Comments on: Columbia was Right in Hosting Ahmadinejad

By: Thom

Thom — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:16:00 +0000

The free exchange of ideas is a worthwhile goal. But what happened at Columbia was not that at all. Glenn Beck has the best response to his speaking at Columbia that I heard. He noted the press response in Iran that said (and likely had photos to back it up) that the Iranian president was greeted with applause by the American audience. As he said, and I agree with, the whole thing was a propaganda piece for Iran.

If Columbia University really wanted to promote free speech, we’d see conservative leaning groups get access to the campus. Till that happens, I’ll classify them in the useful idiot category.

By: Lloyd Selberg

Lloyd Selberg — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:32:11 +0000

RE: “The purpose of a university is the free exchange of ideas. Conservatives, rightly, complain that conservative ideas and ideals are stricken from the marketplace of ideas. This undermines the function of the university, leads to de facto indoctrination, and even causes the atrophy of “liberal” thought because it never has to defend itself. In such a system of censorship, everyone loses.”

Obviously John hasn’t been on a university campus in the last several decades. The idea of free speech especially regarding gender is nonexistent.

Why would it take the threat of a federal freedom of speech law suit for a university to withdraw termination of employment of distinguished tenured professor in violation of sexual harassment policy for submitting a published response to a published letter to the editor in the university paper?

The argument is priceless and the response is typical of the humor one might encounter at MIT.

Current gun laws, wrote Ms. Kletter, allowed “criminals, youth, and the mentally disabled to quickly and easily kill as many random people as they want.” The science professor responded, “I just want to point out, that Kletter’s ‘easy access’ to a vagina enables her to ‘quickly and easily’ have sex with ‘as many random people’ as she wants.”

By: S Baker

S Baker — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:15:48 +0000

The guy is an international criminal responsible for the mass murdering of thousands of people. Do we want Charles Manson to have a similar forum?? And Charles only directed the murder of a few hollywoodites.