Posted on 03/30/2003 12:33:09 PM PST by doug from upland
E-MAIL TO PROF. NICHOLAS DEGENOVA, Columbia University Asst. Prof. of Anthropology:
Professor DeGenova, I would appreciate an answer to this communication. I want to briefly introduce you to my son-in-law Josh who is currently serving in the Middle East helping to defend the freedom of the United States. He is 22 years old, and my little girl misses him terribly. It is a great sacrifice for both of them. He is patriotic, dedicated, a hard worker, and has just signed up for another three years.
You have been quoted as recently saying, "I wish for a million Mogadishus." Since I have not heard a retraction, I presume the quote is accurate.
I do not usually take personally the statements of those who oppose the current war. We all have our viewpoint. Josh is proud to defend yours, unless, of course, the viewpoint includes advocating the violent death of Americans.
Let me put in bluntly. Is Josh among those whom you wish dead? Would you take joy in watching his body mutilated and dragged through the streets of Baghdad? If not him, whose sons and daughters do you wish would suffer the fate of the men who were mutilated in Mogadishu?
Professor, you have a short window of opportunity to take back your statement and issue an apology. I hope you will be man enough to do it.
I wish no harm to you and your family as you apparently wish to Josh, my family, and all those serving and their families. What action will be taken should you refuse, I do not yet know, but you have made this personal.
Please do the right thing.
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I don't know where this will go, but it cannot stand. Columbia receives federal government funds. Those funds should cease until he is fired. He has the freedom of speech to say what he wants, but advocating the death of Americans during time of war should have consequences.
Will someone please provide info regarding the university's major donors?
Perhaps NY FReepers might want to FReep him in person.
Letters to the editor certainly need to be written.
Maybe an ad can be placed in the school newspaper that shows bodies being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.
Perhaps his neighbors and every veteran's organization in the area need to see his words in print on a flyer.
William Rivers Pitt, in a Freepmail to me, accused me of making him up.
I will be out of the office until March 22, 2003.
Your mail will be read and answered when I return.
Best,
Jonathan R. Cole
The moron hasn't turned off his away message in a week. Losers.
What is most disturbing is that these mandarins continue to teach given that they are neither knowledgeable nor interested in learning objective facts about the world and are more concerned about pandering their shortsighted intellectual lameness to all sorts of disturbed individuals.
There is a pathology here folks...it's not just about right VS left politics. Unfortunately, many universities have succumbed to the Left wing of academia abrogating their responsibilites to the leftist unionists controlling many universities and publishers today. The ghosts of the Soviet Communists have not given up...
Damn right.
Great letter, Doug. It is sickening to think that families of servicemen and women are having their fears added to by traitors like Degenova. Thanks so much for all you do.
One of the Trustees:
CHARLES M. METZNER
Senior United States District Judge
U.S. District Court
Maybe you should contact him and see if he stands by what De Genova said.....could be VERY interesting!!!!!
Professor DeGenova --
I would like to introduce you to my son-in-law, a reservist in the Navy who was activated a week after 9/11.
He is currently on active duty with the Marine Corps somewhere in Iraq. My daughter (his wife) is at home taking care of three children by herself, the youngest of which is a one-month-old baby girl. I've forwarded her your remarks, and I'm sending her the text of this email, along with the sure and certain knowledge that you want her husband dead, and her children to be orphans.
I'm not interested in your free speech, professor. You've gone way over the line in abusing the privilege men like my son-in-law have died to protect. But, your speech is protected, sad to say. No one is coming to silence you. You need fear no knock at your door in the dead of night.
But I hope and pray circumstances work to put you in a country where remarks such as yours against the ruling governmental authority land you at the end of a rope.
Of course it won't happen. You are far too much the self-absorbed narcissist to venture out of your velvet-lined, ivory tower of pure intellectual theory to dirty your hands among the great unwashed masses of the real world. But I just thought I'd call you what you are:
A cringing sneak,
a bold-faced liar,
and a gutless coward.
If the academic community had any integrity, your next career would be pushing a broom in the men's room of Grand Central Station. But it doesn't. All the same an accounting will come. Maybe not in this world, but it will come. And then you get to try to make a case in front of the only judge you won't be able to sidestep.
Here's hoping that day of reckoning will come soon. Especially for the likes of you.
With contempt.
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