rec.arts.theatre.musicals

Sweevil wrote:

> AHMADINIJAD: We do not have homosexuals in Iran as you do. We do not
> have this phenomenon. (speaking at Columbia U. 9/24/07)
>
> An image I'll never forget is the photo of two young boys, ages 14 and
> 13 as I recall, who were publicly hanged in Iran after being accused
> of homosexuality, while a huge mob looked on cheering. A heart-
> breaking photograph that virtually defined the word "barbaric".
>
> Today, Columbia faculty and students are congratulating themselves on
> their devotion to "free speech" for inviting brutal, barbaric dictator
> Ahmadinejad to speak there. But why? It's not as if Ahm. lacks
> forums for his nonsense and lies. He holds forth at the . and at
> home all the time. You can hear him speak 24 hours a day, if you
> want, on the internet.
>
> If Columbia's so devoted to free speech, how come they ban ROTC and
> military recruiters from speaking on campus? Why don't they invite
> the Grand Wizard of KKK to speak, or the heads of NAMBLA or the
> American Nazi Party? They're certainly more in need of a public forum
> than Ahm. is.
>
> The answer is an old one: my enemy's enemy is my friend. The powers-
> that-be at Columbia hate Prez Bush so much, they're willing to lend a
> sympathetic ear to anyone, no matter how monstrous, as long as he's
> sufficiently anti-Bush.
>
> Columbia has a right to invite anyone they want to speak. I don't
> deny that. But I'm afraid the university's president is right: if
> Hitler were alive, they'd invite him too. And I bet he'd get just as
> much cheering and applause from Columbia's students, eager to show how
> open-mind and non-judgmental they are.
>
> Me, I keep thinking of those two boys with their necks broken,
> swinging from a scaffold in Tehran ...
>


Looks like we become buddies with whom we need or want to be.
. STALIN a WORST monster than Hitler who killed millions of his own
people in his purges, but we needed him after Hitler with whom
he first came abroad betrayed him.
and yet

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