Bondage and Discipline

The Daily Texan and Redhunter have more to say  about the incident at UT where protesters tried to stop David Horowitz' lecture on the Academic Bill of Rights.

The Daily Texan article was apparently written by someone who wasn't there.  There is no mention of the VIGOROUS anti-protest group shouting back at the Socialists/Anarchists/Totalitarian-Welcome-Wagon Leftist Frat Boys 'n Girls.  Its primary source is a Leftist professor of Communications, Dana Cloud, whom the article quotes at the beginning and end, and, secondarily, the police blotter.

[Note to self : add "Communications" to list of joke majors, along with Education and Sociology.]

Turns out there were a total of six "cuffed martyrs" who got to spend about 18 hours as guests of the police department.  None of them were actually students at UT (Surprise!).

With a nod to the Daily Texan, we offer this example of the intellectual rigor that we may expect from communications majors, oh excuse us, professors at UT:

Mus sinister Mickii, communications prof

"The irony of squelching such a protest with police on a meeting on free speech is the fact that Horowitz is part of a growing trend, the new McCarthyisms - disciplining progressive faculty," Cloud said.

(Thanks to No Pasaran! for the image)

Comments

[Howarde]

SQELCHING FREE SPEECH
Oh, yes, I know what this is like. When the Free Speech Committee was first formed at Berkeley, they went to the Berkeley Book Store and demanded that the posters I published at the time, with an anti-Communist flair, be removed. When I next visited there I found Che, Chou en Lai, Ho Chi Minh, etc., up on the walls, all approved by the Free Speech Committee, of course.

So much for Free Speech and Prof. Dana Cloud, who obviously clouds the issue of what is and what is not free speech.

Let those advocates, supposedly, of free speech rent their own halls to speak. They call others fascists while using fascist tactics themselves, ala Hitler's Brown Shirts, to shut off dissent. I read the news reports in the 30s as Hitler rose to power, and the Brown Shirts in New Jersey (Nazi sympathizers) at the time used the same tactics. Joe Curran's communist dominated NMU (National Maritime Union) used similar tactics, as did Harry Bridges' men on the West Coast. Thank God, when the war began, that they fell in step with the nation and rose as one to defeat the National Socialist Party (which they were) of Germany, under Adolf Hitler!

As one who visited Russia during the age of OGPU and the Gulag, who knew Cuba when Cubans were free, who had worked with and discussed communism and socialism with many who risked their lives to cross borders in the 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970 and 1980s, I can tell you that should they get into power, free speech would end immediately, as it has in Cuba, and will soon happen in Venezuela. They have no idea of what it was like under such systems; I spoke with people who had barely survived the pograms and the Gulag and other prisons for simply questioning government policies.

Power to the people? Yes, we need to use it and take back our schools from these loonies.