Columbia U. students organize: Ahmadinejad is not welcome here; Update: Hitler-friendly and proud of it!
Update 7:50pm Eastern 9/22. Video: Yes, says Columbia official John Coatsworth, we’d invite Hitler. Because, of course, as I linked to yesterday, they already did.
Transcript of Dean John Coatsworth’s comments on Fox News:
If Hitler were at uh, the League of Nations or some meeting in NY–the League of Nations wasn’t there–um, if Hitler were in the United States and wanted a platform from which to speak, he would have plenty of platforms from which to speak in the United States. If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, um, we would certainly invite him.
Reason number 9,991 not to send your kid to Columbia University.
Update 1:23pm Eastern 9/22. Bill Kristol calls for a boycott.
Update 9:45pm Eastern. Columbia U. alum Matt Sanchez sends along the security notice e-mailed to Columbia students regarding protection plans for Ahmadinejad…
Dear members of the Columbia community:
On Monday, September 24th, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is scheduled to appear as a speaker on our Morningside campus.
The Department of Public Safety is working closely with both the New York Police Department and the Secret Service – as we do for all major events on campus – to ensure the safety and security of all members of the University community during this high profile event. Please take note of the following procedures we are putting in place to maintain a safe and secure campus environment on Monday:
UNIVERSITY ID CARD NEEDED TO ACCESS CAMPUS
Access to campus will be limited on Monday, at various hours, to Columbia affiliates with a valid University ID card only. All faculty, staff and students must show a University ID to enter the campus.114TH STREET GATES CLOSED
In addition to the above restrictions, the gates to access campus on 114th Street, at both Carman and John Jay Halls, will be closed during the day. In order to facilitate access to the South Field residence halls, we will open the Taint Gate at 115th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Entry to campus through this gate will also be limited to Columbia affiliates with a valid University ID only.NOISE POLICY EXTENDED
We also ask for your patience as we extend the University’s amplified sound policy for student groups holding a rally on campus between 11:30am and 6:00pm on Monday.Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we continue the work of keeping our campus safe for the many activities of our university community.
Jim McShane
Associate Vice President
For Public Safety
Update 8:00pm Eastern. Columbia U. and Hitler: Then and Now. Wow.
Update 4:15pm Eastern. The American Congress for Truth has a petition to Columbia U. president Lee Bollinger. You can sign here.
Update 3:30pm Eastern. Mahmoud is welcome at the National Press Club for a lunchtime videoconference. For crying out loud.
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As I mentioned yesterday, Columbia students on Facebook have been busy organizing a protest of the Iranian nutjob’s visit on Monday.
Here are some details:
WHEN: Monday, September 24, 1:00-3:00
WHERE:
COLUMBIA STUDENTS (w/ Columbia ID’s): On campus, outside Lerner Hall
NON-COLUMBIA STUDENTS: The Columbia Gates. 116th and Broadway – we have secured a permit to stage a protest there.
WHO: YOU and your friends, along with Hillel, Hasbara, StandWithUs, Amcha, ZOA, The David Project, Columbia student groups, concerned citizens. Expected attendance is in the thousands.
WHY: Remember – the world is watching. This is a monumental opportunity to make our voices heard. Generations will ask us, What did we do to protest? Where were we?
NEED A RIDE?
Hasbara Fellowships will be organizing busses from various campuses and points around the city. They are planning to provide busses from: NYU, Rutgers, Baruch, Queens, Hofstra, Brooklyn, and from the earlier rally in front of the UN. YU and Stern students probably have their own busses, ask around. We also need people to step up and be campus leaders to organize the bussing and rallying. Please be in touch. More details will be forthcoming.
The Columbia organizers link to this video as a reminder:
And the organizers link to signs here. A few samples:
The campus paper, the Columbia Spectator, reports:
Nearly 50 student leaders and a dozen administrators sat down with University President Lee Bollinger for an hour on Thursday for a passionate yet civil discussion to air concerns about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled speech on campus on Monday.
When asked by Bollinger, student leaders overwhelmingly agreed that the event was in line with the academic purpose of the University, but several students expressed their disappointment in Bollinger’s handling of the invitation, with many airing concerns about student participation. Meanwhile, students began to solidify plans for a rally on Low Plaza this Monday.
Students’ concerns with the event included the logistics of establishing a rally on campus and the worry that lending Ahmadinejad a podium from which to speak would elevate and legitimize his views. Those in attendance expressed their greatest concerns regarding how students would be involved in the event itself.
“A girl came up to me after [a College Democrats meeting last night]—she was an Iranian student, an Iranian refugee, and she was near tears. She said, ‘I came to Columbia just for this moment, and I can’t believe the event is closed off before I can even register for it,’” Josh Lipsky, CC ’08 and president of the Columbia University College Democrats, said, while expressing his disappointment that only the most well-connected of students had been able to snatch up seats. He called on those in the room to give their seats to underclassmen.
