[Marxism] Zionist/ neocon - inspired repression on campus

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

McJewish  McCarthy
by _Mark A.  Bruzonsky_ (http://www.middleeast.org/mab) *


"What is happening at the moment at Columbia  University and to
Professor Rashid Khalidi and others, for  instance,  is but a small
visible part of a sordid stinking contemporary  witch-hunt political
iceberg.   It is wrong; it is grossly  unfair; it is frighteningly
untruthful;
if not halted it  will continue to grow and spread and the stains and
stench of this  modern-day McCarthism will expand with ever-more
intimidation and  repression...  Where are those individually and
collectively who have the courage and the dignity to  cry foul and
raise the real banners of true liberty, defense of  the crucial First
Amendment, and real democracy...not to mention  truthfulness?"



_MIDDLEEAST.ORG_ (http://www.middleeast.org/)  - MER - Washington - 25
February:    American Jews especially of the baby-boomer age can  remember well 
the
warnings from their parents.    With reference  to what had happened in
Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe expressions like 'the  Good Germans' took on a
special meaning for this generation.  "Always  remember what happened and don't
ever let that happen again -- never let that  happen again -- don't ever become
like 'the Good Germans' ."

"First they came for the homeless and destitute, then they came for the
homosexuals and the Gypsies, then they came for the Jews and then for any who
still were friends of the Jews, then they came for those of 'their own' who dare
criticize the regime, then they came for those who tried oppose the SS and
the  concentration/death camps, and by then there was no one left to oppose them
or  to even try to stop them from doing what they did."

These warnings and  remembrances come from the Europe of old  -- but actually
days not that  long ago as there are still persons alive today who can speak
first-hand to the  attrocities of that nightmarish yesteryear.

Shortly after the World War ended the Cold War began  and shortly after that
came the days now known for Senator Joseph McCarthy from  Wisconsin.   In the
U.S. it wasn't the Gestapo and concentration camps  for its's own but rather
relentless badgering, intimidation, ostracism,  blacklisting, firings and the
FBI of J. Edgar Hoover.   From Hollywood  to Universities eveyone was severely
pressured to comply or else.   One so  famous as Lucille Ball was forced to
meekly appologize for membership in  organizations and relent from any further
involvement in politics or be pushed  under;  she accepted the 'realities' of
the moment and went on to be the  famous comedian we all came to know.   Many
others stood their ground  with principle and attempted dignity; and their
names are not known today to  mention.

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