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October 20th, 2012 11:33 PM #1Member
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Please help me narrow down my list!
What do you think of these girl names? Please rank them or narrow them down. Thanks so much! Also, most of the i's are long e sounds.
Lena (Leh-na)
October 20th, 2012 11:40 PM #3
October 20th, 2012 11:42 PM #5
They're all lovely, but I would narrow it down to Eleni and Coralie, personally. I love the literary Cora, and Coralie is so vintage and charming. I love it. And Eleni... somehow, it's not my style at all, but I've fallen so hard for it. I love the quirky, spunky Leni as a nn, the lithe, friendly Eleni as a whole, and the image of Greece and smiling, chattering children with coal-black eyes and glowing dark hair. I don't know, there's just something about Eleni that I adore.
Juliana would be my back-up for you, I really love it, but not as much as Eleni and Coralie. I like Lena and Adelaide a lot, too, but I think people would instinctively say Lena as LEE-nah or LAY-nah, from what I've heard Lehna is a legitimate pronunciation but I hardly ever see it/hear it/come across it. I think Eleni nn Lena would be sweet, too.
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Alina -attractive but seems more a hodgepodge of sounds than a name. Not my favorite.
Marina - nice one, I'd keep this.
Petra - too clunky for my taste, I'd let it go.
Juliana - nice one, I'd keep this.
Seraphina - pretty but too trendy and frilly IMO.
Natalie - classic, I like it and also Natalia.
Chrysanthi - appealing but too much. Crisanta is better or let it go.
Philippa - intriguing name that I think will be very much a 2012 bubble. I'd let it go.
Theoni - I find this interesting but think the spelling Theone looks better, or Leonie.
Mariana - nice name, keep it.
Marena - Marina spelling is better.
Eleni - on the fence about this one.
Lena (Leh-na) - Like it but think it is better as a nn. Elena nn Leni.
Angel - it's OK but I like some of your others more. Angelina, Angelica, Angela?
Zoey -I like it but prefer the Zoe spelling.
Adelaide - like it
Alika - don't know this name
Maritsa - like it but like your other Mari- names more
Marcia -too dated
Coralie - pretty!
Koralia - Coralie is better
Evathia - Evanthe is preferable.
Keep: Marina, Juliana, Natalie, Mariana, and Coralie is my advice and maybe consider Elena.
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Start external rad to spine and area around esophgus Wednesday. Also will be have brachatherapy (tube and beads down the throat in to esophagus) with a little dab of 5-fu.
Danger to spine area, got to be some really close calculations or walking difficulty could happen. Beads to help with swallowing and to stop the chocking feeling. Supper is ready, got to run. Hopefully this will cut way back on pain. Also will talk with Onco again Thursday about when we are going to drain the fluid from right side lung cavity, as scan has showed increase. Maybe if I slow down withthe laundry room construction, I wouldn't be aggravating things so much. A man has got to play with his toys. Tried out my air nailer for trim around doors yesterday suu-boom. Sure goes fast and don't have to worry about predrilling to prevent splitting of trim. Cheerio. Had my favorite tonight Marion, Beans high fiber and protein right?
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The National Institute for Animal Agriculture has produced a white paper based off of its recent "Antibiotic Use in Food Animals: A Dialogue for a Common Purpose" symposium in Chicago.
I attended this excellent symposium that brought together scientists, producers, veterinarians and members of the food and human medical communities to discuss antibiotic use as well as resistance factors, issues and misinformation.
Some of the biggest take-home messages from the meeting that are within the white paper are common on‐farm practices that consumers should know about regarding food‐animal production. These include:
- Modern livestock farms increasingly involve licensed veterinarians who advise on health management decisions.
- Vaccines are used to protect animals from various illnesses.
- Sick animals are treated with medicines, such as antibiotics, to restore their health, and protections are in place to ensure that their meat or milk is safe for people.
- The FDA approves the use of all new animal drugs after testing and confirming animal safety and human food safety.
- If antibiotics are administered to cure a sick animal, the animal itself — in the case of meat production — or animal products — such as milk — are not allowed to enter the food supply until the withdrawal period has passed and the medicine has sufficiently cleared the animal's system. The required periods for withdrawing medication are specific for each drug and species and are approved by the FDA based on research studies of residues in edible tissues.
The intent of the discussion and moving forward with it is summed up nicely in the white paper. It said: There should be an achievable, unified goal of "One Health: Healthy People, Healthy Animals, Healthy Food."
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Topic: New ICC Diagnosis -- Looking for Advice
My wife Lisa was diagnosed with Stage 4 intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma on May 30, 2013. Lisa is 43 years old with no risk factors and is in excellent health otherwise. Obviously, the diagnosis came as a complete shock. Her only symptoms have been moderate abdominal pain and general fatigue for the past several months. She attributed the fatigue to the busy lifestyle of a mother with two small children (ages 1 and 4).
After an initial ultrasound identified multiple liver masses, a CT was ordered. The CT revealed four distinct masses - a very large tumor occupying most of the right lobe and extending into the left lobe measuring 15x12x13, as well as three smaller tumors in the left lobe measuring 2, 2, and 5.5 cm respectively. The right portal vein is completely encased by the large tumor and the right and middle hepatic arteries are also compromised.
A subsequent biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma. Additional imaging (CT, MRI, EUS, and PET) revealed both regional and distant enlarged lymph nodes; however, no additional metastases have been identified. A biopsy of the distant (aortacaval) lymph node was positive for cholangiocarcinoma.
We were referred to a GI oncologist at our local university medical center in Portland (OHSU) for consultation. We learned that transplant is not an option due to the intrahepatic nature of the cancer. We also were informed that resection would be unlikely because of the size of the main tumor, the multifocal involvement, and distant lymph node metastasis. The standard treatment of gemcitabine and cisplatin was recommended. Our oncologist discussed the potential for future treatments depending upon the chemotherapy response, including ablation, embolization, and regional chemotherapy via an intrahepatic pump.
We scheduled a visit at the Mayo clinic in Rochester the following week for a second opinion. The Mayo team (oncologists, hepatologist, and surgeon) agreed with the initial diagnosis and treatment plan. While at Mayo, a second biopsy was taken for genome testing with the hope of developing some targeted therapies based upon the unique pathology of the tumors.
We also had a phone consultation with an oncology surgeon at Sloan Kettering. The surgeon at Sloan is confident that Lisa could be a candidate for resection if we are successful in shrinking the tumors. The Sloan team recommend starting with regional chemotherapy instead of the systemic approach. As we were scheduled to begin the standard systemic chemotherapy the next day, we chose to stick with our original plan and perhaps travel to NYC for further evaluation depending upon the response to the first few rounds of treatment.
Lisa has successfully completed her first two chemotherapy treatments and so far has tolerated them well. Her symptoms have not changed much in the month since the initial diagnosis with the exception of increased fatigue 2-3 days after chemotherapy. She still has a fair amount of pain from the installation of her port a few weeks ago. We will have the first "post chemo" scan in another month.
Last week at our second visit with our oncologist, we learned that the local surgical team would be willing to consider Lisa for resection depending upon her response to the chemotherapy. After initially being told that resection would not be an option due to the distant lymph node metastasis, the tumor board discussed her case and they concurred that one positive node would not render her unresectable. We were also told that the lymph node could be removed during the surgery.
In addition to the opinions of the OHSU (Knight Cancer Institute) team, The Mayo Team, and the Sloan Kettering team, our medical reports and scans have been reviewed by a family friend who is an interventional radiologist at Loma Linda Medical Center. Our friend reviewed our results with his colleagues as well as a prominent surgical oncologist. The Loma Linda team assisted in the initial diagnosis and agreed with the findings above.
Lastly, at the advice of a CC survivor and frequent poster to this site, we have sent our scans to Dr. Selby at USC for an additional (and technically the 5th) medical opinion. We have heard great things about Dr. Selby and are anxious to hear his opinion and recommendations.
We had an appointment scheduled at MD Anderson immediately after our Mayo trip, but we cancelled the trip because Lisa was so exhausted after so many tests and procedures in such a short time.
