs being fed to the enemy. Not to mention media wings and financial aid as well as explosives that kill our troops on a regular basis.
Have they already forgotten about the nine British soldiers that were kidnapped (and no, they were in Iraqi waters, as satellite photos have proven) had loaded weapons put to their collective heads, treated with torture (the loan female soldier was told she that the other prisoners had been released and she was the only one left and was forced to wear Islamic garb-a clear violation of the Geneva Convention...strange how people on the other side of the oceans are forgiven for that) How is that torture you say? According tho the left, anyone treated so that their "feelings" are hurt (i.e underwear on the head) is being tortured, right?
Some will inevitably say that Ahmadinejad had some"good points". So what? So did Hitler. Would they have invited him to speak as well? Sadly, yes. Disgusting. And apparently, 60 Minutes is giving AquaVelva Man a soapbox as well.
I mean if having "good points" means being a conduit of everything evil, then we are lost.
Examples?
Let's see, there was Benito Mussolini, he had some "good points", didn't he? He also made the trains run on time. How about Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosovich and Castro, they all at one time or another had "good points" as well, didn't they. Heck, while we're at it, why not throw in the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski or the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVie. Or how about Osama bin Laden or Charles Manson? Didn't they at one point or another have "good points"?
This was not about free speech. This was about attempting to the worst people in the world speaking time and a chance at warping and indoctrinating our youth to hate their own country.
What will the Mid-East media have to say about this? Is there any doubt? For starters, you can bet that al Jazeera and Iranian TV will be his conduit of propaganda. How much are you willing to bet that Columbia University President, Lee Bollinger's address will not get any airtime? Although I'm sure he was just pandering to his "powers that be" that told him he had to make some sort of stand so the right won't think all involved at Columbia U aren't totally lefty radicals (or at least to have something with which to argue with the right) either way, he's on the record.
I did enjoy certain passages of his opening comments, such as:
"...brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated" , "a petty and cruel dictator", "ridiculous" and "I doubt you have ...intellectual fortitude."
Cal Thomas has his take on this.
But to be fair, there were jeers for Hitler, Jr. . Not they will get much attention. But Ifear the cheers (head shake) will negate those anyhow.
Fast-forward 30+ years and we have another liberty-killing totalitarian-dictator (not that Dern was one, but a Marxist/communist hero all the same) receiving accolades at a prominent American educational institution.
Columbia University did just that with the invitation and whole-hearted acceptance of the Aqua-Velva man from Iran.
What suspends disbelief for me (and not the "force yourself" kind like Hillary Clinton) is not the anti-Semitic and "death to the West" drivel that came out his mouth, but the fact that he was invited in the first place. We've all heard the "Israel should be wiped off the map" derelict before, but why would an American university, even a lefty university allow a fountain of hatred like this to speak on American soil.
Don't give me that "free speech" stuff. These same marxists and their ideology weren't claiming free speech when Donald Rumsfeld, Ann Coulter, the Minutemen or the ROTC were invited to convey their messages. No, they were shouted down, their mics cut off, booed from start to finish and had pies thrown at them. All sure signs of the "tolerant" left.
Are we really going to grant people like this the platforms for espousing their propaganda, lies and hatred against us while our troops-the very same troops that he is killing with his al Queda-assisted weapons and bombs-are still in the theatre of battle. In case people don't know this (again, the MSM y'know) Iran is directly responsible for most (if not all) of the IEDs being fed to the enemy. Not to mention media wings and financial aid as well as explosives that kill our troops on a regular basis.
Have they already forgotten about the nine British soldiers that were kidnapped (and no, they were in Iraqi waters, as satellite photos have proven) had loaded weapons put to their collective heads, treated with torture (the loan female soldier was told she that the other prisoners had been released and she was the only one left and was forced to wear Islamic garb-a clear violation of the Geneva Convention...strange how people on the other side of the oceans are forgiven for that) How is that torture you say? According tho the left, anyone treated so that their "feelings" are hurt (i.e underwear on the head) is being tortured, right?
Some will inevitably say that Ahmadinejad had some"good points". So what? So did Hitler. Would they have invited him to speak as well? Sadly, yes. Disgusting. And apparently, 60 Minutes is giving AquaVelva Man a soapbox as well.
I mean if having "good points" means being a conduit of everything evil, then we are lost.
Examples?
Let's see, there was Benito Mussolini, he had some "good points", didn't he? He also made the trains run on time. How about Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosovich and Castro, they all at one time or another had "good points" as well, didn't they. Heck, while we're at it, why not throw in the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski or the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVie. Or how about Osama bin Laden or Charles Manson? Didn't they at one point or another have "good points"?
This was not about free speech. This was about attempting to the worst people in the world speaking time and a chance at warping and indoctrinating our youth to hate their own country.
