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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, December 3, 2015
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protected by all those unsentimental means that have been neglected in recent years, or overwhelmed by the growing threat of ISIS. Paris -- and more broadly France and the West -- needs more surveillance of suspected terrorists and police raids; a more restrictive immigration policy that doesn’t create large, unassimilated Muslim populations, or welcome terrorists as refugees; and a serious, multilayered campaign to destroy ISIS and deny it the safe havens from which it recruits and trains, and plots against the West. If someone can come up with a catchy symbol for that, I’ll embrace it (although “La Marseillaise” isn’t so bad: “To arms citizens/Form your battalions/March, march”). Meanwhile, spare me the #PrayforParis hashtag. Forgive me if I’m unmoved by lighting up world landmarks in red,
white and blue, or your putting a tricolor filter on your Facebook profile picture. And please don’t tell me, in the words of the designer Jean Jullien, that “in all this horror there’s something positive that people are coming together in a sense of unity and peace.” Nothing positive comes from innocents getting shot down in cold blood for the offense of going to a concert on a Friday night. If there aren’t going to be more -- and worse -attacks in our cities, the path ahead won’t be one of unity and peace. It will be the hard, thankless work of protecting civilization from its enemies. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
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mourned “the true victim of the Missouri Protests: Free Speech,” be subject to the school’s “Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial and cultural competency.” That punitive demand was quietly scrubbed from the site, but the free speech-squelching mission of all of these bubblewrapped crybabies who can’t handle dissent of any kind is unmistakable. So is their brazen grab for power and money. They’re not interested in gaining an education. They want political control. As the protest leaders of the Atlanta University Center Consortium for black colleges made clear, their goal is complete transformation of their campuses to fulfill their “civic duty through direct action and grassroots organization.” Oh, and they “DEMAND” to get paid. ASAP! Boston College’s demand-y demanders “demand the introduction of compulsory, in-person, and regular anti-oppression training” to be “led and organized by people of color with significant experience in anti-oppression activism or scholarship” who “should be compensated and acknowledged for their labor” beginning in
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“spring 2016.” Not to be overlooked, social justice painters and papier mache protesters made sure to include Demand No. 7 from St. Louis University: “Mutually agreed upon commissioned artwork.” Unlike revolutionaries of past eras who cast off their shackles and demanded that their oppressors leave them alone, the 21st century insurgents demand that their indulgent overseers wipe their tears, hold their hands, and provide them roundthe-clock therapy. At Princeton, liberal professors and administrators patted themselves on the back for assuaging hurt feelings and eliminating the age-old tradition of calling college heads “masters.” (Apparently, “master’s degrees” are safe. For now.) But it wasn’t enough. Never enough. The “Black Justice League” barged into the Ivy League school’s president’s office this week demanding full eradication of every reference to progressive racial segregationist Woodrow Wilson at Princeton; “cultural competency training for all staff and faculty”; a racially segregated safe space “dedicated specifically to Black students” who oppose racial segregation (except for themselves); and “classes on the history of marginalized peoples” because “[l]earning about marginalized groups, their cultures, and structures of privilege is just as important as any science or quantitative reasoning course.” Uh-huh. When academic courses get demanding, the weak-minded get demand-y. Listening to the ululations of their own entitled, endless bleating is much more appealing and healing, after all, than multivariate analysis, synthetic organic chemistry or mechanical engineering. Michelle Malkin is author of the new book “Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs.” Her email address is malkinblog@ gmail.com.
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Mainland China into the 1970’s when the undertow of the radical Maoists and so called Cultural Revolution had created a totalitarian nightmare which still haunts China. The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) recently launched an international coalition to support the North Korea Human Rights Act, a bill which when passed by national parliaments promotes greater awareness of North Korean human rights abuses to “create a specific North Korean human rights archive to collect, record, and preserve cases of human rights violations; and most importantly, authorize material and monetary support for South Korean civil society groups who tirelessly support victims of the North.” The legislation is now set to pass the South Korean parliament in Seoul where the bill has “sat in political limbo for the last ten years,” according to HRF. North Korea’s system remains frozen in a bizarre Marxist monarchy of the Kim Family rule, now under Kim Jong-un, and views any openness or glimmers of political light as a profound danger to regime survival. When challenged by the successful example of South Korea, literally next door, the threat becomes all the more acute. So while the majority of UN member states call upon North Korea to open up, Pyongyang pushes back with a sullen indifference and hiding behind its nuclear arsenal. The visit to Kim’s reclusive hermit kingdom by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, a fellow South Korean, may offer just the right inducement to break the humanitarian logjam. ***************** John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He’s the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China