Obviously, we have learned a lot about this disease in the past month; however, after reading the posts on this site I realize that we still have much to learn. I would welcome any thoughts, recommendations, words of wisdom, or treatment protocols that have worked for others with similar circumstances. Lisa and I are very motivated and determined to fight this cancer. My purpose in posting to this board is to leave no stone unturned.
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OSU softball blows by Cyclones
FRESNO, Calif. - Heading into Saturday's game with Iowa State at the Bayer CropScience Classic, the No. 23 Oregon State softball team had outscored opponents 26-8 in the first innings of games so far this season. Against the Cyclones, the Beavers added to that total as they tied a season high by scoring five runs in their first at-bat in a 9-1 win in five innings.
First baseman Natalie Hampton drove in the first two runs on a double to the corner in right, scoring Ashley Sanchez and Elizabeth Santana. Third baseman Desiree Beltran drove Hampton home for the third run on a single to left. The Beavers scored the last two runs of the frame on a bases-loaded walk to Hannah Bouska and a hit batsman to Dani Gilmore on the ensuing at-bat as the Beavers batted around. Hampton was 3-for-4 today with two RBIs and two runs scored. She's 6-for-7 this weekend.
Leading 5-0, the Beavers (19-4) did have to contend with an Iowa State offense that came into Fresno hitting .329 as a team and had six regulars batting .333 or better. But OSU had starting pitcher Marina Demore in the circle, and she downgraded the Cyclones to nothing more than a gentle breeze. Demore did not allow a hit besides a bunt single until the fifth inning when the game was already 7-0.
She ended up with just three hits against and one run allowed in going five full. Only five innings were necessary because the Beavers continued to push runs across after the big first inning. Beltran had her second RBI single in as many innings when she scored Santana to make it 6-0. The Beavers took a 7-0 lead when catcher Ally Kutz brought Lea Cavestany home with a sacrifice fly in the fourth.
After Iowa State broke the shutout bid in the top of the fifth, the Beavers closed the show with Beltran getting her third RBI single of the game to make it 8-1 and freshman Christie Langlois keeping her season average at 1.000 with a run-scoring single to right.
Beltran was 3-for-3 today and is 5-for-7 with five RBIs so far in Fresno. Second baseman Ya Garcia had a pair of perfectly placed bunt singles to go 2-for-3. In all, the Beavers pounded out 13 hits, walked six times and had two hit batters.
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Dutch club FC Den Bosch has condemned the racist chanting directed at AZ Alkmaar and U.S. national team forward Jozy Altidore during Tuesday's game at the De Vliert stadium.
Altidore was subjected to monkey noises by a group of Den Bosch spectators during AZ's 5-0 Dutch Cup quarterfinal win, and at one point he had to implore the referee to continue the match after he offered to halt it. A Den Bosch official warned spectators during a second-half suspension that the game would be abandoned if the offensive cheering persisted.
In a Wednesday statement, Den Bosch director Peter Bijvelds said the club "regrets very much that the organization and its many good and benevolent supporters today are brought into disrepute."
He said the Den Bosch, which plays in Holland's second tier, will do "everything in its power to bring the perpetrators to justice" and that offenders face "severe sanctions."
Bijvelds continued: "FC Den Bosch would like to show respect and support toward the players and guests of AZ and in particular toward striker Jozy Altidore. Without respect, there is no football."
Altidore said following the game that he owed it to his club, family and duty as a professional to "not react to things like this and show (AZ) stands for better than that I was raised better than that, to respond to such ridiculous behavior." He added, "All I can do is pray for them and hope they can become better people."
On Tuesday night, Altidore issued the following statement:
"Obviously, what happened today outside the field of play was very unfortunate. It was disappointing for my team, our fans who traveled to the match to support us and for the Den Bosch supporters embarrassed by the select, ignorant few in attendance. But unfortunately, this is still the way things are. Racism remains prevalent in the world. The only thing you can pray for is a positive outcome from situations like these. You hope parents and coaches of young, impressionable athletes — not just soccer players — are told that what happened today isn't right. It is never acceptable."
Altidore scored his 20th goal of the season Tuesday, a career high. AZ will play host to Groningen on Saturday in an Eredivisie game.


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Ten disabled workers have found permanent jobs after taking part in a car washing scheme.
People with a range of disabilities ran a social enterprise car wash for Enfield Borough Council at Palace Gardens multi-storey car park, in Enfield.
Employment specialists Seetec worked with the council to set the project up in May, and the first ten staff brought in by Future Clean Systems have gone on to find permanent work.
Councillor Chris Bond, Enfield Council's cabinet member for environment, said "I am delighted to hear that Future Clean has secured work for its first ten employees.
"This scheme, which forms part of the Enfield 2020 Action Plan for sustainability, has so many benefits. Not only is it helping disabled people into employment, but it is also encouraging people into our town centre whilst using environmentally friendly materials to clean the cars.
"Now that these lucky ten employees have moved on after finding permanent work through the Future Clean Scheme, it means we can fill these vacancies with more people and train them for work.
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In southern Spain recently, researching Spanish baby names, I came up against the fact that Spain is a widely varied country with different languages and cultures — and different names depending on ethnicity and region.
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After many months of research, planning, and preparation we have finally started to construct the walls and rockwork for the new River Adventure.
The research started with a visit to Disney's Typhoon Lagoon (still one of my favorite waterparks in the world) and literally walking the river with camera hand.
While learning to use my new iPhone, I accidently hit the wrong button and took a picture of myself while walking in the river. Warning to all mid-age bald men…be careful when going in a lazy river alone with a camera!
It was on this "walk in the park" that I discovered something I must have seen 100 times before but never took notice…a water bench. To photograph this I asked my brother to sit in as a model which he gladly obliged, of course not knowing how exciting this discovery was for me.
So how is it that I could get so excited about a bench? Well, have you ever seen a city park without a bench? You see by reshaping the river with rocks, waterfalls, fallen trees, and numerous benches we are able to completely change the environment of the river.
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By Kristin Stanberry
If your child receives special education services, he must have an Individualized Education Program (IEP). That's the law. An IEP is an important legal document. It spells out your child's learning needs, the services the school will provide and how progress will be measured.
Several people, including parents, are involved in creating the document. The entire process can be a great way to sort out your child's strengths and weaknesses. Working on the IEP can help you figure out ways to help him succeed in school.
Creating an effective IEP often takes time, effort and patience. We'll walk you through the legal language and procedures so it'll be easier for you to participate. The more you know about the process, the better you can advocate for your child.
A federal law called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that public schools create an IEP for every child receiving special education services. Kids from age 3 through high school graduation or a maximum age of 22 (whichever comes first) may be eligible for an IEP.
The IEP is meant to address each child's unique learning issues and include specific educational goals. It is a legally binding document. The school must provide everything it promises in the IEP.
Here's a quick look at what an IEP must include, by law:
Your child struggles in math class, and the teacher's interventions—extra help after school, a chance to correct his mistakes—don't help. A scenario like this doesn't make your child eligible for an IEP. Two things must happen before a child can get special education services.
1. An evaluation. Parents, teachers, a counselor, a doctor or anyone else who suspects a child is struggling can request an evaluation. The school psychologist and other professionals may give your child various tests. They also may observe your child in the classroom.
Keep in mind that a physician or another medical professional—not the school—diagnose medical conditions, including ADHD. School evaluators don't offer "diagnoses." Find out more about the comprehensive evaluation process.
2. A decision. The IEP team, which includes parents and school officials, decides whether or not your child needs special education services in order to learn the general education curriculum. IDEA says that having any of 13 disabilities may qualify a child for special education. The school and parents review the evaluation and determine whether the results show that your child needs services and supports.
If the IEP team agrees that your child needs services, then the next step is to create an IEP. If your child is found ineligible, you can still try to get services for your child. For instance, you might pursue a 504 plan.
