Taxpayer Financed Jihad

The Daniel Pipes invitation by Hillel to UC Berkeley prompted a Feb.10th formal letter to the Daily Californian, signed by many Jews and others, objecting to Pipes in the strongest possible terms. The letter described Pipes as “vilely xenophobic� and “echo[ing] messages directed against Jews in the past.� Signatories to the letter included Professor Emerita Bluma Goldstein, who lost over 30 members of her family in the Holocaust, but who nonetheless morally rejects nationalist Zionism. I was part of that protest.

The United States has repeatedly sponsored coups and uprisings in Haiti and in neighboring [democratic] Caribbean countries. ...With a violence-prone U.S. government operating with impunity in many parts of the world, only the public's perseverance in getting at the truth can save us, and others, from our own worst behavior.

The gay movement used to claim it wanted the government to leave them alone. Now they want government to actively intervene on behalf of themselves as an oppressed minority, while calling for the expansion of state power over nearly every aspect of our lives. The government has become the gay movement's agent of liberation.