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| Notable & Quotable: John Silber; On student protests in the 1970s and ’80s, when he was president of Boston University. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 12 2015, 11:50 PM (148 Views) | |
| Berton | Nov 12 2015, 11:50 PM Post #1 |
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Notable & Quotable: John Silber On student protests in the 1970s and ’80s, when he was president of Boston University. From a 2005 interview in Boston magazine with John Silber (who died in 2012), about student protests in the 1970s and ’80s when he was president of Boston University: Then they put up the shacks. I told the police, “Go ask them three questions: Do you have a title to the property? (They built them on our property, not theirs.) Do you have a building permit? We have to have building permits. Have you got a clearance with the historical commission, because this is a historical district? If the answer is no to those three questions, then you tell them, ‘We’ll give you about 15 minutes to remove your shanty. And if you don’t, you’ll be arrested.’ ” I said, “Now, none of them are going to remove their shanty, so you’re going to have to arrest them. But I want you to be very gentle, and I want you to take them to the paddy wagon singing, ‘It’s just a shanty in old shanty town.’ ” Because one point I want to get across to these students is, I do not take them seriously. This is not some very deeply felt, high moral cause on their part; this is showboating of a very insincere kind by most of these students, and I want them to understand that I see through their pretensions. LINK All collages should do what he did. Edited by Berton, Nov 12 2015, 11:50 PM.
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| Jim Miller | Nov 13 2015, 02:21 AM Post #2 |
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Boy, he hit the nail on the head. |
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| Neutral | Nov 13 2015, 05:09 AM Post #3 |
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We are getting to be a more pussified nation by the day. |
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| Jim Miller | Nov 13 2015, 05:12 AM Post #4 |
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It is getting embarrassing with each passing year. The liberal influence is going to be the death of us yet.
Edited by Jim Miller, Nov 13 2015, 05:12 AM.
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| Mountainrivers | Nov 13 2015, 05:13 AM Post #5 |
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"This is not some very deeply felt, high moral cause on their part; this is showboating of a very insincere kind by most of these students, and I want them to understand that I see through their pretensions." People who claim to know what others consider worth fighting for are just blowing smoke. Nobody has the right to decide for another what is important to that person. |
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| Berton | Nov 13 2015, 06:14 AM Post #6 |
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So you think that breaking the law should go without punishment? |
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| Jim Miller | Nov 13 2015, 06:15 AM Post #7 |
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To Neal it depends on the law. I know, I know. Ignored. Braha,ha,ha,ha,ha. |
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| Berton | Nov 13 2015, 08:22 AM Post #8 |
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I think that is true of many libs including our Liar in Chief. |
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| Neutral | Nov 13 2015, 08:40 AM Post #9 |
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Read today he is trying now to get around the amnesty ruling. |
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