Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech

by **dugoboy** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:03 pm

link: <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.www.dailytexanonline.com%2Fmedia%2Fstorage%2Fpaper410%2Fnews%2F2006%2F10%2F04%2FTopStories%2FProtests.Insults.Disrupt.Kristol.911.Speech-2330453.shtml%3Fsourcedomain%3Dwww.dailytexanonline.com%26MIIHost%3Dmedia.collegepublisher.com" target="top">Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech</a> A speech by William Kristol, former chief of staff for former vice president Dan Quayle and editor of The Weekly Standard magazine, turned hostile Tuesday when students began hurling insults at Kristol, alleging his and the U.S. government's complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks. "9/11 is your Pearl Harbor," said one student protestor, referring to a pre-Sept. 11 statement released by the Project for a New American Century, a conservative think tank Kristol chairs. In a Sept. 2000 report titled "Rebuilding America's Defenses, " the group wrote, "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor." Some of the student protestors are members of the new UT student organization, Project for the New American Citizen, but the group did not officially organize the protest, said founder Matt Dayton. The nonpartisan, anti-imperialism group encourages people to seek out truthful information regarding the U.S. government's policies and actions, said Dayton, an art studio and radio-television-film junior. The group's name is a counter to Kristol's neoconservative think tank. Dayton said students from his organization protested Kristol because he refuses to address what was said in the Sept. 2000 report. "They openly needed a new Pearl Harbor in order to enact their new foreign policy," Dayton said. "It's either use it or lose it with your freedom of speech," he said. Kristol's speech, which focused on the state of U.S. politics, the condition of the media and the significance of Sept. 11, drew about 200 students, staff and citizens to the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Tuesday. Radio-television-film graduate Aaron Dykes, who works for liberal-leaning radio host Alex Jones, was escorted from the building by police after repeatedly interrupting Kristol. "We're trying to expose the truth about 9/11," Dykes said. ___________________________________________ "BushCo aren't incompetent...they are Complicit!" -Me "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell "When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -Mahatma GandhiEdited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.geocities.com/orcthrasher/files/images/Qn38113.gif" BORDER=0> at: 10/4/06 2:04 pm

by **darkbeforedawn** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:26 pm

Thanks for posting this!! Actual students...not in zombie mode. Wow!! Kinda makes my day.

by **Bismillah** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:18 pm

The Cockburnite-Cornian left thinks it's an urgent task of the left to stamp out that kind of protest: <a href="http://qlipoth.blogspot.com/2006/09/suffering-cockburn-911-and-lefts.html">qlipoth.blogspot.com/2006...lefts.html</a>

by **dbeach** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:34 pm

"The Handiest Crime in History has provided Bush, Cheney and their successors with a universal and imperishable casus belli. And those clueless rubes are still insisting that the US ruling class should not be allowed to get away with it." 9/11 the gift that keeps giving to the imperial wizards behind the dropped new improved modenized to the max Iron Curtain I didnt see much reference there to Mr Corn whom may as complicit as Dracula Novak left right left marching to 1984

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:54 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Project for the New American Citizen<hr></blockquote> Brilliant. Using keyword or phrase hijacking against the perps. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol">

by **AlicetheCurious** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:11 am

Aren't students amazing? You gotta love their passion, their idealism, their patience for infinite discussions, their openness to new ideas, their inquiring minds. It's ok, the Right is taking care of it: <blockquote>Quote:<hr> For the First Time In Our History, The Next Generation Will Be Less Educated Amy Traub It's no secret that today a college degree is increasingly necessary to access the American middle class. Better educated people tend to earn more and pay more taxes, while a well-educated workforce is crucial to the nation's international competitiveness in an increasingly globalized world. Across the political spectrum, most of us agree with this. No matter what their political stripe, most politicians at least pay lip service to the importance of education. But that's about as far as the consensus goes. The ideology of the right tells us that if we cut public investment and just stand back to let the market do its magic, prosperity and well-being are sure to follow. In the realm of higher education policy, this approach has brought us dramatic cuts in student aid , four years of frozen Pell Grants for low-income students (with a fifth frozen year proposed in the president's 2007 budget), and reduced funding for public colleges and universities in many states. The results? Just look at the title of the blog post. As the New York Times reported Thursday, "For the first time in our history, the next generation will be less educated." Reporting on a new study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, the Times notes that: -"While other nation's have significantly improved and expanded their higher education systems, the United States' higher education performance has stalled since the early 1990's" -"For most American families, college is becoming increasingly unaffordable" -As a result, today's young people are "lagging educationally compared to the baby boom generation." The study, which evaluated higher education in each state individually as well as providing a national picture, also found that: -The proportion of family income needed to pay net college costs (after accounting for all student financial aid) at public four-year colleges has grown from 28% to 42% in Ohio; from 24% to 37% in New Jersey. -The likelihood of a 9th grader enrolling in college four years later is less than 40%; and that likelihood has decreased from 44% to 32% in Hawaii; from 46% to 35% in Vermont; and from 45% to 37% in New York. -Since the early 1980s, the rate of increase in the price of college has far outstripped price increases in other sectors of the economy, even health care. Over these years, median family income increased by 127%; college tuition and fees by 375% So much for our shared commitment to higher education. But do progressives have any better ideas? We do, and it's very simple: invest more in higher education. Help more young people afford college. Make paying for college less of a deal with the devil, where many degrees come with decades of debt. The Reverse the Raid on Student Aid Act is one concrete step towards these goals. Posted by Amy Traub at September 10, 2006 07:03 AM <a href="http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2006/09/for_the_first_time_in_our_hist.html">www.dmiblog.net/archives/..._hist.html</a> <hr></blockquote>

by **DBtv** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:00 pm

Austin has always been the liberal oasis in a desert of ignorant, knee jerk arch-conservatism. I was a hippie there in the early 70's and those were the happiest days of my life. Hook 'em, Liberal Longhorns!!

by **Corvidaerex** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:35 am

AlicetheCurious : Not to mention that U.S. high school graduates are already illiterate, while a third of four-year-college graduates are illiterate and can't do consumer math. I can't imagine what it's going to be like in 20 years. Well, I can, but it's unpleasant to think about .... My unschooled old hillbilly relatives were smarter and wiser than your standard university grad today, and I don't think my long-gone relations were unique. They were always reading books and newspapers, playing musical instruments, taking part in their community, taking care of themselves & those who needed help, etc. Sure, they were ignorant hillbillies who jarred a bunch of squirrel meat every fall and would probably be offensive to a New York sophisticate of the era, but they had brains & dignity.

by **NewKid** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:49 am

Note his interpretation of the 'new pearl harbor' line around the 2:10s-20s. <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/node/3444" target="top">www.911blogger.com/node/3444</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=newkid@rigorousintuition>NewKid</A> at: 10/5/06 10:51 pm

Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech

Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech

Re: Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech

The Cockburnite Left as protectors of far-right liars

Re: The Cockburnite Left as protectors of far-right liars

Re: Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech

Re: Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech

Proud of my alma mater

Our educated class is already stupid

Re: Our educated class is already stupid

Who is online