Repress U — Michael Gould-Wartofsky
January 14, 2008 on 4:45 am | In Ward SpeaksFree-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus.
From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned their attention to “violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention”–as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name–have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization, the university.
Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission . . . . keep reading.
For more on the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism” bill which passed the House and is now in a Senate committee, see Ward Churchill on Democracy Now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_snF1EDQlg
