Outrage

Submitted by Alan Mencher (United States), Dec 28, 2002 at 16:17

Gilmer and Foney (how appropriate a name!) follow left wing techniques down to the letter. They avoid the issue and instead indulge in the usual ad hominem attacks. This time, Daniel Pipes is the guardian of academic freedom (can't they at least be a little original in their slights?). You would hardlly think that William Bennett is the even handed intellectual titan he has proven himself to be from their characterization of him or his positions.

THEIR students are the ones who shout down free speech as was done to Mr. Netanyahu in Montreal. Why should a speaker have to pay for security protection against threatened violence to allow him to respond to invitations to speak at Universities where some of these Trojan Horses are paid to spew to their hapless students the most outrageous misrepresentations and distortions of fact and history?? Their lies are becoming better known with the courageous work of Dr Pipes and with such books as Robert Spencer's recent "Islam Unveiled". If this country were to act on reciprocity rather than the rule of law, these academics would either be in prison, in the cemetery or have some limbs amputated. Instead, they are free to practice sedition right in our midst with the blessings of their mindless supporters.

One eventually finds that it is just not possible to engage these Marxists in rational discussion. However, giving them a forum to vent their vitriol, subject to reactions of the interested public, allows them to hang themselves on their own petard which they do in consistent and systematic fashion.

Leftists are so taken with their own self righteousness that they cannot see straight. Had they listened to the evidence and acted accordingly, they would have voted clinton (small "c" deliberately) out of office, the unspeakable Al Gore would have been President, and as subsequent events indicate, he would almost certainly been re-elected (with the usual help of illegal and dead voters and local judiciary holding polling stations open beyond hours, and with the media trumpeting false election results before poll closings leading many Republicans to stay home).

Did they learn a lesson? Not enough to avoid the trap of pouncing on Trent Lott and making an issue of his astounding stupidity. We couldn't have gotten rid of him any other way!! But they couldn't see that. Now the leadership is far stronger and far more effective. We may even be able to save our country, although that is still very much in doubt.

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