@yoanisanchez: Raúl Castro dijo hay que valorar “con mente abierta los criterios de los demás” y esto circula en centros laborales…

I like to follow Cuban bloggers from time to time but Twitter seems to be one of the best communication tools they have as Castro’s oppressive media crushers are constantly forcing them to adapt, pack up and run and set up shop elsewhere. Talk about freedom of speech. The tweet above last night means:

“Raul Castro claims we must hold other people’s opinions in high regard and with an open mind yet the following document was found being distributed around work centers.”

I found out about Yoani Sanchez on CNN actually, and the story was about a Cuban blogger who had been beaten up by cops. Her blog is also written in English and should be a good study aid to help educate Americans in how precious our country is and volatile our situation has become in fighting the advancing forces of socialism. Freedom of speech for a Cuban is a challenge that involves more than just getting a faster connection; this could them their lives. I follow these tweets and also read their blogs because this could be us and may become us soon. It’s hard to understand what it’s like not to have the ability to say something and not have to face imprisonment or death. Please read this woman’s concern in that she has no p lace to go; neither do we. Protecting our lives and happiness begins with education.
This is the original document
I thought it was an interesting parallel to the current counter-revolution between the Tea Party movement and the leftist groups such as SEIU, ACORN, Working Families, Planned Parenthood, Moveon, Code Pink and other vermin. Do these mitigation countermeasures sound familiar? Let me know and keep them in mind next time you choose to go to a rally. The Unit ‘X’ concept seems to be a state-run workplace trained to act on behalf of the government in the crushing of peaceful gatherings. Basically if you work at a widget factory you belong to a UNIT (your shop) and your manager is the administrator of the unit and if there is a protest or peaceful march close by that falls under you area of operations. This is nothing more than state-sanctioned thugs trained to terrorize citizens. Does that make sense? Basically this Unit is designed to crush dissent from reaching workers such as advocacy groups or other protesters either by causing disruption to their activities or engaging them physically. This is a translation with some notes on what is what. When I find other information I will share it. Keep your eyes peeled.

UNIT ‘X’
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE & PUBLIC DISTURBANCE MITIGATION PLAN – COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES
DOCUMENT FOUND AROUND WORK CENTERS IN CUBA

Translation by: Maggie E Leclerc
4/6/2010

Objective
To organize all means necessary measures aimed at repelling acts of civil disobedience and counterrevolutionary disturbances which may originate within the Unit’s area (means area of operations).
A brief examination of the possible types of civil disobedience:
Let’s consider that counterrevolutionary manifestations could take place in or around our work centers possibly affecting the integrity of the security for our workforce and our clients with the purpose of creating an environment of uncertainty and impact our economy.
• Anti-counterrevolutionary and civil disturbance Missions
• Conduct uninterrupted surveillance of possible target zones
Organize and train Unit forces with available rudimentary weapons in surrounding areas according to location of personnel (obtain & arm according to area)
• Repel disturbances at the core
• Perform first-responder duties for fires and tend to casualties resulting from physical confrontations
Maintain line constant line of communication with the area Command Post and MININT (Ministerio del Interior – Cuban Ministry of the Interior)
Military Sector OG -
Command Center – MININT PNR – Policia Nacional Revolucionaria (National Revolutionary Police) (This is some sort of special forces unit which is a combination between a SWAT team and a military element designed to respond to emergencies and trained in closed quarters combat. They also have the GTE which conducts patrols of tourist areas)
• Industrial Entities Command Post (Um, industries are state-run, in case you forgot)
• Firefighters (This means the firemen are kept in their areas for training isolated from others and integrated into the actual response team-which means they also engage in ‘repressive’ movements just like the national police)
OLPP PM (Organos Locales del Poder Popular, Local Organizations of Popular Power)
How to structure local forces
Organize your workers on site first then if needed and other workers can be recalled to help during situations.
• Weapons
• Sticks
• Rebar (no size given)
• Cables

Appendix

Mitigation plan to repel counterrevolutionary and civil disobedience-related disturbances
Oath of cooperation

