Posted on 03/29/2003 10:40:57 AM PST by Jeff Head
A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT: A friend was actually at the Columbia meeting where far left professor de Genova called for the murder and mutilation of American troops. My account was based on Newsday's story. Here's an alternative version:
"You're right that no one objected to the Mogadishu line: I sat there astonished he was even saying that. But it's bullshit to say the final line of his speech drew "loud cheers from an Ivy League audience." A significant portion of the room (I'd guess a quarter) did start clapping, but I heard no cheers, much less loud cheers. Of course, I was in shock, hissing, shaking my head that ANYONE was clapping rather than booing. All I can tell you is that I paid close attention to see if further speakers over the next few hours would repudiate those comments. And when two speakers did disagree with him (including Foner), the applause was louder. It says something that Columbia students are not willing to stand up en masse and disagree with such disgusting comments, but it does not say that most of them agree with what was said. He certainly was not representative of the other professor's thoughts. On the contrary, the speaker was a last minute addition replacing someone who was sick, and he was alone in the type of comments he made.
I'm glad Foner objected at the time.
See post 60, and my follow-up at post 225.
Best Fregards.
If enough Alumni cut off donations ... I still believe the University will relent ... but it is sickening that your and my monies are going to support an abject traitor and jerk like this. My emails/mail is off to my rep and my senator today.
(U of Penn Prof Prefers U.S. Casualties)
"...if we won too quickly, if we broke things in Afghanistan too successfully, and that's definitely what we're good at, we're fantastic at breaking anything we can find—it's putting things back together that's the tough question—but my fear at that time was that if we broke the Taliban too fast and it was perceived in the United States that we had a quick and relatively bloodless on the American side victory,..." Excerpt from Frontpagemag.com article by Martin Kramer, (MartinKramer.org) April 4, 2003
I say ... let them come out. All the better to know exactly who they are in their wish for Americn service personnel to die. Such a wish, and an abject vocalization of it, carries consequences, as the disgusting Dr. De Genova is finding. May this despicable person find the same, and soon.
degenerate, which means, according to Webster:
having sunk to a condition below that which is normal to a type; especially having sunk to a lower and usually corrupt and vicious state
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I was told yesterday that over 100 congrerssional reps have signed a letter to Bollinger at Columbia calling for the ouster of De Genova.
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