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Academic Freedom for All!!

By Phil Orenstein

QVGOP New Years Club Meeting on Academic Freedom!

THURS. JAN. 2, 2020 at 7:30 PM
At: Young Israel of Holliswood – Holliswood Jewish Center
86-25 Francis Lewis Blvd., Holliswood, NY 11427

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A speech by Ann Coulter at University of California, Berkeley drew more than a thousand protesters. Photo Credit: The Daily Californian/Daniela Cervantes/Senior Staff

Our college campuses are out of control. They’ve become hotbeds of anti-American indoctrination. It’s time for Republicans to get involved in our school systems from top to bottom.

Years ago, our colleges and universities were noble institutions dedicated to truth-seeking and transmitting our cherished heritage from the classical Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian roots of our Western Civilization. Today these same institutions are offering courses with such titles as “Dismantling White Privilege, Power, and Supremacy,” “Marx for Today” and “Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology,” with no tolerance for differing political views.  Many have become intolerant ideological centers of “Cultural Marxism,” penalizing any speech deemed offensive or deviating from the politically correct dogma.

The “cancel culture” is now dominant on college campuses. In November, a 200-strong leftist student mob at Binghamton University violently attacked a small group of College Republican students handing out literature promoting an upcoming lecture by well-known economist Art Laffer. They destroyed the tables and physically threatened the Republican students for expressing their political views and support for Israel. The rioting student radicals later prevented Laffer from speaking, cancelling the lecture before he could utter a word. They believe they have a right to use physical violence to stamp out what they consider offensive opinions. A Yale study reveals that 31% of college students believe it’s OK to use violence to stop “hate speech” or “racially charged language.”

Violent protests have stopped Ben Shapiro, Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson and many other conservative campus speakers. Ann Coulter was invited to speak at Berkeley, ironically known as the “birthplace of the free speech movement.” But her speech was suddenly cancelled when leftist student mobs decided to riot. Yet, the bloody Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was welcomed with open arms at Columbia University, and a dean at Columbia said he would gladly welcome Adolf Hitler to speak on campus. Recently Bucknell University invited and applauded an Antifa leader who promotes political violence against conservatives to speak on campus, while a professor called President Trump a “White Supremacist” and his election an “act of terrorism.” 

This is nothing new. It’s the outcome of the long march of the left into our cultural and academic institutions. In the 1960s, when student radicals and leftists failed in their attempted revolution in the streets to overthrow America, they marched into our schools and colleges to become teachers, professors and administrators. It was part of a carefully planned non-violent agenda to topple our nation by a cultural revolution to control the minds and radicalize our children.

Nelson Mandela said it best: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Former FBI agent, Cleon Skousen testified before Congress in 1963 on the goals of Communists infiltrating our nation: “Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.”

Unrepentant anti-American and former terrorist Bill Ayers

A leading figure in the revolution from the streets to the schools, was Bill Ayers, leader of the Weather Underground, a 1960s domestic terrorist group. He participated in bombing government buildings throughout the country, including the Pentagon and the Capitol. “Kill all the rich people. … Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents” were his words of wisdom.

This unrepentant domestic terrorist, who never taught in a classroom, became a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois. Today teachers throughout America indoctrinate our children using his radical program of education for social justice, teaching that America is racist, oppressive and evil and that socialism is the solution.  

This is a call to action. Republicans and Conservatives, and all honest citizens who love America need to get involved in our education system. We can follow the lead of our great President Trump, who recently signed an historic executive order to battle anti-Semitism on college campuses. This executive order protects Jewish students from bigotry and discrimination by making Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act apply to anti-Semitic acts, withholding federal tax dollars from academic institutions that won’t combat this growing hatred. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said there has been “no more important event … to turn universities away from being bastions of hatred and discrimination than this executive order.…it will go down in history as one of the most important events in the 2,000-year battle against anti-Semitism.”

President Trump displays Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism after signing it on Dec. 11. At right is Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.

There is a great deal that Republicans can do to follow in the footsteps of our president to cut federal and state funding for schools that refuse to protect the freedom of speech rights of students and faculty, or refuse to take action against violent offenders on campus. Our education system is rotten to the core and reforming it should be the number one priority for all Republican candidates running for elected office.  We Republican voters need to mobilize our ranks, build our county committees in every AD, and get out the vote in 2020 for our President Trump and any Republican who champions this issue!

Our January 2nd Club meeting will feature several New York City college professors who are spearheading the battle against the abuses of the left on their respective campuses. Come, bring your friends, especially students and faculty, to hear their proud stories of how they are fighting back! We all need to get involved in order to save our country and defend our civilization for future generations. Our long march back into our colleges and universities has begun. Nothing can stop us now!


