The terrorists have already—oh, never mind.
The next time you’re in the neighborhood with someone who proclaims themselves an anti-idiotarian or some such similar designation and they mouth off about Marxist traitorous ivory-towered Stalinist elitist class-war-fightin’ Maoist revolutionary workers’-paradisical anarchist idiotarian liberal Berkeley, try to temper your disgust with a healthy dollop of rue when you point out that Berkeley is censoring Emma Goldman, dead for 62 years now:
In one of the quotations, from 1915, Goldman called on people “not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.” In the other, from 1902, she warned that free-speech advocates “shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next-door neighbors should hear that free-born citizens dare not speak in the open.”
Berkeley officials said the quotations could be construed as a political statement by the university in opposition to United States policy toward Iraq.
If that be treason, count me a traitor. You don’t fuck with Emma Goldman.
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Screw Berkeley. I've expected nothing from them since I read an ITT article in the late '80s about how shoppers wouldn't honor a grocery strike at some trendy Yuppiemart because they thought Unions were "an anachronism." Somebody please beat me over the head with an Utne Reader until I pass out.