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March 05, 2005
ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, A MEMBER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
While this link doesn't work (obviously from Drudge-link overload), I managed to find the text of the Daily Californian story story here: The Daily CalifornianOf course, had Ms. White disclosed that she was a Republican, she'd have been denied the post. So she was damned if she did, damned if she didn't. It's worth reading between the following line: Some senators are reluctant to vote for radical left-leaning and right-leaning appointees.Notice the phrase "radical left-leaning" is followed by "right-leaning." In Berkeley, as a practical matter, being on the left is not radical at all. Only Trotskyists, or Maoist RCP types obsessed with armed-revolution-now might earn that appellation. But "right-leaning" simply means Republican. Or libertarian. Mere opposition to socialism is enough. It must be rooted out root and branch. Just for fun, let us suppose that a candidate for the Judicial Council failed to disclose membership in the Communist Party. If someone dared to bring that up, why, that would be RED BAITING! And there'd be hell to pay! (For whoever brought it up, of course.....)
posted by Eric on 03.05.05 at 08:36 AM
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In case anybody brings up the First Amendment, I will say again that I will defend to the death the right of any Communist or Nazi to speak on any street corner, any blog, book, newspaper, radio, television, etc., without reprisal or hindrance from government. But there is no Constitutional right to a security clearance, nor to be hired at taxpayers' expense to indoctrinate children or young people with Communist or other totalitarian ideology. Show me the Supreme Court decision which held that Senator McCarthy's exposures of Communists and Communist fellow travellers in our government violated any part of the Bill of Rights. Steven Malcolm Anderson (Cato theElder) the Lesbian-worshipping man's-man-admiring myth-based egoist · March 5, 2005 10:20 PM There's a reason it's pronounced "A-suck". J. Case · March 6, 2005 06:26 PM Watch how you pronounce my former ass-ociation there boy! Eric Scheie · March 6, 2005 10:57 PM |
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Despicable. E. Merrill Root wrote of this problem way back in 1955 in his Collectivism on the Campus. While the Left (defined as the forces of secularism, egalitarianism, and "progress", i.e., entropy, since the French Revolution) is not dominant in America's culture as a whole, the Left has long been in control of our universities and other educational institutions. As Judge Robert Morris noted in his No Wonder We Are Losing! (quoted by H. L. "Bill" Richardson in his Slightly To The Right!), Communists were active in the teachers' unions in New York in the 1940s. Since the Left sees fit to use "McCarthyite" tactics to ostracise Rightists, they cannot compain of "McCarthyism" when we start investigating their subversive activities and associations once again. I must add that Nazi Fifth Columnists in America were investigated during World War II.
A Conservative magazine back in the 1970s once asked: "Campus Communists: America's Time Bomb?" I've been thinking about that more and more since 9/11/2001.