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. . . RADICAL THOUGHT see "BELIEF" for related links see "POLITICS" for related links Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea. --Alain (1868—1951) [pseudonym of Émile-Auguste Chartier] French poet and philosopher. _Propos sur la religion_ [1938] I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough. --retired Weather Underground terrorist and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago Bill Ayers, interview in _The New York Times_, [11 September 2001] The strongly redistributive state must become ever more intrusive, and the final trade-off may be between equality and liberty. --Peter Berger (1929— ) American sociologist and Lutheran theologian. _The Capitalist Revolution_ [1986] As I told my friends, the attempt to punish someone because of speech or thought is abhorrent whoever applies it. It is even _more_ destructive, however, when it is done by the political wing that presents itself as the protector of free speech and personal liberty. It's one thing when the wolf comes to the door; it's quite another when that wolf is disguised as your grandmother. And if you have any doubt about who controls our culture today, consider that Larry Flynt thrives while Dr. Laura Schlessinger struggles. --former Los Angeles NOW president Tammy Bruce, _The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds_ [2001] - Although Gore flunked out of divinity school, dropped out of law school, and had lower college grades than Bush, when comparisons are made, it is Bush who is routinely underestimated. His humility and his plain talk are viewed by the liberal elite as evidence of mental limitations when in fact they are evidence of a refreshing lack of intellectual snobbery. Underneath Bush's folksy, disarming ways is a degree at Yale University and a masters degree at Harvard. He is a qualified military fighter pilot -- and you cannot fake the skills, judgment, and courage required to put a modern military jet through its paces at 600 miles per hour. --Linda Bowles "Bush on the Upswing" [31 October 2000] - As long as a relatively few men own the railroads, the telegraph, the telephone, own the oil fields and the gas fields and the steel mills and the sugar refineries and the leather tanneries -- own, in short, the sources and means of life-- they will corrupt our politics, they will enslave the working class, they will impoverish and debase society, they will do all things that are needful to perpetuate their power as the economic masters and the political rulers of the people. --Eugene V. Debs (1855—1926) American socialist leader. Speech [23 May 1908]. - The other day, by a vote of five to four-- a kind of craps game-- come seven, come 'leven-- they [the U.S. Supreme Court] declared the child labor law unconstitutional-- a law secured after twenty years of education and agitation on the part of all kinds of people. And yet, by a majority of one, the Supreme Court a body of corporation lawyers, with just one exception, wiped that law from the statute books, and this in our so-called democracy, so that we may continue to grind the flesh and blood and bones of puny little children into profits for the Junkers of Wall Street. And this in a country that boasts of fighting to make the world safe for democracy! The history of this country is being written in the blood of the childhood the industrial lords have murdered. --Eugene V. Debs (1855—1926) American socialist leader. Speech [1918]. - Beware of the man of one book. --Isaac D'Israeli (1766—1848) English author and the father of Benjamin Disraeli. Romance is rape embellished with meaningful looks. --Andrea Dworkin (1946—2005) American feminist. "Philadelphia Inquirer" [21 May 1995] - We are not Americans. We are Muslims. [The U.S.] is going to deport and attack us! It is us vs. them! Truth against falsehood! The colonizers and masters against the oppressed, and we will burn down the master's house! ... We reject the U.N., reject America, reject all law and order. Don't lobby Congress or protest because we don't recognize Congress! The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it! --Al-Muhajiroun spokesman Muhammad Faheed, to a meeting of the Muslim Students Association. - We live in an age of Wrath. It is to be found in the terrorist, the kidnapper, the hijacker, the looter, and in the clenched fist of the demonstrator. [...] When we ask what is their justification, they hardly have to give an answer, because our age finds it for them. _They are angry._ That is apparently enough. We justify their Wrath, so we justify their violence. If someone thinks that he has cause to be angry, he may act from his Anger as destructively as he sees fit. In fact, we have come close to the point of giving to Wrath an incontestable license to terrorize