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3.13.2007
 For the French challenged the above title is Assault On The Academy. When I speak of the "academy" I mean the hall's of higher education in this country. It seems that in the country those who are in power are not satisfied with running it into the ground with fascistic intent in the direction of Empire (regardless of what history teaches us about the demise of empires), but wish by the means of bald and brute power to shut down dissent in the said academy.
This, because history teaches us once again, that without absolute control of higher education, there will be voices of learning which oppose their mad course! In the process they hope to extinguish critical thinking and all dissent.
(Ward Churchill)
So what they do is chose an individual, making sure he is in a tenured position - like Ward Churchill and have him pilloried in the public square of the mass media. This, of course, sending a chilling effect throughout academia, and thus attempting to silence any dissent to the status quo (or, what has been made the mad course of the status quo) - effectively saying to professors publicly that you must watch what you say or you will meet the same fate (especially those without tenure).
Along with the loss of job security in America, tenure has gone the same way. It has decreased significantly in the last 10 years, so that the academics chances of every gaining such security shrinks rapidly. What comes along with tenure? The ability to speak in regard to anything that has been made controversy without having ones head handed to them on a vindictive platter!
Essentially we are seeing what is called in military terms a pincher movement being made on academia, on the one side is political censorship, on the other is the precarious nature of employment, and this is aggravated by attacks of different sorts on professors. There is a third element, we will get to this next.
 This (above) is an example of the third part of this pincher movement. The use of students to monitor their teachers, especially in areas of Middle Eastern studies, or quite frankly, anywhere where the classic views of how good and great America is can be questioned - ethnic studies in the indigenous population in the case with Ward Churchill. Horowitz, who is supported by corporate money starts this grass root brown shirt movements among the youth (who are easily exploited), to put the pressure on professors at campus to "watch what they say." I understand that this tactic is used on 150 or so campus'.
Horowitz money is directly linked to the ACTA (American Council of Trustee's and Alumni), founded by Dick Cheney's wonderful wife (sarcasm). Another example is that of Cheney's wife who is fond of spawning articles like "How Many Ward Churchill's Do We Have?"
 "Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lectures are present in the universities" - just who said this? Look no further than that famous document called PNAC, Project for the New American Century! To really get to the point, this is just one more stroke in the "war on terror."
Along with this bogus war on terror, and the encroachment on the rights of American's, is this war against critical thinking and the voice of dissent. You see, those who teach at the university and college level are supposed to those types of authority figures that people believe in, and this current administration cannot stand the fact that what is supposed to be one of their props, boots them in the proverbial ass!
THEY WANT TO ROB YOU OF ANY OBJECTIVITY, YOUR CRITICAL THINKING APPARATUS, THEY NOT ONLY WANT YOUR BODY BUT THEY WANT YOUR MIND. WE NEED, AS A PEOPLE, TO STOP THE PERSECUTION OF BRAVE ACADEMICS THAT STAND UP FOR WHAT IS TRUE AND RIGHT! LET'S STOP THESE FASCISTS FROM RUINING WHAT IS OUR RIGHT, MINDS ENDOWED WITH INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, AND CRITICAL THINKING CAPACITY.
Posted at 05:38 pm by deadringer
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