IEPs are designed to meet kids' unique needs. That means that every IEP will look different. But by law, all IEPs must contain the following elements:
Your child's present level of educational performance (PLOP): This is a thorough description of your child's current abilities, skills, weaknesses and strengths. It's the part of the IEP that explains how your child's learning issues affect his ability to learn the general education curriculum. PLOP (also sometimes called PLP or PLAAFP) includes details on how your child handles academic subjects and everyday or "functional" activities, like socializing.
PLOP should be based on teacher observations and objective data, like test results. It's important that PLOP is not simply copied "as is" from one year's IEP to the next. Each year your child matures and masters skills. And each year the work becomes more challenging. So his performance and needs will change.
The results of your child's evaluations and tests: This should include district-wide and state assessments.
Special education and related services to be provided: The IEP spells out what kinds of support and services your child will receive. If your child is going to have speech therapy, for instance, it will say how many minutes a week he will receive this therapy.
Accommodations and modifications: These help your child learn the general education curriculum. Accommodations are changes in how a child shows what he has learned. They can help your child work around his learning issues. For example, he may be given extra time on tests.
Modifications are changes in what is taught to or expected of a student. Some IEPs have what's called "modified promotional criteria." This defines the percentage of grade-level expectations a child must meet to move on to the next grade.
Supplementary aids and services: These are supports to help a child learn in the general education classroom. They might include a one-on-one aide, highlighted classroom notes, equipment or assistive technology, such as software.
Annual educational goals: These should be realistic, achievable and measurable. The IEP lists the academic and functional skills that the IEP team thinks your child can achieve by the end of the year. Annual educational goals should help your child participate in the general education classroom.
If your child has multiple or severe disabilities, the law requires that the IEP list short-term goals. These are also called objectives or benchmarks.
A description of how your child's progress will be measured and reported to you: By law, the IEP must explain how the school will track your child's progress toward goals. And it must describe how the school will share those results with you.
For instance, one goal might be that your child be able to read at a third-grade level. The IEP will specify how that will be tracked—informal and formal assessments, for instance—and how often those results will be reported to you. If these interim reports show that your child's progress has stalled, you and the IEP team may discuss new interventions.
An explanation of how much your child will participate in general education classes and extracurricular activities: Participation at the fullest level possible is required by law. This is called the least restrictive environment.
The date the IEP will go into effect: Many states have formal timelines for this.
Depending on your child's age and situation, his IEP might also include:
A transition plan: This kicks in when your child turns 16. Transition planning includes services and support to help a student graduate from high school and achieve post-high school goals.
Extended school year services: Some students receive special education services outside of the regular school year, such as during the summer or, less commonly, during extended breaks like winter break.
Your child's IEP team creates the IEP. Each person on the team plays an important role. By the law, the team includes:
You also have the right to invite others to attend your child's IEP meeting. Be sure to send the school advance written notice of additional attendees. You may find it helpful to invite:
The law requires that every IEP include annual educational goals for the student. IEP goals need to be specific, realistic and measurable. This is very important because it's how you and the team can tell if your child is making good progress.
"Jake will improve his reading skills" is not a specific or measurable goal. How do you measure his improvement? How much improvement is enough?
Here's an example of how to make a specific, realistic and measurable goal: "Given a second-grade book, Jake will be able to read a passage orally at 110-130 wpm (words per minute) with random errors."
The IEP team creates the goals in the meeting. When evaluating goals, you discuss:
The law requires the IEP team to review the IEP at least once a year. But the IEP team can meet any time you or the school want a meeting. Many teams meet more often than once a year.
The IEP meeting is key to making sure your child's IEP is working for him. It gives you a chance to discuss with teachers your child's weaknesses and strengths. If your child didn't meet any or all of his goals that quarter, you can hammer out new ways to help your child. That may mean modifying the goal and adjusting expectations. Or it could mean giving your child more or different kinds of services and support.
The IEP meeting is when you, teachers and the school give and get input on how your child is doing. You'll discuss what's working, what needs to change, and whether your child is catching up or falling further behind. Your child's feelings and motivations should be included in the conversation, whether or not he attends the IEP meeting.
Here are some other key things you and rest of the team may discuss during the annual IEP review meeting:
During the meeting, the team leader will write a statement about your child's present level of academic and functional performance (PLOP) and goals. The statement is based on what you and the team have discussed in the meeting. The team leader will also document any changes to the IEP that the team—including you—have agreed to.
The school can't start providing special education services until you give your permission, which the law refers to as "consent." You may be asked at the end of the IEP meeting to give your consent to the proposed IEP. (Some states require parents to give written consent, like a signature. Some states don't.)
If you don't feel comfortable making a final decision on the spot, you have the right to take the IEP home to review it. Some schools mail a copy of the proposed IEP to you soon after the meeting and ask for your signature. Make sure to double-check everything in it before signing.
If you aren't fully satisfied with the proposed IEP, you have a few options:
It's also important to note that when a school wants to change your child's IEP, the school has to give you what's called "prior written notice." For example, if the school wants to reduce your child's services, add to them or change them in any way, it has to tell you ahead of time in writing. Prior written notice gives parents a chance to withdraw their consent and look for ways to resolve the dispute with the school.
There may be a time when you and the school don't see eye to eye and can't talk through your differences. If that happens, IDEA gives parents several options.
Here are steps you can take, usually in the order shown:
1. Ask for a mediation session. If the school doesn't automatically offer a mediation session, you can request one. (Be sure to do so in writing.) In this meeting, a mediator helps each party express their positions and understand those of the other parties. The mediator manages the discussion and helps the group reach an agreement. The mediator does not recommend solutions or take sides.
2. File a due process complaint. If you're not satisfied with the results of the mediation, you can request a due process hearing by writing an official letter, also called a "complaint." A due process hearing is a formal meeting where parents and school officials present arguments and evidence to a hearing officer or administrative law judge. This person is not an employee of the school district.
The parents and the district are allowed to bring attorneys and present evidence. (Each state has different procedures; consult your state department of education to find out how to file this complaint and what to include in it.)
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"Red Emma" and Free Speech at BerkeleyCulture Watch
Emma Goldman, socialist, anarchist and feminist, died in exile from the United
States in 1940, as the swastika was about to fly over Europe. Twenty years earlier,
she and her longtime lover, Alexander Berkman, were deported to what was then
called Soviet Russia at the peak of the Red Scare. J. Edgar Hoover, the Justice
Department attorney who had organized the raids (named the "Palmer raids"
after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer) was on the docks watching as Goldman,
Berkman and over 500 others were deported on the Buford, which the yellow
press dubbed the "Soviet Ark."
Emma's anarchism soon led her out of the Soviet Union--she was to publish two books, My Disillusionment in Soviet Russia, and My Further Disillusionment in Soviet Russia. This may along with her activities in pre World War I Greenwich Village, birthplace of American cultural Bohemia, explain why she was one of the very few American partisans of socialism who were mentioned positively, albeit as something of quotable comedy relief character, in American history lectures when I first went to the City College of New York in the early 1960s.
As the 21st century dawns, much has changed and much remains the same for left critics of the American establishment. To the chagrin of rightists, streets and buildings are named after Malcolm X and Paul Robeson. Robeson, persecuted by the FBI in the 1950s and 1960s, now is an object of respect at Rutgers University, where he was once class valedictorian and an All-American football player. Finally, Martin Luther King, whom J. Edgar Hoover had "categorized" as a Communist in 1962 so that the FBI could harass and hound him for the rest of his life, has a national holiday named after him.
But how much of this is merely tokenism or even what philosopher Herbert Marcuse called in the 1960s "repressive tolerance"? We don't put our dissidents in jail, but we deny them access to mass media, make sure no one will listen to them, and then use the fact that they are not in jail and can speak on street corners as evidence that we are the epitome of freedom and democracy.