Appendix

Mitigation plan to repel counterrevolutionary and civil disobedience-related disturbances
Type of Event Action to be taken Parties involved Leadership Date
Civil disturbance (Riot) Ensure protesters do not utilize Unit resources of assets to carry out protest
Collect and quickly hide any cash from business
Repel civil disturbances
Extinguish fires & provide first aid
Notify administration (Mgmt)
Other actions as directed
Notify superiors Workers on site (shift) Administration As they occur
Actions or expressions against the revolution, political parties or government in general Respond with convincing, solid arguments & ensure to leave no doubt that their protests are unacceptable in our work centers
Notify administrator
Other actions as assigned
Notify and summon the PNR, PCC or OLPP Workers on site (shift) Administrator As they occur
Execution of plan against perceived counterrevolutionary activity Respond with actions and measures necessary in order to impede these activities at all costs Workers on site (shift) Administrator As they occur

Oath
The Constitution of the Rapid Response Team of Unit X

On this hour ______ of the month of _________ of year ______ “Year of the Revolution” enactment of this charter as the objective to create the Rapid Response Detachment.
Public disturbances and other counterrevolutionary activities will never be permitted or accepted from our workforce as the streets belong to the counterrevolutionaries. This is an affirmation that these disturbances will be repelled.
As part of this nation, the directors, officials and workers of this unit will become integrated into the Rapid Response Detachment and will act accordingly and without regard for our needs in the defense of our revolution and will spare no sacrifice in order to accomplish this.
On this day solemnly affirm that from this moment on this act constitutes a binding agreement to squelch these activities regardless of origin and magnitude.

And so I joined the military. I was certain to find true leadership. So let us examine another issue with our military to follow-up on my previous piece. What exactly can new recruits and new officer cadets expect when entering service? Are they receiving the same education as their fathers or are we dealing with a new set of rules? Ask the folks at West Point.

There is no leadership program at West Point. At least that is what the head of its Behavioral Science Department, Colonel Tom Kolditz – author of In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It  – said in a blog commentary on the Washington Post column ‘On Leadership.’ Even though every time I read the Post I have to don full HAZMAT gear and reach for the atropine; something in this blog got my attention. Colonel Kolditz’s analysis and discussion of a speech given by General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt following Mr. Obama’s speech in March pointed at the kind of education provided at the academy. Though a tough act to follow, as a gracious Mr. Immelt commented – the “Enemy Camp” speech to paraphrase a drooling Chris Matthews – Immelt had done a fairly decent job of addressing the importance of focused leadership during ambiguity. Like that’s not business as usual in the military, but I found the statement to be strange due to his position. Maybe there is something about West Point that is not well-understood.

“Systems thinkers who are comfortable with ambiguity”

I’m not taking away from the pep talk given to our future leaders but it was Kolditz’s dissertation on leadership (also take a close look at the great comments left on this blog post from wonderful Washington Post communists, it’ll warm your heart) that bothered me. Backtracking to March 2010 to Obama’s original speech prior to the sending of troops to Afghanistan (Obama’s Afghan policy speech at West Point)  Mr. Obama appeared to be just that; a man forced to take action when he’d rather be doing something else. Still, Kolditz claimed the academy has no defined leadership training program yet he’s the head of the program. Confused?

Kolditz extolled the virtues of a certain lady in his commentary, a true leader of the business world and the first civilian to hold a seat in Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point. She held this seat during General Eric Shinseki’s tenure after retirement from the Army. If we’re going to address the quality of education of future military leaders then let’s take a look at the people who are directly involved in education and their personal and professional values. My issue is the overall mentality of the people who teach at the military academy and how that mentality will be instilled in our future leaders. Will it be the Army’s core values? Will they serve with honor above their personal needs in defense of this great nation? Or will many a young officer go into the battlefield someday with a completely inappropriate overview of military life?

One of Kolditz’s heroes is the former supreme commander of all girl scouts: Mrs. Frances Hesselbein.

‘Two things that make America great are public education and West Point.’

While it is a documented fact that West Point has produced some great patriots and leaders this remark about public school education seems rather odd. There is little redeeming quality to public education so what is she saying? Frances Hesselbein is considered in the business world as a business community leader. Kolditz goes on about Mrs. Hesselbein’s standing in the business community (another organizer?) and according to the original press release she brought “an element of diversity to the role” that of course only the first woman to hold this position could only bring to West Point.

Let’s talk about diversity. This is a recurrent theme isn’t it; perhaps diversity is truly the change that brought about the demise of the services or is closer than ever in accomplishing it. Chief of Staff of the Army, General George Casey’s  remark following the horrific terrorist massacre at Fort Hood said it all;

“As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well,”

Interesting right? Diversity supersedes the need to mitigate a serious security breach and the most devastating. So if we applied this kind of mentality to how we train military officers

Note on defense/war funding has ‘education’ bills attached. What education?

