Question For Lee Bollinger
If I kill a member of your immediate family will you then invite me over to your house to give a speech?
And if not, then please explain to the families of U.S. troops killed by EFPs why their national home should be opened up to Ahmadinejad for a speech.
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Well he probably would be ashamed of himself for discriminating against you because of the unfortunate life you were forced to live in a country that discriminates against those in need of free psychiatric assistance that is necessary only because you are the victim of parents who tried to teach you to discriminate against people like yourself which if said teaching had been properly administered by the STATE might have prevented you feeling it necessary to resolve your internal strife through murder but no, not his house. But perhaps the garage.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:54 pmIf not for the work of our dedicated law enforcement community I would kill him in front of his family.
(Maybe we could tell OJ that bollinger is fucking his girl.)
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:01 pmhis curriculum vitae is being “updated” according to the columbia university office of the president’s website. i wanted to see where’s he’s been.
the only phrase that comes to mind with this guy (and his university) is, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:03 pmactually his execution may be worth the sentence handed out.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:09 pmYou know Steve, the only thing that keeps me from seriously considering your option is the firm belief that when this creep finally dies there will be hell to pay…literally.
But for the first time in my life these dialogue-with-the-devil-r-us leftists definitely have me considering personally speeding up the process.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 pmActually, an EFP placed below a NYC manhole cover would be a fitting end to that dickwad from Iran. Should do the trick.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:45 pmThis leftist goon will never see this as anything other than an anti-Bush statement. After all these kooks believe the center of the universe resides between their ears.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 pmAsk all you want, you’ll never hear a red white and blue answer.
If my University ever does something like this (RFK Jr. lecturing on ‘climate change’ is bad enough), I’ll say screw it, I’m joining the Marines right now!
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:57 pmBecause I, and we, the self imposed intellectual hierarchy of academia, realize the international platform to stardom when we see it.
We can show the entire world, our intellectual plight to America’s occupation and oppression within the borders of our University.
My final goal to have realized, would be to solidify a resonance of international and domestic “clout”…to further prove why my existance on earth…is so much greater, than that of …whoever.
Allah Akbar
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:35 pmI’m real tired of this traitor. If he wants to be Judas then maybe he should “go thou and do likewise”.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:30 pmWhy would any sane person WANT to listen to this man
I hate truthers and terrorists, and he is both 
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:03 pmAnd now it’s confirmed. Bollinger the traitor admits that he would even invite Hiter to speak at Columbia.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:47 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxmEGsOkEVc
Columbia Withdraws an Invitation to Ahmadinejad
http://www.nysun.com/article/40142
YEA!
Peace!
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:47 pmDan2
I wonder which purse-string holding alumni member got to this guy?
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:19 pmApparently Mr Bollinger said that he is not welcome and declined his invitation…he also stated he felt the man “repugnant”. That astounding decision deserves a 2 thumbs up!
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:26 pmI wonder how many nasty-grams Mr Bollinger recieved before he made his “astute” decision? Wanna bet hundreds of thousands?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 pmLee Bollinger is a piece of shit.
They won’t let the military on campus because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. But they’ll let the leader of a country that openly executes gays speak and at the same time lecture us about the need for “understanding and dialogue”.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:22 pmThat link isn’t on any of the newswires Dan2. I think the link is bullshit.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:26 pmOverruling a prominent dean, the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, yesterday withdrew an invitation to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The dean of Columbia’s school of international and public affairs, Lisa Anderson, had independently invited Mr. Ahmadinejad to speak at the World Leader’s Forum, a year-long program that aims to unite “renowned intellectuals and cultural icons from many nations to examine global challenges and explore cultural perspectives.”
In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, Mr. Bollinger said he canceled Mr. Ahmadinejad’s invitation because he couldn’t be certain it would “reflect the academic values that are the hallmark of a University event such as our World Leaders Forum.” He told Ms. Anderson that Mr. Ahmadinejad could speak at the school of international and public affairs, just not as a part of the university-wide leader’s forum.
Ms. Anderson’s assistant cited an inability to arrange for proper security as the reason for the cancellation.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:13 pmDan(The Infidel…
I will admit I have never heard of the ny sun before… it looks like at legit site on the surface. I am not a New Yorker.
Maybe if another member here with some more ‘insight’…
I would feel real bad if it was just BS.
But, who knows… I would not put anything past these ‘commies’
Best,
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:42 amDan2
Hi again…
The article quotes: Harvard professor of law, Alan Dershowitz in it… The article looks legit.
But, Very strange indeed?