What will the Mid-East media have to say about this? Is there any doubt? For starters, you can bet that al Jazeera and Iranian TV will be his conduit of propaganda. How much are you willing to bet that Columbia University President, Lee Bollinger's address will not get any airtime? Although I'm sure he was just pandering to his "powers that be" that told him he had to make some sort of stand so the right won't think all involved at Columbia U aren't totally lefty radicals (or at least to have something with which to argue with the right) either way, he's on the record.
I did enjoy certain passages of his opening comments, such as:
"...brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated" , "a petty and cruel dictator", "ridiculous" and "I doubt you have ...intellectual fortitude."
Cal Thomas has his take on this.
But to be fair, there were jeers for Hitler, Jr. . Not they will get much attention. But Ifear the cheers (head shake) will negate those anyhow.
posted by Northern Exposer at 13:09
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In league with the stones...
Every September, I recall that is more than half a century (62 years) since I landed at Nagasaki with the 2nd Marine Division in the original occupation of Japan following World War II. This time every year, I have watched and listened to the light-hearted "peaceniks" and their light-headed symbolism-without-substance of ringing bells, flying pigeons, floating candles, and sonorous chanting and I recall again that "Peace is not a cause - it is an effect."
In July, 1945, my fellow 8th RCT Marines [I was a BARman] and I returned to Saipan following the successful conclusion of the Battle of Okinawa. We were issued new equipment and replacements joined each outfit in preparation for our coming amphibious assault on the home islands of Japan.
B-29 bombing had leveled the major cities of Japan, including Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Yokosuka, and Tokyo.
We were informed we would land three Marine divisions and six Army divisions, perhaps abreast, with large reserves following us in. It was estimated that it would cost half a million casualties to subdue the Japanese homeland.
In August, the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima but the Japanese government refused to surrender. Three days later a second A-bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The Imperial Japanese government finally surrendered.
Following the 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese admiral said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant..." Indeed, they had. Not surprisingly, the atomic bomb was produced by a free people functioning in a free environment. Not surprisingly because the creative process is a natural human choice-making process and inventiveness occurs most readily where choice-making opportunities abound. America!
Tamper with a giant, indeed! Tyrants, beware: Free men are nature's pit bulls of Liberty! The Japanese learned the hard way what tyrants of any generation should know: Never start a war with a free people - you never know what they may invent!
As a newly assigned member of a U.S. Marine intelligence section, I had a unique opportunity to visit many major cities of Japan, including Tokyo and Hiroshima, within weeks of their destruction. For a full year I observed the beaches, weapons, and troops we would have assaulted had the A-bombs not been dropped. Yes, it would have been very destructive for all, but especially for the people of Japan.
When we landed in Japan, for what came to be the finest and most humane occupation of a defeated enemy in recorded history, it was with great appreciation, thanksgiving, and praise for the atomic bomb team, including the aircrew of the Enola Gay. A half million American homes had been spared the Gold Star flag, including, I'm sure, my own.
Whenever I hear the apologists expressing guilt and shame for A-bombing and ending the war Japan had started (they ignore the cause-effect relation between Pearl Harbor and Nagasaki), I have noted that neither the effete critics nor the puff-adder politicians are among us in the assault landing-craft or the stinking rice paddies of their suggested alternative, "conventional" warfare. Stammering reluctance is obvious and continuous, but they do love to pontificate about the Rights that others, and the Bomb, have bought and preserved for them.
The vanities of ignorance and camouflaged cowardice abound as license for the assertion of virtuous "rights" purchased by the blood of others - those others who have borne the burden and physical expense of Rights whining apologists so casually and self-righteously claim.
At best, these fakers manifest a profound and cryptic ignorance of causal relations, myopic perception, and dull I.Q. At worst, there is a word and description in The Constitution defining those who love the enemy more than they love their own countrymen and their own posterity. Every Yankee Doodle Dandy knows what that word is.
In 1945, America was the only nation in the world with the Bomb and it behaved responsibly and respectfully. It remained so until two among us betrayed it to the Kremlin. Still, this American weapon system has been the prime deterrent to earth's latest model world- tyranny: Seventy years of Soviet collectivist definition, coercion, and domination of individual human beings.
The message is this: Trust Freedom. Remember, tyrants never learn. The restriction of Freedom is the limitation of human choice, and choice is the fulcrum-point of the creative process in human affairs. As earth's choicemaker, it is our human identity on nature's beautiful blue planet and the natural premise of man's free institutions, environments, and respectful relations with one another. Made in the image of our Creator, free men choose, create, and progress - or die.
Free men should not fear the moon-god-crowd oppressor nor choose any of his ways. Recall with a confident Job and a victorious David, "Know ye not that you are in league with the stones of the field?"
Semper Fidelis
Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WW II and Korean War
Job 5:23 Proverbs 3:31 I Samuel 17:40
http://www.choicemaker.net/
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