It was heartwarming to read just how excited Kolditz was after a visit to Rosie’s Broadway Kids  the way the program runs was so well organized my jaw dropped. I just can’t compare the fine cadets at West Point, high achievers and future leaders of this nation with people in the performing arts. I know this because I was once brought up in such an environment. When it comes to audition time it’s an individual’s achievement not team work that gets you the lead. It’s not unusual to see big time histrionics, back-stabbing, people who sing badly but loudly over others; all campaigning for leads. You name it; it’s all a cut-throat business. The objective of an artist is to entertain, not necessarily to inspire people but I suppose this depends on the particular work and audience.

I’m certain that Rosie and anyone associated with her will never come close to knowing what great courage and determination any person in uniform will ever experience in their lifetime when faced with adversity, ever. The fact that Rosie hates military people (support the troops but not the war and what about Abu Ghraib?) should make this physician and professor of behavioral science sick to his stomach but he’s the one singing the praises of her work. Incredible. Does the US Army advocate this type of thinking? Because you know that what he thinks will permeate the classroom and young cadets can be influenced to be leaders who only see themselves in the center of things or they can strive, as many a great leader has, to give their subordinates the best example possible.

I spoke with a friend of mine who is now retired from the Navy and he always said that his best accomplishment was the success of his people because of how their efforts made him look good.  It seems to me that the new age of leadership in our services will be driven mostly by what feels right, when the individuals achieve collective understanding, kind of like a Montessori thinking pattern. I can see it now:

“But sir, the enemy is advancing on us. We need to strike now!”

Easy does it; I’m still waiting for the consensus from the other officers…

The battle for the feminization of our armed forces continues in earnest and it is going to be even more challenging to reach the next generation and help them understand that what is going on is meant to weaken our defenses. Anyone who thinks we’re still living in the same country with the same values and aspirations of yesteryear I’ve got a box of cookies I want to sell you. It’s only a song and a dance; but for a limited time.

A Commentary By Debra J. Saunders, Rasmussen Reports, 6/20/10

When activists (who are not necessarily students) were able to delay construction of a UC Berkeley sports center by living in trees for 21 months, there was no review of what went wrong.

When protesters with torches vandalized UC Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s home, there was no review. But when UC police arrested 46 people demonstrating against higher-education cuts by occupying Wheeler Hall on Nov. 20, there were complaints that police overreacted. And so — with authorities, not anarchists in the sights — a review was born.

Last week, UC Berkeley released the 128-page report. In academic fashion, it notes two forces that converted “an animated but essentially non-violent protest into a raw power struggle between demonstrators and police” — without overtly taking sides.

There were officers, who in a “series of over-reactions by insufficiently supervised police” at moments overreacted, intensifying fears among students. Then there were demonstrators, mostly “young, sincere, and emotionally mobile” students, but also “a smaller group” that “set out to instigate confrontations with police” and provoke them “into high-visibility over-reactions that could be used to inflame the crowd and escalate its aggressiveness.”

The review served a useful purpose in that it details the need for campus police to prepare for the worst and, when it occurs, to communicate with demonstrators and other law enforcement personnel who come to their aid.

There are also some heroes in the review, like Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard, who took the initiative to advise Wheeler Hall occupiers via megaphone that if they wanted to leave peacefully, they should sit down before the police came in. “As it turned out,” the report notes, “all the occupiers followed this wise advice.”

Two aspects of the report stand out for me.

First, there’s this dubious theory on the use of riot gear by officers from UC and other departments called to aid the scene: “If the police had not worn riot gear, there never would have been a need for it.”

While the review purports not to take a side on this theory, the review board continues, “We wonder whether it was wise to have some of the mutual aid squads try to move through the crowd in rigid, formal, militaristic formation.”

I object.

For nearly two years, UC delivered energy bars and water to trespassing tree sitters lest activists get hungry or thirsty and fall from a tree. Do not tell me that the university is supposed to take every precaution coddling activists breaking the law, then risk the safety of men and women dispatched to ensure the peace in dangerous hot spots.

Which leads to the other issue — that student protest is practically a major at Berkeley. UC police arrested a professor for cutting the crime scene tape outside Wheeler Hall. Some students told the review board that they ended up at the Nov. 20 protest simply because they wanted to be part of “the Berkeley experience.”

