Mr. David Horowitz                                                                                                                       President                                                                                                                                               Center for the Study of Popular Culture

It was a great pleasure to be introduced by Ken Crib who is a treasure to this movement. I – when I came as a former radical into Conservative circles, naturally some people wondered what I was up to. Ned came twenty years ago. He made a very quick judgment because we were just at a conference together (a seminar-type conference) and invited me into his organization, essentially. I spent several years touring college campuses speaking at ISI leadership conferences. This is what I call trench warfare. Ken left – you know, when you’re in Washington you get the accolades, there’s where the power is.  It’s in the trenches, as the Army would say, that wars are won. And Ken’s faith in me allowed me to meet and become part of the conservative campus movement and I tried to make it a niche operation, to find out what it was that conservatives weren’t doing at the time that I would do. And what I brought to it was my natural character of logical aggression; what I had learned in the Left about politics. And I have formed a student movement that’s very activist because the Conservative groups have been very conservative and have a had a tremendous impact by bringing – trying to influence the culture of the university by bringing in conservative speakers and holding conferences and of course ISI now orchestrates nearly a hundred campus papers, so that has really changed the intellectual atmosphere. My agenda is to change the institutions themselves.

I brought two jokes along that are completely irrelevant to my topic today but I think this crowd might enjoy them. It really amazes me that – the difficult that Democrats have getting in tune with religion. With they’re track record recently you’d think they’d want to pray. Of course, they’ll tell you that God has no political party. But then, why would he want to back losers? (laughter)

My subject today is the campus and the war on terror. And of course the campus is part of our campuses.  Large sections of our campuses have become part of the fifth column opposed – not only opposed to the war on terror but that wants us to lose it.

You’re probably all familiar with the Columbia professor who wished for a million Mogadishus and what he actually said is that everybody who wants peace should wish for America’s military to be defeated everywhere and that a world a peace would be a world where America has no place.

You’re probably familiar with the professor at the University of Texas who said we’ve already lost the war in Iraq and that’s a good thing that everybody should wish for because it will me the dismantling of the American empire. You probably are not that familiar with the midterm exam in Colorado where the essay topic that you had no choice, you had to write on was, “Explain why George Bush is a war criminal.” And this student who – a student wrote why Saddam Hussein is a war criminal and got an ‘F.’
I could multiply these cases all day here. The one criticism I still have of Conservatives is that you refer to your political enemies as Liberals. These are not Liberals. These people are Communists and they are – I say this as a child of Communism, who grew up in a Communist movement. Their agendas, their critiques of America are identical to that of the Communist Party of the 1930’s and 40s.

I believe CNP is giving my book to anybody who wants it. I’ve written a book called Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left and the center of that book is called “The Mind of the Left”, and it will show you exactly how the actual Communists who haven’t changed speak exactly the same language as faculties at our universities.
I saw -- as I was coming in last night I saw Charles Colson. I’m so sorry that I didn’t go up to him but I can tell you, of all the Conservatives that I have ever read, Charles Colson’s book – I never can remember the title exactly but How Now Shall We Live I think is what it’s called. The analysis of the left in his book is the best, the shrewdest, most informed and intelligent analysis of the left that I have seen any Conservative write.
So, the curriculum is controlled – the hiring process is controlled – by radical Leftists in our universities. It varies from department to department. Ironically, Economics because-- think it’s because it has a mathematical base and a real world base, is pretty good relative to other fields. Sociology, English Literature, Comparative Literature, History, and of course all the Studies programs (Women’s Studies, Black Studies) – these are all run exclusively (that is 100 percent) by radicals who have a Communist outlook. And by Communist outlook I mean they see the United States in what are actually liberal democracies as oppressive, racist, sexist, homophobic (you’ve heard it all) , oppressive regimes. They see America, in short, as the great Satan, which is how they can form an alliance with radical Islam, because that’s the way radical Islam sees the United States.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend: That is the basic – otherwise you cannot understand how people who claim to be for women’s rights and gay rights could try to stop the United States from overthrowing monsters like Saddam Hussein or like the Taliban. The Taliban would blow women’s heads off with AK-47s if they were suspected of having sexual relations outside of marriage. How can the left possibly want to protect these regimes?

