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| Hedges the Beauzeau again |
| 2003-07-18 |
| EFL Times Watch has previously noted that the newspaper uses its personality profile feature, âPublic Lives,â to showcase liberals. But Fridayâs edition may mark the first time a terrorist sympathizer has been featured. Fridayâs profile of Rutgers University law student Charlotte L. Kates is announced with the exceedingly bland headline, âLaw Student With a History of Taking Left Turns.â Rather predictably, the article is by "Get out of here, and take your stupidity with you!" Hedges begins: âWhen Charlotte L. Kates was in elementary school, she devoured a series of books on foreign countries. One nation, however, captured her imagination. She was in the family car on her way to a childrenâs arts festival in Philadelphia, when, she said, the utopian vision of a communist society in the Soviet Union leapt off the pages and inspired her to be a revolutionary. She never looked back. As a law student at Rutgers University, and one of the leaders of New Jersey Solidarity, a pro-Palestinian student group, Ms. Kates has reserved space at Rutgers this October for the Third North American Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement. The gathering will draw hundreds of student activists from the United States and Canada, and they will converge on the New Brunswick campus, she said, to âorganize against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.ââ "And letâs see if we can succeed where Haman failed, while weâre at it." After discussing the controversy over the conference, Hedges notes Kates refuses to condemn Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis: âNew Jersey Solidarity takes a hard line in its support of the Palestinians. Ms. Kates will not, for instance, condemn suicide bombings, saying âit is not our place in the United States to dictate the tactics Palestinian groups use in the liberation struggle.ââ Hedges provides a portrait of this young Communist as an even younger Communist: âSeated in a small coffee shop near the Rutgers Law School on Monday, Ms. Kates, 23, recalled the book she was reading on that car trip to Philadelphia years ago. âThe book quoted the 1917 revolutionary slogan: peace, land, bread and freedom,â she said. âThis idea hit me. I had to find out more about socialism.ââ [Ed. Note: So far, the ârevolutionâ is batting 0-4]. She began to read Lenin and Marx. She looked up the American Communist Partyâs local chapter in New Jersey, where she grew up. She rode her bike on Sunday afternoons to local party meetings. By age 13, she said, she had joined the party, paying monthly dues of 50 centsâŠ.Her small dorm room at Rutgers, which she shares with three other first-year law students, is decorated with the requisite picture of Che Guevara, a hero of the Cuban revolution, along with a poster of Nabil Salameh, a slain radical Palestinian leader. A poster on the wall reads: âLong Live the Proletarian Feminism of the Heroic Red Women Fighters of Peru.â [Ed. Note: Thatâs a likely reference to the Shining Path, the violent Maoist group in Peru once led by Abimael Guzman] Without a momentâs hesitation, she said her favorite book is âThe State and Revolutionâ by Lenin.â Perhaps because of his blatant sympathy for the Palestinian cause, Hedges tries to soften up his portrait of this terrorist-sympathizing Communist, concluding with a sob story: âShe has a weakness for Dr. Pepper. There was a case on her floor. And she makes room on her wall for prints by the artist Gustav Klimt. The day after being featured in an article in The New York Post this month with the headline âRutgers gets âFâ For Putting Anti-Semitism 101 on the Schedule,â she lost her summer job as a customer service representative for an electronics company in Teaneck. âThey told me it was because they were doing financial restructuring,â she said, her signature red kaffiyeh draped around her shoulders, âbut I have my doubts.ââ Poor kid, huh? Times Watch, for one, will reserve its grief for the victims of the terrorists for whom Kates sympathizes. |
| Posted by:RiNeref |
| #3 Having seen the article in all its dead-tree glory, I am pleased to inform that this self-righteous, moral barbarian, is nearly rebarbitive looking as her cause. |
| Posted by: af 2003-7-18 9:39:34 PM |
| #2 Brainwashed from an early age. |
| Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2003-7-18 6:47:48 PM |
| #1 I received a reply from Rutgers on my letter to their President about the conference. It can be found here. My reply to them, among other things, asks if NAMBLA would also be welcome on campus? |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-7-18 3:18:34 PM |