Brown students trash Horowitz

Christine Petersen chp at sagitta.biol.berkeley.edu
Mon Mar 19 16:04:59 PST 2001


Look at Horowitz' recounting of the talk at Berkeley. It can be proven that *he* was the one who demanded all this security - not the university. It was all staged. There were not 200 protesters there (how many did you count Michael or Chuck?). That is delusional. All that happened before he went out was there he was talking over this guy who was trying to finish the 2nd part of his question for about 10 seconds, and then Horowitz got really pissed and stormed off, after they turned off the questioner's microphone. Nobody else in the room interpreted the sequence of events the way he is right here:


>
>On Thursday night, which many Shakespeare-aware e-mailers thoughtfully
>reminded me was the ides of March, I spoke in the Life Sciences Building at
>the University of California at Berkeley.
>
>Now I know what it's like to be Al Gore, specifically to have six armed
>guards escort one to the bathroom. A very odd experience. In fact, 30 armed
>police (both uniformed and undercover) were assigned by the university
>administration to the security detail for my speech, and I hired two
>additional guards myself. I am not in a position to judge how well the
>university authorities are able to assess the level of campus threats, but
>I was happy that every one of them was there. The evening ended when things
>began to get out of control. I, myself, took the decision to terminate the
>proceedings before anyone got hurt.
>
>The need for security, as I noted from the platform, was itself a horrific
>commentary on the state of our campuses. The intention of the 200
>protesters was to make certain ideas so toxic that one could discuss them
>only at one's peril -- moral or physical. As someone who spoke up in behalf
>of Marxist and communist ideas in the 1950s at Columbia with no such
>opposition, I can attest that McCarthyism was a tea party compared to this.
>

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