Administrators said that 80 percent of all seats had been reserved for students. For those without a spot, the event will be available via Webcast.
Meanwhile, idiocy abounds. Here’s reason number 9,871 not to send your kid to Columbia:
Christien Tompkins, CC ’08, co-chair of the United Students of Color Council and member of Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge, compared the invitation of Ahmadinejad to that of Jim Gilchrist and said he was “disappointed” in Bollinger’s leadership for going out of his way to denounce the Iranian head of state and but not the “racist” founder of the Minutemen Project.
Because, like, opposing illegal immigration is just as bad as calling for the annihilation of Israel, pursuing nuclear revenge, and funding terrorism against American civilians and soldiers.
Live by moral equivalence, die by moral equivalence.
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Iran IS attacking us!!! Their maniacal leader will be entering via our college system on Monday to indoctrinate our youths with his propaganda…
swj -
Well,
all thesome news reports said that Israel had bombed a nuke facility in Syria. They make a big stink about it, they’re admitting it… right?IMHO, the most deadly snake is the one where you don’t hear the rattle. Ackmedwannabeworldleader is too vocal. He’s either got a handler pulling the strings or the entire ME really is alligned with him. If he could pull off the coup of having Israel forced to cop to either having nukes, or not having them – ME leaders would line up with him immediately. The silence is interesting. The region fights each other until they find a common enemy.
North Korea has a finger in this pie, but I doubt they decide what to eat for lunch that China doesn’t already know the menu.
Not talking about nukes in Israel. I’m talking about
Fox news is just reporting new sanctions against North Korea have just been approved by POTUS for exporting a number of deadly toy technologies. Hmmm. The plot thickens.
Ms. Malkin,
I am glad Armageddonijad was rebuked.
On a completely unrelated note, I want to wish your husband, and all the Jewish people who visit this site, a happy and peaceful Yom Kippur. For those fasting, may it be a safe and easy fast.
For those of you who are Jewish and reading this on the East Coast…you should be in Temple right now.
May it be a year of blessings, happiness and health for all, and a world without people like Armageddonijad.
God Bless,
eric
http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
IMHO-, I think the welcome mat for Ahmadinejad is going to yanked out for his Columbia vist also.
Gotta hand it to them – when it needs doing, the Israelis don’t flinch.
AlohaGuy, so true. With Olmert twisting in the wind on every issue it had to be something really important (imminent threat) for Israel to even consider bombing it? Practice runs in the ME are seldom, if ever done….yes, kudos to the Israeli military.
Wishing all those celebrating Yom Kippur G-d’s richest blessings.
i guess i was taking license based on the months-if not years-old phrase “cheese eating French surrender monkeys”.
o exercised restraint by not comparing them to our porcine brothers from the animal kingdom.
You guys are insulting the Monkeys. Their music wasnt that bad.
Cheeeeeeeeeeer up sleeeeeeeeeeeepy Jean…oh what can it mean to a…daydream buhleeever anna home comin queeen….
—-they dint write that one either!!!!
aj-
you’ve got mail, dude.
Last train to clarksville, lol, thats what Hsu was singing til he got sick from da Hsu-shi on the Choo choo.
so do you bear, lol
backatcha, AngelFan…lol
We clinch the division tonight!
oh, and Thanks!!!
Hsu gottit
Anybody have a SWAG as to how many police officers are going to be at Columbia U. next week? lol, what a zoo thats going to be. I hope they make him quiver, after tipping his limo of course. Will code pink be their throwing eggs? a mass die in for all he’s killed? loons walking around with signs saying he’s hitler? Iran haters? or are they going to serve this POS cookies?
i hope, like Glenn Beck does, that NutJob’s entire security detail is comprised of Jews. everywhere this numbskull turns he will be face to face with a Jew.
This would be a good scenario for the start of his motorcade.
pigs
Who are the only thing protecting him from a see of people who want to tear him limb from limb…
Oh the delicious irony…
So basically, if we get on of the Embassy Hostages to show up, he’ll have to hang out in someone’s room overnight on Sunday, and wait around campus all day Monday…
Seriously, we need to get one of those folks in there. I would pay serious money to see Ammie’s reaction to that confrontation.
Alan Colmes is soooo upset by the idea that if this jerk isn’t given “HIS RIGHT TO SPEAK”, that WE WON’T BE ABLE TO CHANGE HIS MIND about anything.
I’d love to stand Alan up in front of George Washinton, our First President, and let him tell THAT GW about FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
And let George Washington explain a few facts about RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY to Alan.
