Brown students trash Horowitz

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 20 07:00:28 PST 2001


One reason it is often not fruitful to give these clowns a stage is that they are liars and truth is not in them. It doesn't matter what actually happened. They have a preset version that must have happened, sit did happen. In particularly, as lonely bearers of second thoughts in a overwhelmingly PC environment (which explains how we ended up with a Marxist in the White House, a deconstructionist Senate, a postmodern House, and a radical left Supreme Court), they msut have been shouted down by radiclib feminazi students. The Horowitzes of the world will say this,a nd believe it, no matter what happens. Because they have a platform, e,g., in Salon, and with their own media, this version will go out into the world as the Truth. It will be recycled in the George F. Will/Dinesh D'Souza anecdote mill. Hell, it probably doesn't go any good not to invite them. That's more proof of the unbridled dominance of anti-free-speech PC. In fact, everything is proof of that. --jks


>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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