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10/11 http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/11/instructor.sept.11.ap Wisconsin University instructor likens Bush to Hitler. "Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler." In many ways I'm disappointed that Berkeley professors and instructors today aren't more vocal about this. We went from outspoken protestors in the 60-70s to mute nerdy engineers in the past few decades. Pathetic. \_ and john yoo. ub3r. \_ Uh yeah except running around mouthing 2nd grade level "you are a dumb poppyhead!" level insults and wild comparisons to a man who started a world war and is responsible for the intentional murder of millions of people is not only unhelpful but makes anything else they say easily dismissible. \_ As oppose to Bush's unintentional killing of half a million Iraqis? \_ I wonder if he has ever heard of Goodwin's law? \_ Godwin \_ WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA? \_ If you can't tell the difference between millions of people being sent to gas chambers and overs because bullets weren't efficient enough and post-invasion anarchy due to poor planning, there's nothing to talk about. \_ At least Hitler did not profit from the war. \_ You're wrong of course but nevermind. I'm sure he paid for everything he owned with his salary as an elected official. The motd can be so nutty, I love it. \_ I wonder if he has ever heard of Godwin's law? \_ The Bush Brownshits will either physically attack or at the very least run this man out of a job. They have been very vocal (and violent) in their offensive against anyone who dared to speak out against The Regime too openly. Perhaps it is different today, but it was actually dangerous to say things like this a few years ago. \_ It was actually dangerous? Which country did you live in a few years ago? \_ When was America's "Night of Broken Glass"? Can you provide some URLs for this violence you claim? \_ Here in the Bay Area someone was beaten: http://www.csua.org/u/h6h It was actually much worse in more Conservative parts of the country. I personally received death threats for some of my blog postings. \_ Sorry, but that incident was exposed as a hoax a long time ago. \_ Proof? \_ This is NOT from http://theonion.com. How does our genius-in-chief manage to go to Yale and Harvard without at least picking up a word or two? THE PRESIDENT: Well, they may not use cut and run, but they say date certain is when to get out, before the job is done. That is cut and run. Nobody has accused me of having a real sophisticated vocabulary, I understand that. \_ That says more about Harvard and Yale than it does about Bush. |
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www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/11/instructor.sept.11.ap -> www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/11/instructor.sept.11.ap/ Most Popular University instructor likens Bush to Hitler Adjust font size: Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A university instructor who came under scrutiny for arguing that the US government orchestrated the September 11 attacks likens President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay his students are being required to buy for his course. The essay by Kevin Barrett, "Interpreting the Unspeakable: The Myth of 9/11," is part of a $20 book of essays by 15 authors, according to an unedited copy first obtained by WKOW-TV in Madison and later by The Associated Press. The book's title is "9/11 and American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out." It is on the syllabus for Barrett's course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Islam: Religion and Culture," but only three of the essays are required reading, not including Barrett's essay. Barrett, a part-time instructor who holds a doctorate in African languages and literature and folklore from UW-Madison, is active in a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth. The group's members say US officials, not al-Qaida terrorists, were behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. "Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies," he wrote. Barrett said Tuesday he was comparing the attacks to the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, in 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship. "That's not comparing them as people, that's comparing the Reichstag fire to the demolition of the World Trade Center, and that's an accurate comparison that I would stand by," he said. He added: "Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler." Moira Megargee, publicity director for the Northampton, Massachusetts, publisher Interlink, said the book is due out at the end of November and the editing isn't finished. "It is not final and for all we know that essay may not be in the book or may be edited," she said. The university's decision to allow Barrett to teach the course touched off a controversy over the summer once his views became widely known. One county board cut its funding for the UW-Extension by $8,247 -- the amount Barrett will earn for teaching the course -- in a symbolic protest, even though the course is unrelated to that branch of the UW System. Democratic Governor Jim Doyle and his Republican challenger, Mark Green, have both said they believe Barrett should be fired. One essay Barrett is requiring students to read is entitled: "A Clash Between Justice and Greed," and argues that conflicts between Islam and the western world were made up after the "collapse of the Soviet Union to justify US 'defense' spending, and to provide a pretext of controlling the world's resources." The university's chief academic officer, Provost Patrick Farrell, decided to retain Barrett for the course after reviewing his plans and qualifications. He said Barrett could present his ideas during one week of the course as long as students were allowed to challenge them. He later warned Barrett to stop seeking publicity for his personal political views. Farrell said he has not seen the essay, but faculty can assign readings that may not be popular to everyone. "I think part of the role of any challenging course here is going to encourage students to think of things from a variety of perspectives," he said. Plane hits NY high-rise, sparks death, fear, fire A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building on Manhattan's East Side on Wednesday, killing at least two people, the New York City Fire Dep ... |
www.csua.org/u/h6h -> www.commondreams.org/views04/0603-08.htm The Progressive McCarthyism Watch: SF Art Gallery Owner Beaten Up for Showing Anti-Torture Painting by Matthew Rothschild Lori Haigh runs an art gallery in San Francisco. On May 16, according to AP, she installed a piece of artwork by Guy Colwell entitled "Abuse." htm) is an elaboration of the torture that went on at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In the foreground of Colwell's painting are two grinning US soldiers, one man and one woman, with American flags on their sleeves. The man is holding a cattle prod, and the woman, a cigarette dangling from her mouth, is holding electrical wires. Those wires are attached to the fingers of three naked male Iraqi detainees, who are standing on cylinder blocks. In the background, two other American soldiers in sunglasses are leading a shackled and blindfolded woman into the room. Haigh placed the painting in the front window of her gallery. Two days later, "someone threw eggs and dumped trash on the doorstep," AP reported, and "people started leaving nasty messages and threats on her business answering machine." She told AP that she received "about 200 angry voicemails, e-mails, and death threats." So she decided to remove the painting, but still things got worse. One day, someone walked into the gallery and spit in her face. And then on May 27, someone "knocked on the door of the gallery, then punched Haigh in the face, knocking her out, breaking her nose, and causing a concussion," AP said. Two days later, she still had a bad black right eye, with purple on the cheek next to the eye, one bandage over the nose, and another over her right eyebrow. The abuse was too much for her--she has two young kids--so she has closed her gallery down. com, you will see a picture of the gallery's front door, with yellow caution tape across the front. "This isn't art-politics central here at all," Haigh told AP. I never set out to be a crusader or a political activist." On Saturday, May 29, artists, poets, and other defenders of the First Amendment rallied in support of Haigh, her gallery, Colwell, and free expression. "In effect, the attackers, instead of writing 'Jew' on the window, wrote 'Artist' on the window," poet Jack Hirschman, who spoke at the rally, tells me. "The attack was really something out of the Brown Shirts." "This is all too scary for me," Haigh, who was at the rally, told the San Francisco Chronicle. But the paper said she was "visibly moved by the show of support" and is "weighing her options." I called the phone number of the gallery and got only this message: "Thank you for calling the Capobianco Gallery. I'm reprinting it here with his permission: Defiant For the Capobianco Gallery Not just elsewhere But right here In North Beach The power of painting To provoke and endure Has called out The old hatreds: Death threats, spittle, A physical attack on a Gallery owner by Detestable little Worms from the fascist can of abuse That's been thrown wide open. When the people Gather, what's been terrifying Turns to dust. And brush strokes Turn into the proverbial Thumbs in the eyes of Censoring war thugs, Because the freedom To create a work of art Is of the deepest affirmation Of the human heart And its very deathlessness Is why no violence can Ever long prevent the beauty Of its truth of liberty from being Triumphant in its struggle Against the lie of the living dead. "The enemy cannot be triumphant in this kind of situation," Hirschman says. E-Mail This Article FAIR USE NOTICE This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. |
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