Coisas de NeoCons

Via: The Neo-Authoritarians

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David Horowitz whines about a lack of 'academic freedom' – and calls for government regulation of campuses to ensure 'diversity': According to Horowitz's own website, Colorado Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation embodying his Orwellian concept of "academic freedom":

"The bill requires schools to enact a grievance procedure for students subjected to a 'hostile environment' toward their religious and political views. It also says students have a right to be free from professors who introduce 'controversial matter' unrelated to the subject they are teaching."
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So now Horowitz is campaigning for legislation to ensure that the tender little egos of the campus Republicans are protected from bad vibes and other potentially deadly hate-thoughts! How pathetic. Horowitz isn't and never was opposed to "political correctness" – he just wants in on the PC game.

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The same police state mentality pervades An End to Evil, a book advertised on Horowitz's website, in which authors David Frum and Richard Perle propose a national identification card recording the bearer's retinal pattern, and advocate setting up a national domestic spying system that would "alert" authorities to such "suspicious" activities as expressing opposition to U.S. foreign policy or "suddenly" growing a beard (!) "A free society," intone Frum and Perle, "is a self-policed society." So peek in your neighbor's window, and write down the license plate number of every car parked outside that antiwar meeting, lest any of them feel un-free. Yeah, and just remember: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.