our society, just as an angry man may terrorize his family, but whereas we do not excuse the husband or the father, we extend our sympathy and understanding to the terrorist. --Henry Fairlie (1924—1990) British author. _The Seven Deadly Sins Today_ [1978] - Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. --Marilyn French (1929— ) American writer. _The Women's Room_ [1977] - The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus. --Columbia University professor Nicholas de Genova. In Ron Howell, "Radicals Speak Out At Columbia ‘Teach-In,’" NewsDay, March 27, 2003. - Writers in _The Nation_, the _Village Voice_, _Salon_ and elsewhere love to refer to themselves as "dissidents" as if the majority opinion were somehow corrupt or totalitarian. It is difficult for them to comprehend that maybe, just maybe, their dissent isn't morally or intellectually superior, it's just wrong. After all, "dissident" is a morally neutral term. Osama Bin Laden was a dissident in Saudi Arabia. David Duke has the same claim to the adjective as Ralph Nader or Leonard Peltier. If you steadfastly insist that 2+2 is a banana you may be a dissident, but you shouldn't wait by the mailbox for your Profiles in Courage award. --Jonah Goldberg (1969— ) American conservative commentator and author. - The feminists, hiding behind ski masks, set alight homemade crosses, then stormed the cathedral. They vandalized the walls and alter with spray paint proclaiming "No God, no masters." They knocked down elderly nuns, destroyed hymnals and prayer books, smeared the walls with used sanitary napkins and strew condoms around, all in the name of tolerance. It seems these protestors could not bear any views on abortion or women's rights that disagreed with their own. And since the Catholic church believes all abortion is sin and chooses not to ordain women as priests, well then, its cathedrals were fair game for a good ransacking. --Lorne Gunter, "Fry Fry Again", _Edmonton Journal_ [30 March 2001] Federal Multiculturalism Minister Hedy Fry, who elsewhere sees two Klansmen in every home and a burning cross on every lawn, did not decry the Montreal desecration. Far from it.[...] An actual, egregious example of hateful, anti-Catholic, anti-Christian bigotry had just taken place, and the federal minister responsible for ending prejudice didn't even take notice. She was too busy writing new releases extolling the virtues of her party's government. [...] If rioters, especially Anglo-Saxon males, had smashed any other faith's place of worship, Fry would have been first in the moral indignation line. She would have led the cries for an full inquiry and demanded millions for sensitivity education from cradle to grave. --ibid Yet such selective outrage is not conscious. Liberals in general are hyper-sensitive to anything remotely resembling intolerance from whites, men, Christians and right-wingers, because such abuses, real or imagined, justify liberal solutions such as massive government spending on intrusive programs for social engineering. At the same time, liberals are blind to abuses by racial and religious minorities, women and leftists because abuses by politically favoured groups upset the liberal agenda. They destroy the liberals' claim that the problem is all "them" and the solution all "us." So liberals conveniently, but subconsciously, ignore such breaches. --ibid -- Monday, March 07, 2005 A CU prof deserving of sympathy By David Harsanyi Denver Post Staff Writer Betsy Hoffman's self-serving and phony warning about "McCarthyism" at CU - in the middle of what should be an impartial investigation of Ward Churchill - was disgraceful. But if the University of Colorado president needs a genuine case of discrimination at her school, here's one: CU professor Phil Mitchell's class certainly isn't as melodramatic as our man Ward Churchill's. How could it be? Surely, it's a complete riot taking one of Churchill's classes. Deciphering the feckless professor's swirling quasi-intellectual gibberish is entertaining enough as a citizen; I can't imagine how a student feels. Mitchell never refers to "actions" or "trigger fingers" and seldom calls anyone a Nazi. Boring stuff. As an alternative, Mitchell likes to employ facts in his history courses. He teaches. He doesn't preach. Mitchell isn't as alluring as Churchill. He doesn't hold tenure - or a plastic AK-47. Only bachelor's and master's degrees in education, as well as a doctorate in American social history from CU. He began teaching history in 1984, and in 1998, Mitchell won the prestigious SOAR Award for teacher of the year. Recently, William Wei, director of the Sewall Academic Program, let Mitchell know that CU would not be renewing his contract after this year because "his teaching was not up to the department standards." (While Wei confirmed this to me, Joyce