Unfortunately, this means, the review notes, “many students reportedly do not understand that disobedience of campus rules (even quite ‘civil’ disobedience) can affect their academic standing, that it can jeopardize their ability to continue their education here, permanently mar their record, perhaps even prevent them from receiving a degree whose other requirements have been satisfied.

“Moreover, the rules as written are not enforced consistently.”

Not enforced consistently? Hey, it’s news to learn that the rules are enforced at all. University spokesman Dan Mogulof told me that the Center for Student Conduct adjudicates these cases, but the majority of Nov. 20 “cases are still unresolved.”

Please observe: The academic year is over.

What is the penalty for occupying a building? Associated Students President Noah Stern told me, “It is not clear what the penalties are for a violation.” He added that due-process options slow down the system.

Student advocate Kelly Fabian explained in an e-mail that punishment for student violations could range from a “warning with community service to suspensions of varying lengths.” Alas, that doesn’t tell students much. If there is punishment, it is veiled.

I want to make this clear: I support all students’ rights to protest and exercise their First Amendment rights. But students and activists do not have the right to take over an institution that is supposed to be dedicated not to protest, but to higher learning.

If students want to engage in civil disobedience that trespasses on the university’s vital education function, they should be ready to pay a penalty — like cleaning bathrooms for an afternoon. They’re adults. They should know this. Yet the occupiers of Wheeler Hall included a general amnesty for civil disobedience as one of their “demands.” They must think they have a right to dodge consequences.

Mogulof noted that the school wants to “communicate early and often with students about the time, place and manner rules that govern protest demonstrations and expression, to explain the consequences of violating those rules.”

He’s right, but there is a rub: If there are no consequences or no consequences within a meaningful timeframe, there’s not much to explain, is there?

http://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/5453

Even the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) has now objected to the Democrat Party, suing the Democrats and its leadership for “stealing” their party platform and relabeling it as “progressive”.
According to political hotwire and many other sources, CPUSA claims that the entire so-called “new” Democratic agenda is, in fact, the product of a decades-long, painstaking campaign by CPUSA theorists, agitators, and underground subversive cells – which makes it the intellectual property of the Communist Party USA, protected by American copyright laws. “They stole our entire platform, rebranded it ‘progressive’, and claimed it as their own,” declared a CPUSA spokesperson at a press conference in San Francisco. “And we communists say, not so fast! Not in this country anyway, where we still have property rights and the rule of law, thank God! Actually, let me rephrase that…”, which was a comment to undermine God as both the Democrats and Communists have done. The Communist Party representative further explained that government ownership of the auto and financial industries, redistribution of wealth, and free rationed health care have always been among the glorious CPUSA objectives: “We held on to these goals through all the difficult years of factional infighting, purges, denunciations, and heroic espionage on behalf of the Soviet intelligence services.”

According to the article, CPUSA lawyers presented documents to the press showing that the Democratic platform of 2010, almost line-for-line, reiterates the CPUSA platform of 1963. In other words, the Democrats of today are the Communists of yesterday. I recently laid this all out in a commentary called the “Democrat-Communist Manifesto. The socialist takeover of our government is starting to show its vulnerability to reality. We elected Barack Obama as president without looking into his past. The socialist in control of the executive and legislative branches of government have grabbed more government control on the people. Now their push is for control of the courts as Obama appoints judges that carry out his Communist agenda. He has nominated Elena Kagen to become the next lifetime appointment to the United States Supreme Court, even though she has never served one day as a judge. She is a lesbian, who, as Dean of Harvard Law School, forced military recruiters off campus due to her distaste of the “Don’t ask. Don’t tell” policy of the military. She also once wrote, “Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness.” While the socialist and communist in America try to re-label what they are really doing, they work unified to the same goal – removing capitalism and God and replacing it with control by the government.

Frank Aquila
Manteca
President of the
South San Joaquin Republicans
mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com

http://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/article/14388/

State Senator Leland Yee, a liberal San Francisco Democrat, wants to bar California from adopting any new material from curriculum changes in Texas, which he and other critics view as right-wing revisionism. Though much publicized, the charge fails to stand up, but some textbooks do need correction. Those would be California textbooks, and this is not a new problem.

“They’re all horrors, and there is no reason for them.” State Supt. of Public Instruction Bill Honig said that in 1988 about California’s watered-down texts. Honig, a liberal San Francisco Democrat, duly invited scholar Diane Ravitch to revise California’s history curriculum, which had been tasked to instill pride in accredited victim groups.

