The Possessed
Starcs, Janis
THE ALTERNATIVE: Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin. Editor in Chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Publishers, The Saturday...
...Right-wingers, whatever their other faults, are not intolerant in this chilling way...
...I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head, to be sure," he replied, "but I was not vexed...
...should be sent to The Alternative in care of the Activities Desk,' Memorial Union, Bloomington, Indiana 47401...
...which, considering the prevalence of articles by convinced leftists, is fortunate for my blood pressure...
...Worse, it is certain to become a political issue in the 1968 election in Indiana and will probably result in further cuts in an already inadequate academic budget...
...The administration must stick by its decision...
...Thoreau went to jail protesting what he considered unjust laws, yet he believed in the necessity for law and did not resist his arrest...
...2, p. 651) Schlesinger's remarks are even more blatant...
...Our home-grown Insulted and Injured have disrupted the speech of our Secretary of State and have tried to disrupt interviewing for Dow Chemical Company...
...Anthony Lejeune REVIEWS (Continued from Page 4) thought would be the inevitable destruction of American individualism if New Deal policies were continued...
...Like all ideologues, they believe in a panacea...
...Still, if rudeness cannot be prevented, disruption of the campus can, which brings me to the next point...
...Mussolini was brought up as a Marxist, and the Nazis were National Socialists...
...Neither was the orderly life of the campus totally disrupted following disciplinary action by the administration...
...I doubt that either students or administration would welcome "anarchy on the campus" as a political issue next year...
...What is to become of political discussion when the opposition is called murderers and fascists...
...The fanaticism of these apocalyptic gurus needs to be contained...
...pp...
...both sides have hardened into armed camps...
...In their search for the solutions to social problems they are quite willing to enforce conformity...
...Blithely ignoring revisionist interpretation, Hicks-Mowry-Burke encapsulates typical emphasis that only Japan wanted war: "At stake was Japanese domination of East Asia as against the traditional American position of respect for the sovereignty of all Asian nations and the equalitarian commercial principle of the open door...
...737-38) Maybe Mao is not such a bad fellow after all, eh...
...If there is a menace in America, students learn that it probably emanates from the business community, surely not from internal Communism...
...Perhaps it was to enable the Red Chinese to beat Chiang, for later he states that China "inevitably would have been won by the efficiency, incorruptibility, and ruthless fanaticism of Mao Tsetung," due to "the ancient resentments against foreign domination, the pent up demand for agrarian reform (sic), the growing revulsion against the corruption and terrorism of the Kuomintang, and the skill and tenacity with which the Chinese Communists were to exploit these discontents...
...4 Toward An Educational Eschaton by John Kelley...
...Apparently the by now conventional picket line had to be supplemented with something more potent to get the point across...
...administration acted as it had to and disciplined the students so that a small group of people would not be able to force their will upon the rest of the campus...
...and, in any case, such abandonment might simply have encouraged the extremists...
...Subscriptions cost $1.50, and all correspondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...6 Incites by George Nathan...
...if the masses agree with them, the will of the people is sovereign, but if the masses do not agree with them, the people have clearly been deceived and retarded and must be led to the light...
...Now we have less to fear from invidious comparison with Harvard and Berkeley . . although the demonstrations were somewhat tamer...
...Genuine fascism is a left-wing, not a right-wing, heresy...
...The events of those two days lead me to certain conclusions about political life on this campus...
...The American Nation, Vol...
...Who are the fascists here...
...First, what is this going to do to I.U...
...2, p. 519) Considering Roosevelt's role in gaining American entry into World War II, the texts vary from cautious to giddy approbation...
...It was quite in keeping with the tone of the TO BARE THE WITNESS AND THE TRUTH INDEX The Possessed by Janis Starcs...
...Such an attitude to freedom is a mark of the ideologue, and leftists are essentially ideologues...
...I suppose this is too much to hope for now...
...The sit-in against the Dow Chemical Company was no more inspiring than the cacophonous reception accorded Secretary Rusk...
...I do not react to articles by convinced leftists as they react to mine...
...As Hofstadter-Miller-Aaron announce, 10...
...697) Speaking ex cathedra as is his wont, he feels no compulsion even to adumbrate what these "good reasons" were...
...In a rationalist, materialist world there can be no value in the freedom to be wrong and to propagate wrong ideas...
...Rather, I might adopt Dr...
...8 undignified proceedings set by the New Left in the auditorium...
...5 Against Lying by Anthony Comstock...
...2 Intolerance On The Left by Anthony Lejeune...
...We have made the big time — on front pages across the country...
...Vol...
...The New Leftists called Secretary Rusk a murderer and a fascist...
...If irresponsible activity of this sort continues it will impose needless burdens on the legitimate activities of the students...
...Civil disobedience is a time-honored form of protest in this country, yet the forces whose duty it is to preserve order have had to act so that this order was not completely disrupted...
...The logical conclusion can be seen in Communist states where not only illegal actions but illegal words and, as far as possible, illegal thoughts are suppressed...
...Janis Stares INTOLERANCE (Continued from Page 3) Freedom itself, though they pay lip-service to it, has a low place in their hierarchy of values...
...3 Reviews by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...6 The Alter Native by R. Dennis Tyrrell...
...THE POSSESSED Well, they've finally done it at I.U...
...David Hunter summarized their view at a meet(Continued on Page 10) 2 THE POSSESSED (Continued from Page 2) ing on November 9: "We do not believe it is your right to engage in the war in Viet-nam, and we will engage in civil disobedience to protest it...
...7 The Illogic of Withdrawal by Robert F. Turner...
...This was supposed to be a protest against napalming babies in Viet-nam...
...The events of the two days did give the students on this campus a better idea of what the New Left is trying to do, and this may be more important than the events by themselves...
...Here we were treated to a sight of defenders of participatory democracy trying to block the way for students who wanted to be interviewed for jobs...
...no amount of contrary evidence can shake their belief in equality, in planning, in the perfectibility of man...
...Their confidence is not dependent on popular support...
...p...
...Secretary Rusk's car was not jumped upon and prevented from leaving the campus so that the students might carry on a fuller "dialogue" with him...
...Second, I wonder if loftman, Hunter, & Co...
...The lady who hit the loudmouth over the head with her umbrella is to be congratulated for providing an appropriately symbolic act expressing just how well that point did come across...
...are the sort of leadership the students want now...
...Their doctrines are not vulnerable to argument...
...Johnson's answer when he was asked how he felt about the behavior of certain leftists in his day...
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...Surely this was not a good example to set forth by advocates of a free society...
...The boos and catcalls interrupting Secretary Rusk's speech set the tone of the protest...
...The attempts at intimidation by the canaille in the auditorium and at the Dow interviews look like nothing so much as antics of Hitlerjugend, although they are peddling a different breed of millenniumism...
...What it revealed was a campaign to intimidate a private company manufacturing that napalm...
...Nothing must be allowed to impede its working...
...The miasma from the fever swamps of the New Left is now wafting from our student government...
...The I.U...
...Will it continue to do so much longer...
...In The National Experience he avers that Roosevelt "had good reasons for not wishing to abandon China...
...Political discourse, if it is to be anything more than a shouting match must presuppose some good faith between the antagonists...
...their use of the platform which the student government now provides them is misleading as to the true feelings of the student body...
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