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CAMPUS GESTAPO SCHEME.

 

In early 2005, the David Horowitz organization, Students For

Academic Freedom (founded 2003), Lynne Cheney's American Council

of Trustees and Alumni ( " ACTA " ), and an outfit called Foundation

for Individual Rights in Education ( " FIRE " ) campaigned for

government at all levels and academic authorities, to take action

to fire or otherwise suppress teachers critical of the

Bush/Cheney administration.

 

As a direct result, in mid-2005, the Republican majority in control of the

Pennsylvania state House of Representatives set up a Subcommittee on

Academic Freedom in Higher Education. David Horowitz testified to the

committee, as did representatives of his student group, and of Lynne

Cheney's ACTA, and of FIRE.

 

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ( " FIRE " )

works to fire dissident professors. FIRE was founded by Dr. Alan

Kos, the George Herbert Walker professor of the intellecutal

history (French Enlightenment) at Univ. of Pennsylvania, endowed

in honor of the founder of the modern Bush family and of the

Thyssen/Hitler bank.

 

The FIRE BOARD OF ADVISERS includes T. KENNETH CRIBB, who is

simultaneously president of William F. Buckley's Intercollegiate

Studies Institute; and Counselor to the Federalist Society; and

president of the " COLLEGIATE NETWORK " , the funder and manager of

90 rightist campus newspapers including monthly Bruin Standard at UCLA.

 

This " Collegiate Network " was founded under a different name

in 1979 as a project of Irving Kristol and Kristol's protege

Michael Joyce; Joyce went on to head the Bradley Foundation and

to sponsor and in effect co-found the foundations of John Train

and David Horowitz.

 

The Collegiate Network's first project was to

create a sudent newspaper at the University of Chicago under John

Podhoretz, whose mother Midge Decter soon was the founding

treasurer of John Train's foundation. Through the years it placed

followers of Leo Strauss throughout U.S. academia. It is now

managed by the Buckley organziation.

 

Other FIRE board of advisers members are Leonard Liggio, a

long-time boss of the Mont Pelerin Society; a woman who is

co-founder of Lynne Cheney's " Independent Women's Forum " ; and

another woman who is on that Forum's board and is on the board of

Lynne Cheney's ACTA. Another long-time FIRE board of advisers

member was DAVID BRUDNOY, a Boston University teacher and friend

of Bill Buckley.

 

Brudnoy attacked in radio interviews African development policies, saying

the U.S. should let Africans die because there are " too many

people anyway, "

 

 

 

Marty Rowland

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