http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/columbia-university-and-evil-dictators/

Stop the war drive against Iran
No to the demonization of President Ahmadinejad

We denounce the campaign of demonization against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that has preceded his visit to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York. We call on the anti-war movement, progressive organizations, students, workers and community groups to stand up to this racist campaign and say loudly and clearly: No war against Iran!

What is the aim of this carefully crafted campaign by local, state and federal officials, the Republican and Democratic leadership, and the corporate media? To beat the drums for a new U.S.-led war against a sovereign, oil-rich Middle Eastern country, while diverting attention from the intractable crisis of the genocidal U.S. occupation of Iraq, which by the most recent estimate has cost 1.2 million Iraqi lives, and the growing economic crisis for poor and working people here at home.

Whatever the intentions of some progressive student organizations who plan to join a protest planned against President Ahmadinejad’s Sept. 24 speaking engagement at Columbia University, their participation feeds into this pro-war campaign. The reactionary media and right-wing groups have taken complete ownership of the protest and will use it to feed the war hysteria. We agree with the Columbia Coalition Against the War, which says, “We call on those who do not support a war with Iran to be wary of the vilification of Ahmadinejad, to avoid Monday’s rally and to express vocally their opposition to military intervention.”

The conduct of the New York City administration, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council head Christine Quinn, has been nothing short of criminal. The NYPD refused President Ahmadinejad’s request to lay a wreath at Ground Zero, citing so-called “security concerns.” At the same time, every statement by the Bloomberg administration has been calculated to stir up racist forces and threaten the safety of a visiting head of state, while implying that the NYPD will not provide him with the required protection. The Bush administration has been complicit in these threats, as have both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.

To his credit, President Ahmadinejad has refused to be intimidated by these threats and plans to go ahead with his scheduled public appearance at Columbia University.

Media have reported on Pentagon plans to strike against 10,000 targets in the first hours of a military attack on Iran. The targets are not only alleged nuclear power and military sites, but the very infrastructure of this country of 71 million people, including roads, bridges, the electrical grid and water supplies. Two U.S. aircraft carriers are perpetually stationed off Iran’s coast, and U.S. military bases throughout the Middle East are targeting Iran with missiles and bombers. Covert U.S. military incursions in Iranian territory have been reported. The unprovoked Israeli attack on Syria Sept. 6, which had White House approval, has also been reported as a dry-run for that U.S.-sponsored, nuclear-armed settler state’s participation in a war of terror against Iran.

Before the 1979 revolution, Iran was a virtual U.S. colony ruled by the brutal Shah. The nationalization of Iran’s oil industry since 1979 has meant social programs, education and literacy for both women and men, health care and other social benefits. The Iranian people, whether or not they support the Islamic establishment or the current government in Tehran, are determined to protect the gains of their anti-colonial revolution. Like the resisting Iraqi population, they will not return quietly to the days of Pentagon and Wall Street domination.

We stand with the President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian people to say: Stop the war drive against Iran!

Initiated by the International Action Center and Stop War on Iran
http://www.iacenter.org http://www.stopwaroniran.org

How the West can defeat Islamofascism when our so-called prestigious learning institutions have no ability to make a distinction between good and evil. The Iran lobby (Gary Sick, Hamid Debashi,… ) are doing their best at Columbia to give legitimacy to the Islamic-Nazi regime of mad mullahs.

That said, here’s hoping a thousand Andrew Meyer-like individuals will disrupt the Ahmadinejad speech with such intensity that the entire auditorium will be filled with cries of “Don’t taze me, bro!”

“Progressive” community, my ass.

First of all, as suprising as they may be, there are Columbia student who do happen to visit right wing blogoshpere sites. Just like there are those who visit left wing ones. Some even try to visit both. Its not even hard to find them–there are a couple on the PSSA, in the model UN, part of CPU and definitely in the republicans, conservatives and pro life groups.

But hey, I understand that you’re probably one of those revolutionaries whose formulating the revolution from his/her mcbain shaft in between the masturbation sessions you engage in while your roommate actually ventures out into the outside. But just because you technically spend more time in a Columbia building then I may—or hold a different political opinion–doesn’t mean that you can assume everyone who disagrees with you can’t be from Columbia.

I mean, for a purported liberal, you realize that claiming that any dissenting voices are just from outside ‘radical’ sites [where the people are depraved] is basically setting up an ‘other’ for you to dehumanize in a political sense right? Youre lucky I don’t go to SHOCC and recommend you for opression training.

Bwog, can’t you just redirect these right-wing idiots to the IDF webpage or something, like the little green footballs website does?

Yeah, the majority of students on ths campus are liberal, but they’re not super retarded liberal like you are (its obvious you’re both 36 and 37)

p.s. vague association is more valid than ad homs

1) he didn’t orchestrate it
2) it wasn’t a “denial conference”

http://lrc.reviewcanada.ca/index.php?page=the-explanation-we-never-heard