Religious Tolerance at Cornell

applejack
Tue, 13 May 2008 17:59:50 +0000

I think perhaps the root of your debate is not really between conservative and liberal ideology, but rather more reflective of the current administration and the reactions people have to what has been done in our name.

A great many people are outraged at the criminal and immoral behavior of this administration that promised to restore dignity to the White House. There is no justification or defense of it. They should be court martialed for treason against the people of the United States of America. When people stand and walk out on John Ashcroft, they are not necessarily standing in opposition to conservative ideology. They are standing in opposition to an accomplise to criminal lying, manipulation of facts leading to war (admitted by many people within the administration during 02-03), rigging of the 2004 election, incompetent cronyism putting a horse guy in charge or FEMA contributing to over 1,000 deaths, and the murders of tens of thousands of innocent people in the name of securing oil interests (as John McCain and Alan Greenspan have respectfully admitted), to name a few.

There’s a lot of rage in our society now. Perhaps we should separate what is rage against this outrageous criminal behavior carried out with our tax dollars and what is truly slandering of conservative ideology (perhaps the gun issue would fall in the latter category).

The campus I am near recently had Ann Coulter speak. College Republicans said the same thing as you are: we simply want our voices heard in this sea of oppression. Then they bring in Ann Coulter. Why not bring someone in who will speak articulately and intelligently about conservative ideology? It is so critical to our society and perhaps it would open minds. One need only look at how out of control federal liberalism had become by the 1970s to see what happens when there is no balance.

Instead, they bring in Ann Coulter as if to bait people and then the organizers get upset when people do not sit idly by for a public figure who calls for the withdrawal of women’s rights to vote and slanders respected world leaders as faggots.

Is that conservative ideology or hate speech?