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Terror Teacher- Columbia's Nicholas De Genova message of "Death to America!"
various FR links | 03-31-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 03/31/2003 6:10:20 AM PST by backhoe

Here's what I found on the Terror Teacher:
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/880445/posts
Moment of Truth (For the Anti-American Left)(Horowitz on the Aftermath of the De Genova Remarks)
Front Page Magazine ^ | 3/31/2003 | David Horowitz
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
But wait, there is more...
Emailing him personally is fine, but hit him where it hurts. Here's the contact information for the Provost, his boss in the Anthropology Dept. and Public affairs:
Jonathan Cole (Provost) email: jrcs@columbia.edu phone: 212-854-2404
Nicholas Dirks (Anthropology Dept Head) email: nbd7@columbia.edu phone: 212-854-4552
Columbia Public Affairs Dept phone: 212-854-5573
 
 
 
 
 
 
I hope Hannity and O'Reilly get wind of this and tell the whole country about Columbia U. I desperately want to see those bastards try to defend those comments as American troops are dying.


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KEYWORDS: americahaters; campuscommies; campusradicals; millionmogadishus; nicholasdegenova; radicalleftists
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To: doug from upland
Former Sen. D'Amato said last night on FNC that he thought Columbia might fire the guy. I don't think he had any inside info, but he thought the guy did not yet have tenure. Sounded hopeful.
21 posted on 03/31/2003 8:20:30 AM PST by twigs
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To: doug from upland
The school is a business

Exactly- rest assured they understand "lost revenues" very clearly...

22 posted on 03/31/2003 8:20:57 AM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
Here is the letter I sent.

You know, I suppose by this point the American public should be used to the idea that anti-American professors dominate the universities to which hardworking parents send their sons and daughters. But Mr. DeGenova has crossed the line. He is actually wishing for the death of young men such as my son, who will soon be heading off for pilot training with the military.

It is impossible to express to you how much this offends me. It is the height of ignorance and arrogance for Mr. DeGenova to enjoy the freedom to speak his mind without one iota of appreciation to the country which allows him to do so.

It is my faint hope that your university will consider not granting this man tenure, and that in the future Columbia will at least make an attempt to assure a balance in the political makeup of your faculty. As I said, it is a faint hope.

Something is dreadfully wrong when most politically conservative students openly express the fact that they answer questions on tests and in class from the viewpoint of the professor, and give no hint of their conservative views for fear of getting poor grades in that class. Apparently, free speech is only for leftists.

After I sent this, the letter bounced. I will look for a better link.

23 posted on 03/31/2003 8:32:31 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: backhoe
assistant professors, as far as I know, are not tenured. Columbia needs to can this liliputian intellect.
24 posted on 03/31/2003 9:05:11 AM PST by rageaholic
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
That's a good letter- I hope you can get it to go through.
25 posted on 03/31/2003 10:21:39 AM PST by backhoe
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To: rageaholic
Columbia needs to can this liliputian intellect.

How about running him out of town on a rail?

26 posted on 03/31/2003 10:32:59 AM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
An anthropology professor. It isn't much of a surprise - the biggest inroads of radical politics in university faculties in the United States are in the areas of anthropology, literary criticism, and sociology. Those, of course, and the fields whose very existence on campus is due to leftwing agitation - "gender" studies, for example. This idiotic tirade is representative of cutting-edge intellectual thought...if "cutting edge" means 20 years ago and the "intellectual" portion is qualified by "second-rate."
27 posted on 03/31/2003 10:49:18 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: backhoe
yeah run him out of town on the rabies infected goat he rode in on.
28 posted on 03/31/2003 11:23:31 AM PST by rageaholic
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To: Billthedrill; rageaholic
It gets worse- they forgot The Rule Of Holes, and are still digging:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881077/posts
Or:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881062/posts
Nicholas De Genova justifying his Beta Sigma (loony top-quality barf alert) (my title)
Columbia Spectator ^ | March 31, 2003 | Nicholas De Genova (ewww!!!)


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881008/posts
Anti-U.S. Prof Enrages Columbia Alums
NewsMax.com ^ | 3/31/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881015/posts
President Bollinger's Statement on Recent Comments by Assistant Professor De Genova (cya alert)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/03/statement_Genova.html ^ | 3/31/03 | President Bollinger, Columbia Univ.
29 posted on 03/31/2003 1:13:23 PM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
You think's it bad now? Read this!
Columbia's De Genova responds -and it's worse than we thought!(Fron the daily student newspaper, the Columbia Spectator)
30 posted on 03/31/2003 2:44:05 PM PST by Pyro7480 (+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
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To: Pyro7480
Thanks for the link!
31 posted on 03/31/2003 3:12:38 PM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
This is the response that I got from my e-mail:

Thank you for your letter.