That’s what’s going on. If you think there’s no alliance, Osama Bin Laden, in February 2002, about three weeks before we entered Iraq, said on AL GIZIRA TV that-- the exact quote is: “The Muslims and the Socialists – the interests of Muslims and the interests of Socialists coincide in the war against the crusaders.”
If you don’t think this is a religious war just think of that sentence. This is a religious war that we’re in.
What did he mean by that? Well, four weeks earlier ten million Leftists had poured into the streets of the world’s capitals (including Washington, DC) to try to stop the United States and Britain from toppling Saddam. And Saddam was part of – he is part of the Jihad. What nobody seems to remember is that after the gulf wars Saddam, who was just a local Iraqi fascist before and a secularist, put into the Iraqi national flag, Alllahu Akhbar, which is the cry, “God is great, “ “Allah is great,” that the suicide bombers use as they fly their planes into the World Trade Center.
And you may have seen this professor yesterday who compared the – he’s a professor who is the head of the Ethnic Studies Department at Colorado University – compared the victims inside the World Trade Center to Nazis. Um, he was speaking at Hamilton College.

The previous guest professor at Hamilton College was Susan Rosenburg, who was arrested some years ago with six hundred pounds of TNT, which is a bigger explosive or the same size explosive as blew up the U.S.S. Cole. She was a Weather terrorist. We had a terrorist cult from the New Left called the Weathermen.

Susan Rosenburg was serving a -- I think she was serving a forty-year sentence – was one of Bill Clinton’s late pardons thanks to the intervention of Jerry Nadler, the very round Congressman from New York who always gave John Ashcroft a hard time.
My book is a little depressing when you see the extent to which these people have penetrated our culture. I’ll try to end my talk on a little upbeat, but I have to go through the grim part. We have Ball State University in Indiana – I have devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created this organization as the first stage of the battle to take back the universities.

Cons—I was going to say Conservatives, but I really – the Conservative movement is a very young movement; I always have to remind Conservatives of that. It really begins – I mean you can date it from Bill Buckley’s God and Man at Yale or the creation of ISI or the Goldwater campaign. The Left goes back to the French revolution, and I mean that very seriously. I mean, I got my politics as a ten year-old in my household. This is part of a culture that has been going on for several hundred years. That’s where they learned their politics and their tactics.

Conservatives are generally people who’ve been drawn into politics, and this is even more true of religious conservatives because of the aggression of the Left. So we have to be patient with ourselves; we’re fighting a rear-guard battle here and we are gaining ground and that’s really the bottom line good news. There has never been a Conservative movement on college campuses as there is now. It’s on every campus; our kids are aggressive. It’s partly because they’ve been taught by radicals who are obnoxiously aggressive.

Again, do not call them Liberals. I’m thinking – what comes to my mind is Professor Mike Adams at UNC, Wilmington, NC. He was a Democrat and he got tenure. He’s in the Criminology department and he was at a hiring meeting (you know, where they have these search committees) and people were just talking about the candidates and one of them said to him, “We can’t hire him; he’s too religious.”
The Criminology Department, people! These people are not liberal; they’re not tolerant. These people are at war; they’re at war with America, with private property, and with religion.  And that’s why they are so – the ACLU is not a liberal organization; it happens to have been founded by a man who embraced Soviet Communism, Roger Baldwin. But today it is part of a coalition (and I will give you now the center of the coalition) the so-called Legal Left, which some people here are in the pits with—right in the arena, fighting them. The Legal Left, which consists of the primary organizations; the ACLU, the National Lawyers Guild (a Soviet front), the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is created by Communist lawyers – they’re on the front lines of the war against the Patriot Act.

But the man who started the legal battles in the name of civil liberties against terrorist acts was a professor--Professor Sami al-Arian, who formed the National Coalition for the Protection of Political Freedom. Sami al-Arian was an engineering professor at the University of South Florida.

How many people know this name--Sami al-Arian? You’ve got to know this name.
Sami al-Arian was a professor of Engineering at the University of South Florida and he formed this organization in 1996 after the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. And the organization was specifically designed to attack two aspects of an anti-terror act that Bill Clinton had gotten through after that bombing. And one was that material support for terrorists is a crime and the other aspect that he objected to was the use of secret evidence in dealing with terrorists.

Why? Well he had a personal interest. His brother-in-law was being deported by the United States for being part of a terrorist organization. The terrorist organization he was part of was Sami al-Arian’s; because Sami al-Arian – well, being a professor of Engineering at University of South Florida and having two think tanks connected to University—was the North American head of Palestine-Islamic Jihad which has killed and is responsible for the suicide bombing of a hundred people in the Middle East, including two Americans. Two—not one, but two leaders of Palestine Islamic Jihad—military leaders based in Syria were recruited directly from the University of South Florida faculty and Sami al-Arian’s think tanks. The FBI pursued Sami al-Arian for eight years, from 1993 or -4. I mean I’ve read the indictment. They—his faxes, they tapped his phones; you can read the transcripts of him arranging the payments for the families of the suicide bombers and so forth. The FBI was powerless to do anything because before the Patriot Act, of course the FBI and the CIA couldn’t talk to each other.

