The President of Columbia University has come under a lot of criticism for inviting Iranian President Ahmadinejad to speak to students. He said he believes in free speech and he would have given a platform to Hitler!
Here, however, you see maybe why he was so keen to invite Ahmadinejad. In the Iranian Presidents’ presence, he delivers this astonishingly direct introduction to his guest. It is well worth watching.
25 September, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Interesting to note the miserable attitude of this guy - Bollinger, not Ahmadinijad - Lee C. Bollinger “…is a lawyer and a noted legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech. He was at the center of two notable United States Supreme Court cases regarding the use of affirmative action…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Bollinger Its hard to get a bio on him, though, and especially from Columbia.
Bollinger’s family geneology is Germanic and he gives the impression that he is the typical apologist for the Jews and in denial of his own negative ethnic links with the Holocaust. Psychologically, that seems to be emphasised by his family’s US-European emigre history and he himself is obviously avowedly an “alpha male” academic in the worst sense.
The fact that he once presumed to champion causes such as freedom of speech and affirmative action is merely indicative of his utter betrayal of these causes in reality once his conservative credentials are at stake. One can’t be a Neocon and espouse to the golden rule of “do unto others as you would have done unto yourself” - its just not possible.
In that regard, he is like the current Australian federal attorney-general, Phillip Ruddock, who also once supposedly championed human rights as a lawyer only to turn to constructing prisons on off-shore “Devil’s Islands” in the Pacific to suppress Asian migration and, in particular, Middle Eastern refugees and mainly from Iraq. How they both love their WASP homelands and their selfish and self-righteous ’security’.