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       Monday, January 23, 2006

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McCarthyism Once Again?

[I well recall attending with my then fiancee and also a student editor the "10 Million Americans for McCarthy" rally at Madison Square Garden in 1955 -- the last gasp of McCarthyism after Dwight Eisenhower gave it a death-dealing whack for brutally attacking a young political appointee in his administration. It was quite some event with angry and ugly happenings. Noted Life Magazine photog, Lisa Larson, was pointedly dragged past the podium at one point by guards with the crowd screaming "Kill the Communist." Needless to say she had come on assignment from Life. At one point someone pointed at Lyn (now my wife of many years) and started screaming the same and I grabbed her and steered her out of sight. Bill Buckley, a retired general, and what used to be called "one of those little old ladies in tennis shoes" were among those on the podium, looking a bit uncomfortable about this. We both wrote the event up for our student papers, respectively at Yale and Sarah Lawrence which inspired one of Buskley's ugly letters to the editor -- he haunted Yale via Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society which also housed the Bushes.

Needless to say the ugly attacks on two of our faculty at Brooklyn by this crew ought to have forestalled our eco department member from pressing on with this nonsense. And de Russy is notorious for her right-wing stuff -- sponsoring one of the nutty right-wing fundamentalist operation at one point among other such. It is a disgrace while we are talking of politics, that Pataki has chosen to appoint to serious academic positions (i.e. trustee of our state university, SUNY) one so strongly identified with extremist organizations and positions. One would figure her involvement in what follows. Ed Kent]

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New York Academia vs. the Academic Bill of Rights
By C. de Russy and M. Langbert and P. Orenstein
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 23, 2006

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20995

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posted by Ed Kent at 12:13 PM  

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