Middlesex Uni SU Pres frogmarched off campus
GOOD MORNING FASCISM!!!! | 22.09.2005 13:49 | Education | Repression | London
Keith Shilson, President of Middlesex University Students Union was frogmarched off campus by private security guards yesterday. His student place has been indefinitely suspended in what is believed to be the first disciplinary action since Ruth "you can only talk to muslims we approve of" Kelly, Minster of Corporatised non-Education called on campuses to stop all contact with non-approved muslims.
Keith Shilson's expulsion from the campus came after the SU refused to bow down to the Universities demands that it cancel a Q&A session with the Hizb ut-Tahrir group which war criminal Blair has stated he intends to proscribe. The Middlesex SU had overturned an NUS ban on the group, and insisted that the principle of free speech was at stake.
According to Guardian Education:
"In a statement today, the union said: "In light of recent events and the press releases from MUSU [the student union] and Middlesex University regarding the invitation to Hizb ut-Tahrir for a debate at the Hendon campus. Middlesex University student union has withdrawn its invitation to the speakers of the debate and the debate is cancelled.""
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/news/story/0,12891,1574957,00.html
There was once a time when university students were encouraged to inform themselves of a range of views before deciding where they stood in a debate.
In the 21st Century, even as we plunder Iraq, rape Afghanistan, support Israel , and threaten Iran, the range of views that students are allowed to consider is decided by the state, university administration, corporate interests and popular media.
INDEPENDENT THOUGHT IS SUBSERSIVE.
THE STATE KNOWS WHO IS DANGEROUS AND WILL PROTECT YOU.
According to Guardian Education:
"In a statement today, the union said: "In light of recent events and the press releases from MUSU [the student union] and Middlesex University regarding the invitation to Hizb ut-Tahrir for a debate at the Hendon campus. Middlesex University student union has withdrawn its invitation to the speakers of the debate and the debate is cancelled.""
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There was once a time when university students were encouraged to inform themselves of a range of views before deciding where they stood in a debate.
In the 21st Century, even as we plunder Iraq, rape Afghanistan, support Israel , and threaten Iran, the range of views that students are allowed to consider is decided by the state, university administration, corporate interests and popular media.
INDEPENDENT THOUGHT IS SUBSERSIVE.
THE STATE KNOWS WHO IS DANGEROUS AND WILL PROTECT YOU.
GOOD MORNING FASCISM!!!!
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Mus
22.09.2005 14:52
Mr Lustbather
A piece of green and white paper
22.09.2005 17:27
Anyway, here was the cleverly pre-printed green and white paper, now with our two axes, and a whole series of X's marking each new measurement. The magic came with the understanding that a line could be drawn through the collection of points, identifying a trend, and detailing a relationship.
Do we know where we are going? How many X's do we have to collect from life, before we accept the trend, and what it predicts for our future?
This is Satan's graph. The line passes through the here-and-now, and ends up in HELL. The funny thing is, people throw themselves down in front of the progression, like that Chinese kid with the tanks, but the line keeps on going, piercing each new day without fail, bleeding ever drop of hope from yet another mark on life's time axis. The interpolation of Blair's relationship with Hell and the Human Race is remorseless. Each new X he burns onto the graph of our fate strengthens the trend, and holds the line true. And as the trend becomes so certain that it would be marked in blood's red iron, rather than the Earth's cautious grey carbon, even if we combine our love to force a result that lies far from hell's hard line, that result will be called an anomaly and discarded along with the last of our dreams.
You could say that things are going from bad to worse. Love to hate. Heaven to Hell. We plotted our graph so we didn't have to say anything, but instead owned a mathematical illustration of the relationship between the days of our lives, and the tears that we will shed.
twilight
open debate
22.09.2005 17:32
Hmm... where did "no platform for fascists" fit into that? I also seem to remember people like Hans Eysenck being stopped from speaking because of their supposed association with right-wing views, even though no-one (I think) claimed he had links with real fascist political groups. When I was a student in the early 1970's there was controversy over a speaker with IRA links.
I find this one v. difficult. But there needs to be an avoidance of double-standards.
PaulB
TWILIGHT,CASE FOR TREATMENT
22.09.2005 18:05
Mr Lustbather
Cry me a river
23.09.2005 03:33
So the troublemaker got excluded. Boo hoo. Perhaps he'll think twice before trying to break university rules. If you don't like the way your university does things you have a simple choice - shut up and put up with it, or leave.
As for twilight, he's either a troll, on drugs or needs sending to a lunatic asylum.
Humpty Dumpty
Sometimes Trolls unintentionally reveal stuff
23.09.2005 07:21
" If you don't like the way your university does things you have a simple choice - shut up and put up with it, or leave."
So, what will students who follow that approach have learnt? Ignore injustice, trust authority, put your head down and take no responsibility for the world about you.
They might as well stay home and read the Daily Mail like he does.
Homeland Security
Humpty Dumpty
23.09.2005 10:17
DBLondon
Re: Homeland Security
23.09.2005 13:33
These students don't have a social conscience, they just pretend to. If they had one they'd be doing something practical rather than acting like we're still in the 60s.
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty
23.09.2005 15:54
However you imply that if a cause is trendy (perhaps read current?) or in a foreign country it is somehow less important. Is this really what you believe?
I am not a student anymore, and I did not go on to work for a multinational, but I am interested in your quick tips on how we could act practically to alleviate social deprivation in our communities. Please tell me more.
DBLondon
posting from NYC Indymedia - working class students protest!
23.09.2005 18:22
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Bronx Students Protest Metal Detectors
Students from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx blocked traffic and marched almost two miles.
Bombs and Shields
Bronx, New York, U.S. - Nearly 1/3 of all 4,600 students from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx blocked traffic and marched almost two miles to the borough's Department of Education offices, to protest new regulations which require students to pass through metal detectors before entering the school and barred them from leaving campus during lunch. The metal detectors were installed as a way to deal with violence which is reported to be almost five percent higher at DeWitt Clinton than the citywide average. Students countered that most of the fights that occurred on school grounds happened outside where individuals would not be subject to searches.
Monday was the first day students were forced to submit to metal detector searches which caused an hour long delay. Many of the students who attended the protest said that the school was treating them like prisoners. Despite those concerns some student representatives were granted a meeting with administrators where they negotiated for a promise of more metal detectors to ease delays on entering the building. Students returned to classes with a wait and see attitude.
By JANON FISHER (NY Times)
Published: September 20, 2005
Complaining that they were being treated like inmates, some 1,500 students from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx marched nearly two miles to the borough's Department of Education offices yesterday to protest the use of metal detectors at the school and not being allowed off campus during lunch.
The three-hour protest snarled traffic on streets between the school, on West Mosholu Parkway, and the department's offices in Fordham Plaza. No one was arrested. [Read More at Bombs and Shields]
By Bombs and Shields
American Anarchist
My advice
24.09.2005 01:03
And yes, Twilight is also a troll... and reveals how genuinely insane this guy is at that!
Blucher