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Thread ID: 6250 | Posts: 11 | Started: 2003-04-20
2003-04-20 00:41 | User Profile
American Free Press -- [url=http://www.americanfreepress.net]http://www.americanfreepress.net[/url]
Republican members of the Senate are planning to introduce police-state- style "thought control" legislation designed to prohibit criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
By Michael Collins Piper
The third-ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate, conservative Rick Santorum (Pa.), plans to introduce so-called "ideological diversity" legislation that would cut federal funding for thousands of American colleges and universities if those institutions are found to be permitting professors, students and student organizations to openly criticize Israel, which Santorum considers to be an act of "anti-Semitism."
Santorum wants to rewrite the federal funding formula under Title IX of the Higher Education Act to include "ideological diversity" as well as sexual equality in education as a perquisite for federal funding.
Joining Santorum is another Senate conservative GOP stalwart -- and a leading pro-Israel ideologue -- Sen. Sam Brownback (Kan.) who has his own scheme to call for a federal commission -- critics call it a "tribunal" to be established under Title IX to "investigate" anti-Semitic incidents on American campuses.
This is no "conspiracy theory." It's a fact -- but not one that is getting much attention except in a few high-level circles. Although the average American student or college professor has not heard of the Santorum-Brownback scheme, Wayne Firestone, director of the Center for Israel Affairs for the Hillel Foundation, says that "Everywhere I go, this is the lead topic. This is drawing a lot of interest."
In fact, it was Firestone's organization, Hillel -- which has units on campuses across America -- that first leaked word of Santorum's scheme. Further details appeared in a circumspect report on April 15 in the small- circulation New York Sun, a stridently pro-Israel "neo-conservative" daily published in Manhattan.
Hillel told its supporters that Santorum, along with several other members of the Senate, had invited representatives of a number of powerful Jewish organizations to attend a private meeting on Capitol Hill in order to discuss the senators' concerns about growing criticism of Israel on American college campuses.
The senators in question -- all Republicans -- were: Santorum, Robert Bennett (Utah), Sam Brownback (Kansas), and newly-elected Norm Coleman (Minnesota).
In addition, Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.), and his GOP colleagues, Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and George Voinovich (Ohio) sent staff representatives.
Jewish organizations represented at the private meeting were the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, the Zionist Organization of America, the American Jewish Committee and Hillel, represented by the aforementioned Firestone and his college Jay Rubin, Hillel's executive vice president. Louis Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, represented the Bush administration.
During the private Senate session -- of which there are no transcripts available to the taxpayers who footed the bill for the enterprise -- an ADL representative reportedly claimed to the gathering that the ADL's "annual audit" of anti-Semitic activity in America had detected an increase by 24% of anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses in the year 2002. That 24% increase -- even by the ADL's own admission -- constituted only 21 actions.
However, the ADL definition of "anti-Semitism" is so broad that it largely includes even the mildest criticism of Israel that doesn't happened to be framed in the particular parameters that the ADL determines to be acceptable. In the meantime, word of the Santorum-Brownback initiative is spreading among leaders of the educational community.
However, spokesmen for universities and educational organizations are being quite circumspect about commenting too quickly or too loudly, recognizing that they, too, could be accused of encouraging "anti-Semitism" if they dare to speak out against the thought control mechanism that Santorum, Brownback and their allies want to set in place.
Santorum is rapidly emerging as one of Israel's leading Senate spokesmen. He is one of the chief co-sponsors of the so-called Syrian Accountability Act that accuses Syria of supporting terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction and demands that Syria withdraw from Lebanon. Forces now clamoring for war against Syria are using these allegations as the foundation for launching a war against the Arab republic.
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2003-04-20 00:45 | User Profile
Santorum has won the 2004 Race Traitor Golden Razor Blade Award already. I won't even consider any other candiate for the nomination. :thd:
2003-04-20 04:25 | User Profile
Soviet America built Jorge II el Busho and his GOP Goons!!! :gun: :taz: :gun:
2003-04-20 09:14 | User Profile
Once again....the Republican Party leads the way in treason against the Republic.
Will "ideological diversity" mean hands-off noncritical attitudes and equal-time provisos towards those ideologies unapproved by Sanctum Santorum and BVD Brownback-and their cheering section at Hillel? Does this mean American college students FINALLY get taught NS ideology without the fright-wigs and spookhouse sound effects?
