And if conservatives had protested, the liberals wouldn't have done anything about it.
I'm glad that I go to a conservative university where we have very few liberal faculty.
If I went to the Professor's class, tried to shout him down and used an airhorn to disrupt the proceedings, would he would defend my right to do so or call the police?
From discoverthenetwork.org
Professor at the University of Texas
Member of the International Socialist Organization
Calls America "a corrupt nation"
The day after 9/11, she stated, "the United States military has, in recent years, been the most effective and constant killer of civilians around the world."
Dana Cloud is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas (Austin) and a member of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), a Leninist vanguard that considers itself part of the Fourth Communist International. Formed in 1977, the ISO is the largest revolutionary socialist group in the United States. Professor Cloud was quick to blame American policies for having provoked the 9/11 attacks, singling out the U.S. as the world's most egregious mass murdering nation. On September 12, 2001 - just one day after the terrorist hijackings and 3,000 deaths had occurred - she wrote that, in addition to her shock and outrage over the previous day's events, she also felt "outrage at the hypocrisy of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and all of the politicians and pundits who last night rushed to declare war on the still-unidentified perpetrators of this tragedy." "Targeting civilians," she continued, "is despicable. But it is worth pointing out that the United States military has, in recent years, been the most effective and constant killer of civilians around the world. The 1991 Persian Gulf War left more than two hundred thousand civilians dead as a direct consequence of the war. Ongoing economic sanctions in Iraq have killed more than 1.5 million more, including hundreds of thousands of children."
"Many Americans don't stop to think," Cloud added, "about why Palestinians and others in the Middle East have cause to be extremely angry with the United States for its support of Israel in its decades-long campaign of terror against Palestinian civilians. Few people I have spoken with have thought about the role that the U.S.'s refusal to participate in the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa (where questions of Iraeli racism against Palestinians arose) may have played in intensifying Arab anger at the United States."
Professor Cloud also warned against "the scapegoating of Arabs and the hasty and predictable attempt to blame the attacks on Osama bin Laden and his supporters." "The scapegoating of Arabs," she said, "can only result in an upsurge in irrational anti-Arab sentiment and violence."
Cloud further spoke about her fear of "the curtailing of our civil liberties in the wake of this crisis." "Already we are hearing about tightening airport security," she lamented.
"We need to look beyond the emotional calls to war," said the professor, "and ask ourselves, is quick and violent retaliation the proper response? Why would someone target the U.S.? Why would people feel so desperate that they would want to kill themselves and innocent civilians in these kinds of attacks? We need to address these questions if we are to prevent the kind of devastation that happened yesterday from happening ever again."
Professor Cloud detests the United States. She explains that she has always disliked the traditional Pledge of Allegiance "because it seems very strange to pledge loyalty to a scrap of cloth representing a corrupt nation." In July 2002, she decided to write a new Pledge - not to America, but to those people worldwide whom she deems the victims of American greed, exploitation, and aggression. Her composition reads as follows: "I pledge allegiance to all the ordinary people around the world, to the laid off Enron workers and the WorldCom workers, the maquiladora workers and the sweatshop workers from New York to Indonesia, who labor not under God but under the heel of multinational corporations; I pledge allegiance to the people of Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan, and to their struggles to survive and resist slavery to corporate greed, brutal wars against their families, and the economic and environmental ruin wrought by global capitalism; I pledge allegiance to building a better world where human needs are met and with real liberty, equality and justice for all."
But while Cloud condemns corporate greed, she displays hypocrisy by taking a salary from the University of Texas, which proudly states that corporations are a significant funding source for its operations.
Horowitz would be very welcome at Texas A&M. Every time some t-sip tells me an Aggie joke I ask them why they support the most anti-American school in Texas and that shuts them up.