We even let some dissidents who become famous be honored, but not necessarily for what they were. So American students read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written as an explicit Socialist agitational novel, and are taught to remember Sinclair for the passage of the Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts. Martin Luther King is remembered as a good man who preached non-violence toward whites and, either Christ-like or Uncle Tom-like, depending on your ethnic background and point of view, died for the sins of the larger society. His concept of "positive peace," peace with social justice, opposition to the Vietnam War and U.S. military interventionism in his last years, and his campaign to unite all people living in poverty in a national Poor Peoples Movement at the time of his assassination are totally unknown to most of the people who honor him in school rituals and learn about him from the media.
Today the Emma Goldman papers are located at the University of California at Berkeley, scene of the Free Speech movement of 1964-65, which preceded and encouraged many of the youth and student protests of the late 1960s. Clark Kerr was the great villain of the Free Speech movement, but the present Cal administration did something that I am not sure Kerr would have done--censor a fund-raising appeal from the Goldman papers on the grounds that its anti-WWI and pro-free speech quotes were "political" and the university does not take political positions in its fund-raising appeals.
While Clark Kerr in 1964 had attempted to bar students from using campus space to engage in contemporary political activities for civil rights and other issues, the Cal administration today has sought to censor the statements of an historical figure whose whole life was based on politics on the grounds that this interfered with university neutrality in raising money.
First of all, this is very bad business, since no one would contribute a penny to the Emma Goldman papers, except for political reasons. That the anti-war statements may prove useful to opponents of the Bush foreign policy is another issue cited by Cal administration sophists. Of course, the Free Speech movement itself, which today is "honored" at Berkeley, was about making study relevant to contemporary affairs, confronting the ivory tower which overlay the "knowledge factory," as the students called American higher education then.
At the turn of the 20th century, Emma Goldman was blamed by a section of the yellow press and assorted yahoos for the assassination of President McKinley, because the assassin had attended one of her meetings. In subsequent years she faced assault, numerous arrests, and eventual deportation, although no one in the United States or "Soviet Russia" for that matter was able to shut up Emma, who always understood that free speech didn't mean anything unless you used it. Cal's administration doesn't seem to understand that at all--or understand that the academic freedom of students and scholars is about continuing debate, making the past relevant to the present.
The huge flap their actions produced in the press is evidence that they haven't succeeded in shutting up Emma today. Indeed, I marched with tens of thousands of mostly young people in Washington this past weekend opposing the Bush Iraq policy, echoing Emma in both their statements and their bopping and dancing along to hip drum music. But their actions deserve to be roundly condemned for what they are--an insult to both academic freedom and free speech and a Catch-22 contention that the manuscript collection of one of the most remarkable political women in U.S. history should refrain from making political statements in advertising itself.
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Richard Dyke - 1/28/2003
It seems the main point is being missed. Pickering is being pilloried, when in fact his call to DOJ was a "courageous" call. The man had a brain and a conscience, and I hope he is confirmed. Too often we forget the old aphorism, "The law is a ass." Without some necessary flexibility and creative interpretation now and then, the law itself can become a system of repression and gross unfairness. Judges are often the last bastion of reasonableness, and this case cried out for something we don't seem to have enough of anymore--common sense. California's 3-strikes law--well intentioned in theory but horrific in practice--will eventually bring about its own political denouement. The politicians, for the people, envisioned that really bad criminals would be put away forever, and never again become a problem. The new problem the law created, however, was less flexibility and more certainty--even for crimes (some felonies, like drug offenses) that the "people" were not really thinking about at the time. The result? More and more people in prison for life, often for the lesser felonies. Illinois Governor Ryan's recent pardon of all of that state's death row inmates appears to have been based largely on the unfairness with which "the law" meted out what came to be seen as capricious sentences. The law and the judicial system are neverly entirely fair, and we need good common-sense judges who--apparently at peril to themselves--try to ameliorate the worst excesses of applying the law entirely blindly--and hence, unfairly.
The law by itself will never be an answer to society's woes. We need good, common-sense judges to consider cases fairly and evenly, even when it comes to punishments, and not apply their "profession" like a baking recipe.
Derek Catsam - 1/27/2003
Bill --
The newest of the TNR articles does indicate the nature of the call to Hunger -- and certainly this does not place the DOJ in a good light. I still doubt we'll see eye to eye on this any time soon.
As for the New Republic, I very much like the magazine for a number of reasons even when I know it has its flaws. It at least is smart and most often well written. It has its agenda, to be sure, though that agenda has shifted often -- it no longer is the standard bearer for the left, the bastion of progressive liberalism that it once was, and in fact it teeters precariously close to neo-con thought for my purposes -- especially with the various shifts in editorial staff in the past decade or so. But on the whole, it certainly takes a particular kind of left-of-center approach. It is thought provoking, and, like, say, the National Review, it is going to tackle issues that we are not going to see in Time, Newsweek or US News, and because they are journals of opinion, they can address issues in ways that the NYT, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal cannot. I don't agree with the New republic all the time, sometimes it enrages me, and occasionally frustrates and annoys me. But Give me TNR, the National Review, and a handful of other magazines that fill this niche -- intellectual journals of opinion that still try to cater to a wider audience than a scholarly journal. I know where the biases are, but I'm smart enough to sort it out, and I'm usually not being talked down to when I read Greg Easterbrook or Victor Davis Hanson.
Derek Catsam - 1/27/2003
Bill --
No problem. Some of the heat seems to have dissipated from our exchange, which I think is a good thing. I also agree that we are at a phase where we should wait for the next battle, as once the issues are laid out and arguments set down, there comes a point where two people are just able to disagree -- sometimes even agreeably.
I will reaffirm that I do not think Pickering is either a racist or even a bad person. I hope he does not pass confirmation, for reasons I've laid out and ideolgical ones to boot, but if he is confirmed, the sun will rise, the sun will set, and I'll still have lunch.
Cheers --
Bill Heuisler - 1/27/2003
Derek Catsam,
Sorry. How embarrassing; and after I criticized Gus for doing the same thing. No excuse, sir, except carelessness.
As to Pickering, the discussion is grinding to a he said-she said impasse. That said, your quoting three liberal college professors (one of whom misstated the issue) to prove a conservative Judge unfit is about as powerful an argument as quoting me on Dershowitz' suitability for the bench.
By the way, even some of the prosecution grudgingly agreed with Judge Pickering and had regrets they hadn't tried and punished the juvenile as an adult and as a repeat Hate Crime offender.
Byron York wrote in National Review on line:
"In a February 12, 2002 letter to Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, Pickering cited the transcript of an open court session in which he told Civil Rights Division lawyer Brad Berry that he felt the Swan case was an example of disparate sentencing. Berry answered, according to the transcript cited by Pickering, that, "Perhaps the lesson — the lesson that I take from that, your Honor, is that perhaps the government should have been more tough — should have asked for a more stringent or stronger or longer sentence for the other defendants in this case."
"There are also some indications that at least one Justice Department lawyer involved in the case agreed with Pickering that the department's sentencing demand for Swan was too severe. In a January 5, 1995 memo to Linda Davis, who was head of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division, federal prosecutor Jack Lacy recounted several sessions with Pickering on the Swan issue (the memo was made public as part of Pickering's confirmation hearings.) "The impulse to the conversation is always the same," Lacy wrote. "He thinks the sentence facing Swan is draconian, and he wants a way out. He has been careful to phrase his concern in such terms as, 'I wish you could suggest some way that this harsh sentence could be avoided.'" Later in the letter, Lacy wrote that he "personally agreed with the judge that the sentence is draconian," but said he also reminded Pickering that Swan could have pleaded guilty but instead, "the defendant repeatedly chucked our offers in our teeth."
Again, I'm genuinely sorry about misspelling your name.
Bill Heuislur
Derek Catsam - 1/27/2003
Bill -- (Hey, my name appears in every one of my posts -- would it kill you to spell it right for once? -- and I know that Humphrey Bogart never actually said "Play it again Sam")
You wrote:
"Wrong! There was only ONE juvenile (under 18) and HE was the so-called ring leader. HE had also been convicted of prior assault on the SAME VICTIMS. Pickering objected to the 20-year-old (not the ringleader - not the prior conviction) getting a FAR HARSHER SENTENCE THAN THE JUVENILE WHO INSTIGATED THE CRIME AND HAD THE PRIOR CONVICTION. Got it? Any damn fool looking at the record would have thought far less of any judge who ignored such a miscarriage of justice. And, by the way, a State Judge usually contacts the Feds (Justice Dept.)when a Federal crime is up for sentencing. Get the facts before allowing your knee to jerk."
