Thanks for Nothing UH Radical Lefties

Even more evidence that the Ward Churchill lovers at UH gave Hawaii a negative rep.

http://www.starbulletin.com/2005/03/04/editorial/indexletters.html

As residents of California who visits your island every year, we are greatly saddened that the University of Hawaii has opened its arms to University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Your university has chosen to offer a platform to a man who is pushing hate and division.

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Now UH has showered him with love, as shown on the television here in California, with leis and chants of agreement. It has truly put UH in a different light for us.

We have always looked forward to attending a football game every October when we stay in Oahu. We always proudly display our Warrior shirts. So proud of being University of Hawaii fans. Not anymore. We are now ashamed to wear them.

Esther and Carl Belknap
Thousand Oaks, Calif.

However, the Radical Lefty nutcases at UH-Manoa don't care about the negative consequences UH and Hawaii in general recieved from inviting Ward Churchill to speak. People in the mainland have the wrong impression that Hawaii loves Ward Churchill, not understanding that 1) it was mainland-bred lunatics that invited Churchill to UHM and 2) the culture of restraint that many local Asians grew up in has protected Churchill from a barrage of boos and fists many feel like giving him and 3) fear of assault from Hawaiian sovereignty fascists and their lefty allies that also protected Churchill from a barrage of boos and fists.

Unfortunately, the action of the mostly white mainland-bred UH Radical Lefty profs has given mainlanders the impression that the large presence of Asians and Polynesians has made Hawaii "anti-American" and inviting to Ward Churchill. Unfortunately the white mainland-bred profs dont care about how their actions will hurt the reputation of Asians and Polynesians.

Another letter to Star Bulletin

http://www.starbulletin.com/2005/03/04/editorial/indexletters.html

Several years ago, I was speaking with one of our UH instructors. When I asked what he taught, he responded, "I teach the backside of American history." When I inquired what he meant by that, he said he taught the ugly side of America, the problems in America and the terrible things this country has stood for. I was incensed.

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The support of Churchill by some on the UH faculty reveals not their valuing of free speech, but their hatred for America. If Churchill's rantings serve to expose the radical teachings espoused on our campus and to awaken the populace, then it will have been worth all the commotion.

Ron Arnold
Kaimuki

Why do profs insist that their jobs is to counter-balance Fox News anyways? That's not their job. Plus, for many working students, most of their info on current events comes NOT from Fox News, but from the Radical Lefty profs! So the profs are counter-balancing NOTHING! They're indoctrinating the students with anti-capitalist, anti-military, anti-American agenda

Activists: Get Your Priorities Straight -Dammit!

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith visited Harvard University and supposedly offended the LGBT community.

Did she say the words "fag", "queer" or "dyke"? No

Did she call homosexuality an "abomination" or a "sin"? No

So what did Pinkett say?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006369

Among the campus groups affiliated with the foundation is the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance, or BGLTSA, and it didn't like some of what it heard. A co-chair of the group, Jordan B. Woods, told Ms. Friedman that part of Ms. Pinkett Smith's speech was "extremely heteronormative, and made BGLTSA members feel uncomfortable." In other words, Mr. Woods and others in BGLTSA explained, by focusing on a heterosexual relationship, Ms. Pinkett Smith took such a narrow view that some in the audience felt left out.

Talking only about heterosexual relationships is "homophobic"?

Smith has no obligation to talk about homosexual relationships. She is a heterosexual, so she'll talk about what she knows about! So why should gays and lesbians expect her to talk about homosexual relations? She probably doesn't know much about it, so why expect her to talk about it?

Matthew Shepard wasn't killed by an actress talking only about heterosexual relationships!

People get assaulted and murdered over their perceived sexual orientation. A heterosexual man in Boise was viciously assaulted because one man in a bar mistaken him for being gay. (I heard about this in a video shown in a sociology class)

That is what gay-rights activists should be addressing. They shouldn't waste time over an actress not mentioning gay relationships in her speech.

What next - should I be offended if a man from Laos didn't mention a word about Mexican culture in his speech? No, I should be happy to learn about what's going on in Laos.

Truth about 9/11 Victims Churchill Doesn't Want You to Think About

Andrew Walden has said something about the investors killed in the 9/11 attacks that hasn't been said but should be said. Meanwhile, while Al-Quaida lover Ward Churchill insulted them.


Here are Walden's tribute to the investors murdered on 9/11

http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/28/4222b56d5f9f8?in_archive=1

Ward Churchill is wrong. Filthy-rich American financiers are not "little Eichmanns," but revolutionaries. We are freeing the world from the poverty and depredation created by socialism, feudalism, tribalism and dictatorship. By building and financing sweatshops, genetically modified agriculture and free trade, rich American bankers, stock traders and CEOs are giving billions of people the opportunity to earn cash wages for the first time in their lives or the lives of their ancestors.

