Honorable Barabara Lee: Sincere thanks for your intelligence and bravery

email | Sept. 18, 2001 | Prof. JP Maher

[Demosthenes]

Actually, I think she will not be re-elected, and will fall into obscurity, as her children's children lament the fact that they have been cursed with her name.

[tgiles]

Don't give the children the attention they seek. They will soon go away and quiet themselves or perhaps go off and sulk a while.

-Dr. Benjamin Spock

[Dahoser]

What I like is how the brilliant professor thinks a metaphor should be climatically correct. I guess he feels we're ignorant because our slogan of loose lips sink ships won't protect the Army or the Air Force.

[Malcolm]

I sincerely think she is wrong.....

[100%FEDUP]

``I really believe Congress should step back, use restraint and make sure our response does not allow the cycle of violence to sprawl out of control,'' she said.

The cycle of violence sprawled out of control on 9/11/01!

[general_re]

Question: Professor Maher is a professor of what, and where?

[drew]

Man, you are so right! The people threatening her are just helping to turn her into the martyr she already thinks she is.

[Mark]

Has she introduced a bill to direct the CIA to be the official pizza deliverers to congress critters yet? The war on video piracy was a bang-up job.(/sarcasm)

[AZPubbie]

I wish that people would quit accepting the phrase "cycle of violence." There is no such thing and it has been proven demonstrably wrong again and again. We utterly destroyed the governments of Germany and Japan in WWII and killed innumerable civilians. Did that beget a generation of Germans who wanted to commit violence against the US? NO! Hell, the French have had their asses kicked in every conflict since Napoleon and they're no more prone to violence than ever.

The false concept of a cycle of violence is used by anti-Americans who try to convince us that retaliation or involvement in any struggle will only lead to more violence. It is nothing but BULLSH*T. The way to prevent violence is to disable your enemy's ability to commit violence against you. If we disable the terrorist networks and their source of financial support, it will not beget more violence. It will lead to nothing more than a group of fanatics (though less than currently exist), who are unable to do anything about their fanaticism.

[Bob]

You will go down in history with the great William Pitt.

He may have confused William Pitt with Mr. 'peace in our time' Chamberlain.

On second thought, maybe he should have compared her to Benedict Arnold.

[dd-chuk]

About Prof. Maher:

Professor Peter Maher

A short biography
CURRICULUM VITAE

John Peter Maher was born in New York State in 1933. In 1955 he earned his BA from Harpur College (State University of New York at Binghamton). After taking his M. A. in Greek & Latin at The Catholic University of America in Washington D. C. He served in the United States Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), studying the Serbo-Croatian language at Army Language school in Monterey, California. He then served on the Yugoslav desk of the 430th Military Intelligence Battalion in northern Italy (1959-61).

After his army hitch he took a doctorate in historical linguistics at Indiana University, minoring in Latin and Slavic. He was a language teacher in New York State high schools for three years and began University teaching in 1964 in Chicago.

In 1975-77 he was awarded a tenured chair of English linguistics in the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he directed the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics. After that he returned to Chicago. He was appointed professor emeritus in 1993.

His chief research interests are the interface of language and culture, particularly the reconstruction of prehistoric language and culture in Indo-European languages, especially Greek, Latin, Germanic, and Slavic. He is one of the few original etymologists today.

In conjunction with these interests he has published critical works in theoretical linguistics. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals.

He has been Fulbright lecturer and researcher in Bulgaria, Italy, Ireland, and two countries killed by the New World Order, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

CURRICULUM VITAE for
Peter Maher

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics,
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 60625; 1993. (appointed Instructor 1964).

Professor of Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany; 1975-7.

Teacher of Latin, French, English, New York Sate high schools. 1956-57; 1961-63.

Special Agent, US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, 430th Military Intelligence Battalion, Northern Italy: Yugoslav desk, interpreter-translator, German, Italian, Serbo-Croatian languages; 1959-61.

Graduate with certificate of achievement, US Army Language School, Montery CA March 1959.

Fulbright Research Scholar:
Western Europe (especially Ireland and Italy). April - August 1984

Fulbright Lecturer:
University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. February - June 1990. University of Sofia, Bulgaria. October 1966 - February 1967.
University of Trnava, Czechoslovakia. September 1966.

Academic degrees:
1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, major in Historical Linguistics, minors in Slavic and Latin (residence June 1963 - August 1964).

1958. Master of Arts, Greek & Latin, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC (residence September 1955 - August 1956).