Three individuals: Swan, the 20 year old (whose truck was used to drive the three, which is what led some to call him the ringleader, though in fact even the National Review's piece in support of Pickering says they cannot say for certain who was the leader); Mickey Herbert Thomas, a 25 year old (mae culpa on calling both of the others juveniles) who was borderline retarded. And the 17 year old whose name was unreleased. You can use your CAPS LOCK key all you want to express outrage, these are the facts. I got these from three independent sources, the National review online, the New Republis (1-17-03) and a press release from the Human Rights Campaign.
The reason for the disparate sentencing was the plea bargain. When the 20 year old (Swan) rejected a plea, he opened himself up for whatever sentence he received. That is where the disparate sentencing comes in. Had Swam been willing to take a plea, none of this would have happened -- I only wish they had decided not to let any of them plea out, but then who knowws what sort of case they would have had.
You say that any judge would have done what he did? How's this for a countervailing opinion, or actually, three:
John Leubsdorf, Professor of Law and Judge Lacey Distinguished Scholar, Rutgers University:
"In the course of his attempt to avoid imposing a criminal sentence prescribed by Congress, the Judge inappropriately: intimated that if the Government failed to cooperate he would hand down a sentence adverse to it on another issue; proposed an untimely new trial motion that he lacked jurisdiction to entertain; and sealed an opinion without adequate grounds to do so. He also initiated ex parte contacts with Government lawyers, in violation of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. Whatever Judge Pickering's motives may have been, this was no way for a judge to behave.... [His conduct] was a plain violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(e)(1).... I cannot escape the conclusion that Judge Pickering departed from the proper judicial role of impartiality in the Swan case to become an advocate for the sentence he considered proper.... His actions were inappropriate and violated rules governing judicial conduct."
Stephen Gillers, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, New York University:
"Judge Pickering's conduct was wrong. ... [T]he Court had no choice but to sentence Mr. Swan according to law for the crimes for which he was convicted. Judge Pickering used the powers of his office to avoid this duty. He asked the Justice Department to agree not to oppose a motion for a new trial although it appears that one could not then be timely made and the defendant had made no motion. Judge Pickering offered no legal basis for granting such a motion other than his discomfort with the sentencing disparities .... The Judge's actions, which should have been accessible to the public, have remained secret for seven years and might never have been known were it not for the confirmation hearing. The Judge's explanation for secrecy is hard to fathom."
Steven Lubet, Professor of Law, Northwestern University; Co-Author, Judicial Conduct & Ethics:
"The ex parte discussion of sentencing was a manifest violation of Canon 3A(4) [of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges].... [The Judge] might understandably attribute the ex parte contact to a momentary lapse in judgment. It is considerably more troubling that Judge Pickering attempts to rationalize the conduct, since that suggests he would endorse similar communications by other judges in the future.... [I]t appears that he took exceptional steps to circumvent or disregard the law, in many ways becoming an advocate for Mr. Swan more than a judge in the case.... Such conduct is not ?faithful to the law,' since it blatantly ignores the [court's] own legal conclusions in favor of the judge's preferred outcome.... Such conduct does not evince respect for the law.... Such conduct by the court can be said to undermine public confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary."
Three law professors who agree with me on the ex parts communication. I suppose that's knee jerk too.
Bill Heuisler - 1/26/2003
Since the Markowitz articles cast such disrepute on the American system - and because Judge Pickering's name has been dragged into the mud-fest, it might be informative to see what really happened to cause the Judge's so-called improper "ex-parte" communication with a friend in the Clinton Justice Department.
This account is from a January 9, 2003 news source and is agreed to by everyone involved in the incident.
"Pickering set a sentencing date of January 3, 1995. As the date approached, he waited for an answer from the Justice Department. He asked in November, 1994 and received no response. He asked again in December and received no response. He asked again on January 2, the day before the sentencing, and still received no response. He delayed sentencing, and on January 4 wrote a strongly-worded order to prosecutors demanding not only that they respond to his questions but that they take the issue up personally with Attorney General Janet Reno and report back within ten days.
"Shortly after issuing the order, Pickering called assistant attorney general Frank Hunger, a Mississippian and friend of Pickering's who headed the Justice Department's Civil Division at the time (Hunger was also well known as the brother-in-law of vice president Al Gore). Pickering says he called Hunger to express "my frustration with the gross disparity in sentence recommended by the government, and my inability to get a response from the Justice Department in Washington." Hunger told Pickering that the case wasn't within his area of responsibility. It appears that Hunger took no action as a result of the call. (Hunger later supported Pickering's nomination to the federal appeals courts.)"
Did The New Republic report the matter properly? Of course not, they have an agenda that would suffer from the truth.
Bill Heuisler
Bill Heuisler - 1/26/2003
Your words in the last post make me wonder about your connection to the real world.
Now try to stay in my universe for just a moment:
1) You wrote - "The two juveniles were offered a plea bargain and took it. The 20 year old, the ringleader, as you say..."
Wrong! There was only ONE juvenile (under 18) and HE was the so-called ring leader. HE had also been convicted of prior assault on the SAME VICTIMS. Pickering objected to the 20-year-old (not the ringleader - not the prior conviction) getting a FAR HARSHER SENTENCE THAN THE JUVENILE WHO INSTIGATED THE CRIME AND HAD THE PRIOR CONVICTION. Got it? Any damn fool looking at the record would have thought far less of any judge who ignored such a miscarriage of justice. And, by the way, a State Judge usually contacts the Feds (Justice Dept.)when a Federal crime is up for sentencing. Get the facts before allowing your knee to jerk.
2) You wrote in your last post: "I've gone over the past posts, and though i surely could have missed it, i do not see one of your posts where you sais the "results" were the same,"
You couldn't have looked very far. The word "results" is in each of my posts asking you to state differences in the historical results between National Socialism and Marxism...the one before last, for instance.
Parallel universe? Nah. When reality trumps ideology you get all confused and judgmental.
Bill "Jackass" Heuisler
Derek Catsam - 1/26/2003
Once again, I appreciate your post, but have a few more cavils. I was wrong to say "practiced" with regard to Marx, though clearly there were some trying to implement some versions of their interpreatation of it. Mae Culpa.
As for South Africa -- a few points. First, given that the SACP was committed to the liberation of South Africa and to rights for all, its commitment to civil liberties seems self evident. Furthermore, the SACP was obviously part of the coalition that drafted arguably the most civil-liberties oriented constitution on earth. Would I want the SACP in charge in South Africa alone? No, though not becauise I think they'd become a murderous regime, but rather because it would be an economic and possibnly social disaster.
On the topic of Mugabe -- he used to be a Marxist/communist. But in fact soon after he took control he disavowed most of that and embraced free market capitalism, annoying many in Zimbabwe. That country is a disaster and Mugabe is an awful, dangerous man, but if anything, blame his shift away from communism, not his current embrace of it. Rhetorically he can still appeal to his "comrades," but no serious student of African politics and history that I know of sees Mugabe as a marxist these days. The "Big Man" model in Africa has, alas, become its own type, worthy of its own differentiation.
I also want to be very clear here. I am in no way, shape, or form a Marxist, communist, socialist or communitarian. But I do think that when discussing these things it is too easy to lump it all into one congealed mass, rather than take into account the fact that particularity matters, that things manifest themselves ina time and place because of particular conditions, and that lumping, say, socialism, communism, Marxism and Nazism together is intellectually sloppy and conceals more than it reveals. I am not sympathetic to the marxist endeavor, but I don't think that Stalinism and Marxism are effectively the same thing. And I also, historically, would dispute that Fascism and nazism are the same thing, though obviously they dropped from the same branch of the same tree.
