THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 180, September 27, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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AHMADINEJAD AT COLUMBIA: MERELY A SYMPTOM
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: THE FORUM THEY PROVIDE FOR HOSTILE FOREIGN DICTATORS &
FOR OTHER ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A., BOTH INTERNAL & EXTERNAL -- THE LIBERAL LEFTIST & ANTI-AMERICAN MINDSET
THAT PREDOMINATES AMONG U.S. COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS & PROFESSORS -- CLOSED MINDS,
COUNTERCULTURAL FORCES, RADICAL & SUBVERSIVE THOUGHT, & POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION ON THE COLLEGE &
UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES -- GIVING THE UTMOST DEFERENCE TO EVERY LEFTIST OR NIHILISTIC IDEOLOGY, WHILE
TRADITIONAL MORAL, RELIGIOUS, & PATRIOTIC PRINCIPLES ARE COMPLETELY SCORNED & TARGETED FOR ERADICATION
FULL STORY:
The only real surprise from the disgraceful speaking appearance by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia
University is that anybody was surprised at all. University President Lee Bollinger was so taken aback by the ferocity of
public anger that, after first stridently defending his decision to bring the crazed Iranian ruler on campus, he felt compelled
to excoriate Ahmadinejad, once they were both on stage.
University leaders felt a necessity to justify themselves, resorting to most of the worn out clichés by which they have
repeatedly justified their abysmal behavior in recent years. Among other excuses, Columbia’s defenders claim a “First
Amendment issue,” along with their predictable mantra that “universities exist for the purpose of freely and openly
exchanging all ideas, no matter how outrageous they may be.”
To begin with, the First Amendment was not the product of a committee of bloodthirsty mullahs intending to confer it upon
all humanity. Rather, it resulted from the measured thought and reason of a handful of God-fearing men who, as a result of
their Christian perspective on the inalienable rights of man, sought to establish a nation in which such rights would be
protected among its citizens.
In their most twisted dreams, the Founders of the American Republic never believed that the First Amendment guaranteed
the “rights” of foreign dictators to defile American soil and American institutions in their effort to propagandize the
populace and thus annihilate it.
Furthermore, it is a relatively recent Liberal myth that universities exist for the “unfettered exchange of ideas.” Plenty of that
can occur, and with equally worthy results, down at the local bar. Yet, this notion has been repeated so often and so
emphatically that eventually, even traditional America has largely bought into it.
But America’s universities were not instituted at great expense and sacrifice so the thinking within their halls could be
devoid of any connection to reality or consequence.
Nor were they conceived as places where every youthful absurdity would be granted equal credence with the tested and
proven truths of human experience. And they were certainly never intended as cesspools of subversion and treason,
relentlessly devoted to the destruction of the nation whose citizens are nonetheless forced to lavishly fund them.
Rather, they were designed to ensure that learning and thought would be constrained to the foundations of amassed
knowledge and wisdom, upon which newer and greater wisdom and knowledge might build in a rational and beneficial
manner. From this basis, it was assumed and hoped, pupils would go on to construct and digest ideas founded on a
background of proven and time-honored knowledge.
Neither did the Liberal Leftists ever believe in their vaunted profession of “free thinking.” From the beginning, their quest
was never about openness of thought, but only about establishing a beachhead for their radical thought. In fact, it has
been through the methodical efforts of the political and cultural Left that the traditional approach to the advancement of
ensuing generations through the accrual of real knowledge has been degraded to its current state.
Close upon the heels of this philosophical surrender, the countercultural forces that had invalidated the previous
conventions proceeded to substitute their own ideologies as an unquestioned orthodoxy, always under the phony
auspices of “free thinking.”
Modern “free thinkers” are the first to brand as “heresy” any reminders of the self-evident truths and intransigent concepts
of good and evil, right and wrong, or any mention of the Author and Finisher of such things. Thus they display their blind
devotion to a secularist order, yet remain oblivious to all of its disastrous consequences throughout the world during the
past century.
Yet, the real danger facing the country at the hands of its “higher learning institutions” is evidenced by the notion that the
incident at Columbia is somehow exceptional.
Far from being a shocking aberration, it represents a fully predictable continuation of the abominations being rampantly
perpetrated throughout American academia during the past four and a half decades. The only differentiating circumstance
highlighting Columbia is that Ahmadinejad chose to appear there.
From the most prestigious Ivy League schools to the innumerable junior colleges that dot the American landscape, a
perversely Liberal and anti-American mindset predominates. Ahmadinejad and his poisoned thinking would have been no
less welcome at any of those places, had the logistics of his stay in this country made a visit to any of them possible.
Worse yet, real America, though outraged by Columbia’s actions, continues to blindly fund and morally support the
extension of its outrages throughout the land, conferring an almost universal inculcation on the next generation.
Consider, the abominable thinking and words of former “Professor” Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado, as well
as the tepid grounds on which the University’s Board of Regents finally, reluctantly dismissed him. Churchill, it should be
remembered, referred to the victims at the World Trade Center as “little Eichmans” who, he asserted, deserved their tragic
fate.
Hardly an outstanding icon of subversive American universities, the University of Colorado represents nothing far out of
the “mainstream” of American campuses. Yet, among the thoroughly indoctrinated student body, Churchill’s supporters
were no less enthusiastic than those at Columbia who applauded and cheered Ahmadinejad.
Furthermore, this pattern is in complete harmony with the rest of the nation’s schools, where history revisionism, Leftist
cultural indoctrination, and their secularist orthodoxy of “political correctness” ensure that every Liberal ideology is given
the utmost deference, while traditional moral, religious, and patriotic principles are completely scorned and targeted for
eradication.
Ultimately, the events at Columbia did little more than to briefly “tip the hand” of those entrenched in “higher learning,”
who have been spewing outrages against real America nonstop ever since the 1960s. While some are suggesting reprisals
against Columbia, nothing will be fixed, until Americans of traditional values and beliefs begin to hold every such school
accountable, cutting funds and removing any members of the teaching staff who transgress.
Yet, any individual who would even hint at such a course would undoubtedly be categorized as a “real” danger, and is far
more likely than a genocidal despot to be universally barred from appearing on American college campuses.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Education & America's Schools
A Practical Guide to Homeschooling
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Political Correctness, Censorship, Thought Control:
Supression of Unacceptable Views & Opinions
The Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
The Middle East & the Problem of Iran
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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International Politics & World Disorder:
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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