Bitch Slapping Ahmadinejad
(From the September 27th edition of the Las Vegas Penny Press)
I seldom agree with President Bush on much of anything these days.
But he finally said something that I can agree with.
The allowing of Iranian leader and whack job nut case Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to freely speak in this country is a display of our greatness and
our confidence in our own system of government.
And in retrospect, I believe it was a stroke of genius by Columbia
University president Lee Bollinger, as he took the opportunity to basically
bitch-slap Ahmadinejad into the next country.
Look at these quotes from Bollinger’s remarks:
“Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.
And so I ask you — (applause) — and so I ask you, why have women,
members of the Baha’i faith, homosexuals and so many of our academic
colleagues become targets of persecution in your country? Why, in a letter
last week to the secretary-general of the U.N., did Akbar Ganji, Iran’s leading
political dissident, and over 300 public intellectuals, writers and Noble
Laureates express such grave concern that your inflamed dispute with the
West is distracting the world’s attention from the intolerable conditions in
your regime within Iran, in particular the use of the press law to ban writers
for criticizing the ruling system? Why are you so afraid of Iranian citizens
expressing their opinions for change? “
Ahmadinejad’s comments that followed proved something to those
who listened. Not only did he avoid addressing Bollinger’s comments, he
insulted him back:
“At the outset, I want to complain a bit on the person who read this
political statement against me. In Iran, tradition requires that when we
demand a person to invite us as a — to be a speaker, we actually respect our
students and the professors by allowing them to make their own judgment,
and we don’t think it’s necessary before the speech is even given to come
in — (applause) — with a series of claims and to attempt in a so-called
manner to provide vaccination of some sort to our students and our faculty.
I think the text read by the (dear ?) gentleman here, more than addressing
me, was an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience here,
present here. In a university environment, we must allow people to speak
their mind, to allow everyone to talk so that the truth is eventually revealed
by all. Most certainly he took more than all the time I was allocated to
speak. And that’s fine with me. We’ll just leave that to add up with the
claims of respect for freedom and the freedom of speech that is given to us
in this country. “
How amusing that this whack job who shuts down all dissent in his own
nation should complain about dissent in this nation. You see, there is no
opposition media in Iran. Anyone who opposes Ahmadinejad is shut down,
slapped down, jailed or executed.
Oh, and this ridiculous statement:
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have
that like in your country. ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t
know who’s told you that we have this.”
Human rights groups know otherwise. Anyone falling outside the
country’s strict “Me Tarzan, You Jane” mindset is tortured, beaten, or killed,
regardless of race, creed, color, sex, or sexual orientation.
Make no mistake about Ahmadinejad:
He is a nut case.
He is a tyrant.
He is in denial.
But the worst thing that I can say about the man:
He is a western style politician.
Seriously.
Read the speech. Look at how he ducks and dodges questions or answers
questions with questions and totally fails to answer the original question!
With his style and delivery he would fit right into our Presidential
Debates very well.
Except he’d demand that that snowman be liquidated on the spot.
Shimon Peres’ opposition to Ahmadinejad’s speech is understandable,
but misguided.
His comments that the university’s justification for having him for free
academic expression is misguided because Ahmadinejad “simply stood up
and lied”.
Peres told reporters, “I don’t accept the university’s explanations,
because if a university is a platform where lies are permissible, then it is
not academic”
A fair point, except that if we used that justification consistently, no
politician would be allowed to speak on any university campus.
Make no mistake, I disagree with what Ahmadinejad stands for. He has
a pretty smile and a demonic spirit.
But I also believe that bright light is the best disinfectant.
The more we expose the racists, the wackos, the evil doers of every
political stripe, the more we can fight them. It is only when they remain
lurking in the shadows that they can truly endanger our country.
The more that people such as this are exposed for what they are, the
more our national resolve can be to turn inward, away from these foreign
entanglements.
If people want freedom in other lands, let them do what we did. Fight
for it. If you want it bad enough, you’ll get it. Eventually.
