Posted on 03/29/2003 10:40:57 AM PST by Jeff Head
The following is my email to Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University who was quoted in the New York Post as wishing a "million Mogadishus" on American servicement in Iraq at an anti-war rally.
This was reported on FreeRepublic on this thread, Columbia Prof wishes death to GIs.
Here's my email to him:
Nicholas De Genova,
Your call for the US Military to suffer a "million Mogadishus" has crossed a serious line on civility and duty and commitment to our nation.
You are wishing for the death of 18,000,000 of your fellow countrymen and women, individuals who are fighting for your ability to make your crass statements about their well being.
Are you familiar with the term "useful idiot"? If you are not, I suggest that your read your history regarding the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Note the ultimate outcome to the "useful idiots" employed by the Bolsheviks. If you get your way, and these tyrants are victorious, those very people you support with your comments would have no compunction about doing the same to you and your ilk, while the very people you deride are dedicated to your life and liberty. Perhaps you should think about that.
In addition, you are self defeating in your own comments. You clearly have no concept of history, even recent history. Something between 2,000 and 10,000 Somalis were killed in that Mogadishu battle. Your wish for 18,000,000 American dead would result in between 2,000,000,000 and 10,000,000,000 Iraqi dead ... in other words, a complete depopulation of that country. With such a statement, and such a wish, you reveal your true genocidical nature.
Individuals like you are what is wrong with the world today. You are so transparent and so ignorant of history that it would be laughable, if your policies were not so dangerous. All I can say to you are the words that Samuel Adams said to similar defeatists and traitorous thinkers to the original American cause:"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom...go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."- Samuel AdamsWithout and ounce of respect,
Jeff Head
Emmett, Idaho
http://www.jeffhead.com
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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