You would think by now, someone else would be running this story…
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:54 am___
Dan2
A liitle off the subject… But I know a 100% without a doubt that this news story is true…LOL
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Fukuda set to be new Japan PM
September 23rd, 2007
Heck of a last name to have…being a Diplomat and all.
“”Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has chosen moderate lawmaker Yasuo Fukuda as its new leader and likely successor to Shinzo Abe as PM.
Mr Fukuda, 71, who wants closer ties with Asian neighbours, defeated hawkish former Foreign Minister Taro Aso.”"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7008804.stm
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What are you going to do?
Peace!
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:08 amDan2
Intellectual elitism. They’re so above it all. This afternoon, I forget where, I ran across at the same time on the TV news a question was raised would Columbia have asked Hitler to speak. In ‘33 they did and again in ‘38. Back then this elitist female dismissed expressed concern as something only cretins would do, I’m paraphrasing. If I find it I’ll let you all know where to find it. By ‘38 it was well known what Hitler was doing to the Jews. As it was back in ‘38, again, today Columbia wants to hear all about it. But, of course they promised they will intellectually challenge.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:05 am[…] Question For Lee Bollinger — Pat Dollard […]
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:47 am“But, of course they promised they will intellectually challenge.”
Should be easy since they are intellectually challenged themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Sick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:40 amHi,
After re-reading this article… It looks like he must have accepted the idea to speak at this other (smaller) forum, after they turned him down to speak at the ‘world leaders’ forum.
I just ‘assumed’ that if the dick head could not speak at the ‘leaders forum’, there would be no way he would accept speaking at a lesser forum.
But, maybe he does know his place… 2nd tier speaking engagement…for a 3rd tier (at best) leader.
Best!
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 pmDan
An Open Letter to Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University
A Barbarous and Ignorant Speech
By CLIFTON ROSS
To Mr. Lee Bollinger,
I’m writing you to express my outrage over your vulgar treatment of President Ahmadinejad yesterday when you invited him to speak at your university. Simple human etiquette of the most primitive and elemental sort, was required in the situation, but you failed to deliver even that. You were obnoxious, insulting and displayed an appalling ignorance of President Ahmadinejad, Iran and politics, not to mention the rules that govern “civilized” human conduct (arguably “primitive” conduct is even more governed by politeness and elevated rules of conduct).
Moreover, in a context that calls for objectivity, investigation, open mindedness and a willingness to learn and exchange ideas, you displayed a remarkable absence of any of those qualities. Instead, you showed yourself to be one with the bullying, abusive, ignorant and arrogant people who unfortunately govern our country at the moment and who are attempting to induce a phobic and neurotic xenophobia comparable only to what Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin inculcated in their countries during those moments of greatest darkness in human history. The irony of the situation is that you displayed all those qualities of which you accused President Ahmadinejad. Where was that display of that “great tradition of openness” in your callous, close minded speech? Your speech shows you to “exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator” and worse: a bully, a man who invites a guest into his house, then abuses him before a cheering crowd.
You accuse President Ahmadinejad of “a brutal crackdown on scholars, journalists and human rights advocates” but you fail to mention the scores of scholars, journalists and human rights advocates, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by U.S. forces in Iraq. Is that cowardice or a double standard or merely “oversight” on your part? And when you accuse President Ahmadinejad of denying the Holocaust and calling for the destruction of the state of Israel, that is, when you pander to your Zionist supporters, you merely display an ignorance of the actual words of Ahmadinejad (words that were twisted in the translation to English, predictably; see this piece by Virginia Tilley,), which he corrected yesterday in his comments and clarifications.
However, when you say “your [Iran’s] government is now undermining American troops in Iraq by funding, arming, and providing safe transit to insurgent leaders like Muqtada al-Sadr and his forces” you show yourself to be as biased, and blinded by nationalism and an imperial arrogance as the architects of the genocide we’re currently seeing in Iraq. You don’t ask what “American troops in Iraq” are doing there as invaders, occupiers, who are, de facto, now made war criminals by being the willing instruments of the “war of aggression,” considered the supreme international crime, one committed by Mr. George Bush through fabrications of evidence, lies, and manipulation; you don’t ask what role those resistance fighters like Muqtada Al Sadr are playing, but those less blinded by nationalism than you would compare him to our own patriotic forefathers who fought the British for our own nationhood; and now you don’t bother to ask what your ignorant, uninformed criticisms of President Ahmadinejad will do to help the same war criminals who destroyed Iraq to now go on and destroy Iran.