Nielsen, associate dean for Social Sciences, denies she gave that reasoning for Mitchell's deal.) As a conservative, and even worse, a ghastly evangelical Christian, Mitchell wondered how he lasted this long. "I've had enough. I am clearly being closed out for political or religious reasons," Mitchell says. "I am one of the top-rated professors in the history of the department." Wei, hardly a conservative, says that in his perspective, "Phil is a great person, a good teacher and highly regarded by his students." Faculty course questionnaires confirm what students think of him. You'll be hard-pressed to find anything but an A+. But it's never been easy. Mitchell taught at the Hallett Diversity Program for 24 straight semesters. That is, until he made the colossal error of actually presenting a (gasp!) diverse opinion, quoting respected conservative black intellectual Thomas Sowell in a discussion about affirmative action. Sitting 5 feet from a pink triangle that read "Hate-Free Zone," the progressive head of the department berated Mitchell, calling him a racist. "That would have come as a surprise to my black children," explains Mitchell, who has nine kids, as of last count, two of them adopted African-Americans. Then, Mitchell had the audacity to use a book on liberal Protestantism in the late 19th century. So repulsed by the word "god" was one student, she complained, and the department chair fired him without a meeting, he said. Was there a protest for academic freedom? Bullhorns? Power to the people? Conceivably, if Mitchell would have used a less-offensive book - say the Churchill classic "Perversions of Justice" (Ward's hobby?) - he could have rallied the Kool-Aid brigade lickety split. In time, Mitchell was reinstated but was never able to teach in the history department again. "People say liberals run the university. I wish they did," Mitchell says. "Most liberals understand the need for intellectual diversity. It's the radical left that kills you." So Churchill may play the part, but Mitchell is the true dissenter at CU. Why did he stay this long? "I stay to create enthusiasm and love for history," Mitchell says. " And I am successful at that. I love the classroom, and I love my students." Once, president Hoffman promised increased intellectual diversity at CU - not a purge of conservatives. Another promise broken. -- ...I can't help finding a tendency that can fairly be called "anti-American" more prominent in some left wing criticism than in right wing criticism. I think there are two ways this is true. First, a lot of leftist criticism has a strong double- bind element to it. You'll see a leftist complain that the US meddles too much in other countries' affairs _and_ that the US has not brought a just, lasting peace to the Middle East. A rightist will argue _either_ that we should settle those people's hash or that we should not entangle ourselves in other countries' business. But not both at the same time, or serially. A certain kind of leftist will complain about "white flight," then turn around and decry "gentrification." On the other hand, if we all started professing Christian faith in a Falwell-approved manner, the religious right would not turn around and accuse the nation of excess religiosity. The other thing that contributes to the impression of "anti-Americanism" on the left is that while the right's models tend to come from an idealized version of the American past, the left's tend to be the present or future of other countries, whether from Europe or the Third World. From the "Progressive" infatuation with Prussian bureaucracy at the end of the 19th century through the successive enthusiasms for Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Ho and Danny Ortega (with the EU in the "repeating as farce" role), an important and often dominant strain of left-wing rhetoric has been, "We need to be less like ourselves and more like these other people. When a prominent Canadian feminist tells a conference that, compared with US dominance, burkhas and beatings and purdah and suttee are _nothing_ when it comes to the oppression of women, what is one to call it _but_ Anti-Americanism? --Jim Henley - The Left blamed the United States for the Cold War and the division of Europe, and for unrest in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere. Whatever happened, the Soviet Union was innocent and peace-loving. This same Left - in the Sontags and Pinters, these same people - follows an unbroken line in its attitude towards extremists in the Arab and Muslim world. Happy to leave millions at the mercy of Communism, they are happy to leave millions at the mercy of Islamist terror, so lining themselves up as ever on the side of oppression and lies. Their intellectual failure probably does not matter much here [in the West], where long exposure has shown that their opinions have foundations in psychopathology rather than reality. But it plays well in extremist circles, where assorted fanatics can now say, Look, the West is wicked, their intellectuals tell us so. --David Pryce-Jones (1936— ) British author and commentator. "An Arab Moment of Truth: Which way the Islamist fantasy?" -- The author of the Satanic Verses book [Salman Rushdie], which is against all Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them. --Ruhollah Khomeini (1900?