1955. Bachelor of Arts, Humanities (Foreign Languages), Harpu College (State University of New York at Binghamton) 1953. Associate of of Arts, Classics, at Bernard's Seminary College, Rochester NY.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Indo-European Studies, l973-77.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Diachronica, l984-88. Associate Editor, Forum Linguisticum, l980-93.
Member, advisory Editorial board, Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistics, Series IV - Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, l974-78.

Articles related to Yugoslav civil wars written by Professor Maher:

A letter to Voice of America
In your program on Dubrovnik the Voice of America has equaled Hitler's Radio.

[d14truth]

'SharkFRee' making sure there are no 'FReeploading mullet' here.

WHERE WOULD YOU GET YOUR NEWS FROM IF FREEREPUBLIC WASN'T HERE? Thread 2

[PsyOp]

Anyway we can send her to afghanistan as a special envoy, and then have it leaked to the Taliband that she supported the Soviets during their invasion? Or, that she's really an assasin sent to kill Bin Laden? I'm sure she would jump at the chance. What could be more fitting...

[RightOnline]

Anyone happen to catch Rush's show this afternoon, wherein he quoted heavily from a Washington Times article on this woman..........giving extensive background info on her, including her allegiances, mentors, "heroes", organizations she belonged to or even helped run, etc., etc.??

She's a gold-plated Communist. Through and through.

.........and when I see this wench say the following:

"``I'm as patriotic as they are and as American as they are,'' she said of the callers..."

.........then all I can say is this: Representative Lee, you traitorous bitch, don't you EVER claim to be "patriotic", you aren't fit to have a b.m. in the same latrine ever used by anyone who has served in the military, and don't you EVER try to put yourself on the same level as Americans. You are beneath contempt.

[bubbafree]

Great summary! But the Dems seem to be stuck in an escalating "Circle of Ignorance".

[CoolPapaBoze]

I live in Oakland, about a mile from the Berkeley/Oakland border. If you think this woman will not be re-elected, you are kidding yourself. She is absolutely acting in the manner best representing her constituency. The population of Berkeley, and most of the bay area as a whole, is unlike any other area in the United States. There are no flags out on houses, or businesses and I can say with absolute confidence that the majority of voters in Lee's district will support her and agree with her action. The people around here live in a fantasy land and one only need drive through Berkeley to see the result of the continued failure of socialist policies over the last 40 years. This is a socialist community that rejects with extreme prejudice the very beliefs that are the foundation of our government and our society. It's depressing and disgusting.

[SuziQ]

What did Ms. Lee expect to happen? Did she think Pres. Bush was going to start lobbing cruise missles at Afghanistan? She favors 'stepping back'; well that's what she's getting right now. Bush and his advisors are going to look at all the evidence given, make the case and go for the planners of this outrage. They will not go off half-cocked and start killing innocent Afghanis or Iraquis or Yemenis or whatever country finds itself on the wrong side of the US. They'll make sure as well as they can that all their hits count.

That said, GO GET 'EM GEORGE W.!!!

[afraidfortherepublic]

When Goodlett returned with his cash, he proceeded to file as a candidate for governor of California in that year's election. He also bankrolled the first big election bids of former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and Dellums.

Which explains something I have been wondering about for 34 years. Ron Dellums came out of nowhere to defeat a field of four or five candidates resoundingly for a position on the Berkeley City Council. He did not mount much of a campaign, but he took home the lion's share of the vote. I never could figure it out.

He then bought a relatively expensive house in a white neighborhood without any cash on hand. According to a realtor I knew who showed the house, he was not even aware that he needed a down payment. At closing, he came up with the cash and moved in.

He was given a welcoming party by the local Communist organizer (no one in the neighborhood was invited, just other Berkeley Communists). Shortly after that he was elected to Congress.

All this occurred around 1967-1970. I always knew he had a sponsor affiliated with the Communist Party who could provide lots of cash. Now I know who it was. And now I also know that his successor is following right in his footsteps. I'm sure glad I don't live there anymore. I just wish that they didn't still have influence over my life.

To put this in context, this is the same period that Hillary was interning in the offices of the Berkeley Communist lawyer -- name escapes me for the moment, law partner to Bertram Edises -- and David Horowitz was teaching at UC Berkeley and later working for Ramparts Magazine in San Francisco and was involved with the Black Panthers in Oakland.

[afraidfortherepublic]

See reply #19. I agree with you on the condition of Berkeley and the state of the minds of the populace there. I was back there for a reunion last November (yes, we did go to UC Berkeley) and was appalled about the way coastal Californians are thinking. I was also appalled at the condition of the homes in Berkeley. Most of it looked like a third world country! I'm happy to live in fly-over country now, and I shall never return to my native state.