>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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