“Telling publishers that their books must instill pride only guarantees a phony version of feel-good history,” Ravitch wrote. “Publishers, as a result, bend over backward to be positive, whether writing about the genocidal reign of Mao Tse-tung (presumably to avoid offending his admirers) or the unequal treatment of women in Islamic societies (to avoid offending Muslims).”

Texts should be accurate, Ravitch wrote, “but to impose contemporary political requirements on how the events are portrayed only ensures that the history we teach our students is inaccurate and dishonest.” In California, it certainly has been that.

The textbook An Age of Voyages: 1350-1600 showed Sikh founder Guru Nanak wearing a crown instead of a turban, and a beard that was trimmed instead of long, as alert Sikhs pointed out. At the time, the California Department of Education had no mechanism for ensuring that textbooks were “factually accurate.” Little wonder that errors became commonplace.

“Studies have found hundreds of errors in California textbooks,” says the website of the Textbook Trust, a watchdog group. The mistakes include geography, such as the notion that California’s southern border is the Rio Grande. It isn’t, and that river ventures nowhere near the Golden State, whose textbooks also fail to get math right.

A second-grade math text used in 79 schools in California’s capital city of Sacramento contends that five times three equals five. The book, fully approved by the state, is part of a series published by MacMillan/McGraw-Hill and used through the sixth grade. In the nearby Folsom Cordova district teachers have students hunting for errors as part of a learning exercise. The eager fourth-grade students documented 90 errors in the math series, for which the district paid $1.9 million.

So the kids shape up as smarter than the publisher’s fact-checkers and anyone in what the Sacramento Bee calls the “labyrinthian process” of approving the books for the classroom. So do the teachers who are correcting the errors with red pen. Many other state-approved California textbooks could be marked up.

Meanwhile, the “Texas Curriculum Massacre,” (Newsweek ) that so disturbed Sen. Yee and other liberals, is overblown. As David Upton, assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, noted, this may not be the best curriculum, but “no one has pointed to a particular significant error of fact.” And contrary to accusations, Upton writes, “the curriculum is replete with specific references to Jefferson, religious freedom, the civil rights movement, and the achievements and struggles of women and minorities.”

These will never be enough to assuage critics on the left, argues Amity Shlaes, of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. “Whatever lines it inserts about church, state, hip-hop or the Alamo,” writes Shlaes, “the board will not restore true balance. It will merely manage to make the curriculum a little less skewed to the left.” In a more general way, she adds, “the left also hijacked American culture” so the Texas social studies issue makes sense as a “small check on a larger problem.”

Yet another problem lurks in the background, the government education system itself, an unreformable collective farm of ignorance and mediocrity. This system encourages mass purchase of textbooks, with large states like Texas and California setting the pace. The books may be politically correct, and instill pride in Maoists and Muslims, but that is not the same as accurate. That is why Guru Nanak gets a crown instead of a turban, the Rio Grande gets misplaced, and five times three equals five. Call it the stupidity inherent in the system.

Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd.

A December 18 Washington Post poll, released on the final day of the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit, reported “four in ten Americans now saying that they place little or no trust in what scientists have to say about the environment.” Nor is the poll an outlier. Several recent polls have found “climate change” skepticism rising faster than sea levels on Planet Algore (not to be confused with Planet Earth, where sea levels remain relatively stable).

Many of the doubt-inducing climate scientists and their media acolytes attribute this rising skepticism to the stupidity of Americans, philistines unable to appreciate that there is “a scientific consensus on climate change.” One of the benefits of the recent Climategate scandal, which revealed leading climate scientists manipulating data, methods, and peer review to exaggerate the evidence of significant global warming, may be to permanently deflate the rhetorical value of the phrase “scientific consensus.”

More:

http://www.american.com/archive/2010/march/when-to-doubt-a-scientific-consensus/

Make Mine Freedom (1948)

For years Nebraska has been one of the top teams in college football. So it is no surprise when Nebraska Assistant Coach Ron Brown was recruited by Stanford Univ. in California to be interviewed for the head coach position. He didn’t get very far. He was not discriminated against because he is black. Not at liberal Stanford. Brown’s problem at Stanford is that he is a Christian, apparently with rather firm beliefs on matters such as homosexuality and abortion. Said Alan Glenn, Assistant Athletic Director at Stanford, “Brown’s religion was definitely something that had to be considered. We have a very diverse community with a diverse alumni. Anything that would stand out that much is something that has to be looked at.”