I would like to make clear in the strongest possible terms that the recent (March 26th, 2003) remarks by Assistant Professor Nicholas DeGenova concerning the war in Iraq were made on his own behalf and should not be taken to reflect the views of the department of Anthropology. As chair and as an individual member of Columbia's faculty I cherish the principles of freedom of speech and academic freedom. Now more than ever, we need to protect these freedoms. However, I am deeply concerned when the academic obligations of debate and critique are sullied by sentiments that seem profoundly out of line with the values and commitments that are fundamental to academic life. I am personally appalled by some of Professor DeGenova's remarks, and repudiate any statement wishing violence against soldiers or civilians alike. I deeply regret the offence that has been occasioned by this incident, but must note as well that I am also saddened by the violence of the language that has been directed, in turn, not just at Professor DeGenova alone, but at the department of Anthropology as a whole and our colleagues in the faculty and administration at Columbia University.

Professor Nicholas Dirks,
Chair, Department of Anthropology

=============================================

Now I am even MORE PISSED OFF!!!

32 posted on 03/31/2003 3:16:52 PM PST by BullDog108 (Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse.)
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To: BullDog108
Thanks for posting the letter, it's typical "educated beyond my intelligence" weasel-speak...
33 posted on 03/31/2003 3:23:23 PM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
What pissed me off was: ...but must note as well that I am also saddened by the violence of the language that has been directed, in turn, not just at Professor DeGenova alone, but at the department of Anthropology as a whole and our colleagues in the faculty and administration at Columbia University.

My e-mail was very rational and did not contain any threats. No cuss words (which for me was great restraint). Now, I don't know what all the other thousands of e-mails said...;^)

34 posted on 03/31/2003 3:36:07 PM PST by BullDog108 (Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse.)
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To: backhoe

On Wednesday, 30 professors held a "teach-in" that
degenerated into open hatred of America.
Anthropology professor Nicholas De Genova received national
coverage for his comments calling for fragging of our
officers by soldiers and for the military defeat of
America.

"'Peace is not patriotic,' DeGenova began. 'Peace is
subversive, because peace anticipates a very different
world than the one in which we live--a world where the U.S.
would have no place.'

'U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and
white supremacy,' he said. 'U.S. flags are the emblem of
the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem
of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who
find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.'

Between DeGenova's condemnation of patriotism and his
call for 'fragging'--'I wish,' he said, 'for a million
Mogadishus'--his speech provoked many of the professors who
spoke later in the night to assert their disagreement."
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/27/3e82ec7193097?in_archive=1

New York News Day, and the Associated Press covered the
story:

Columbia professor's anti-U.S. military call
Columbia teacher calls for `a million Mogadishus;'
referring to 1993 ambush of U.S. servicemen

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/03/28/sprj.irq.professor.somalia.ap/index.html


Teach-In, Turn On, Walk Out
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-continetti032803.asp

According to Matthew Continetti and other observers, De
Genova's remarks were applauded by the students.

In fact, the ideological tenor and conformity of the
"Teach-In" was rebuked by the anti-war staff of the
Columbia Spectator.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/27/3e82ee188475e?in_archive=1



Professor De Genova has responded to the criticism by
claiming that he was quoted out of context. However, De
Genova concluded his letter to the Columbia Spectator by
writing:
"Is this a tirade against anything and everything
'American'? Far from it. First, I hasten to remind you that
'American' refers to all of the Americas, not merely to the
United States, as U.S. imperial chauvinism would have it.

More importantly, my rejection of U.S. nationalism is an
appeal to liberate our own political imaginations such that
we might usher in a radically different world in which we
will not remain the prisoners of U.S. global domination. "

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/31/3e881bf8297f2

Professor De Genova's comments were completely in context
with his hatred of the United States.


