chesswarsnow
09-24-2007, 08:35 AM
Sorry bout that,
1. But this little visit by the *little man*, won't be soon forgotten.
2. Thousands of *Real Americans* will go protest his arrival.
3. And follow him where ever he goes and protest his presence in America.
4. For those who sit and listen to him speak, with tentative ears, you betray anything good and decent in America, and all over the world.
5. (I ) *The Great CWN* pities you.
6. Read this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_iranian_madman_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_walks-2.html
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Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad walks among us
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BY PETER KADUSHIN, KERRY BURKE, and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak today at Columbia University and at the UN General Assembly tomorrow.
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Ayton Eller holds blowup of News cover at Columbia University rally protesting Ahmadinejad's campus invite.
Hatemonger Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed in a hornet's nest of outrage yesterday as Columbia University prepared to welcome him with open arms today and stuck by a dean's outrageous assertion that it would let Adolf Hitler speak, too.
The Holocaust-denying Iranian tyrant jetted into New York as students, faculty and political leaders protested Columbia's decision to roll out the red carpet.
"It's a stain on the university," said sophomore Elizabeth Friess, 20. "You can't have an open debate with someone who wants to wipe out Israel. There is no reasoning with someone like that."
Emotions ran high on the Morningside Heights campus as students blew whistles to drown out a classmate who defended Ahmadinejad's right to speak.
Columbia threw fuel on the fire of protest by refusing to disavow a dean who said the university would have gladly let the architect of the Holocaust speak.
"It was offensive to hear a dean, of all people, say they would invite Hitler," said senior Lexi Khan, 21. "There aren't too many educational qualities you can draw from a man who sent people to gas chambers."
Ahmadinejad arrived at Kennedy Airport and was whisked away to InterContinental's The Barclay hotel, where a dozen cars pulled up at 5:30 p.m. after cops closed off E. 49th St.
The Iranian despot will speak amid what is expected to be a massive protest today at 1:30 p.m. at Columbia's Alfred Lerner Hall; he'll also speak tomorrow at the UN General Assembly.
The moderator of the event, School of International and Public Affairs Acting Dean John Coatsworth, has sparked a furor by saying he would invite anyone for a little academic give-and-take - even the Fuhrer himself.
He stood his ground yesterday, telling the Daily News he was talking about the more palatable Hitler when he had "not started the war and the Holocaust hadn't begun."
"There's never a good forum for a dictator," said Coatsworth, "but the advantage of Columbia is he would have been challenged and criticized."
Not everyone at the Ivy League school agreed.
"No legitimate American university should debate the existence of the Holocaust or even think of inviting someone like Hitler," said Larry Amsel, a Columbia med school professor.
A spokesman for Columbia President Lee Bollinger said he backed Coatsworth's comments.
Jewish leaders blasted Coatsworth and the university.
"Something is seriously askew when a dean at a respected university can just blithely say that he'd give a platform to the leader of Nazi Germany," said Malcolm Hoenlein, head of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations.
Columbia, in fact, invited Nazi Germany's ambassador to a campus event and cocktail party in 1933, sparking protests from students who were derided by the university administration as nothing more than "ill-mannered children," according to the Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
On the eve of his speech at Columbia, the Iranian leader received enthusiastic applause during an hour-long speech at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Ahmadinejad, addressing the crowd in his native Farsi, said Iran is developing technology and nuclear capability for peaceful purposes and is being treated unfairly for it by the United States, according to several people who heard the speech.
Mina Siegel, from Midwood, Brooklyn, who writes a blog on Iranian life and culture, said Ahmadinejad kept to the same themes of earlier speeches.
According to Siegel, the despot said, "What do we want a bomb for? Why should we have a bomb? It doesn't help us. Why do we need a bomb? The Soviet Union is an example of a country that had the bomb and still fell apart."
Several political leaders weighed in on the Hitler controversy.
Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg, said that while "he would hardly want to dignify Hitler," the mayor "also thinks it is a slippery slope in attacking academics whose views he might personally find to be ill-informed, offensive or just wrong."
"This is about promoting hateful speech," Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) declared.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama said it was wrong to invite Ahmadinejad. At the same time, Obama added: "We should never be afraid to confront the lies and rantings of dictators with the power of truth and the strength of our own values and beliefs."
The Iranian president riled up New Yorkers last week when he announced plans to visit Ground Zero but backed down when Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly vetoed the trip on security grounds.
