State, City Officials To Withhold Funds For Columbia U Over Speech
It appears there is an overwhelming number of stupid people attending that university, it shouldn't be difficult to swindle more money out of them. We are currently engaged in a War on Terror, Ahmadinejad is a terrorist, Columbia University knew exactly what they were doing when they invited and allowed this speech to go forward.
Those idiots over there are blabbering about it being free speech. What happened to "free speech" when the Minutemen were at Columbia U giving a speech? The students began acting like filthy little primates and stormed the stage with gay-love posters or whatever and threatened Jim Gilchrist who was speaking.
I guess it only matters if you agree with them.
As the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prepares to address Columbia University today amid a storm of student protest, state and city lawmakers say they are considering withholding public funds from the school to protest its decision to invite the leader to campus.
In an interview with The New York Sun, the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, said lawmakers, outraged over Columbia's insistence on allowing the Iranian president to speak at its World Leaders Forum, would consider reducing capital aid and other financial assistance to the school.
Lawmakers warned about other consequences for Columbia and its president, Lee Bollinger, who has resisted campus and public pressure to cancel Mr. Ahmadinejad's appearance today, arguing that Columbia's commitment to scholarship requires the school to directly confront offensive ideas.
"There are issues that Columbia may have before us that obviously this cavalier attitude would be something that people would recall," Mr. Silver said. "Obviously, there's some degree of capital support that has been provided to Columbia in the past. These are things people might take a different view of … knowing that this is that kind of an institution."
Mr. Silver faulted Columbia for "attempting to legitimize this individual," saying, "We have an obligation because of the U.N. to allow him to come to this country. It doesn't mean we have to make him welcome. We don't have to give him a forum."