—1989) Iranian Shiite cleric who led the revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979 and who was Iran's ultimate political and religious authority for the next 10 years {EB}. -- The climate now is very different [from the HUAC days], of course. Radicals are chic, the FBI is under a cloud, and the old blacklist has become a role of honor. It is conveniently forgotten that once there were other blacklists. In _Hollywood on Trial_, only the director Edward Dmytryk--one of the Hollywood Ten--alludes to the lists of anti- Communists who were denied work when Stalinist influence was at its height. Unmentioned, too, are the vicious attacks that anti-Communist liberals and radicals were obliged to endure whenever they attempted to reveal the bloody truth about what Miss [Lillian] Hellman delicately describes now as the "sins" of the Stalinist regime. Who could guess, reading the soigné prose of _Scoundrel Time_, that Miss Hellman was once one of the most vigorous public defenders of those "sins," which even Khrushchev did not hesitate to call crimes involving the murder of hundreds of thousands, eventually millions, of innocent victims? Perhaps she has forgotten that had joined in attacking the philosopher John Dewey, a pillar of the liberal establishment, for convening a commission of inquiry into the truth about the Moscow Trials [of the late Thirties]. The climate now is indeed very different--it is a climate of amnesia. --Hilton Kramer, "The Blacklist Revisited", _The New York Times_ [3 Oct. 1976] -- The lack of well-grounded convictions, the absence of belief in truth create a dangerous hunger. And since nature abhors a vacuum, the absolutes of totalitarian systems find ready-made acolytes. --Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, _Leftism Revisited_ [1990] The guillotine only terrorized, it only broke down active resistance. But this is not enough for us... We have to break down passive resistance which doubtlessly is the most harmful and dangerous one. --V.I. Lenin (1870—1924) Russian revolutionary and first head of the Soviet state (1917—1924). First head of the Soviet state (1917-1924), Quoted in _The Guillotine at Work_, G. P. Maximoff. -- A Williams College student wrote this to an Internet site: "I listened to [the Chris Hedges commencement speech on the internet,] that 18-minute, stale, anti- intellectual heap of contradictory crap. If part of MY tuition had gone to pay for that smarmy SOB to irrationally rant about the country I love at MY commencement, without a word about the fact that I was, er, graduating, I would have considered it a duty to drown him out with insults." Statements like this are reminders that the booing of commencement speakers often has a lot to do with arrogance and tone. But it is also true that for students who have had to endure so much PC indoctrination for four years, one last dose of ideological claptrap during a graduation ceremony can seem like the last straw. --John Leo "Gassy ideology at graduation deserves to be booed." -- Yesterday, Drudge linked to a nasty anti-Tom Delay t-shirt being hawked at Cafe Press. The shirt urged the GOP congressman to commit suicide. Sold by artist Christopher Godwin, the product has now been removed (though you can still see it on Cafe Press's search engine complete with the caption "We can dream, can't we?"). Not to worry. There are plenty of other hate-filled, liberal knick-knacks and apparel items still on sale. Like this "Kill Bush" magnet depicting the president holding a gun to his head with the caption "End Terrorism Now:" Or this bright yellow "Kill Bush" t-shirt splattered with blood: Or this handy "Kill Bush" messenger bag with a macho pic of John Kerry: And before the "everybody does it" apologists pooh-pooh this lunatic anti-Bush merchandise: There's tasteless political paraphernalia on both sides of the aisle, but I've already searched and there are currently no "Kill Kerry" products, blood-spattered or otherwise, being sold at Cafe Press. "Oh, but it's all in good fun," the libs will shrug. Yeah, just like the Guardian's call last fall for someone to kill Bush. Just like the wave of campus attacks on conservatives. Just like the vicious anti-troops, anti-Bush slogans: "We Support Our Troops, When They Shoot their Officers" and "Bush is the disease. Death