Colmes is delusional. “free speech” is a concept completely foreign to NutJob and everybody in his regime. Colmes is like the classic missionary figure who wants to bring the heretofore unknown religion to a group of heathens. “If they just get a taste, they’ll be converted.”
Liberals and Moon Loon Leftists can’t quite grock to the reality of NutJob and his kind beheading them, and torturing their families, and slaughtering their pets.
They will bleat ceaselessly about the oppression they suffer here in the States while their very articulation of their plight is proof they are not suffering at all. And that they live to tell the story of their complaint, now some 40 years after the end of the Viet Nam war is even more proof.
An entire generation of Americans, like Colmes, are going to unravel when this war with Syria, Iran, and all of the sleeper cells begins. It will be the end of their political reason for being.
All of this turbulent protest and crying out for adherence to the “living constitution” is the embodiment of what our Founding Fathers spoke of when they referred to the tyrrany of factions.
Hello all…8 hours fasting down, 16 to go. As for Colmes, I met Hannity last week at his Freedom Concert, and since Colmes is Jewish I asked Hannity (who could obviously tell I was Jewish) if he could explain the importance of Israel to Colmes. He said, “I give up, I’ve tried for 10 years, he’s hopeless.”
As for the Monkees, I would say to Armageddonijad, monkey that he is, that “I’m not your stepping stone.”
Although the best of those bands was “The Wonders,” singing “That thing you do.”
eric
Oh the sweet, sweet irony …
Newsflash to Columbia University – you opened the taint gate the minute you invited that fascist to set foot on campus.
blacktygrrrr….wear your religion on your sleeve much? give it a break.
Isn’t America great?! Eric can express his freedom of religion proudly, and morons can comment also.
Very late to this thread . . .but this stands out -
Lunchtime? The PC brigade invites a muslim thug to lunch during Ramadan?
Gramma added it up and I’m older than all of you put together! I love MM and reading your comments because we think along the same lines (well, most of the time/don’t understand all acronyms). We have 4 great-granddaughters. My greatest frustration is my generation failed to stop this crazy stuff before it took root. The only reason/excuse must be we were raising our families during the Vietnam war and weren’t paying attention. After all we went through in WWII & Korea, we failed to see the danger ahead in “make love, not war”.
Not you’re fault gererations that followed forgot to water the plants.
Pennity,
You complain about someone who is not afraid to speak of his religion, do you also complain to Columbia or the National Press Club?
The American soldier gave you the right to express your opinions. We did not firght or die to extend that right to our enemies, including the chief terrorist of Iran.
Pennity: I don’t quite understand your motivation behind the comment made to eric/blacktygrr.
Please elaborate if you will.
Thanks.
Personally I’d rather not have a pennity for his thoughts.
Thanks, AJ #120: About exchanging our governor for your 2 senators, I’m sorry but you’d have to take our Atty Gen and 250,000 illegal aliens or it’s no deal. (Love your quick wit!)
I live in California gramma, I mean Northern Mexico, we dont need any more. but thanks.
They stopped counting but it’s in the millions. 
Yesterday, I posted how I was astounded that so many Americans have forgotten about the Iran Hostage crisis and how President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was responsible for the interrogation, torture of Former hostage Don Sharer and others at our own US embassy in Iran. Don Sharer identified Ahmadinejad as a student leader who called Americans “pigs and dogs.”
I know many of you were not even born in 1979 but what many like Sean Hannity do not realize is this man is a murderer. Forget about the holocaust denials and other outrages this man has blood on his own hands.
We have photos and video of this man holding an AK47 to heads of Americans during the Hostage crisis when Commie loving Jimmy Carter tried to appease him for 444 days. He was personally involved in Political Assassinations and murder.
Photo shows Iran leader as ‘79 U.S. hostage taker
Here are some examples of his murderous ways:
Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad has been identified by at least six U.S. hostages as a ringleader in the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover.
He stands accused of the murder of a Kurdish leader in Vienna by officials in Austria who say they have compelling evidence and want an arrest warrant sworn for him. Austrian MP Peter Pilz said he had “very convincing” evidence against Ahmadinejad in the 1989 murder. Gassemlou was shot dead with two other Kurdish activists.
Our Government and George W Bush have lost the moral authority to Govern. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be arrested and tried for the murders he committed sooner rather than later. Speaking at Columbia should not even be an option.In fact, Columbia should loose all its Federal Funding for this disgrace and Bloomberg should be removed from office.
When did America decide aiding and abetting Murderers was foreign policy?
Joseph Farah has something to say about all this too.
So, you want to visit Ground Zero?
Remember, he’s President I’m-in-a-jihad
I’m missing our Saturday potpourri.
