Posted by
Steve on Monday, September 24, 2007 10:00:05 PM
Today, the madman from Iran talks to the UN and at Columbia University. I am upset that he is even on US soil at all. He is responsible for killing US servicemen and women in Iraq. He is responsible for capturing and holding hostage many civilians from many countries. He is the very definition of terrorist.
I agree with Mitt Romney, he should have been arrested when he stepped foot on US soil. Unfortunately, that is not possible. With diplomatic passports, you cannot go arresting them for any little thing. If you do, our diplomats can be arrested for even less. I do understand that there has to be international diplomacy. It just hurts to see a terrorist strut his stuff on US soil and we cannot do a thing to stop it.
The nut job was invited to speak at Columbia University. It has a reputation as one of the leading universities in the country. With this invitation, they have lowered their standards so far, it is now below Podunk College. I cannot believe that the President of Columbia University wants to sponsor terrorism. By inviting a terrorist to speak at his University, he is doing just that. Any Columbia University student that is not brain dead should boycott the event. It would be great to see the President of Iran talking to empty seats.
Maybe the invitation is a quid pro quo. There was an alumnus of Columbia University who was being held hostage. He had been a hostage for quite some time. When the Iranian plane touched down in New York, the Columbia University grad was released. Now it was probably just a coincidence that these two events happened at the same time. But nothing is a coincidence when you are talking to or about terrorists.
To make everyone feel better about inviting this known terrorist, the powers that be at Columbia University said they would invite Adolph Hitler if he was still alive. That was supposed to make us feel better about having this terrorist wander about New York.
The nut job even wanted to see ground zero. He probably wanted to honor the dead terrorists that made that massive hole in the ground. The New York authorities said no, but it was at too low of a level. The Mayor of New York should have said no. Instead it got passed on down to the police department for them to say no.
It is obvious to me in Arizona that people in New York are liberals. Liberals have a difficult time making up their minds over important issues. When they make up their minds they have a tendency to make correct decisions at too low of a level. The wrong decisions are always made at the highest levels.
The Columbia President’s justification for the invitation was freedom of speech. A foreign national does not have freedom of speech in the United States. Freedom of speech covers political speech by Americans. We generally give others our freedom, but it is not required. Also, freedom of speech does not mean that the person has a right to be heard. I have the freedom to say what I want in political speech. I do not have to be allowed to talk to a University class to have my freedom of speech. The Columbia President is inferring that in order for the terrorist from Iran to have freedom of speech, he needs to be invited to speak to the University. That is a completely false statement. Liberals will say what a wonderful thing that we have given this person his freedom of speech. That is a bunch of baloney.