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Young America's Foundation
Listed below is an email sent to a student organizing an event with a LTC returning from Iraq as the main speaker. This email is from a Professor John Daly in Warren Community College. This is the type of shit that calls out people. Stuff like this makes me so pissed of that people like this, invariably from either the media or academic institutions, are actually tolerated. And he finds her flyers offensive. I have no words that are strong enough to convey how mad i am that shit like this occurs.
Dear Rebecca:
I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look like fascist propaganda and is extremely offensive. Your main poster "Communism killed 100,000,000" is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that CAPITALISM has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily news papers. The U.S. government can fly to dominate the people of Iraq in 12 hours, yet it took them five days to assist the people devastated by huricane Katrina. Racism and profits were key to their priorities. Exxon, by the way, made $9 Billion in profits this last quarter--their highest proft margin ever. Thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and working class people who are recruited to fight and die for EXXON and other corporations who earning megaprofits from their imperialist plunders. If you want to count the number of deaths based on political systems, you can begin with the more than a million children who have died in Iraq from U.S.-imposed sanctions and war. Or the million African American people who died from lack of access to healthcare in the US over the last 10 years.
I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like your won't dare show their face on a college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people's needs--such freedom fighters can be counted throughout American history and they certainly will be counted again.
Prof. John Daly
Listed below is an email sent to a student organizing an event with a LTC returning from Iraq as the main speaker. This email is from a Professor John Daly in Warren Community College. This is the type of shit that calls out people. Stuff like this makes me so pissed of that people like this, invariably from either the media or academic institutions, are actually tolerated. And he finds her flyers offensive. I have no words that are strong enough to convey how mad i am that shit like this occurs.
Dear Rebecca:
I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look like fascist propaganda and is extremely offensive. Your main poster "Communism killed 100,000,000" is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that CAPITALISM has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily news papers. The U.S. government can fly to dominate the people of Iraq in 12 hours, yet it took them five days to assist the people devastated by huricane Katrina. Racism and profits were key to their priorities. Exxon, by the way, made $9 Billion in profits this last quarter--their highest proft margin ever. Thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and working class people who are recruited to fight and die for EXXON and other corporations who earning megaprofits from their imperialist plunders. If you want to count the number of deaths based on political systems, you can begin with the more than a million children who have died in Iraq from U.S.-imposed sanctions and war. Or the million African American people who died from lack of access to healthcare in the US over the last 10 years.
I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like your won't dare show their face on a college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people's needs--such freedom fighters can be counted throughout American history and they certainly will be counted again.
Prof. John Daly
posted by Maddawg at 11/17/2005 04:51:00 PM
4 Comments:
A professor sent that to a STUDENT?? Even if i completely disagreed with the girl and everything she, her organization, and her event stood for, that was completely and totally uncalled for. The professor should be called out for that one.
So let me propose a question to you.
What if this John Daly were conservative, and he encouraged his students to attend the event? What would your thoughts of him be?
It's amazing how people don't mind free speech - as long as the speaker agrees with their views.
Another thing is that you post this letter he wrote, but you don't post any of the "fascist propoganda" that incited him to write the letter. What if it REALLY WERE fascist propaganda?
And finally, I think it's important to note that, rather than put up fliers with his views on the war in Iraq and the bumbling of Hurricane Katrina, he wrote a letter to the student who's organizing the event.
Just my two cents.
Keep the change.
P.S. - The way you feel about certain people within the media and academia, that they "are actually tolerated," is the same way a lot of people feel about certain right-wingers, as well. *Cough* Pat Robertson *Cough*. Just so you know.
My favorite part is when he suggests that mutiny is the best option for soldiers. Obviously thats the best way to handle deciding that you can no longer uphold the oath you swore.
I keep reading the letter, and the more I do, the funnier I find it. It's almost like reading something a paranoid schizophrenic would write - the points are unrelated, the wording is disorganized, and the motives he suggests are out-right ridiculous. I can hardly bring myself to take him seriously.
What I find offensive in his letter is his campaign to silence the so-called "right-wing, anti-people politics" on college campuses. What better place for an open exchange of ideas than centers where we send our young adults to expand their minds and horizens? What is Prof. Daly so afraid of that he can't stand for people to listen to an argument he doesn't agree with?
It seems to me that he would do better, and find larger audiences if, rather than trying to hide his opposition from the public, he promoted his point of view through speakers and well-reasoned arguments.
That said - he's still a douche.
I love it when conservatives say they don't want partisan bashing and blind argument and such, and rather they want an "open exchange of ideas," when mere months ago, at the conclusion of a House Committee on the Judiciary, Republican Chairman John Sensenbrenner, speaking OVER the ranking Democratic member trying to say something before the meeting was adjourned, slammed his gavel and said "Meeting is adjourned," then got up and walked out while the Democratic Congressman was still TALKING!
Talk about a double standard.
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