tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post6965910416004708881..comments2023-10-17T22:56:42.784-04:00Comments on Only in The Republic of Amherst: Remembering The RevolutionLarry Kelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-26835396240554998032015-03-24T13:23:08.557-04:002015-03-24T13:23:08.557-04:00So what I don't understand is why there was a ...So what I don't understand is why there was a massive protest at UMass in 2013 when Karl Rove spoke, yet no one bats an eyebrow when Angela Davis, a former Communist Party member and affiliate of the Black Panther party, comes to speak at UMass. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-51435402593114171962015-03-20T16:01:04.238-04:002015-03-20T16:01:04.238-04:00Yes fleeing and going into hiding are both conside...Yes fleeing and going into hiding are both considered evidence of consciousness of guilt. Why not scream from the rooftops "I had nothing to do with this!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-47952173965355983502015-03-20T15:57:24.380-04:002015-03-20T15:57:24.380-04:00Davis is/was a Communist. But let's give her ...Davis is/was a Communist. But let's give her a listen . Why????? And I know she was found not guilty, (the finding is never 'innocent,' but fleeing and going into hiding is evidence of consciousness of guilt...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-82932434921264682952015-03-20T15:46:07.148-04:002015-03-20T15:46:07.148-04:00Move along. Nothing see here.Move along. Nothing see here.Larry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-36633829423826896332015-03-20T15:43:28.529-04:002015-03-20T15:43:28.529-04:00What revolution?? The one that never came? Or th...What revolution?? The one that never came? Or the ones we think will come? Nothing happening here. Nothin' ever does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-36070505038976849462015-03-20T15:41:36.089-04:002015-03-20T15:41:36.089-04:00I suppose were he still alive, we could have allow...I suppose were he still alive, we could have allowed Ted Bundy to be heard. All perspectives indeed. Ridiculous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-59858128382397760902015-03-20T15:38:46.117-04:002015-03-20T15:38:46.117-04:00Angela Davis. Why do we pay heed to criminals? F...Angela Davis. Why do we pay heed to criminals? Funny world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-48396862139602531032015-03-17T22:01:40.633-04:002015-03-17T22:01:40.633-04:00Some revolution.Some revolution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-38170987621302740492015-03-17T22:00:06.906-04:002015-03-17T22:00:06.906-04:00Please bring in speakers with whom the majority of...Please bring in speakers with whom the majority of sheep do not agree. People on the right make up about half the nation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-67516830137184203932015-03-17T21:54:52.372-04:002015-03-17T21:54:52.372-04:00Ok. When will that happen? Ever? Ok. When will that happen? Ever? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-45746969531690671152015-03-17T17:48:05.671-04:002015-03-17T17:48:05.671-04:00Praising UMass for allowing all perspectives to be...Praising UMass for allowing all perspectives to be heard because a hard core statist like Davis speaks, in her echo chamber that is modern academia, is either a disingenuous gesture or an ignorant one. For actual defenders of free speech (hint: it's not communists/socialists) Davis' right to speak is not the issue; of course this enemy of liberty has her rights as I do. The issue is the dumbing down of education to the extent that anyone today seriously considers statist/collectivist ideals as a viable and moral option while anyone voicing classical liberal ideals is branded a racist, tea bagger, etc... and shouted down. Maybe that's why UMass welcomes this radical tool.<br />~Bill RAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-73153084965602742372015-03-17T16:08:22.098-04:002015-03-17T16:08:22.098-04:00It's interesting how someone who purports to h...It's interesting how someone who purports to hold conservative views, which center around the importance of individual responsibility, can spend so much time blaming other people for his problems. <br /><br />(So glad I have my filter.)Nina Kochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-52313411471208284422015-03-17T14:09:24.657-04:002015-03-17T14:09:24.657-04:00"People had no problem when I was silenced, a..."People had no problem when I was silenced, and I hadn't killed anyone.<br /><br />When I have my free speech, she can have hers. Until then, well, UMass is revealing its true colors."<br /><br />Really, Ed, this is not about you attempting to be the perpetual victim?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-54687845105888507792015-03-17T13:43:50.441-04:002015-03-17T13:43:50.441-04:00Clearly someone does not know the meaning of the w...Clearly someone does not know the meaning of the word "hypothetical."<br /><br />OK Schmuck, YOU are sleeping with a 17-year-old of any gender, you buy him/her/it a whole bunch of guns which he/she/it uses to drag a judge out of his courtroom and kill him.<br /><br />Can it be about YOU?<br /><br />Oh, and would anyone know who Angela Davis was if she hadn't committed any crimes?Dr. Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-7378221377449087662015-03-17T13:05:38.526-04:002015-03-17T13:05:38.526-04:00Ed, once again, this is not about you.Ed, once again, this is not about you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-81323349180797247422015-03-17T09:43:35.924-04:002015-03-17T09:43:35.924-04:00DR. Ed maybe you are very uninteresting person the...DR. Ed maybe you are very uninteresting person therefore no one cares to listen to what you have to say just a thought. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-75640349153064698662015-03-17T09:22:04.375-04:002015-03-17T09:22:04.375-04:00Larry, consider this hypothetical: If I bought a ...Larry, consider this hypothetical: If I bought a 17-year-old girl a shotgun and several handguns, if the two of us sawed the barrel off that shotgun (itself a Federal offense) -- and bear in mind that I'm probably both purchasing alcohol for her and sleeping with her -- <br /><br />And if the 17-year-old then takes my guns into Judge Payne's courtroom, drags him out into the parking lot and shoots him, with herself getting shot as well --- both dying along with 6 other people.<br /><br />If I'd done that Larry, would you consider me a champion of "social justice" or something else? (Why wasn't she subsequently tried for "endangering a minor"? Yes she wsa found "not guilty" -- as was OJ Simpson -- in this country, justice is bought...<br /><br />Bringing Angela Davis for Black History Monty is like bringing OJ Simpson for Women's History Month.<br /><br />Brinaging Angela Davis to speak about "social justice" is like bringing David Duke to speak about "social justice."<br /><br />You talk about the drunken hooolians disgracing a UMass degree == this is a lot worse.Dr. Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-36563674249537275532015-03-17T08:59:00.282-04:002015-03-17T08:59:00.282-04:00Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a survivor of the Stalin&#...<br />Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a survivor of the Stalin's Gulag prisons, commented: "Angela Davis was set free, as you know. Although she didn't have too difficult a time in this country's jails, she came to recuperate in Soviet resorts. Some Soviet dissidents, but more important, a group of Czech dissidents, addressed an appeal to her: "Comrade Davis, you were in prison. You know how unpleasant it is to sit in prison, especially when you consider yourself innocent. You have such great authority now. Could you help our Czech prisoners? Could you stand up for those people in Czechoslovakia who are being persecuted by the state?" Angela Davis answered: "They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison. That is the face of Communism. That is the heart of Communism for you."<br /><br />http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204171/bioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-84485859721653288832015-03-17T01:32:22.900-04:002015-03-17T01:32:22.900-04:00People had no problem when I was silenced, and I h...People had no problem when I was silenced, and I hadn't killed anyone.<br /><br />When I have my free speech, she can have hers. Until then, well, UMass is revealing its true colors.<br /><br />Or is UMass saying you gotta kill four people before you have free speech rights???Dr. Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-65280573384532691802015-03-16T21:53:36.750-04:002015-03-16T21:53:36.750-04:00Of course they do. The Patriots don't have suc...Of course they do. The Patriots don't have such a following at Giant Stadium either. Just the way ideology works. Great to have different opinions and even better to allow all sides of a story to be represented. Walter Graffnoreply@blogger.com