Professor De Genova is untenured. I hope that the
administration takes into account the damage De Genova
caused to the reputation of Columbia, when they review his
performance.
Unfortunately, contempt for our President and our foreign
policy since September 11th, is the party line for the
Departments of History, Sociology, Political Science, and
MEALAC. Professor Eric Foner, the former head of the
history department and President of the AHA, commonly
portrayed as a moderate in these articles, is an open
communist. http://www.columbiacons.net/foner.html
Professor Anders Stephanson, another history professor
and speaker at the "Teach-in", wrote in a NY Newsday
article that the President Bush is on a messianic crusade
to dominate the world.
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpste233184949mar23.story
However, this is tame criticism compared to the hatred
shown towards the US in his book, "Manifest Destiny:
American Expansionism and the Empire of Right," where he
tries to delegtimize the country. In the past, Anderson
has suggested that Israel has no right to self defense as
it is a racist colonialist enterprise. Given that he
considers the US to be in the same category, it is
no surprise that Stephanson has not condemned De Genova.
Likewise, Professors Joseph Massad and Hamid Dabashi, the
chairman, of the Middle East and Asian Languages and
Cultures Department (MEALAC), have apologized for terrorism
by Palestinians and Hizbullah. Former PLO member Edward
Said, author of "Orientalism", the theory that has defined
Middle Eastern Studies around the country, not only shills
for terrorists, but committed an act in July 1999, when he
attacked Israeli soldiers from Lebanon. Despite this, and
questions about Said's biography, Columbia named a chair
after him (financed by an anonymous donor) and awarded it
to Rashid Khalidi, another apologist for terrorists. For
more information on MEALAC, see Campus Watch's page on
Columbia,
http://www.campus-watch.org/survey.php/id/16


Fortunately, this radicalism is not reflected by the
undergraduate population. According to a Columbia Spectator
survey, students are almost evenly divided on the war.

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/SEC/War+in+Iraq

On Wednesday, the Columbia University Anti-war Coalition
held a student walkout. The event, planned over spring
break, drew approximately 400 students. To the shock of the
anti-war crowd, an ad hoc counter-rally, organized in one
day, drew 100 students and matched the intensity of the
radicals.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/27/3e82ed042f5cb?in_archive=1
You can see pictures of the counter rally at

http://www.fun-times.net/modules.php?set_albumName=protest&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php&PHPSESSID=8090e7e1e2886887d1583e302
65a4171


Despite this embarrassing turn of events, radical
students held a rally to change university policy.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/28/3e845c551a2b9
After Barnard professor Peter Juviler brought up the events
of 1968, the administration agreed to hear the student
demands. The radicals, falsely claiming to represent the
majority view, called on the university to release an
anti-war statement, cease co-operating with Federal
authorities over foreign students, and no longer invest in
companies
profiting from the war.

It is imperative that the administration resists the
extortion of radical students and professors. This will
only occur if alumni contact President Bollinger, Provost
Cole, and the Trustees. You can contact President Lee
Bollinger by e-mail at bollinger@columbia.edu or call him
at 212-854-9970. Provost and Dean of Faculties, Jonathan
Cole, can be contacted by e-mail(jrc5@columbia.edu), phone
(212-854-2403), or fax (212-932-0418). Should you be so
inspired, you can e-mail Professor De Genova at
npd18@columbia.edu, or fax him at 212-854-0500.


In related news, there will be a pro-Iraqi
Liberation/pro-America rally at Columbia on Wednesday at
12:15 at Low Plaza. The Columbia College Conservative Club,
CU College Republicans, and Students United for America are
sponsoring the rally. We hope that a large turnout will
dissuade the
radical leftists and their sympathizers in the faculty and
administration from repeating the disastrous events of
1968.
This event is open to students from around the city and
metropolitan area.


Ron Lewenberg
Founding President,
Columbia College Conservative Club
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/conservative

Student Liason,
Columbia Conservative Alumni Association
http://www.columbiacons.net/intro.html
35 posted on 03/31/2003 4:50:20 PM PST by rmlew ("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.")
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To: rmlew
I greatly appreciate the further information and excellent links.
36 posted on 03/31/2003 5:08:30 PM PST by backhoe
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To: BullDog108; All
The Terror Teacher is about to get his Fifteen Minutes of Fame...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881294/posts
Columbia Professor Issue To Be Discussed on "The O'Reilly Factor" (within the hour)
3/31/02 | Self
37 posted on 03/31/2003 5:15:14 PM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
Thanks. You think his mailbox might have been full - or perhaps he changed his e-mail addy.
38 posted on 03/31/2003 5:16:08 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: backhoe
Good Lord!

That man looks like he is, like, majorly stoned. I mean, wow, don't Bogart the joint, man. . . . .

What a loser.

39 posted on 03/31/2003 5:18:07 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: backhoe
What a worm
40 posted on 03/31/2003 5:19:21 PM PST by mel
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