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2007-04-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Bobby 2007-04-22 07:38|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Michelle Malkin wrote a column a few days ago connecting the prohibition against physical self-defense with "the erosion of intellectual self-defense," and the retreat of college campuses into a smothering security blanket of speech codes and "safe spaces" that's the very opposite of the principles of honest enquiry and vigorous debate on which university life was founded. And so we "fear guns," and "verbal violence," and excessively realistic swashbuckling in the varsity production of ''The Three Musketeers.'' What kind of functioning society can emerge from such a cocoon?

Exactly the kind of society the liberal establishment wants to create: a society of perpetual infants needing constant supervision by the big Mommy in Washington.

And no, it won't "function".

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-04-22 08:43|| 2007-04-22 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I assume some of the mail Steyn had to fend off was from those Rantburgians convinced this sort of talk is "blaming the victims". Steyn's comments on the murdered Dartmouth College profs is exactly to the point. They were victims and they made themselves victims. There is evil dolts in this world - many of them thinly masking their psychopathology as faith - and to fail to be prepared for them is no different than ignoring the risk of fire or earthquake or lightning strike. The difference, of course, is an academic and media caste that works to prevent fire-extinguisher ownership and bans private citizens from stock-piling sandbags.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-22 09:26|| 2007-04-22 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 There "are" evil dolts.

/pimf again

Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-22 09:26|| 2007-04-22 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 So why don't the liberals who are so cavalier with everyone's safety and well-being just put their heads down on the block and let thugs and terrorists behead them. They might try reasoning and conflict resolution after they ban meaningless symbols but good luck.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-04-22 10:14|| 2007-04-22 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 So why don't the liberals who are so cavalier with everyone's safety and well-being just put their heads down on the block and let thugs and terrorists behead them

Because hat's what they want us to do...

Posted by badanov 2007-04-22 11:27|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-04-22 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Damn, I swear I'd never be a gun nut. But maybe it's time to stash a revolver in the trunk of the non-runner. No advice needed on type or form.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-22 14:49|| 2007-04-22 14:49|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't advocate "universal sufferage" when it comes to the Second Ammendmant but I do believe those people who wish to carry a concealed weapon should be allowed to do so providing they go through a safety course and a course on marksmanship. The responsibility of carrying a concealed weapon is not inconsequencial.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-04-22 15:17|| 2007-04-22 15:17|| Front Page Top

#8 The "gun-free zone" turned out to be a fraud -- not just because there were at least two guns on the campus last Monday, but in the more important sense that the college was promoting to its students a profoundly deluded view of the world.

Academia's betrayal of America becomes more profound with each passing day. Parents of those killed at VT need to understand that their children died due to the school's delusional policies. Yes, they died at the hands of Cho, but each of his victims may as well have already had their hands tied by VT's administraitors.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-22 17:05|| 2007-04-22 17:05|| Front Page Top

#9 "Academia's betrayal of America"

Not just America, Zen, but the West generally speaking.

The older I get, the more I believe that because our society gives more money to a guy who manages a shoe store than to professors, they have a hair across their butts about our whole system (how could a truly good and fair system reward a businessman more than the obviously superior perfesser?).

Thing is, how can a bunch of people who are supposed to be so much smarter than the rest of us not realise the simple solution, which is to become a businessman and make the money?

Is it any suprise that such people believe that calling a campus a "gun free zone" will guarantee that everyone will be proof against gun violence? There's a "rest of the world" out there. How can that possibly be difficult to figure out, if you're so much smarter than average??

Posted by no mo uro 2007-04-22 18:47|| 2007-04-22 18:47|| Front Page Top

#10 How can that possibly be difficult to figure out, if you're so much smarter than average??

While the view is splendid, any of its benefits are negated by the isolation that comes from dwelling in an ivory tower. Old saying:

Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach.

Academia is proving this in spades. The VT massacre is a perfect example of starry-eyed theory being trumped by vicious reality.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-22 19:49|| 2007-04-22 19:49|| Front Page Top

#11 FYI, HESTON's famous comment is also depicted in RED DAWN. * Red Dawn movie > NATO dissolves, Commies etal. face starvation = economic travails; "Former" NATO = now EU nations except for BRITAIN refuses to assist Amer agz USSR-led invasion of CONUS-NORAM, + CHINA [in movie loses 400Milyuhn out of 1.0Bilyuhn population] -"Britain" in movie not expected to last long. Commie invasion in US South in movie = IMMIGRATION? includ disguise by Radical Terror. Boulder??? COLORADO surrounded and besieged by Commie forces ala VICKSBURG. COMMIES AL WEAR LEGAL UNIFORMS AND CARRY LEGAL GUNS - SWAYZE, SHEEN, EMILIO, etal ARE THE AMERS WHOM ARE ALSO THE DIRTY GUERILLAS-INSURGENTS AGZ COMMIE RULE.

Lest we fergit, "WWWWWWOOOOOOLLLLVVVVEEEE
EEEEERRRRIIIINESSS...".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-22 23:59|| 2007-04-22 23:59|| Front Page Top

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