Stanford prides itself in being in the vanguard of institutions which value “diversity” and “inclusion” .In fact it helped crystallize the movement to emphasize these ideas when on Jan. 15 , 1987, everyone, in a massive protest , started chanting “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Culture has got to go”, thereby launching the movement known as “multiculturalism.”

The Western canon, the generally accepted list of the greatest books of the West were now attacked as having been written by biased “dead white males” These books are generally based on universalism, the belief that there are universal truths that are potentially available to everybody. What Stanford now embraced was particularism, which says that what one may know is determined by the circumstances of one’s birth. Race, gender, and class became more important than ideas.

From this beginning there flowed out throughout the universities of America a whole new plague of totalitarian horrors, like “diversity”, “sensitivity training”, “political correctness”, “speech codes”, “dormitory re-education,” “deconstructionism”, and “gender feminism,” all under the general umbrella of “multiculturalism.”

That was 15 years ago. Lets take a look at a how it has all has turned out. Offhand, it looks like Stanford better hire every Christian it can find.

The brief comments that begin each section below are from “The Diversity Myth”, an almost definitive critique of multiculturalism by David Sacks and Peter Thiel, two former graduate students at Stanford University. (Independent Institute, $24.95) The book is especially recommended to students who wish to protect themselves from brainwashing by multiculturalists. Included are some other quotes, notably by Robert Bork, former Supreme Court nominee, along with comments by Mr. Magruder in parentheses, prefaced by LM.

(Sections of this article are reprinted with permission from the book , “The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance on Campus, by David Sacks and Peter Thiel. Copyright 1998. The Independent Institute , 100 Swan Way , Oakland , CA. 94621-1428;info@independent.org; )

Trustees, congressional representatives, alumni, and the general public have begun to perceive that the great multicultural experiment has brought the very opposite of higher learning. It has brought speech restrictions, a new kind of intolerance known as “political correctness” a hysterically anti-Western curriculum, the increasing politicization of student life, and campus polarization along racial and ethnic lines.

“It is impossible to imagine that academic inquiry flourishes where thought police abound. Indeed, the intellectual apparatus of the 60’s radicals now dominating the universities is built for intellectual oppression, not for inquiry” -Robert Bork

“Of the 55 top-ranked universities in the nation, not a single one requires a course in American history, and only 3 require a course in Western Civilization”-The American Council of Trustees and Alumni

Underneath a glossy veneer of open-ended and utopian rhetoric, multiculturalism depends upon very specific values to operate, and at Stanford the values that inform this process happen to be the radical values of the 60’s. Most of the multicultural faculty and administrators were student activists in the late l960’s.

( LM- Professors who were campus radicals in the 60’s love to begin the semester by bragging to students how idealistic they were in their betrayal of the 40 million people of Southeast Asia. The truth is, although they cloaked themselves in an aura of great moral purpose, the war protestors gave aid and comfort to the enemy, marched under the flag of the Viet Cong, allowed Hanoi to dictate their agenda, and turned their backs on the American soldier when they returned. Now they run the universities, teaching students how to betray the West, and to cover up their earlier betrayal they write history books riddled with lies about the Vietnam War and their role in it.).)

When a stray look can lead to a charge of sexual harassment or an ill-timed joke to a charge of a racial slur, careers and lives are needlessly destroyed. Hapless innocents get thrown out of housing, lose their jobs because of “insensitivity.” or spend years fighting frivolous lawsuits. The multiculturalist hunt for nonexistent “oppressors” who can be held responsible for all of America’s ills leads to the vilification of innocents .

“Said Brown University “sensitivity” consultant Donald Kae, “If you are feeling comfortable or normal then you are probably oppressing someone, whether that person is a woman, or a gay or whatever. We probably won’t rid our society of racism until everyone strives to be abnormal.” (LM- What horse—- !).

The speech code never had to be enforced because it had not really been needed, at least not for the stated reason of combating an epidemic of fighting words and similar abuse. In March 1995, the Santa Clara County Superior Court agreed with the students and found Stanford’s speech code unconstitutional. Because of the ruling, Stanford students can now speak as freely as the residents of neighboring Palo Alto.

(LM- Judge returns basic American freedoms to student victims of multiculturalist tyranny. What a hoot ! Free Students Now from Multiculturalist Oppression! Turn on to Truth! Tune out the lies! Drop Out of Multiculturalism !)