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Regards,
SirJamesofTexas
1. But this little visit by the *little man*, won't be soon forgotten.
2. Thousands of *Real Americans* will go protest his arrival.
3. And follow him where ever he goes and protest his presence in America.
4. For those who sit and listen to him speak, with tentative ears, you betray anything good and decent in America, and all over the world.
5. (I ) *The Great CWN* pities you.
6. Read this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_iranian_madman_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_walks-2.html
"
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Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad walks among us
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BY PETER KADUSHIN, KERRY BURKE, and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Print Email Suggest a Story
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak today at Columbia University and at the UN General Assembly tomorrow.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ayton Eller holds blowup of News cover at Columbia University rally protesting Ahmadinejad's campus invite.
Hatemonger Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed in a hornet's nest of outrage yesterday as Columbia University prepared to welcome him with open arms today and stuck by a dean's outrageous assertion that it would let Adolf Hitler speak, too.
The Holocaust-denying Iranian tyrant jetted into New York as students, faculty and political leaders protested Columbia's decision to roll out the red carpet.
"It's a stain on the university," said sophomore Elizabeth Friess, 20. "You can't have an open debate with someone who wants to wipe out Israel. There is no reasoning with someone like that."
Emotions ran high on the Morningside Heights campus as students blew whistles to drown out a classmate who defended Ahmadinejad's right to speak.
Columbia threw fuel on the fire of protest by refusing to disavow a dean who said the university would have gladly let the architect of the Holocaust speak.
"It was offensive to hear a dean, of all people, say they would invite Hitler," said senior Lexi Khan, 21. "There aren't too many educational qualities you can draw from a man who sent people to gas chambers."
Ahmadinejad arrived at Kennedy Airport and was whisked away to InterContinental's The Barclay hotel, where a dozen cars pulled up at 5:30 p.m. after cops closed off E. 49th St.
The Iranian despot will speak amid what is expected to be a massive protest today at 1:30 p.m. at Columbia's Alfred Lerner Hall; he'll also speak tomorrow at the UN General Assembly.
The moderator of the event, School of International and Public Affairs Acting Dean John Coatsworth, has sparked a furor by saying he would invite anyone for a little academic give-and-take - even the Fuhrer himself.
He stood his ground yesterday, telling the Daily News he was talking about the more palatable Hitler when he had "not started the war and the Holocaust hadn't begun."
"There's never a good forum for a dictator," said Coatsworth, "but the advantage of Columbia is he would have been challenged and criticized."
Not everyone at the Ivy League school agreed.
"No legitimate American university should debate the existence of the Holocaust or even think of inviting someone like Hitler," said Larry Amsel, a Columbia med school professor.
A spokesman for Columbia President Lee Bollinger said he backed Coatsworth's comments.
Jewish leaders blasted Coatsworth and the university.
"Something is seriously askew when a dean at a respected university can just blithely say that he'd give a platform to the leader of Nazi Germany," said Malcolm Hoenlein, head of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations.
Columbia, in fact, invited Nazi Germany's ambassador to a campus event and cocktail party in 1933, sparking protests from students who were derided by the university administration as nothing more than "ill-mannered children," according to the Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
On the eve of his speech at Columbia, the Iranian leader received enthusiastic applause during an hour-long speech at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Ahmadinejad, addressing the crowd in his native Farsi, said Iran is developing technology and nuclear capability for peaceful purposes and is being treated unfairly for it by the United States, according to several people who heard the speech.
Mina Siegel, from Midwood, Brooklyn, who writes a blog on Iranian life and culture, said Ahmadinejad kept to the same themes of earlier speeches.
According to Siegel, the despot said, "What do we want a bomb for? Why should we have a bomb? It doesn't help us. Why do we need a bomb? The Soviet Union is an example of a country that had the bomb and still fell apart."
Several political leaders weighed in on the Hitler controversy.
Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg, said that while "he would hardly want to dignify Hitler," the mayor "also thinks it is a slippery slope in attacking academics whose views he might personally find to be ill-informed, offensive or just wrong."
"This is about promoting hateful speech," Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) declared.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama said it was wrong to invite Ahmadinejad. At the same time, Obama added: "We should never be afraid to confront the lies and rantings of dictators with the power of truth and the strength of our own values and beliefs."
The Iranian president riled up New Yorkers last week when he announced plans to visit Ground Zero but backed down when Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly vetoed the trip on security grounds.
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Regards,
SirJamesofTexas