The minute the Patriot Act was put in place Sami al-Arian—there was one episode he was on Bill O’Reilly—it’s an odd story, but he was on The O’Reilly Factor and O’Reilly said -because there have been some very brave people like Steve Emerson and actually The Miami Herald exposed him as a terrorist in 1994. But he was kept on the faculty at the University of South Florida by Betty Caster (Floridians will know who that is), the President of the University.

Bill O’Reilly said, “If I were the CIA, “he said. “I would follow you wherever you go.”  And he played videos—they have videos of Sami al-Arian saying, “Death to America, Death to Israel” and recruiting suicide bombers.
In America, of course, because we have such wonderful freedoms, they’re freer to do that in America than anywhere else.

When that happened, Bill O’Reilly’s audience (bless them) deluged the University of South Florida with phone calls and Sami al-Arian was suspended. The ACLU, the American Association of University Professors, the National Lawyers’ Guild, all leaped to Sami al-Arian’s defense that he was being persecuted because he was a Palestinian; and his civil rights were being violated even though all this evidence was out there (you can read Steve Emerson’s book whch had been published by now).
The AAUP threatened--the AAUP is the American  Association of University Professors which has denounced my Academic Bill of Rights, which is a truly liberal bill of rights, believe me, it’s all about fairness, inclusion, intellectual diversity, period. As the AAUP calls it a grave threat to academic freedom; it’s a grave threat to the monopoly that these Stalinists have on our university culture, and I mean that in the literal sense of the word—that’s who these people are, and that’s the way you’ve got to fight them.
They threatened--the American Association of University Presidents threatened the University of South Florida that they would go after their accreditation--take away their accreditation of the university--if they didn’t put Sami al-Arian back in his job. They still defend him and o does the ACLU. That’s who these people are.

Now, the universities are their base because my generation of course didn’t want to serve its country during the Vietnam War, not because it was anti-war--these people aren’t anti-war, you didn’t see the anti-war movement demonstrating at the Iraqi embassy and saying, Disarm or cooperate with the inspectors and then there won’t be a war. There were no demonstrations at the Iraqi embassy. This is the hate-America Left; these people are, in their own minds, revolutionaries and the global revolution begins when America falls. America is the great Satan. They are—since this is a religious audience look (and I’m not saying anything that Charles Colson hasn’t said), these are the people in the story of Babel who are building a tower to heaven. They think that human beings, by their own agency, can create the kingdom of God on Earth. In the Catholic Church it’s called the Pelagian Heresy; that’s what the Left is entirely about. That’s why they hate you—because they see themselves as the army of the saints and they see you as the party of Satan.

Otherwise, why are they so rude? Why are they so rude? They’re always interrupting and they have obvious disgust and contempt for people who disagree with them. It’s not about policies. This is about a vision of the kingdom of heaven on Earth. Now if you thought that you—because the one thing they lack (and I wrote this in my autobiography; the one thing I wish that I had had it would’ve saved me so much grief in my life) was a doctrine of original sin. You can’t build a kingdom of heaven on Earth with people, because we are corrupt. It’s all in the first eighteen chapters of Genesis; it’s clear as day. But think: if you thought, you could bring about the kingdom of God on Earth by your own agency.  What lie would you not tell? What crime would you not commit to do it?
Which is exactly why Progressives have committed the worst crimes in the twentieth century and why they lie through their teeth all the time. They justify it by: The world is ruled by an evil principle--which is really America but, you know, private property and free markets and so forth; individual rights—the world is ruled by an evil principle. We will overthrow that principle and bring about the millennium.

