[Peace] Neo-Con Events (4/21, 4/24) - Students for the Defense of America

[Ricky Baldwin]

Letters, folks, we need letters to the editor!

When you read this stuff, it's hard sometimes not to
wonder if you're through the looking glass, down the
rabbit hole, or if you're the one who has lost it. 
The letters section is the most read part of many
newspapers, and our letters will remind folks that
they are not the crazy ones...

Ricky

--- Jay Morris <jay_morris_1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Here are a couple of articles by Tracinski.  These
> read as if they've
> been pulled straight from The Onion.  Sadly he's
> actually serious
> about this nonsense:
> 
>
http://www.moraldefense.com/ProTech/Archives/EDPC.htm
> 
>
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1001/tracinski101101.asp
> 
> and here's a bio:
> 
> http://capmag.com/author.asp?name=2
> 
> Bayer and Dalton are part of the local objectivist
> club.  These talks
> could give some useful insight into the wackiness of
> objectivism.
> 
> Bring a vomit bag and some Advil.
> 
> jay
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <msimon at uiuc.edu>
> To: <peace at lists.groogroo.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:23 PM
> Subject: [Peace] Neo-Con Events (4/21, 4/24) -
> Students for the
> Defense of America
> 
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This is to bring attention to the two upcoming
> events
> > sponsored by the campus registered organization,
> Students for
> > the Defense of America.  Read the abstracts! 
> Scary!  It
> > would be great to have a strong group from AWARE
> present at
> > these events.
> >
> > For the 4/24 Robert Tracinski lecture, please
> email me if you
> > plan to attend.  Tracinski is a prolific writer
> from the Ayn
> > Rand Institute and The Intellectual Activist whose
> pearls of
> > wisdom I'll post soon.  If the AWARE delegation is
> large
> > enough, we might also consider flyering at the
> event.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Simon
> >
>
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> >
> > 4/21/2003  Teach-in: "Winning the Wider War: What
> America
> > Must Do Next", a series of short presentations and
> Q&A
> > featuring UI professor of economics Fred Gottheil
> and several
> > graduate students, 7:00pm, 160 English Building
> (Directions:
> > west side of quad, along Wright, between Daniels
> and
> > Chalmers)
> >
> > 4/24/2003  Live speaker event:  Robert Tracinski,
> “The Peace
> > Process War: How the ‘Peace Movement’ Created
> Modern
> > Terrorism”  7:30pm, 151 Loomis Lab (Directions:
> north-east
> > corner of Green and Goodwin)
> >
> >
>
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> >
> > "Winning the Wider War: What America Must Do Next"
> > A Teach-In
> > Monday, April 21
> > 7:00pm
> > 160 English Bldg.
> >
> >
> > "Failed Societies and Modern Technology: A
> Dangerous Mix,"
> > Fred Gottheil, professor of economics
> >
> > September 11th destroyed not only the World Trade
> Center, but
> > the way we view our future. The "clash of
> civilizations," as
> > much as many like to deny it, is upon us. This
> presentation
> > will address the economic implications of
> terrorism, and what
> > our proper response should be.
> >
> >
> > "Terrorism, Rogue States, and Weapons of Mass
> Destruction,"
> > Susan Jellissen, graduate student in political
> science
> >
> > Many, including leading Congressional Democrats,
> have argued
> > that the war on Iraq would detract resources from
> the war on
> > terrorism, thus implying that there is a
> distinction in terms
> > of "threat" to be made between the two. Threats to
> U.S.
> > national security arise, however, not only from
> "terrorism",
> > but from the confluence of terrorism, rogue states
> and their
> > production or access to WMD. This presentation
> will focus on
> > the strategies that can be pursued in order to
> eliminate
> > these threats to American lives and prosperity.
> >
> >
> > "The Right to Self-Defense,"
> > Ben Bayer, graduate student in philosophy
> >
> > The governments of free nations have the
> obligation to defend
> > the rights of their citizens, an obligation that
> stems from
> > the citizens' right to self-defense. This talk
> will discuss
> > the roots and the implications of the right to
> self-defense.
> > It will explain why only the governments of free
> nations may
> > legitimately exercise the right to self-defense,
> why free
> > nations maintain the right to invade and liberate
> threatening
> > dictatorships, why this includes the right to
> > take 'preemptive' action against threats, and why
> the
> > possibility of innocent deaths in war ought not to
> be a
> > primary constraint on the prosecution of wars of
> self-
> > defense.
> >
> >
> > "Why They Hate Us, Really,"
> > Andrew Dalton, graduate student in chemical
> engineering
> >
> > Ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
> 2001, we
> > listened to endless analysis and hand-wringing by
> Western
> > intellectuals. These intellectuals insist that we
> discover
> > the "root causes" of terrorism in the foreign
> policy of the
> > United States. They ask, "Why do they hate us?"
> and provide a
> > ready answer couched in terms of our nation's
> alleged
> > oppression, hegemony, and interventionism
> overseas. However,
> > the facts about terrorism and American foreign
> policy do not
> > support this popular theory. Terrorism against the
> United
> > States correlates weakly with actual American
> intervention,
> > but strongly with the ideology of the
> terrorists--radical
> > Islam in particular. This presentation will argue
> that
> > terrorist ideas are the true "root cause" of the
> danger we
> > face
> >
> >
>
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> >
> > "The 'Peace Process' War: How the Peace Movement
> Created
> > Modern Terrorism": A speech by Robert W. Tracinski
> > Thursday, April 24
> > 7:30pm
> > 151 Loomis Lab (map)
> >
> > "In another era terrorist attacks would have been
> regarded as
> > an obvious provocation for full-scale war. Yet
> over the past
> > 30 years, thugs such as Yasser Arafat and the
> Ayatollah
> > Khomeini developed the new strategy of the terror
> war--a war
> > in which terrorism is not a prelude to armed
> combat, but a
> > substitute for it. What makes that kind of war
> possible? The
> > contemporary 'peace movement,' which paralyzes the
> victims of
> > terror and prevents them from fighting back with
> all of their
> > overwhelming military power. In this talk, Mr.
> Tracinski
> > examines the underlying meaning and deepest
> philosophical
> > roots of pacifism, explains why such an obviously
> disastrous
> > idea has such pervasive influence (even on
> political leaders
> > who are not pacifists) and shows how the 'peace
> movement'
> > determines the very nature of the terror war, from
> its
> > broadest outlines to the day-to-day 'cycle of
> violence' of
> > the Mid-East 'peace process.'"
> >
> > Mr. Tracinski is a nationally-featured op-ed
> columnist and is
> > the publisher and editor of The Intellectual
> Activist, a
> > magazine analyzing political, cultural, and
> philosophic
> > issues from an individualist perspective. His
> commentary has
> > been published in the Chicago Tribune, the San
> Francisco
> > Chronicle, Cincinnati Enquirer, Los Angeles Daily
> News, San
> > Jose Mercury News, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
> > =zf朢)+-= zX+È¢+(m lr ++( í»§í¸§X) ^
> 
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