VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
The University of Kansas Student Auxiliary
V.V.A.R.: Leading the student revolt on campus against speech codes, political correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, dormitory re-education, lying about Vietnam, and other instruments of academic oppression.
Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
Former professor of psychology - Suffolk College, N.Y.
Member: National Association of Scholars
CONTACT: Magruder44@aol.com - Phone: 785-312-9303
V.V.A.R. Press Release: Student vet organization calls on Hollywood celebrities to drop senseless rhetoric, use their creativity.
By Leonard Magruder
March 14, 2003
In “The Declaration of War” by Osama bin Laden, together with the leaders of the World Islamic Front for the Jihad Against the Jews and the Crusaders (Christians), Feb. 23, 1998, bin Laden wrote, “We, with God’s help, call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans.”
What does Al Qaeda want to do? They want to kill us. They want to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States. All three hundred million. God told them to do it.
Recently a group of celebrities took out an ad in The New York Times calling on the people of the U.S. to “Resist the war and repression loosed on the world by the Bush administration.” This included such Hollywood celebrities as Oliver Stone, Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, and Susan Saradon. The ad suggests that we face no danger from terrorists, that the real danger stems from our own “imperialism.” Obviosly it doesn’t take much in the way of brains to succeed in Hollywood.
Why don’t these people do what they do best: use their creativity and imagination--not to spout senseless rhetoric, but to do something to help in this crisis? For example:
Produce and flood the world with short TV messages, using hundreds of children to shame the terrorists saying:
2) “We believe in God too, but he never asked us to kill anyone.”
3) “We don’t think killing us will get you to heaven.”
4) “We don’t want to join your religion, we have our own.”
5) “Why do you want to kill our mommies and daddies?”
The great British historian Arnold Toynbee in The Study of History showed that nations only survive challenges through a creative response. The leaders of this nation in academia and the arts are utterly failing the nation, doing nothing but recycling a few leftist slogans from the 60’s. Slogans that betrayed Southeast Asia to tyranny and genocide. Their response to the current challenge is pitiful.
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