This is what our—the worst aspect, let me say, of what these people do is when our soldiers,--I mean I’m talking about the University of Colorado; after I spoke there I was contacted by a Special Forces advisor. This man had been in the first Gulf War, in the Grenada invasion in Panama, in Afghanistan, and he had served in this Iraq war. And when he wore his uniform to class as he had to, his professor said that his uniform was an offense to the class, that it was an offense to the class, that it was a symbol of racism and imperialism and – you know, he’s a baby-killer. And I have had eighteen year-old women who were studying in ROTC, studying to be in the Air Force, have the same thing. Soldiers all across this country have to sit in classes and be told that they are baby killers and imperialists and racists and sit there and take it because, as this young man said (well, he was probably in his thirties)--said to me, he said, “I have gone back to school to better myself so I have to just grit my teeth and take this. “
As a nation we cannot survive if we surrender our universities as we have. And because somebody here is working with K-12--why do you think the high schools are so terrible? And the elementary schools? Why do you think that the leftist agenda is being taught to elementary school kids? Why they’re being recruited to anti-American demonstrations right out of their classes?
It’s because the education schools in our universities have been corrupted first. Why do we have a problem in the courts?
Go to any law school. I am really happy that you are at every law school, but I’ve spoken at these—I can name, I can sit here, actually, name for quite awhile law schools where there’s one Republican on the entire faculty and ten Marxists. I mean they call themselves Critical Race Theorists; what they should call themselves is Critical Racist Theorists (it’s what they are)--Critical Legal Theorists (another form of Marxism), I could go on and on. Not to mention the Women’s Studies—the Feminist  law professors.
Why do we have a problem in our newspapers-- print newspapers? Because all the key journalism schools are run by Marxists.
I had lunch with the dean of the journalism school at USC. USC, it’s no-question thirty or forty-thousand dollars a year to go there; its got a reputation as a Conservative school. The dean was Michael Parks, who was Editor-in-Chief of the LA Times, he’s a soft Leftist. I said, “Michael, how many Conservatives do you have on your faculty at the journalism school?”
He said, “I can’t think of one.”
I said, “Michael, do you think that this is a good idea from a point of training journalists, let alone education?”
He said, “No, I don’t.”
I said, “What will you do about it?”
He said, “Absolutely nothing.”
And that’s because the faculties control their own hiring process and they will not hire—well, it’s too religious. Just one other thing; I could go on with stories.
I have a website. I am really sorry my office did not—we screwed up a little andI meant to bring the pamphlets from my organization so you could see but we have a website, it’s studentsforacademicfreedom.org, where all this information is up there about how they exclude people from their faculties.
I believe that we can change this, and I have started a movement to do that as well, which is quieter than my other movement because I don’t want to alert the Left, and that is if anybody is involved as a donor to universities or knows anybody who is, we could create independent faculties in the universities. That’s the way the Left did it; they created Black Studies, Women’s Studies—why not studies on Western Civilization which could include Religious Studies, which could include studies of free markets, and so forth and so on.
I believe that this is eminently doable if Conservatives would get behind it as a movement. I believe that we can win this battle. I mean that’s the good news, the good news is, I have never ever seen young Conservatives so smart and so aggressive, and I’ve doing this now for about twenty years and I’ve been on about two hundred and fifty campuses. They have adopted in some ways the best of the new left, if you will. I don’t know if you’ve seen these bake sales they have. They have Affirmative Action bake sales where they offer—you get a cookie for a dollar if you’re white or fifty cents if you’re black and twenty-five cents if you’re Hispanic. And what it does is it just shows up the hypocrisy of the racial preferences. We’re not talking about outreach programs; we’re talking about racial preferences which punish, as it were--Racial preferences actually punish minorities. They get the short end of the stick in these.
But our students—what is the response of the liberals? They shut them down. They violate their first amendment. I’ve got to get the conservative kids to go out there and get arrested for—you know, and then we’ll bring in the lawyers and then we’ll really teach these universities a lesson.
Anyway, let me just conclude this by saying this, that we--what I tell students when I’m on campuses as I finish all my speeches this way--is that their professors are teaching them to be embarrassed by their country. They’re teaching them that this country is a country of oppression and they seize on the racial issue. The fact of the matter is, of course, that slavery existed in all societies. Of course, it existed in Africa for a thousand years before a white person ever set foot there. What is unique about this country (and of course England was a great part of this) is that sometime in the eighteenth century a group of white Christians (probably white Christian males--Wilburforce and Co.) decided that slavery was immoral. This is the first—of course there were slave revolts; it was Spartacus, but it was always, “Let my people go.” It was never, “Let somebody else go.”
Because whatever we think about that, it’s wrong to enslave another human being because we are all children of God. That is a revolutionary idea; that’s what America is about. We and England liberated the world from slavery. We are fighting a war in Iraq where the head—the general in charge of central command is an arrogant American, John Abizaid. The general in charge of the troops in Iraq is a Hispanic American, Ricardo Sanchez. Our Secretary of State and the President’s closest advisor on the war is an African-American woman. There has never been a country like America in the history of the world. (clapping)
This is a country to be proud of. It is so sad that I have to come in as an interloper into the university to tell students, “This is country you can be proud of.” And it’s important in this war on terror that we be proud of our country because if you’re not proud of your country you cannot defend yourself. Thank you.