Sorry for the double post
Thanks to the agreements that allow the UN (Useless Nincompoops) to be located on our soil we have to allow any official from any country that is a member of the UN access to that forum.
However, there is nothing in the UN agreements that say we have to allow them anything other than that.
We need Congress to pass new rules for that access wherein anyone from a country considered a supporter of terrorism, genocide, etc., can only go to and from their Embassy and the UN while they are on our soil … absolutely no exceptions …
We dont have to let him in the country period. mornin dl. mission accomplished? lol
hi there aj … am in Oklahoma for a total of 2 weeks covering for one of my techs that I sent off to a training class on some new equipment here … so sitll doing my own job plus his … not enough hours in the day … lol …
Also … saw all those posts from you and others about ages … 61 here … so show the old man some respect …
Did you know Babe Ruth? lol
Well, he isnt talkin but bears nic is bear(1909) so he must be 98, yikes!
lol … no … only the candy bar named for him … but I watched all the greats of the 50s and 60s in person and have many of their autographs …
Did you catch the thread where we made you one of the m6-6 ? jena thread.
hey there aj … I see you found out how to do the animated smiley … how about sharing … I never saw the response when you asked yesterday … or was it the day before … 20 hours days kind of begin to merge into one another … lol
aj … nope … only took a cursory run through that Jena thread … but saw part of the Mx-x stuff in the posts … guess I need to go find out what that was all about …
I didnt ask but if you put you’re mouse on the smiley itself for a second it tells you what to type.
comment #14 then it snowballed from there…
ok … found out what I have been drafted for … lol … Malkin 6 huh? …
cool … got it …
Yeah it was a lil friday silliness,
sounds good to me …
Geez, read this from hotair.
Ahmaturdburper parade
I wonder if he’s bringing that signage for his stage at Columbia, or for the tops of his motorcade?
AJ, I thought you lived in Montana or I would never have made that counter-offer! Semper Fi – brownies in the mail to Iraq for Death Jesters. God bless ‘em and all of you, too.
Yep, settled in here workin a bit, talkin to dl and myself mostly, so far. Daughter at soccer practice getting ready for the Angel game at 1:00 Clinching Division day! Reading Blogs and Thinking about buying an old truck and painting it INS green, if I was 20 I probably would!
This would be a great thing to happen, but the place will be packed. All the ones who had tickets should give them to the GOE and troops in the area, see how brave he is then to walk out on stage to spew his garbage.
aj & dl,
Ever see Brooks and Frank play? Love those guys.
Boycott of what USMCgramma? the CU event? I missed the article
Found it gramma. Great idea. Semper fi from this old Army guy. Give my love to all in Iraq.
Need anything else sent to Iraq let me know.
the link is at the top of this page trin.
trinitytim
I assume you mean the Robinsons … yep … also Willy Mays. Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale, Warren Spahn, etc. etc. etc. … just to name a few …
hi everyone
aj- i said yesterday that i am 51. 1909 is a special year in Mexican history.
howdy bear
dl,
Yep. Those were great years for baseball. I was lucky to get to know Brooks off the field. Great guy. Had season tickets at Camden Yards first year it opened right behind home plate.
Oh, I could go on and on but alas this is not on topic and I don’t want to get in trouble.
Hi bear from another 50’s guy. Love your posts.
T-Squared
50s are a groove so far, one year into the fray. Thanks for the kind words.
i’m liking the animated smiley.
jsut funnin with ya bear, I’m a lil familiar with the history having a birthday on cinco de mayo and all.
Well I see the closer you get to fifty Dyslexia sets in.
did you guys see the pic’s from comment #145?
aj,
Just got back from dinner and caught a glimpse. Lovely.
Go Columbia Losers!!!!
huh wha? i just woke up from a great nap….who’s on first?
Bear,
A nap???? What’s on first, who’s on second. I don’t care’s at Columbia on Monday.
You old people don’t even know this skit?
Who’s on first, What’s on second, I dunno’s on third, and I don’t give a darn!
And that pick of Ammie needs to be a poster at his lil Columbia speech…
Swj… Sorry we woke you up. I’ll try to be more quiet next time.
Actually, it’s Boog on first, Davey Johnson on 2nd, Aparicio at Short, and Brooks on third. McNally’s on the mound and Triandos behind the plate. Ahhh!!! The good ole days.
Boycott Achma jack a$$
All I gotta say is LET THE GAMES BEGIN. Next week is going to have some interesting tv.
I hope the whole world watches and I hope there are thousands of demonstrators and wish I could be there.
Abbott and Costello did it best. Still makes me laugh.
Me too katie,
Whos on first?
Strangely enough Ahmadirtbags speech at columbia will be double talking BS, but not as funny.