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Students against Socialism turn heads at Washington University
KMOX radio ^
| 11/09/2009
| Kevin Killeen
Posted on 11/11/2009 10:37:29 AM PST by Marathoner
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (KMOX Radio) -- Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a demonstration at Washington University against socialism was making some students uncomfortable.
Students cutting across the campus on a warm fall day heard the Soviet National Anthem in the breeze, coming from loud speakers inside a makeshift prison camp complete with a high-wire fence, blood-stained inmates and goose-stepping guards in Soviet-era uniforms.
Organizer Dirk Doebler of the conservative group Young Americans for Liberty says the goal was to show a "liberal-leaning" campus the ugly history of socialism.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berlinwall; highereducation; liberty; russia; socialism; students; yaf
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Enoouraging to see that at least some students "get it".
To: Marathoner
Enoouraging to see EXTREMELY
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posted on
11/11/2009 10:41:37 AM PST
by
Outlaw Woman
(I will die on my feet before I live on my knees.)
To: Marathoner
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posted on
11/11/2009 10:45:08 AM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Nepolean fries the idea powder)
To: Marathoner
a demonstration at Washington University against socialism was making some students uncomfortableAh, poor little commie bustards were uncomfortable, my heart bleeds...not
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posted on
11/11/2009 10:47:13 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Oath keepers + The NRA = FReeRepublic (.com baby))
To: Marathoner
How many years in jail can you get for not buying health insurance under the recently passed version of Pelosicare? Five years, I think?
The problem with winning the Cold War is that we don't have the Soviet Union to use as a bad example anymore.
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posted on
11/11/2009 10:50:32 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Obamalaise - the new mood for America.)
To: Marathoner
My teenagers tell me that many kids in their school “get it” and can see that politicians are messing with their futures. These kids are the future of America. I am hopeful there will be some great conservative leaders arise from them.
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posted on
11/11/2009 10:51:26 AM PST
by
cblue55
To: Marathoner
But some students accused the demonstrators of trying to slam the Obama Administration as it pushes for nationalized health care. Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that howls is the one that got hit. Too bad for them.
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posted on
11/11/2009 10:54:34 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
To: Marathoner
Hot Dog! I drive through this campus every day in my commute and it is a liberal bastion. So good to see some of the kids still get it!!
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posted on
11/11/2009 10:57:25 AM PST
by
Clintons Are White Trash
(Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas, Rosie ODonnell, Maureen Dowd, Medea Benjamin - The Axis of Ugly)
To: Marathoner
If you really want to see Socialism, don’t go to the Sociology Dept. Go to the Financial Aid dept. Cradle to grave Commies.
To: Marathoner
I don’t think that it makes the kids uncomfortable at all.
Young people are very open to different points of view and ideas.
Its the professors that are being made uncomfortable as this undermines their efforts at indoctrination.
To: Marathoner
Hurrah for these enlightened, aware kids!
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posted on
11/11/2009 11:04:28 AM PST
by
Dudoight
To: Marathoner
But some students accused the demonstrators of trying to slam the Obama Administration as it pushes for nationalized health care. All I can say is if the shoe fits....
To: Marathoner
Warning about what happens in socialist lands.
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posted on
11/11/2009 11:30:28 AM PST
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: Marathoner
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posted on
11/11/2009 11:36:13 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: YankeeReb
They’re calling “V” “anti-Obama”,
when it is simply an allegory on the dangers of smiley faced (at first) fascism.
Shoe fits, eh?
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posted on
11/11/2009 11:39:44 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: Marathoner; ETL; Tailgunner Joe; M. Espinola
I noticed that the Russian exchange student was the most ticked about the gulag display. That Russian should go back to his motherland and lick Putin's boots.
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posted on
11/11/2009 11:51:51 AM PST
by
Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: KarlInOhio
Pootie poot is trying his best to make sure that we can use Russia as an example, even to this day.
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posted on
11/11/2009 11:55:14 AM PST
by
Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: Dudoight
To: Marathoner
Why over 60+ years later are we still hunting down Nazi’s who helped kill 8 million jews, while not a single communist who helped kill 100+ Million people has been put on trial?
Something smells.
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posted on
11/11/2009 12:45:45 PM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied, the economy died)
To: Marathoner
It’s encouraging to see that the right is getting more active.
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:32:52 PM PST
by
Rick_Michael
(Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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