Bush = Hitler?

[Friday]

A University professor in Milwaukee has written a book declaring this very thing. Not only that, but he is being allowed to teach a course stating that the U.S. was behind 9/11, not al Queda...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/10/11/instructor.sept.11.ap/index.html

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A university instructor who came under scrutiny for arguing that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks likens President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay his students are being required to buy for his course.

The essay by Kevin Barrett, "Interpreting the Unspeakable: The Myth of 9/11," is part of a $20 book of essays by 15 authors, according to an unedited copy first obtained by WKOW-TV in Madison and later by The Associated Press.

The book's title is "9/11 and American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out." It is on the syllabus for Barrett's course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Islam: Religion and Culture," but only three of the essays are required reading, not including Barrett's essay.

Barrett, a part-time instructor who holds a doctorate in African languages and literature and folklore from UW-Madison, is active in a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth. The group's members say U.S. officials, not al-Qaida terrorists, were behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

"Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies," he wrote.

Barrett said Tuesday he was comparing the attacks to the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, in 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

"That's not comparing them as people, that's comparing the Reichstag fire to the demolition of the World Trade Center, and that's an accurate comparison that I would stand by," he said.

He added: "Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler."

Instructors like this bozo, combined with my recent firsthand experience with what professors are teaching future schoool administrators, just solidify the fact, for me, that the academic left has a stranglehold on education. What do you think the reaction would be if a professor suggested a conservative take on the whole Islam thing? That we should take pro-active measures before radical Islamists destroy the Western way of life? You're right. That professor would be laughed out of that curriculum meeting.

Indoctrination has become so commonplace it's not even recognized for what it is, any longer. It's become status quo.

That is alarming to me.

So much so that this spokeswoman for the far left has been slowly inching her way to the right.

 

[Sarek]

Yeah. It's kind of like how the religious right has a stranglehold on Government.

Oops! Did I say that out loud?

 

[The Question]

It's way past time that the secular Right started to make itself heard.

 

[Kefka]

Actually, Hitler fought in a war, and had excellent economic policies. That alone makes me question the article, at the title.

 

[RobL]

Actually, Hitler fought in a war, and had excellent economic policies. That alone makes me question the article, at the title.

Yeah. Too bad he had that all-jews-are-nasty-and-must-die problem. I mean, if he had his way, Jack wouldn't be here to piss us all off.

 

[Ogami]

from the article:

"Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies," he wrote.

A model Democrat! This is the message every Democrat needs for November. Hate-o-crats are hilarious!

-Ogami

 

[The Question]

And if we'd lost the war, it would be Roosevelt who wanted to kill all German-Americans because he was crazy as a shithouse rat.