is the cure." "Where's your sense of humor?" the libs will ask. Where's their decency? Their sanity? Welcome to the sick world of the pro-assassination Left. --Michelle Malkin "Unhinged Liberal Products for Sale" [12 April 2005] -- In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent. --Catherine MacKinnon (1946— ) American feminist, lawyer, and teacher. _Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies_, p. 129 -- The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. --Henry Miller (1891—1980) American novelist and essayist. _Sunday After The War_ [1944] A reformer is one who insists on his conscience being your guide. --Millard Miller I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number 10 Downing Street, but over the whole world. --Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed [Nicknamed "The Tottenham Ayatollah"], quoted in "Attacks on UK will continue, radical cleric says", By Gideon Long, Reuters, Friday [22 July 2005]. -- I and other writers who had broken with Communism were kept from writing for various journals and prevented form getting not-so lucrative jobs because of the pressure and machinations of the Communists. Lillian Hellman's questions as to why we did not come to the defense of those who had bee attacked by McCarthy is not as simple as it appears. First of all, some were Communists and what one was asked to defend was their right to lie about it...Another consideration was the feeling...that Communists did not have a divine right to a job in the government or in Hollywood...Furthermore, it was not just a case of disagreeing with the Communists. They had branded us as the enemy. They were under orders not to speak to us. Their press called us every dirty name in and out of the political lexicon. And, of course, they were apologists for the arrest and torture of countless dissident writers in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries...How could Lillian Hellman not know these things? --William Phillips, _Partisan Review_ [late 1997] -- In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. --Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809—1865) French social reformer. _What Is Property?_ [1840] -- In 1934 he [Shaw] excused Hitler's violence and brutality. In 1935 he demanded that his friends give him the fascist salute, and he ended articles in defense of Nazism with a "Heil Hitler." …When Nazi battalions attacked Poland in September [1939], Shaw was ready to announce to the BBC that "Mr. Hitler did not begin this war; we did"; and he maintained elsewhere that "we are not the terrified victims of Mr. Hitler's aggression: quite the reverse." After Britain had entered the war, Shaw still eulogized the German dictator for "moral courage" and "diplomatic sagacity." …"I have no prejudice against him personally: much that he has written and spoken echoes what I myself have written and said." Shaw admired Mussolini even more than Hitler…Shaw defends both Mussolini's torturing of political prisoners with overdoses of castor oil and the bombings in 1935 of defenseless Abyssinians. In Italy's African war, he [Shaw] favored "the necessary intimidation" of the Abyssinian natives to the point of necessary "extermination." --Arnold Silver, _Bernard Shaw.The Darker Side_, Stanford [1982], pp. 38-39 and note: When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia and made it possible for a stranger to travel there without being killed by the native Danakils he was rendering the same service to the world as we had in rendering by the same methods (including poison gas) in the north west provinces of India, and had already completed in Australia, New Zealand, and the Scottish highlands. It was not for us to throw stones at Musso, and childishly refuse to call his puppet king Emperor. But we did throw stones, and made no protest when his star was eclipsed and he was scandalously lynched in Milan. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] Preface [1945] to _Geneva_ [1938], in _Complete Plays with Prefaces_, Vol. V, NY, [1963], p. 642. -- But don't cry for me. I'm doing just fine, thank you. Cry out, instead, for the students who regularly get intellectually mugged on the BGSU campus"; "the traditionalist who believes that marriage is between a man and a woman, but can't say so for fear of failing"; "the conservative who believes in minimizing government interference in our lives and says so in a sociology class"; "the woman who believes that abortion is murder, but must write a pro-choice essay to pass English 111"; and "all of those who have 'adjusted' and 'self-censored' their ideas so that they can pass their classes. --Dr. Richard Zeller, formerly a professor of sociology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. 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