WYATT COX
I seldom agree with President Bush on much of anything these days.
But he finally said something that I can agree with.
The allowing of Iranian leader and whack job nut case Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to freely speak in this country is a display of our greatness and
our confidence in our own system of government.
And in retrospect, I believe it was a stroke of genius by Columbia
University president Lee Bollinger, as he took the opportunity to basically
bitch-slap Ahmadinejad into the next country.
Look at these quotes from Bollinger’s remarks:
“Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.
And so I ask you — (applause) — and so I ask you, why have women,
members of the Baha’i faith, homosexuals and so many of our academic
colleagues become targets of persecution in your country? Why, in a letter
last week to the secretary-general of the U.N., did Akbar Ganji, Iran’s leading
political dissident, and over 300 public intellectuals, writers and Noble
Laureates express such grave concern that your inflamed dispute with the
West is distracting the world’s attention from the intolerable conditions in
your regime within Iran, in particular the use of the press law to ban writers
for criticizing the ruling system? Why are you so afraid of Iranian citizens
expressing their opinions for change? “
Ahmadinejad’s comments that followed proved something to those
who listened. Not only did he avoid addressing Bollinger’s comments, he
insulted him back:
“At the outset, I want to complain a bit on the person who read this
political statement against me. In Iran, tradition requires that when we
demand a person to invite us as a — to be a speaker, we actually respect our
students and the professors by allowing them to make their own judgment,
and we don’t think it’s necessary before the speech is even given to come
in — (applause) — with a series of claims and to attempt in a so-called
manner to provide vaccination of some sort to our students and our faculty.
I think the text read by the (dear ?) gentleman here, more than addressing
me, was an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience here,
present here. In a university environment, we must allow people to speak
their mind, to allow everyone to talk so that the truth is eventually revealed
by all. Most certainly he took more than all the time I was allocated to
speak. And that’s fine with me. We’ll just leave that to add up with the
claims of respect for freedom and the freedom of speech that is given to us
in this country. “
How amusing that this whack job who shuts down all dissent in his own
nation should complain about dissent in this nation. You see, there is no
opposition media in Iran. Anyone who opposes Ahmadinejad is shut down,
slapped down, jailed or executed.
Oh, and this ridiculous statement:
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have
that like in your country. ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t
know who’s told you that we have this.”
Human rights groups know otherwise. Anyone falling outside the
country’s strict “Me Tarzan, You Jane” mindset is tortured, beaten, or killed,
regardless of race, creed, color, sex, or sexual orientation.
Make no mistake about Ahmadinejad:
He is a nut case.
He is a tyrant.
He is in denial.
But the worst thing that I can say about the man:
He is a western style politician.
Seriously.
Read the speech. Look at how he ducks and dodges questions or answers
questions with questions and totally fails to answer the original question!
With his style and delivery he would fit right into our Presidential
Debates very well.
Except he’d demand that that snowman be liquidated on the spot.
Shimon Peres’ opposition to Ahmadinejad’s speech is understandable,
but misguided.
His comments that the university’s justification for having him for free
academic expression is misguided because Ahmadinejad “simply stood up
and lied”.
Peres told reporters, “I don’t accept the university’s explanations,
because if a university is a platform where lies are permissible, then it is
not academic”
A fair point, except that if we used that justification consistently, no
politician would be allowed to speak on any university campus.
Make no mistake, I disagree with what Ahmadinejad stands for. He has
a pretty smile and a demonic spirit.
But I also believe that bright light is the best disinfectant.
The more we expose the racists, the wackos, the evil doers of every
political stripe, the more we can fight them. It is only when they remain
lurking in the shadows that they can truly endanger our country.
The more that people such as this are exposed for what they are, the
more our national resolve can be to turn inward, away from these foreign
entanglements.
If people want freedom in other lands, let them do what we did. Fight
for it. If you want it bad enough, you’ll get it. Eventually.
WYATT COX
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