If you knew anything of history, the history of your own lifetime, you might understand the situation that currently confronts Iran. You probably know that the U.S. overthrew Iran’s democracy in 1953 and set up a brutal, decadent Shah who was our man in the Middle East for the following two and a half decades. You may even know that the CIA helped organize the imprisonment, torture and killings of dissidents under that Shah, which is why the students took over the U.S. embassy when they finally got rid of the filth the U.S. had imposed upon them for all those dark years.
We don’t need to agree with the elected President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, to show him the simple respect due an elected head of state. But you seem incapable of that simple act required of someone in your position. To call an elected president a “dictator,” however, is not only insulting but inaccurate. Such epithets are reserved for those who impose themselves by force and by fraud, such as Mr. Bush, who has stolen two elections. But I’m sure you wouldn’t use terms to describe your own head of state so, now would you?
The Chinese have a saying, roughly translated, that goes, “the one pointing his finger at another, has three fingers pointing at himself.” But you are so blind to who you are, up there in your position of power as President of the prestigious Columbia University of New York in the great empire of the United States of America, that you don’t see the man being accused by his three fingers. So, to close, I invite you to take a look at yourself, and our people, as another sees us. Her name is Layla Anwar and she writes a blog called Arab Woman Blues which you can find here.
I warn you. A man of your highly sensitive sensibilities may find some of her language harsh, painful, distasteful. But I assure you, she has far more justification for saying what she does than you did in your pronouncements against the President of Iran yesterday. And it is long, but I plead for you to have patience because you are a man in need of an education, and sometimes education is a very painful process.
She writes:
Is there anything in Iraq that the Americans have not destroyed?
Anything at all? … The past - you have looted and destroyed. Trying to erase our collective historical memory … Our roots, where we came from, what our ancestors did, their achievements, their trials, their statues, their writings …
You do not know history, you are rejects of history. You have no history. You have no past, you have nothing … you are nothing.
You are nothing but ogres of consumerism. Not just material stuff, but anything you can swallow whole you will. You even swallow other people’s history whole.
You are a greedy, covetous, gluttonous, voracious, jealous, envious people …
Since you are nothing, your nihilism contaminates everything else …
You destroy and self destruct …
No Future - You have no future, because inside of yourselves, your future is limited to your own little egos. Little egos have no future. Little egos are amoebas, parasites, feeding off others … You think you have a vision but your vision is only about your stomach, your pockets and what you have in between your legs … That is it.
This is where it stops. Surely this does not make you seers …
What have you contributed to the world ? Anything of real substance? Nothing. Apart from brutal might and power … and your sickening culture that is as hollow and as empty as you are.
And just as you have no real future, you robbed us of our own. You are collectively a bunch of criminals, thieves, thugs and perverts of the worst kind.
Since your f—ing 9/11, you have totally destroyed two countries. Afghanistan and Iraq. And you have not stopped. Not one day, not one hour …
You wanted regime change in Iraq - you got it. You also changed us, me, beyond anything I can recognize … I never hated you before. Today I do. I really hate you.
You collectively disgust me. Even our ancient Mesopotamian deities and spirits are disgusted with you. Every single letter of the Alphabet is disgusted with you.
The earth, the rivers, the sky, the mountains, the trees, the birds of Iraq are disgusted with you … The cosmos is disgusted with you …
Everytime I spot one of you anywhere in close proximity and hear that ugly accent of yours I run away … I avoid you like the plague. I can’t bear to hear you or see you.
You represent nothing but Death and Destruction to me. Your ugliness is all pervading …
Everytime I switch on the TV or the Radio and see or hear one of you, I zap. I wish I can zap you out of my life once and for all …
I know, I keep repeating myself, but then you keep repeating the same acts.
Iraq is going down, with its past and its future …
I can only promise you one thing, however long it may take, we are going to take you down with us.”
As a North American I can add nothing more except to apologize to Iraq for what my government has done and continues to do to them and to Iran for what you, and your government have done, and are preparing to do, to them. And to President Ahmadinejad, I apologize for Mr. Bollinger’s barbarous and inexcusable words. Not all U.S. citizens are as ignorant and lacking in basic manners as the presidents of our universities.
Clifton Ross
Clifton Ross is the co-editor of Voice of Fire: Communiques and Interviews of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (1994, New Earth Publications). His book, Fables for an Open Field (1994, Trombone Press, New Earth Publications), has just been released in Spanish by La Casa Tomada of Venezuela. His forthcoming book of poems in translation, Traducir el Silencio, will be published later this year by Venezuela´s Ministry of Culture editorial, Perro y Rana. Ross teaches English at Berkeley City College, Berkeley, California. He can be reached at:
September 29th, 2007 at 6:57 pm