Berkeley Leftists vs. Free Speech - Campus Newspapers Stolen for Running Pro-America Ad

Ann Rand Institute ^ | October 25, 2001 | ARI executive director Dr. Yaron Brook

[vannrox]

A very TIMELY read.

[camle]

notice that none dare call ti what it is: Fascism.

[Munson]

The insitute should of teamed up with conservative groups to put surveliance to get the morons who steal the newspapers fined and or arrested. That would of been a plus.

[lainie]

Yes... it should be pointed out this is from last October, though.

[KC_Conspirator]

I call it INAZI-ism, or International Socialism. Ernst Rohm and his book burning brownshirts are gazing up from hell with a smile on their face today.

[ohioman]

I wish we would simply add Berkeley to the bombing list. When we are attacked again, the safest places in America will be around college campuses like Berkeley and in Detroit.

[Jagdgewehr]

I'm all for an American invasion of Berkley to effect a regime change.

[Texas_Jarhead]

someone needs to teach those brownshirts a lesson once and for all. spoiled brats need a good a$$ whoopin

[Paul Atreides]

Seeking to justify their action, the thieves replaced the newspapers with unsigned fliers, which call the ad "hate speech," and vowed "until the Daily Cal [Berkeley's newspaper] shifts its policy we will not allow business to continue as usual."

Isn't it amazing how, day by day, month by month, year by year, more and more and more is being added to what constitutes "hate speech." Get ready; owning a King James Version of The Bible won't be far behind.

[Wondervixen]

Arrest them hell...They'd just be out to do it again and they'd be in line to receive one of their merit badges for spending time in jail.

I say, herd them up, take them to a secluded place, drop their pants, grab some good old hardwood paddles, and pound their behinds (like their parents never did) until they can't sit down for six months!

[Burkeman1]

If you want to look on the bright side these thefts do 1000 times more help to all those who oppose the Left in this country than the ads would do if they were not stolen. This totalitarian behavior is just scary to the average citizen. It is not like the views expressed in these ads are "radical" or really that ideologically right wing- they are the thoughts of the great majority of Americans. What these actions by campus totalitarians do is expose their weird cultlike simplton and scary world view to a wide audience of Americans who generally are never exposed to them. They are hurting themselves with these actions. Exposure is the last thing the campus left needs (they might not think so but it is true- to normal people they sound like fanatical freak and dangerous ones at that.) Most Americans have the First Amendment burned into their brains and this type of action makes the campus left to wholly anti- American, anti freedom, and just plain weird and scary. It literally puts them on the level of the KKK.

And as an aside these actions show how incapable of independent thought these people are. They never engage in debate any longer because they have zero capacity to reason or to form their ideas- they have ben taught no logical or analytical skills and know only slogans and rote ideology. Thus they shout down speakers, steal papers, harass and threaten anyone who does not agree with them. This is a sing of total intellectual bankruptcy.

[MrB]

pound their behinds (like their parents never did)

I really like your idea of vigilante ass whoopin'.

Liberals/Socialists are "perpetual adolescents in search of a consequence-free world". In other words, they're just spoiled brat children in need of a good spanking.

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[goldstategop]

The Bezerkeley Taliban confiscated the campus newspapers for trashing the one religion they tolerate and approve of since it hates America as much as they do. And the Leftists won't have any one else on campus learn the so called "religion of peace" is as vandalistic and totalitarian as they are. Indeed, the Bezerkeley Taliban and Islamist nazis are mindset and all, brothers under the skin.

[Mr. Mojo]

an essay by Dr. Leonard Peikoff titled "End States Who Sponsor Terrorism"

Not difficult to imagine why this would get get Berkeley Marxists in an uproar. They and the Jihadists are virtually indistinguishable, and have exactly the smae goal --- the destruction of America.

[Greybird]

[From the press release]
ARI executive director Dr. Yaron Brook is available for interviews.

Yaron Brook also wears a bulletproof vest every time he speaks in public. He is afraid that someone is going to assassinate him due to his support for Israel. So much for the courage of his convictions.

(I am not making this up. He said this in my presence at an ARI event. One that was free, by the way -- I do not support the ARI, as it has misrepresented Rand's philosophy.)

[From Peikoff's article]
[...] There is still time to make the world understand that we will take up arms, anywhere and on principle, to secure an American's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on earth.

Peikoff has also called -- on O'Reilly's Fox News show and elsewhere -- for the immediate nuclear destruction of Tehran and Baghdad. To further this supposed end. With someone this bloodthirsty, I cannot keep a civil tongue, so I'll let John Quincy Adams provide an appropriate rejoinder, from 4 July 1821:

"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. ... She well knows that, by once enlisting under other banners than her own ... she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue. ... She might become the dictatress of the world; she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit."

[NWOBLOWS]

We cannot survive treason. Marxism-Leninism is treason. It should be torn out from the root and the principles of Americanism reinstated. If this runs into conflict with the internationalists global agenda, and it will, we should reconsider where our loyalties reside. Borders, language, culture.

[Ajnin]

Reagan not only failed to retaliate after 241 U.S. marines in Lebanon

Actually the media failed to report the retaliation. Many of the Senior NCO's that trained me in the Marine Corps killed many a diaperhead in Lebanon. The US military spent an additional nine months bombing the crap out of the Shuuf Mountains and surrounding terrorists bases. I also read a book by Gale Rivers a former NZ SAS member turned merc that allegedly worked with US SPECFOR to exact a little revenge. I'm not sure how true the book is but it has yet to be refuted. After seeing how Reagan leveled Tripoli when one American soldier was killed at a Disco by terrs, I just don't buy the idea he did nothing after the barracks bombing.

[wretchard]

Fascism had its direct roots in Communism. Mussolini was a member of the Communist Party of Italy before he split off and founded the Fascist Party. Nazism itself had quasi-Communist roots, which coopted the deeply Marxist labor movement of post WWI German society. Nazism mirrored every institution of the Bolsheviks. For the Communist Party there was the Nazi Party, for the Cheka the Gestapo, for the Gulag there were the Death Camps. We spent WWII fighting a Communist faction.

The Communists use classic misdirection when they describe the Nazis as something wholly different from themselves. But in reality, Hitler was to Stalin as Pepsi Cola is to Coca Cola.