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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

A contradiction in terms

This is not an article for the many liberals who strive to destroy this nation intentionally and unintentionally. Not withstanding the fact that there are a fair number of conservatives who share that same goal when it comes to natural resource issues, but that's another article. This article is about American University's (AU) Gestapo mentality.

An undergraduate journalism student at AU in Washington, D.C., who committed the 'state sin' of videotaping a speech by Tipper Gore was placed on disciplinary probation for one year. The kangaroo court that tried and convicted Mr. Ben Wetmore has gone on to place other punishments on him. He must also attend a conflict resolution workshop, perform 40 hours of community service by cleaning the auditorium, and write several papers on the topic of 'conflict resolution'. Additionally, he has been stripped of an elected student position and given a warning that should he be involved in another such incident that he will be expelled from the university. Expulsion might be the best thing that could happen to Mr. Wetmore.

Unbelievable as it might seem the above is only part of the Gestapo tactics being used by American University to control minds, bodies, and mouths of students. Mr. Wetmore's film has been confiscated; he was put on the floor and handcuffed. The student was not aware that videotaping was not allowed. The only relevant information put out by the university was that no 'flash photography' would be allowed.

Blow-by-unbelievable blow can be read in www.newsmax.com August 12 edition. This article by Carl Limbacher and staff reveals life right out of pre World War II Germany. Control of people, their actions and their minds is the world created at American University.

American University is neither American, nor is it a university. While liberal for decades now, it must have completely morphed into a cesspool of insecure opinions being passed off as intellectual thought and reflection. Like the 'Survivor' show and its clones, this state institution is a pretense, a masquerade, a four-year smoke and mirrors event that costs thousands of dollars.

The academic community's intellectual terrorism has been getting worse for awhile. It reared its ugly head right after 9-11 when it tried to punish professors for speaking in support of our invasion of Afghanistan. Now this! There are thousands of instances which reveal how universities are mind chambers where Big Brother holds forth and holds court!

Check out the website of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). The site is: www.thefire.org. This organization is making a valiant attempt to prevent the total takeover of American minds.

While Mr. Wetmore's ongoing experience and legal fight continues, American University continues to pass it self off as a place of higher learning. The administration of AU, which tolerates such reprehensible policies, has degraded the meaning of both of the words American and university. They do not deserve the prestige of either word.

Perhaps the greatest lesson from this and other such travesties is that our universe is created from what we will tolerate and champion. Gestapo tactics work well on weak minds and bodies. American University has perhaps become the Gestapo headquarters for our nation.

~ America's Voice, June 12, 2002

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