Tom Jones - 1/25/2003
Your words concerning Marx's take on Marxism were that he "later claimed not to be a Marxist as he saw it practiced," which does give the strong impression that it was put in "practice" as a practical matter during his lifetime. Of course, with the collapse of the International in the 1860s and 1870s, and the fragmentation of the socialist movement into sectarian groups, some of which described themselves as "Marxist," Marx strongly objected to a number of them on the grounds, among others, that they contained ideas that he didn't subscribe to. Many battles over dogma took place at the time, but this is not the impression you give by "practiced."
As for the South African Communist Party and its leaders, I don't have enough knowledge about this subject to pass judgment on their commitment to civil liberties. So far, as members of the ruling party, the South African Communists have not attempted, as far as I can tell, to impose their statist ideology on the governing coalition. But who knows what the future might hold? Already, dissatisfaction with the government among many former supporters has led to calls for the appropriation of property, etc., and its redistribution. I could easily see the South African Communist Party moving down that road, with all the disruption and violence that will ensue, which might result in another Zimbabwe, heaven forbid, headed by committed Communists. If so, we might once more see another sad example of Soviet style Communism in "practice."
And yes, Nazism was unique to Germany under Hitler, but fascist states also existed in Italy, Rumania, and Spain, the latter for quite a few years under Franco, and Peron's Argentina.
Some have argued, that fascism as practiced under Franco was a viable system, though certainly I would not have liked to live there. But if given a Hobson's Choice, I surely would have chosen Spain over Kim Il Sung's North Korea or Mao's China, or Stalin's Russia -- or any other Communist state. Indeed, the fairly easy transition from Franco to the present democratic and prosperous Spain, speaks to the nature of its fascism. It was far less dehumanizing, destructive, and totalitarian than any state organized under Communism. In that respect, it was less "evil."
Derek Catsam - 1/25/2003
I appreciate both of the last two posts. And I am familiar with much of the literature on this, though I know of none of this literature that would disavow difference between the two, that would say that they are "the same". One of the most prominent conflations of these recently was in the introducvtion to the Black Boopk of Communism -- though that book differentiates Communism and Marxism. But they do make compelling comparisons as well -- of course regimes that end in mass slaughter or total subjugation are evil, but so too was capitalist apartheid South Africa.
As for what Marx said about being a Marxist, that he died before the Soviet Union was created does not mean that there was not an intellectual and political movement known as Marxism and that he did not disavow it -- again, the difference between Marxism and Communism.
I am curious what those who wholly condemn communism have to say about the South African Communist Party, which is not only still part of the governing coalition in South Africa, but which also was essential to the successful liberation struggle. Was Chris Hani really evil?
Totalitarian regimes are evil. Communist regimes have been evil. Nazism can be condemned as evil simply because it was an ideology centered in one nation-state and with one manifestation. We don't have alternative examples of it. But to claim that all Marxists are "evil" and that they are the same as Nazis does not wash with me.
Derek Catsam - 1/25/2003
Facts are stubborn things Bill. Here is what you wrote re: Pickering:
What are you talking about? There were three people involved -- a juvenile, a 20 year old, and a borderline mentally retarded adult. They were accused not of assault, but of cross burning on the lawn of the interracial couple on Improve, Mississippi. The two juveniles were offered a plea bargain and took it. The 20 year old, the ringleader, as you say, was also offered a plea he would have gotten 18 months in jail. He refused it. He rolled the dice. Oops. he was convicted and faced some 7 1/2 years (two and a half for racial intimidation, five for using a fire in a federal felony). At that point Pickering went through several machinations to reduce the sentences, including unethical (and possibly illegal) ex parte conversations with a friend of his at the Justice Department, threatening to call for a new trial, and harassing federal prosecutors in private meetings. The prosecution, fearing Pickering's reaction to the full sentence, dropped the arson charge, and the 20 year old (Daniel Swann) is serving a 27 month sentence.
Meanwhile Pickering has been reversed by the Fifth Circuit court 26 times -- 15 of them for "violating well settled priciples of law." This is not a good record.
Zinn: How does this contradict me? You said he disdained the taxpayers of this country. You then show evidence of him disdaining the electoral system as it now stands. These are not the same things -- and given that an appalling 50% (at most, usually) of Americans vote in Presidential elections, forfget about the midterms, Zinnis not alone. Do I agree with him? No. Not at all, as I disagree with much of what Zinn says. But I support his right to say it. BU is a private school. Evidence that Zinn or Markowitz would send us to reeducation camps. please? Or is it just slander, especially given that Zinn has spent more thqn enough time condemning just that sort of thing (ie the japanese American internment camps, etc.)
Marxism/Nazism: I've gone over the past posts, and though i surely could have missed it, i do not see one of your posts where you sais the "results" were the same, whereas I see at least two where you ask me flat out what the differences between the two are, period. You seem not to disagree with my rendering of just a smattering of differences, so I'll assume that we are dealing with semantics.
Tom Jones - 1/25/2003
I want to thank Mr. Heuisler for the statement quoting Howard Zinn. I was unaware of it. It is highly relevant and highly disturbing. It clearly reflects his contempt for representative democracy, as well as his Leninist approach to politics.
One point, however. Neither Zinn or Chomsky are on the public payroll. Boston University, where he taught -- he's now retired -- is a private institution. The same is true of MIT, where Chomsky still teaches. Both institutions, of course, get some public funds for student loans, research projects, etc., but their main source of income is their endowments, alumni fundraising, and student fees and tuition. Rutgers, of course, is state funded.
Bill Heuisler - 1/25/2003
You have a problem.
Up 'til now your non-responsive responses could be put off on haste or misreading, but there has been a discernable pattern of Catsum posts from Bellesiles, through Colonialism vs hunger, to the whole world claiming our Bill of Rights, to similar results from National Socialism and Marxism, to Judge Pickering and now to defending the indefensible Communist leech, Markowitz.
In each case you first respond to a conservative post with a Left-of-Center declaration; then you tend to answer any counter by whining about non-existent or mild ad hominum attacks and ignoring or misstating the conservative rebuttals.
Three recent examples:
1) You were asked about the similar RESULTS of National Socialism and Marxism in historical context. "Results", Derek.
2) You twice repeated the TNR stance that Pickering's legal
disqualifications trumped any racial problems without addressing the specific of the juvenile ring-leader's being convicted of TWO ASSAULTS ON THE SAME INTERRACIAL COUPLE and receiving nothing in comparison to the other man's sentence. Judge Pickering properly objected to the plea-bargain and the harsh sentence. He questioned both on record. You ignored the whole matter and complained about name-calling. A pattern, Derek.
3) Markowitz, Zinn and Chomsky would tear down our system of Government and send most of us to reeducation camps or worse. Most people feel this is threatening; most taxpayers don't want to pay for their own demise. You ignore the obvious, call Zinn a reductionist and say he's not a threat to the people paying his salary. Oh really?
Read this, Derek:
Howard Zinn, January, 2001 - Interview with Joe Lockard
"It's a bad move for progressive organizations to tie themselves to the electoral system because the electoral system is a great grave into which we are invited to get lost. For progressive movements, the future does not lie with electoral politics. It lies in street warfare -- protest movements and demonstrations, civil disobedience, strikes and boycotts -- using all of the power consumers and workers have in direct action against the government and corporations. To sink too much of our energy into electoral politics is a mistake."
Now think about it, Derek. This guy is paid quite well by Massachusets taxpayers to undermine their country. Tenure is supposed to protect free discourse, not bestow license on bomb-throwers whose first act on taking power would be to jail most teachers and quell free speech. Respond, Derek.
But apparently expecting you to respond with meaningful argument has become futile. Your pompous, whining misdirection has become an obvious ploy to avoid engagement. Since you're in training to be a teacher, perhaps some lessons in technique are in order.
Just trying to aid your career. Don't bother thanking me
Bill "The Jackass" Heuisler
Tom Jones - 1/25/2003
One addendum: Derek Catsam claims that Marx once said that he was not a Marxist as it was "practiced." Marx died in 1883, long before the Soviet Union, the first Communist state, was established in 1917. Communism as an organized system of government was "practiced" nowhere when Marx was alive. He could not have made the statement attributed to him.