In a widely discussed editorial in “The Stanford Daily,” columnist Andrea Park described the ritual clitorectomies performed in some African cultures but stopped short of condemning the barbaric practice. As a feminist Park wished to condemn the custom; but after much “soul-searching”, Park wrote that she realized she could not judge other cultures by her own standards. “Is it relevant that I, an outsider, may find the practice cruel ? As hard as it is for me to admit, the answer is no. To treat the issue as a matter for feminist outrage would be to assume that one society, namely mine, has a privileged position from which to judge the practices of another.”

(LM- How does one live with such hypocrisy ? This is a perfect example of the moral coma brought about by the cultural relativism embraced by multiculturalists.)

“Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the 60’s, it certainly deserves its own place in the halls of intellectual barbarism…women’s studies programs and courses are abysmal swamps of irrational dogma and hatred.” Bork

It is worth noting that all of these efforts have not had a positive impact on the level of AIDS, unwanted pregnancies, or abortions at Stanford, relative to American society at large. More than 100 Stanford women still have unwanted pregnancies each year, of which about 90 percent end in abortion. The resulting abortion rate at Stanford is about twice the national average. And as for AIDS, the rate of death at Stanford is perhaps four to five times that of the relatively “uneducated” society at large .One university residence now even has coed group showers.

(LM- What an inspiring example for American society multiculturalism is setting!)

“It is remarkable how vigorously the modern intellectual defends the descent of popular culture not merely into vulgarity but into obscenity… multiculturalism is barbarism, and it is bringing us to a barbarous epoch.”-Bork

In recent years race relations on campuses have taken a turn for the worse. King’s dream is rarely mentioned and the races remain divided There are even separate commencement ceremonies for Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans. It is not inconceivable that a minority student, if so inclined, could spend all four years at Stanford without ever eating, living, speaking, or graduating with someone from a different race.

“Multiculturalists have turned Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream into a nightmare. He asked that his children “not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” But multiculturalists say, “Judge me by the color of my skin for therein lies my identity and my place in the world.” -Bork

“The result of multiculturalism can only be the fragmentation , resegregation, and tribalization of American life.”- the noted liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

The Western religious tradition seeks to redeem all of humanity, not just select subgroups. The multiculturalists, by contrast, are interested in the rehabilitation only of those of a particular race, gender, class, or sexual preference who happen to share their ideological commitments. Religious Studies 8 , “Religions in America”, devotes whole lectures to Shamanism, the Peyote Cult, and the Kodiak sect, but not one to the Catholic Church.

(LM- Multiculturalism is a massive assault on the Judeo-Christian values of the West at the very time that discoveries in physics and molecular biology are lending new support to natural theology and theism. Leftist academic thugs, however, continue to carry on the spirit of the 60’s by beating up dissenting guest speakers to keep students ignorant of the issues)

“The American university has become a culture of forbidden questions.” Leon Botstein – President of Bard College.

Despite its well-earned reputation as a school with perhaps the most competitive admissions process in the country, classwork at Stanford in many ways no longer demands the intellectual equivalent of sweat. Of all letter grades granted to students, about half are A’s, 39 % are B’s, only 10% are C’s and about 1% are D’s.

(LM- Pay-offs for buying into the multiculturalist agenda. As a college professor on three campuses over l5 years I’d say the true average grade of American students is a C minus. The juxtaposition of inflated grades with declining S.A.T. scores clearly exposes how educators, steeped in the values of the 60’s, are lying to both students and parents.)

“All have won and all must have prizes.” The Dodo Bird in “Alice in Wonderland”.

Western civilization and classical liberal arts education truly are dead, killed off in the same multicultural epidemic that expunged “dead white males” from the reading lists. To be certain, the buildings are well maintained, the lawns are well watered, the football team plays for cheering throngs of fans, the faculty and the staff are well paid, and the students attend classes and receive diplomas. The institution can keep going for a while on autopilot. But the heart of the university’s humanities program – involving the quest for universal truth – has decayed into dust.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
Everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Did we think it only rhetoric when Yeats asked us; “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” In multiculturalism we approach the logical outcome of the campus values of the 60’s- fascism.

Art after Art goes out, and all is Night
See skulking Truth to her old Cavern fled
Mountains of Casuistry heap’d o’er her head!
Philosophy, that lean’d on Heav’n before
Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more
Lo! Thy dread Empire, Chaos ! is restored
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries all. “Duncaid” -Alexander Pope