What about debunking the cult of Lincoln? A course called "Hate Literature: From the Talmud to Germany Must Perish! to Commentary"? Or one called "Comparative Atrocity101" that includes Bolshevik and Stern Gang-engineered blood baths?
No, huh?
Well, in that case, I look forward to getting out my code-book and revelling in all the secret messages my favorite conservative columnists will be booby-trapping their commentary with as they pretend NOT to criticize this latest Orwellian measure!
2003-04-21 01:45 | User Profile
Da Juice must really have given the large intestines of their GOP butt puppets a good twist to achieve this little coup, eh?
Rope? Check. Quicklime? Double check.......
:gun: :hit: :gun:
2003-04-22 18:04 | User Profile
Call or write to express your displeasure with this proposed Jewish censorship.
Sam Brownback:
303 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202)224-6521
Rick Santorum:
511 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202)224-6324
Looks like Sammy and Ricky must have gotten that free trip to Eretz Yisrael.
2003-04-22 19:25 | User Profile
Originally posted by N.B. Forrest@Apr 20 2003, 19:45 ** Da Juice must really have given the large intestines of their GOP butt puppets a good twist to achieve this little coup, eh?
Rope? Check. Quicklime? Double check.......
:gun: :hit: :gun: **
Quicklime my ass. Leave them hanging out in the open.
2003-04-22 19:43 | User Profile
Gay Groups Want Santorum Out of Leadership Tue Apr 22,10:45 AM ET Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo!
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Gay-rights groups, fuming over Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record)'s comparison of homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery, urged Republican leaders Monday to consider removing the Pennsylvania lawmaker from the GOP Senate leadership.
A coalition of groups in Washington and Pennsylvania compared Santorum's remarks to those by those last December by former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott about Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for the presidency. Shortly afterward, Lott was forced to resign as Republican Senate leader.
Santorum is chairman of the GOP conference in the Senate, third in his party's leadership, behind Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee and Assistant Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
"We're urging the Republican leadership to condemn the remarks. They were stunning in their insensitivity, and they're the same types of remarks that sparked outrage toward Sen. Lott," said David Smith, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay advocacy organization. "We would ask that the leadership reconsider his standing within the conference leadership."
In an interview with The Associated Press, Santorum criticized homosexuality while discussing a pending Supreme Court case over a Texas sodomy law.
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything," Santorum, R-Pa., said in the interview, published Monday.
Santorum spokeswoman Erica Clayton Wright said the lawmaker's comments were "were specific to the Supreme Court case."
The White House did not immediately return a call seeking comment, and a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Frist declined comment.
Lott resigned his post in December after making remarks at a 100th birthday celebration for Thurmond that were widely considered racially insensitive and condemned by the White House. Lott later apologized.
Among the groups condemning Santorum's remarks were the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, the Pennsylvania Log Cabin Republicans (news - web sites), OutFront, and the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition.
On the Net:
Sen. Rick Santorum: [url=http://santorum.senate.gov/]http://santorum.senate.gov/[/url]
Human Rights Campaign: [url=http://www.hrc.org/]http://www.hrc.org/[/url]
2003-04-22 19:54 | User Profile
Who is writing the script? Wait, we already know.
2003-04-24 14:32 | User Profile
Originally posted by Javelin@Apr 22 2003, 19:43 **Now look at this. Santorum is allowed to make some impotent sqawks about "bigamy", "incest" and "gays" to show that he really is a "consevative". God, America is dumb.
Gay Groups Want Santorum Out of Leadership Tue Apr 22,10:45 AM ET Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo!
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*Yup, they really are going to his rescue. *
[url=http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=14939]LP Action Alert - Action Alert : Defend Conservative Sen. Santorum[/url]
Interesting LP thread on this article
[url=http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=14802]Liberty Post - Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel Views To Lose Funding (THOUGHT CONTROL)[/url]
The odd thing is, I get the feeling is mainstream conservatism will say this is just "restoring freedom" to American universities, by "fighting the campus left".
Incurable sheeple.
2003-04-24 18:06 | User Profile
I tried calling Ricky and the phone was busy.