Al-Qaeda and the anti-globalization Churchill left our counter revolutionaries against this Second Industrial Revolution, which has drawn absolute poverty down from 40 percent of the world's people to 21 percent in 20 years, according to a recent U.N. report on world poverty. It is Churchill and his comrades whose anti-development campaigns exacerbate the high infant-mortality rates that come from underdevelopment. It is they whose acts "translate into the rotting corpses of infants."

UH Ban on Alcohol proposed

There is a proposal to ban alcohol on the University of Hawaii campus and it's sports games.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/25/ln/ln05p.html

I know what I'm about to say isn't popular - but here I go - I think it's good not to sell alcohol at stadiums. I dont go to games to be around drunks, I go to games to see action on the field or the court.

At Aloha Stadium, at UH football games, there are women working for beer companies giving free samples of beer.

Just imagine someone giving free samples of marijuana or crystal meth at the stadium. That person is going to face prison time. But yet it's considered OK to give free sample of beer at a game?

So I think UH should go right ahead in banning alcohol at it's athletic and entertainment events.

As for dormitories, I think the policy of having substance-free dorms is good in keeping those serious about school away from boneheads who want to get drunk.

Sometimes I wonder how those drunk boneheads get into college in the first place? I'm serious! People who acted like that at my high school dropped out of high student or just barely graduated. Most of those who were the college prep types didn't act like those drunk boneheads at college dorms. So I'm wondering where did those drunk boneheads at the dorms come from?

However, I fear that if beer is banned at all dorms, then at every dorm building, people will break the rules & get drunk. So I think having substance-free dorms & "drunk dorms" is the lesser of all evils.

The Ivory Tower Explained

So why do many college profs (ie Ward Churchill) are mega-left idiots.This letter to the Star Bulletin explains it

http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/23/editorial/indexletters.html

Academia seems to spawn odd viewpoints

The problem which is most unnerving about University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and his invitation to speak at the University of Hawaii last night is his position as a tenured professor ("Lawmaker wants speaker blocked," Feb. 19). The concept of awarding a job for life at a public university is not a blank check for reckless behavior. A tenured educator, like an unelected judge, is expected to represent reasonable ethical standards. Like a drunken judge careening down a the highway, Churchill's views are not only odious, they bring disrepute to the university he works for.

The isolation bubble atmosphere of university life seems to breed and encourage views that come across as cockeyed to normal-thinking people.

Paul Mossman
Kailua


That isolation bubble Paul Mossman mentioned is very real. Most profs spend a large portion of their life at the university. All the other people they meet are part of the university community. They even marry people within the university. In many ways, they are cut off the rest of the (non-university) world. While that is not bad in itself, that can lead to not relating to people outside the universities.

And in many universities, left-wing conspiracy theories are the in-thing. The more wackier the theories, the more intellectual you sound. You sound like a smart guy who figured it all out! That's how Churchill got his idiotic theories

Churchill, with his warped mind, takes a few facts about our foreign policy and then exxagarates, as if all America ever does is negative. Nevermind that the US has liberated Germany and Japan fromtheir fascist rulers. Nevermind that the US kept South Korea free of communist rule, allowing it to prosper. Nevermind that if the US didn't take Hawaii, Japan would. And that would've been massive rapes and genocide of Native Hawaiians. If Trask and Churchill think the US was bad to Hawaiians, they should investigate how barbaric the Japanese were to the natives of Korea and the Phillipines. IT WAS WORSE! That doesn't excuse any negative actions of the US, but Churchill needs to keep things in perspective!

The 9/11 terrorists weren't about liberating the Third World. These were Islamic Fascists whose allies continue to terrorize Third World people in places like Sudan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and throughout the Middle East.

Ward Churchill DOESN'T CARE about the victims of genocide in Sudan. Why? Because the terrorists involved are Muslims! I wish I could've asked him about that

!The ivory tower also leads to kooks like Dr William Foltz. Foltz spent the last few decades in the ivory tower. He is also an inconsiderate fool. Add that up, then you'll figure out why he is clueless in how to relate to modern-day college students.

Ward Churchill and Academic Freedom (Again)

The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article claiming that the people of Hawaii loved Ward Churchill. Again, things have been taken WAY OUT OF CONTEXT!

http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=he8covazklilqc2f4b35xn1rywflqlwd

That article gives mainland whites the misconception that all of Hawaii is pro-Churchill due to the large presence of Asians and Polynesians, when in reality, it was UH white radicals (most of whom grew up in the mainland) who invited Churchill in the 1st place.

Most non-UH affiliated people I know think Churchill is a lower than a bag of manure. But they didn't throw stuff at him because 1) they're too busy with other things to attend that speech, 2)they didn't want to get roughed up by security, 3) they didn't want to get beat up by hippie radicals and Hawaiian sovereignty fanatics, 4) again, the culture of restraint common among traditional local Asians which discourages confrontation!

As for why I didn't throw stuff at Churchill, I already had plans for the night his idiotic speech happened. Plus, reasons #2 and #3 would've applied to me if I attended Churchill's speech. Reason #4 doesn't apply to me because I'm not Asian, but a lot of people in Hawaii are, so it applies to a lot of people.