To be sure, some Marxists say that the Soviet Union -- and other self-proclaimed Communist societies -- were corrupted versions of true Marxist utopias. But the reality is that such totalitarian societies are the only examples of "dictatorships of the proletariat" outlined by Marx. He might have been revolted by the way they turned out but we will never know. He never saw one in "practice."
Tom Jones - 1/25/2003
I think you were too quick to brush aside Bill Heuisler's claim that Marxism and Fascism are essentially the same. I could submit a long bibliography on the subject but a good place to start for those interested in it is A. James Gregor, The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century.
Prof. Gregor has written quite extensively on the subject, emphasizing the similar natures of both systems: totalitarianism, the cult of personality, collectivism, and nationalism. As he and others have pointed out, despite the emphasis on internationalism in Communist dogma, in practice all Communist systems were and are strongly "nationalistic," as one can see, for example, in Cuba today as well as North Korea and Vietnam. To be sure, in theory, Communism and Fascism do diverge on various points. But the similarities, as Gregor makes clear, are far more important and both are the antithesis of liberal capitalism and both have roots in a similar tradition hostile to the emerging liberal capitalistic democracies of the 19th and 20th centuries, of which the United States today is the most vigorous and prominent example. That, in fact, helps explain why we are so hated by the far left as well as the far right and why they often converge in such organizations as A.N.S.W.E.R., which is an amalgam of people comfortable in supporting North Korea, Milosevic, and Saddam.
One other interesting point. I don't know whether Markowitz supports Kim Jong Il and his Communist/Fascist totalitarian state. But the late Chairman of the party he's an official of -- the Communist Party of the USA -- Gus Hall, went to North Korea shortly before he died in the mid-1990s, and returned singing its praises, saying it was a perfect example of a working, efficient, Communist state. Maybe the current theoreticians of the CPUSA, of whom Markowitz is one, have changed their tune but I doubt it.
Derek Catsam - 1/24/2003
Yes, Bill, touchy because you continue to mount personal attacks in lieu of arguments.
You say I "can't understand applications of the law to second offenders" : what do you mean "can't understand?" When did I ever deny that this was an issue. To refresh your memory, I was quite clear that the whole point in the TNR article I pointed you to was that the questions of law right now are adequate enough without race coming into it.
You say I "can't describe the difference between National Socialism and Marxism." No, you asserted that they were the same thing, that there were no differences. I said that self evidently that was not so. Examples of differenfce? OK -- there are differences on views of race, class, religion; one took the viewpoint of the nation state above all the other wanted to eradicate lines of Nation States; one refers to a specific place and time (Nazi germany 1933-1945) the other to an uintellectual stream dating to Marx (who later claimed not to be a Marxist as he saw it practiced). These are just a few differences. The study of history is about the particular, and to say that two things are the same, that there are no differences is, simply, wrong.
You say that I know damned well what the situation is withj markowitz and that tenure and the First Amendment are irrelevent. I would say that those of us who disagree with you disagree with you because we feel that tenure protects any professor's right to speak, write and think what he likes. "Taxpayers are the targets of the Zinns et al" -- what does that even mean? I think Howard Zin is reductionist and overdoes it, but to say that somehow your viewpoint represents "the taxpayer" better (or worse) than his is pretty audacious. I am a taxpayer, Zinn is a taxpayer. Who are you to speak for all taxpayers? And who are you to take away the right to protest from any other taxpayers?
As for arguing properly, well, I guess we all can't have your laser focus on right and wrong, not to mention your graceful debating technique and unabashed respect for the vies of others.
Tucson? So that is where one goes to see "the real world."
Derek Catsam - 1/24/2003
Gus -- you're right, of course. I should have taken to heart the old Southern aphorism -- when you hear a jackass braying in the field, it doesn't mean you should start braying back.
Gus Moner - 1/24/2003
By the way, what's a FAT salary? How much are we talking about, Mr. Heuisler? What do you earn? Does it matter? Some 20% of the working US population has a government related job. Should they all just stop practising their political rights to please you?
Gus Moner - 1/24/2003
Mustn't bite on Bill's lures. You play his game. Stay with yours.
Gus Moner - 1/24/2003
I never denied, Mr. Heuisler what leftist people may preach. I simply question the relevance you give these extremists and wonder why you are not as worked up over right wing and racist extremists. It takes nothing away from all the normal, non-extremist people who marched, regardless of the participant's political beliefs. Nor does it subtract from the meaning of the demonstration for peace.
What government employees do after they have finished work is their business. There are plenty of right-wing professors and literature to balance any leftist extremist. Plus, communists have history against them. No one wants them. Seeing all the angles to US policies and history enriches our youth and prepares them to make the tough decisions when their turn comes. It's a pity our leaders failed to get that diversity.
Thanks for your sympathy and Christian charity. I defend everyone who wants to express a viewpoint. Including you!
Gus Moner - 1/24/2003
You are right! I do have a disability with spelling. I am sorry, no offence intended!
Bill Heuisler - 1/24/2003
My, my, Derek, aren't we touchy. You don't care for the tags, naive or righteous, can't understand applications of the law to second offenders, can't describe the difference between the results of National Socialism and Marxism. And finally you can't respond to an argument without straying into irrelevancy. You're beginning to sound a little shrill. Can't take criticism?
You know damn well what my point is about Markowitz and New Jersey taxpayers. To obfiscate about the First Amendment and how tenure really doesn't protect rabble-rousers is specious and you know it. What you fail to address is the main point: Taxpayers are the target of the Chomskys, Zinns and Markowitzes. The electoral process, private property, accumulation of wealth and freedom from overweening government are all under attack from the Marxists in academe. Like an executioner demanding payment, they insult the very people who give them employment.
Derek, if you can't argue this obvious point properly then you don't belong in an institute of higher learning.
As to your mill town dance, come to Tucson. I'm in the book.
Bill Heuisler
Derek Catsam - 1/24/2003
Why do I bother? Seriously, why do I bother to get worked up about the namecalling and not so subtle or clever personal attacks from you, Bill? But I do. Naivete? How dare you? Who do you think you are? What about my life, praytell, do you know that makes you fit to judge whether or not I am "naive" about my profession? About the world? About anything? I'm curious? Interestingly, of course, in between the snideness from Mr. Heuisler, our arbiter of the worldly, he illustrates exactly why tenure exists -- to protect professors from being fired for expressing unpopular views. this is why we go through a probationary period, to see if we are good at what we do -- teaching, writing, etc. -- and then to provide an outlet for the protection that tenure provides -- a protection nowhere near as universal as Heuisler, the wise one, seems to think. Someone with tenure can be fired. "Fomenting revolution," would fall under that category, as would commiting a crime, being demonstrably derelict in one's duties, and a whole range of other offenses. Do we have more protections than some professions? Perhaps -- if we get that far. Do we have more protection than, say, judges? No. And I'll tell you, if I break a law, I'm out and would be if I had tenure. But to espouse a view that Bill, or that lots of people, or that the majority of people oppose and lose my job? To attend a political rally (to exercise the most rudimentary of our Constitutional rights?)and get fired? that's the very pusrpose of tenure. No one needs to agree with Markowitz to question seriously the rationale you have for claiming that the taxpayers of New Jersey are being fleeced.
Finally, (once again) -- if someone has a contract to do a job, and they do that job, it is no longer someone else's money. It is the compensation owed that person under the conditions of the contract.
I might be naive for fathoming the rudiments of contract law, of tenure, or of the First Amendment, and for fundamentally agreeing with them. Nonetheless, my guess is that Bill has lived a bit more sheltered life than he would like us to believe, because in my little old mill town where my dad and before him my grandparents ran a little dairy farm, talking to people the way he does would have him spitting teeth before too long. Despite my apparent lack of real world experience, in most places I've been, that would be the case. In my naivete, there is a part of me that misses those days.
