http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/23/nazi-culture-film-hitler

Terrific sociological commentary…and satire.

The Kooky and reactionary right existed before the sixties. In fact William F. Buckley did a fine job of squashing them. Poor guy is rolling in his grave.

Oh, John Ziegler wouldn’t have disturbed the peace, resisted arrest, and generally made an ass of himself (as if he is capable of anything else) on a public campus? And what is USC trying to hide? Like some greedy corporation, yet? You do yourself no favors with such blatant stupidity and intellectual dishonesty.

I guess one must take the graduate course in false dichotomies to come up with such masterful non sequiturs.

Gak. It’s remarkable that so many Americans are so utterly clueless about the law and the Constitution. The First Amendment, if you would bother to read it, is about restricting legislative bodies and what laws they can enact; it’s meaningless drivel to talk about whether it “holds sway” in some location or another. The legislature hasn’t restricted what John Ziegler can say, inside the USC campus boundaries or anywhere else, so the First Amendment is irrelevant. But owners of private property, who are not legislatures — duh — can decide that they don’t want people on their property for any number of reasons, including harassing other people on their property, and can require that they leave under trespassing laws. You can debate the ethics or wisdom of such decisions by private property owners, but invoking the First Amendment is foolishly ignorant.

I’m one of those people
who
believes that part of the greatness
of the United States
is
our private sector.

It’s what we do as
private citizens

for ourselves…

and our companies.

I think we have to be very,
very cautious.

I think we’ve gone beyond
what reasonably we could expect
by way of intrusion
into
the
private sector.

It is all very very funny to see pseudo-intellectuals shift all things kooky and reactionary to the right.

Kooky and reactionary was invented in the ’60s by the left and many have yet to grow-up into responsible adults.

Ted Kaczynski was not “progressive,” at least not according to the modern usage of the word. Obviously Mencius has not bothered to read his manifesto. He was against technology and progress while a “communist” like say, Marx, or hell even the USSR were all about modernization. They believed the capitalism failed to equally distribute the benefits of modernity; check out historical materialism. Communism in his thought is supposed to result in more progress, more modernization, more technology, etc…

Ted and his gang of anti-civilization kooks are reactionary, actually conservative. They want to go back, not just to mythical conceptions of the nuclear family but way back to hunter and gather societies. They are even more reactionary than most religious kooks. If you read some of the anti-civilization folks (John Zerzan being the foremost or check out a mag called Green Anarchy) that actually praise Ted, you will find that they loath “leftists” and leftist thought. Further you will find that the early Earth First and radical environmentalists like Dave Foreman and Ed Abbey also loathed leftists and were politically conservative and reactionary. Sorry to state the facts here…

We can go even further with this and remind everyone that the worst act of domestic terrorism was of course brought to us by radical right wingers. That of course was the Oklahoma City bombing.

It is all very very funny to see psuedo-intellectuals defending kooky publicity stunts. USC is the bastion of conservatism in Los Angeles so it can hardly be argued that this was a liberal conspiracy. Next time an anti-globalization protest goes down I will wait for these noble conservatives to stand up for the rights of the law abiding protesters. Not going to happen!

See, here’ s one from me even. Enough to get him through another week of taunts.

such sublime wankery!

Rarely do I echo Sergio, but I’m glad I don’t have Mencius’ dry cleaning bill.

Wow – edgy stuff. But, personally, I don’t read anything published after 1887. ‘Cuz I’m a fuckin’ REACTIONARY, baby !!!!

The Truth About My Arrest at USC – by John Ziegler (Selections)

…there is a lot more to say about this situation, largely because there has been so much misinformation, so many irresponsible accusations, and so much blatant hypocrisy in the general reaction to the remarkable videotape.

…All of this happened obviously not because of my actions but because of my political view on the proceedings. In effect, I was being punished, repressed, and physically harmed as a form of prior restraint because they anticipated that I might do something to disrupt the proceedings based on my prior writings and commentary on the event (in which I never claimed I would do anything more than exactly what I tried to; give away copies of my film as an educational exercise). No matter how hard liberals try to rationalize it, this makes this a very obvious case of a blatant free speech violation.

…The last bastion of scoundrels looking to distract from the real issues in this case is to focus on me as an individual and transparently distort some of the more colorful stories of my past as a way of destroying me personally. Not only is this a deceitful and clearly politically motivated scheme, but in many ways it is also the most dangerous tactic. For if we do not protect the free speech rights of the most unpopular or misunderstood among us, then we allow the free speech rights of everyone to be precariously weakened.

…One of the things that has infuriated me most since the arrest has been USC’s e-mail response to the many people who have complained on my behalf over what they saw on the videotape.

…I plan to aggressively pursue my legal rights in this matter (already, USC has stupidly rejected an incredibly generous settlement offer that included no money, but rather only an apology and a full page in the school newspaper) and intend to formally announce those plans soon.