As for the Native Hawaiians, some like Haunani-Kay Trask loved Churchill for his anti-American hatred. Those who oppose Trask aren't as vocal because they don't want to get outnumbered in a screaming match at their next family gathering. For some Native Hawaiians, opposing the Hawaiian sovereignty fanatics would lead to getting outcasted from their family. And in Hawaiian culture, extended family is VERY IMPORTANT. That's why some Native Hawaiians are silent on this. Unfortunately, this silence leads many non-Hawaiians to think all Hawaiians are sovereignty fanatics who want to kick out all the non-Hawaiians.

2) More evidence that the Radical Left at UH dont give a rat's ass about academic freedom.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/25/op/op10pletters.html

Grant Cromwell speaks again

While I support the UH administration's commitment to free speech and its approving the speaking visit of controversial ultra-left-wing professor Ward Churchill ("UH takes heat over visit by professor," Feb. 19), it has yet to be demonstrated that the key organizers of this event have the same noble commitment to free speech themselves.

One of the organizers of the event, UH American Studies professor David Stannard, was quoted in the article as saying, "If we invited a right-wing political commentator like Bill O'Reilly, we'd defend him the same way we defend Churchill."

Back when I was a student at UH and an editorial cartoonist and columnist for the student newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawai'i, David Stannard was one of the very people who publicly demanded my firing from the newspaper for cartoons he considered "hate speech."

Take Tuesday's event for what it really was — a promotional tool for several professors who share Churchill's mentality of an immense hostility toward the United States. That's the reason they brought him here, not any commitment to free speech, which they have sorely lacked.

Grant Crowell
Elgin, Ill.

And this is how the UH Radical Left treats another non-leftist speaker

http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/25/editorial/indexletters.html


With puffed-up chests we are proud that our university stands so firmly on matters of freedom and democracy. The controversial and perhaps anti-American Ward Churchill gets to speak. But what happened to these lofty ideals when it was Charlton Heston, then president of the National Rifle Association, scheduled to speak? After a minor controversy he was cancelled.

Perhaps freedom of speech only applies to those with whom UH agrees.

John Mack
Mililani

Light Rail, Sprinklers

Two great letters appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser today.

1) On the proposed light rail on Oahu, here's some comments from Don Rochon

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/24/op/op10pletters.html

Rep. Marilyn Lee, ......., recently opined in your newspaper about the need to raise the general excise tax to fund a new rail system. She said "driving a car is expensive" (as if people who drive cars don't already know this). Then she provided statistics from the American Automobile Association that a motorist would save over $2,000 a year by driving 10,000 fewer miles.

This is where the logic breaks down. Her assumption begs the point that just because you build a mass-transit rail line, motorists will give up their cars as their primary transportation vehicle. It's not about the $2,000. It's about the convenience of leaving home when you want to, taking children to school (and picking them up afterward), of going to the bank or running other necessary errands at lunchtime or after work, or even stopping by on the way home to pick up something for dinner from the market.

Rail transit will not decrease the number of motorists on the highway. This is nonsense! Moreover, motorists will not drive to a place just so they can get out of their cars to catch a rail line, then worry about their cars being broken into all day long.

Unfortunately, light rail proponents dont care about the facts! Most people who support building a light rail aren't even going to ride it. They want a light rail in hopes that it will get others (not themselves) off the road. With thousands of people with that mentality, traffic jams will still exist on the H-1 freeway.

Plus, chances are, something would have to be forced out of the way to make room for a light rail station. It might mean (though I cant say for sure yet) my apartment near UH might have to move. Or it could be your home that would have to move!

However, every light rail proponent that appeared as a guest in my Urban Planning class last semester were evasive when I asked them about what would have to move out of the way in order to move room for the light rail!

They thought their evasiveness would mean more support for the light rail. WRONG! It made me LESS supportive of light rail. That I didn't start a screaming match with those loosers just goes to show how much restraint I have. (Plus my respect to the rest of class by me refusing to waste their time with listening to screaming matches with evasive light-rail supporting guest)

2) On Mufi's proposal to force all high-rises to install sprinklers, Stephany L. Sofos has this to say

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/24/op/op10pletters.html

Alternative ideas must be looked at before the Legislature makes laws. Many people purchased condominiums because they could not afford single-family homes. Many live within very tight budgets. An average retrofit will cost the individual apartment owner anywhere from $5 to $15 per square foot for his unit. An average unit today is approximately 850 square feet, so the cost is anywhere from $4,250 to $12,750. This is not counting the individual condominium association's direct costs for the common areas. The burden of money will again come to the individual owner in the form of assessments, which will run in the thousands.

This means people would be forced out of their apartments, and have to find somewhere else to live. That might mean more people finding living space in West Oahu, while still having to work in Honolulu. That means higher risk of car accidents! So much for "if it saves one life" nonsense (By the I mentioned that in my letter to Mayor Mufi Hannneman and my City Council representative Ann Kobayashi)

I live in a low rise apartment without fire sprinklers. So I might end up getting screwed by this.