Bill Heuisler - 1/24/2003
You must have led a very sheltered life. Allow me to edify.
Markowitz has tenure. Markowitz can say anything he damn well pleases and New Jersey taxpayers must grit their teeth and keep paying his fat salary.
A cop who foments revolution or threatens his community will be fired. A congressman, Senator or President can be removed by the people who elect him. Marxist Professors have no restraints.
Without tenure Markowitz would have been thrown out long ago. That's the problem. The fact you don't understand something so basic about your own rarified world makes me wonder about you.
Bill Heuisler
Bill Heuisler - 1/24/2003
Gus Moner,
You have such trouble spelling my name I'll simply assume you suffer a learning disability. With your sad infirmity in mind, my Christian duty is clear: carefully acquaint you with three acolytes of Marxism who preach lies and spread their poison in our colleges. There are many more, but we mustn't overburden you.
Markowitz (Rutgers) tells students to get out on the streets and protest. In a post on a German web site he called "Marxism lives" he scoffs at successful Americans saying they won't have the West to flee to when his beloved Marxists take over.
Zinn (Boston U.) in a long hate-America-filled interview with Joe Lockard urges his young American students not to participate in elective politics, but to get out on the streets and start the revolution.
Chomsky (MIT) on his web site and in his books connects the Oklahoma City bombing with the CIA and uses his Cognitive Revolution Theories to indoctrinate students into hatred for the "Evil the US routinely practises."
These three professors use their U.S. taxpayer-funded positions to teach revolution and hatred for the United States - for the very taxpayers who pay their sumptuous salaries. Excuse if you like, but denying illustrates dissonance or immaturity.
Gus, you have my sympathy. One who strains so mightily to defend Communists, Marxists and haters of his country to readers on a History site has obviously forsaken all connection to reality.
Bill Heuisler
Derek Catsam - 1/24/2003
Plus, when taxpayers pay the salary of a professor (or a police officer, or the president or a Congressman, or, for that matter, a member of the military) they pay for that person to do a job. Once the person has done that job, how they spent what is then their, and not the taxpayers', money is their business, assuming that what they do with the money is legal, of course. Everyone pays taxes for things that we don't like -- I have never met anyone who supports everything that their local,state, and federqal governments are doing, so to throw out an argument about "using taxpayers' money" strikes me as not a little bit of a red herring. It's one thing to disagree with someone's actions. It's quite another to hint that they are somehow stealing from or mosusing the money of taxpayers.
Gus Moner - 1/24/2003
Well, Mr Huisler, we are back to fear mongering about Stalinism, are we?
Mustn't keep flashing back to old nightmares. I fail to see where anyone is "teaching young Americans to hate their country." I doubt our children would tolerate it. As usual, people discern opposing views they cannot defend properly as threats and hide behind a patriotic flag to avoid dealing with the issues.
A critical review of US politics and history is not anti-patriotic nor hate. It merely prepares youth to face the issues their forefather's politics and history have bequeathed them in today's world. I doubt that many young citizens are as gullible as you would have us believe. Do you know any who entered university loving their nation and left hating the USA? I know none.
Taxpayers, sir, support ALL demonstrations. Directly or indirectly, the preparations and security arrangements cost money. It's part of exercising freedom of expression, you know?
Many people contribute to the diatribe on many topics, and it is up to us to educate our children to listen, analyse and choose, not to indoctrinate our children. I reckon nearly all the people who heard that comment were turned off to the quote rather than bought into it. Why are you so afraid of what kooks say? If our children are properly educated, the more these fringe elements speak, the less they will be followed.
Get rid of could also mean getting shipped off to Guantanamo incognito and incommunicado. It's just a question of who is left holding the gun, isn't it?
Question: Why is it that you want all those who do not agree with you to move elsewhere?
Remember, Emma Goldman was in many ways, FORCED to act on her beliefs.
Jim Schmidt - 1/22/2003
Mr. Perkins, what would you have Mr. kates write?
Mr. kates does have a view and he does share his view with us on this site. This means that Mr. kates is contrubuting to that variety of views on this sit that makes it more fun. If Mr. kates were to take the advice of Mr. Perkins, would not this reduce the variety of views on this site and thus make it less fun?
Then again, maybe Mr. Perkins is more clever than it first appears. Mr. kates refers to the phrase "repressive tolerance" as being oxymoronic and 1984ish. Maybe Mr. Perkins is trying to rebut Mr. kates's mistaken views on "repressive tolerance" by providing an example of this difficult to understand concept.
Jim Schmidt
Mark Newgent - 1/22/2003
I am opposed to any war with Iraq given the current status of the situation. If Iraq is found to be in material breach, then Hussein should get what's coming to him. I oppose the war for strategic and legitimate domestic reasons. That is why I refused all inivatations to join the peace demonstrations. I could never consciously join with any group that share the philosophies and political values of Stalin, Mao or Kim Jong-Il. ANSWER and the other fringe left groups sponsoring the protests have given dissent a bad name. Dissent if you want, but leave your assinine notions of revolution at home.
Mr. Markowitz, if you put so much stock in Emma Goldman try to follow her example. However, I think you value your nice Rutgers salary too much.
Also, why do people still believe communism can work? Its a usefull tool of analysis, but as system of government it brings about much more repression than a capitalist democracy.
Garry Perkins - 1/22/2003
Lefties are Americans too. They constant complaints help us sharpen our arguments and keep us on the enlightened path. Dissent has its place. If they all left Ronald Radosh and that FrontPageMagazine guy would be unemployed and extremely bored. Think of how bad Yale's Annals of Comunism series would be without the CPUSA stuff. John Earl Haynes would die of boredom. Let's celebrate these folks. They are so much fun.
Garry Perkins - 1/22/2003
Play nice! We all like having various views on this site. It makes it more fun. Furthermore, your style makes Marxist propoganda look elegant. Try using some normal prose.
don kates - 1/21/2003
You refer approvingly to "philosopher" Herbert Marcuse's term "repressive tolerance." I guess that is the up-dated equivalent to "war is peace" and the other oxymoronic slogans from 1984.
Then you write: "We don't put our dissidents in jail, but we deny them access to mass media, make sure no one will listen to them, and then use the fact that they are not in jail and can speak on street corners as evidence that we are the epitome of freedom and democracy."
Who is the "we" here professor? I don't do any of those things. I think what you really mean is that "we," the American people, don't pay attention to the pathetic nitwits who spout your line. In the world you would design, government would force us to listen to them.
But if you really want to see them get their opportunity to speak, all you have to do is watch the Fox Cable Channel. Its right-wing talk show hosts made a habit of inviting extremist nitwits like you on so they can claim that they are "fair and balanced" because they present "both sides" -- i.e., they make their more or less rational conservativism look good by pitting it against howling nitwits who are their straw man versions of liberals.
Bill Heuisler - 1/21/2003
Mr. Markowitz,
Your pretense that Emma Goldman shared your beliefs is pathetic.
She believed in academic freedom and free speech; she renounced your Stalinist friends in two fine books; morever, she wouldn't approve of your teaching young Americans to hate their country while collecting a fat salary from a State-supported University.
By the way, did New Jersey taxpayers pay for your march in Washington? Do Rutgers-supporters and alumni know the hatred for America you applauded? Do they know about Imam Mussa's diatribe to the crowd?
"We won't get any justice as long as that criminal Congress is up there. We're calling for revolution. It's revolution time, brothers and sisters. We have to get rid of greedy murderers and imperialists like George Bush in the White House."
Revolution? "Get rid of...?" Maybe taxpayers don't know about you, but Imam Mussa sounds like the "Marxism Lives" piece you wrote last July for the Communist Party USA on that Kalaschnikow web site in Germany. Oh yeah, does "get rid of" mean kill...or just ship us all to concentration camps?
Question: If you hate the US so much, why not do us all a favor and give up the taxpayer-dole? Move to Cuba? North Korea?
Or are you all about words?
Remember, Emma Goldman acted on her beliefs.
Bill Heuisler
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