Posted on 09/23/2001 9:06:08 AM PDT by buckbonzi
America’s Enemies Rally at UNC-Chapel Hill
By Michelle Oswell and Michael Burdei
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 21, 2001
A CONGREGATION of faithful left-wing fundamentalists descended en masse at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Monday night, to practice one of their most sacred rituals: spewing hatred for America.
"If I were the President…I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and the impoverished, and all the millions of other victims of American imperialism. Then . . . I would announce that America's global interventions had come to an end," preached William Blum, author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.
"I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90 percent and I would use the savings to pay the reparations to our victims and to increase social services. . ."
Nod, nod, nod – clap, clap, clap responded the 700 faculty, students and community members in attendance.
"If one [of the perpetrators] is Osama bin Laden, send the international police for him and pick up Henry Kissinger and Augusto Pinochet on the way home," declared Catherine Lutz, professor of Anthropology.
This recipe for national suicide received boisterous applause from the crowd, who continued to nod, smile, cough, clap... everything but actually think. But none of that mattered at the moment. The crowd obviously liked what they heard.
The UNC Progressive Faculty Network sponsored this "teach-in" on September 17, titled "Understanding the Attack on America: an Alternative View." It provided neither an understanding of the attack nor any surprising sentiments from the left: just the same, tired rhetoric that Campus Leftists have been spouting for years.
The panelists stepped forward with one Anti-American libel after another, almost as if there were a competition among them to see who could hate our country the most. One crowd-pleaser was William Blum’s jab at Cuban immigrants and America’s relations with them.
"There are few if any nations in the world that have harbored more terrorists than the United States. And one example, the anti-Castro Cubans in Miami, have [performed] hundreds if not thousands of terrorist attacks in the U.S. and Cuba and elsewhere. All kinds of murders and bombings for decades, and they have been harbored here in safety for those decades."
UNC Sociology professor Charlie Kurzman blamed recent events on a Military Industrial Complex.
"We're…playing into the hands of our own militarists, whose interests always lie, I believe, in the exaggeration of threats, armed responses, and so on. In fact, I would argue that there is tacit collusion among the militarists of all sides."
Also drawing applause was a diatribe against the perennial scapegoat, the white male of European descent by self-proclaimed Arab-American activist and "person of color," Rania Masri.
"So it seems that simply looking Middle Eastern has become a crime. And this has further fueled the xenophobic sentiment that is taking hold of this country. And I say xenophobic because it’s not simply Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans, and Indian-Americans that are being attacked, but also Asian-Americans, Korean-Americans, Chinese-Americans. Anyone who looks different than your typical white man."
The forum hit a new low, however, when panelist Stan Goff equated the terrorist attacks with the German Nazis’ torching of the Reichstag in 1933.
"The de facto executive branch and the compliant press are putting the historical spotlight right now on December 7, 1941, and Pearl Harbor," said Goff, a disgruntled former U.S. Army Ranger. "I think we need to aim that spotlight at February 27 in 1933 and the Reichstag fire."
The mere fact that the audience clapped and... yes, nodded their heads vigorously in agreement, made it all the more nauseating.
Afterwards a long-haired twenty-something peddled 50-cent copies of the Socialist Worker; and a local left-wing bookshop sold copies of panelists’ books.
All in all, it was a shameful example of how state-funded universities are responding to the deadliest terror attacks in our nation’s history.
To paraphrase the great American poet Ezra Pound, "Utopian blindness carried beyond a certain point becomes a public menace, and there is no cure for a sucker." Those 700 people who shook their heads up and down for three hours like baby rattles could do themselves and society an enormous favor: take a break.
Michelle Oswell is a Ph.D. student in Renaissance musicology at UNC and a politically active conservative. She can be reached at moswell@bellsouth.net.
Michael Burdei is a Junior Political Science major and staff writer for Carolina Review. He can be reached at burdei@email.unc.edu.
Tell the good folks at UNC-Chapel Hill what you think of their decision to allow Anti-American rallies on their state-supported campus. Chancellor James Moeser can be reached at 919-962-1365, or by e-mail at jmoeser@email.unc.edu.
Who's dying besides a handfull of terrorists and a bunch of innocents?
...Step up and be heard. Thankyou for your testimony, now be seated and shut up!
...Did I miss anything? Feel free to add on...
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
You conviniently fail to mention that the reason stewardesses throats were slit and the over 6,000 Americans were burned to death, were crushed to death or were forced to fall to their deaths was for no other reason than the fact they were Americans.
After their deaths, countless Middle Easterners abroad and in the USA rejoiced. In Pakistan, "Death to America" riots broke out in the street.
There are over 285 million Americans and the best you can do to support your implication of American intolerance is to site two murders when murders occur in every major city in the USA every single day of the year and some vague reports of "harrassment".
If America were as intolerant as the homelands of these "brown" people, their blood would now be flowing in rivers down American streets.
If you are try to convince us that America is an intolerant and racist nation, you are going to have to do better than that.
I certainly hope these traitors are spared the uncertainty, fears, discomfort and inconvenience of old age -- or even middle age -- Oh what the heck, even tomorrow might be too difficult and offensive to their sensibilities.
I will pray for them though: "May God have mercy on their souls."
Mark Steyn
It has always been my opinion that the school is an indoctrination camp of sorts, in which the Great White Hope from the North shows the ignorant country folk the errors in their ways of thought. At the same time, affirmative action reigns supreme, and standards are clearly lowered in the name of diversity. Unfortunately, many students who enter as freshmen with the values and beliefs of their parents leave as seniors with newfound attitudes contrary to those learned during their upbringing.
They go out into the world believing that they have been both educated and enlightened, not realizing that they likely had a better grasp on reality when they were in high school.
"BLAME AMERICA FIRST"
crowds are thriving, living well, highly paid, spoiled, fawned upon, coddled, & not working too hard (thank you very much!),
in elite American Academia,
coddled by rich liberal or absent/AWOL parents,
by LEFTIST enormously well-endowed (by dead Capitalists, who are rolling over in their graves!) Private Foundations (which have been kidnapped by Leftist academic types), and
lavishly supported by OUR State & Federal TAX DOLLARS!
I guess these other communist/socialist wannabes will never realize that it was soldiers who fought for this country's independence from England (if I could time travel, I'd send them all back to the winter our soldiers spent at Valley Forge) and hence the Constitution was written, guaranteeing them their freedom of speech. Oh yeah right, what am I thinking?? I totally forgot the Constiution is EVIL because it was written by a bunch of white men, some of whom owned slaves.
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