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To: Poet who wrote (8617)	11/2/2001 9:39:42 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

people of all political views I wish it was true, Poet, but only one political view is "PC" on our campus's liberals and leftists hate their country. This is the only country in the world whose Intellectuals hate their own culture.

To: Poet who wrote (8617)	11/2/2001 2:39:00 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

academia is a diverse, tolerant, exploratory, impractical place it must balance envmt for learning with need for security I grew up in an academic household father was university professor in humanities for over 35 yrs when young, I met so many diverse people, it aint funny the whole experience left me with many strong impressions then I went to college, had interim graduate experience, then a fullblown graduate program that whole experience provided me additional impressions since my time was in the sciences, stark contrast grew the arts and humanities and free expression side is so full of liberalism, many whacky (but lovable) types, people whose views are so impractical as to endanger their jobs and even their lives if their avowed positions ever became reality - Marxists who speak radical views, even disruptive violent views - GreenTypes who speak of radical change, yet never worked for a business, let alone ran a business or had profit/loss responsibility, whose views would sometimes result in 20% job cuts if enacted - Kooks whose personal style is so offensive as to isolate themselves to the extreme when I was in college, a good friend evaded the draft in 1969 by "going underground" in SF's Haight Ashbury he came up for air in Berkeley periodically when he wasnt too strung out he said SF was the perfect place to hide, esp on its campuses these university campuses ARE perfect places for truly dangerous people to hide like perhaps UnivTampa and that Palestinian fried by OReilly even the campus leaders cannot distinguish between their runofthemill Radicals, Kooks, and the TrulyDangerous back in the 1970's Nixon regarded many campus movements as grassroots for real revolution unfortunately, that sort of paranoia might be justified again except now, the threat aint Marxism, but Islam now the science students are a different breed toymakers, labrats, honest brokers of science complete with many strange geek types we must be vigilant again and forego looneytune Political Correct crapp that is so Anti-FirstAmendment Liberalism and PCthink has weakened our country's security PCfolks often dont realize how their preachings violate the First Amendment Liberals often dont realize how their accepting preachings allow genociders to walk among them if I were a Saudi cell member, I would not inhabit Jersey City I would go offcampus to ColumbiaU or NewYorkU or just head to the cool part of town in SoHo take up some obscure or abstruce cause mingle and get lost, it would be easy / Jim