Letter to the Editor:
I’d like to first say that I do not mean to comment with meanness. I respect Mr. Hill and Rowe as people, but I passionately reject their values on this subject. The moral rot at our universities has us almost retching from coast to coast. What were once bastions of American values and goodness — lauding our great history, our liberty, our defense of good against evil, our constitution, small limited government and capitalism — now have become almost indoctrination centers of anti-American leftism and moral bankruptcy. At almost every one of our universities, almost every part of the American value system and moral basis is under attack from our professors and administrators. Here is a typical example:
I heard on national radio that on February 18 there was a live webcast between the foreign minister of Iran, Javad Zarif, a former University of Denver student and moderator, University Dean Christopher Hill. Students, faculty and guests formed the audience. Administrators at the University called it a “momentous dialogue”; an event of “historic magnitude.” One of Zarif’s former professors Edward Rowe lauded Zarir’s decade of service to Tehran telling him, “in the 25 years since you completed your degree we have watched with admiration, excitement, pleasure, and pride your extraordinary career in the Iranian diplomatic foreign service.”
Any citizen with a barely intact American value system and half-working moral compass would have to restrain him or herself from upchucking at such a meeting and responses from leaders at the university. Before our universities were essentially taken over by people with these awful values, a man like Zarif would have been a pariah, his American university degree reviled, his work considered a cosmic level shame. Instead, he is regaled and swooned over.
It’s this month at Denver, but any day will find such anti-American values dominant at almost any University.
A man spends 25 years supporting and representing a fascist, anti-American, oppressive, terrorist-supporting religious tyranny. A man who represents a regime that crushes freedom of speech, political dissent, religion, women’s and gay rights, is someone we are supposed to admire at DU. A man goes to work each day and serves as a mouthpiece for a dictatorship responsible for the death of thousands of American soldiers in places like Lebanon and Iraq.
A man spends his work life supporting and defending a vile thugocracy intent on bringing the sword of Islam to all infidels around the world, responsible for aligning itself with any and every anti-American entity in the world; intent on building a nuclear bomb arsenal; funding and supporting terrorist groups like Hezbollah; spreading its dark barbaric power into Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Venezuela — even trying to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in Washington, is a man our American Deans and Professors tell us we are supposed to cheer on. A man gets his paycheck each week from a vile regime calling for “death to America” and openly dedicated to killing every woman, man, and child Jew in the free, democratic state of Israel and our American university leaders and administrators laud him. Millions of Americans and I despise this and cry shame on you to such Americans. Shame on your morals and values, Mr. Hill and Mr. Rowe.
Most of our young people at college are too intimidated, uneducated or naive to stand up as strong citizens with American values and hold a strong moral compass against this. When they get home for spring and summer break, many of us citizens and parents will let them know the truth.
Many have already heard the truth from the current brave leader of the free world, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of our Congress. This week our president swoons over capitulating to this evil. We will all pay for this naivete and immorality. We always do.
Most of our money is wasted sending our students these days to our universities to learn such regressive values and ideas. The money is certainly wasted on these six-figure salaries for these morally lost professors and administrators. Maybe take a look at the great free five minute courses at Prager University on the web. There are many on basic American values, the basics which our kids should be hearing at DU, but are not.