A CHRISTMAS STORY FROM A FORMER SAILOR

By  Frederick R. Bedell Jr.,  Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911 

“The woods are lovely dark and deep but I had promises to keep and many miles to go before I could sleep.”

Robert Frost

Two days before Christmas in 1973, it was cold and beginning to snow when I set out from Great Lakes, Ill. at 6 A.M. to get home to my boys on Long Island. I was in the U.S. Navy then. My boys, Tommy and Bobby, were in a foster home in Levittown because my my wife had left us. I was in the Navy and hadn’t enough money to fly home. I had always kept my promise to my boys and didn’t want to disappoint them. Roger, a fellow Navy buddy, had a car and was traveling as far as Ohio and I could get a bus from there.

After we set out the snow was coming down heavy and the roads were getting icy. All of a sudden Roger’s car skidded and hit the back of a truck. We were lucky, though , and escaped unhurt. Now the car was in no shape to go any further. I decided at that point that I had to hitchhike. As I was hitchhiking, I recalled a poem by Robert Frost which went as follows: “The woods are lovely dark and deep but I had promises to keep and many miles to go before I could sleep.” Which I really had to do.

I was 50 miles from Indianapolis, Indiana. Seeing me in my dress blues a man picked me up and said he didn’t pick up hitchhikers but picked me up because it was Christmas. He dropped me off in front of the ramp going into Indianapolis. Just then a man driving a snow plow offered me a ride into town.He dropped me off in town. As I was walking into town a couple picked me up and asked where I was going and said hopefully to the the Greyhound bus station, at that they told me to get into their car and drop me the rest of the way. When we got there I thanked them and wished them a Merry Christmas.

The station was full of soldiers and sailors. The problem was that there was not enough buses for all that wanted to get home for Christmas. I met a young women who also wanted to get home to her little girl and said that the bus company was taking couples first. So we presented ourselves as a married couple and got on the bus. I finally got to the Port Authority in Manhattan at 7:00 a.m. which was almost 24 hours latter on Christmas Eve. I then got on a subway and then on a bus going to Queens Village, where I was staying with my ex-in-laws.

My father in-law Charlie and his wife named Barb who was suffering from terminal Cancer greeted me with open arms. After breakfast we picked up the boys at their foster home and rang the bell and my oldest named Tommy saw me first and said new daddy was here, which they called me to show the difference from their foster parents.

We had dinner at my father-in-laws house and started opening presents. I open my sea bag and gave my boys their presents which I said I received from Santa Claus when I was at the North Pole. At that they hugged me and gave me a kiss. That was a Christmas I will always remember. May God bless all of our service men and women trying to get home this Christmas.


VIDEOS: NOVEMBER 7TH GENERAL CLUB MEETING

The November 7, 2019 General Club Meeting focused on defending our traditional family values and the sanctity of life. The videos of the inspiring featured speakers are below.

JOHN HORVAT II: Mr. Horvat is a scholar, international speaker, author of the book, Return to Order, and Vice President of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP).

JOHN RITCHIE: Mr. Ritchie is the director of TFP Student Action. TFP was formed to resist, in the realm of ideas, the liberal, socialist and communist trends of the times and proudly affirm the positive values of tradition, family and private property.

RABBI MENASHE BOVIT: Rabbi Bovit of Bellerose Jewish Center, presents the Jewish perspective on the Sanctity of Life.

DAWN ESKEW: Certified Bioethicist, NCBC. Founder and President of Personhood Education New York, 501(c)(3), organizer of the annual International Gift Of Life Walk – NYC and the organizer of Bringing America Back to Life – New York Conference, founder of Personhood New York, Inc. 501(c)(4). Ms. Eskew discusses Personhood, the God-given, inalienable right to life of all human beings.


REMEMBER THE REASON FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY

We wish all our members, families and friends of the Queens Village Republican Club a most happy and meaningful Fourth of July. As we celebrate our national holiday, it’s important to keep it’s meaning in mind, which was so eloquently expressed by Frederick R. Bedell Jr., Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911.


Remember the Reason for the Fourth of July

By Frederick R. Bedell Jr.

The Fourth of July is a day of great importance. In 1776 we fought as a people for a birth of a new nation founded on Democracy. Since then we have fought many wars and many lives were lost for the cause of democracy. In this democracy, we have the right to speak our minds and the right to vote for those who will represent our rights of freedom and justice for all.

So the next election, please get out and vote. Let not our ancestors, who have died for what most of us hold most dear, and that is freedom, to have died in vain. As it says in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” So, let freedom ring on the 4th of July. Remember this too: The 4th of July is not just a day off, for store sales and barbecues but a day to celebrate our day of independence from tyranny.


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