David, I was struck by a passage in your book that you had back here about how Marxists don’t seem to learn from the failure of Marxism as being a discredited theory. It seems to reinvigorate—
Because it’s a religious faith for them, and I mean I know this personally. It organizes your whole—it’s the meaning of your life is that you’re a part of this revolutionary struggle against the American beast. So when reality contradicts it, as when the Soviet Union falls, you’re faced with this dilemma: How do I live without hope? It is exactly the same as losing a faith in God. How do you go on? And they—in my book I quote them saying, “I cannot go on without this.”
Without any sense of the fact that what they’re—that this is, for them—it’s a religious faith without God. That’s the only way I can put it.

In this dearth of professors, or education, or others in the universities – I mean, FOX News—
Oh, the students are great. I’m not a big-name celebrity, but I get five hundred students or a thousand students if I go to a university. The students are not the problem--it’s the faculties. And the problem is of course that the students--unless the students are connected—if they’re connected to organizations like ISI and its newspapers—they read The National Review or any of—you know, I learned this, actually, about fifteen years ago--when things were not very good--much much worse. I learned that in Pocatello, Idaho, which is where the University of Idaho is—and I was picked up by a student in a pickup truck. And I usually interview the students and say, “How did you get connected to Conservative ideas?”
Here we are in Pocatello—because he was telling me how it’s a totally Left university. But before I could get to that question he just automatically flipped the tape into the dashboard and it was Rush Limbaugh. And it began with Rush in a way.
Leftists, they’re Leftists.
It’s difficult because sometimes people don’t know what you’re talking about but I just want to see it a lot. I mean I’ve watched—I think that Sean Hannity is a tremendous asset to the Conservative cause. He is on—I love Sean, but he does frustrate me when I see him sitting in front of a flaming Communist  who just—one of these international answer people who think that North Korea is the worker’s paradise—and calling him a Liberal. It does have the effect, I guess, of tarring Liberals, but I would like to introduce the idea of Leftism.
Paul.

First, I want to thank you for the extraordinary work that you are doing. There has been nothing like it and you literally have changed the psychology of a lot of our people who have been defeatist and who have not wanted to fight. I want to get introduced in the Congress a bill which would cut off all aid—even to engineering departments, research, everything else—to any school that has a speech code or any other effort to deprive students of their rights. What do you think of that?
First of all, that’s a very high compliment coming from you, Pauly.
Paul, of course, is a tremendous pioneer in this movement. And the pioneers get a special credit because now it’s fun to be a Conservative. If the lawyers say that that’s doable I’m for doing it, because even if you get defeated—and we still have squishy Republicans. We would never have gotten, I have to say, the Academic Bill of Rights through in Colorado because we’re at the edge of the Republican Party. We had a one-vote majority and there were three or four that were not going to go with us.
But that didn’t matter. By putting up the legislation and if you hold hearings, the ruckus around it has a positive effect. You’ve got to win--the media war is tremendously important. Yes sir.

You have documented in your book, Unholy Alliance, radical Islam--Would you speak for just a moment—and you’ve already touched on this beautifully--in holy alliances, crossing bridges that we have not done before. And then you said a Liberal is really Leftist and they have tarred and feathered the name Conservative. A lot of people are afraid of that. A lot of people don’t understand it, or anything else. Is there a better word than Conservative?
I used listen to Jack Kemp. What did he call himself? A Progressive Conservative or whatever—I spent  several years worrying about that question. I actually think that that question, in really Conservative—we’re Conservative in that we want to conserve certain values that have already been lost in the society and culture. We want to conserve that constitutional framework. We’re fighting these ridiculous battles, I mean, what appalls me—I watch these debates with this incredibly irritating guy, the atheist, he’s on every show, where our side does not understand that the whole basis of the constitutional framework is that these rights are not derived from government; they are derived from a creator. Without that, you don’t have a democracy. And our side doesn’t (clapping).
So we are really reformers. That’s what we are, we’re reformers. This is a reform movement. But I don’t think that’s as important a battle. To me the reason that the liberal left battle is important is because Left ties you to Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho—all the atrocities.  They have escaped that to fight again. And I don’t want them to escape; I want them to be stuck with what they did. Because what they are proposing now would lead to the same result.
You can see it with the Iraq war. John Kerry and myself (although I avoid it, I have to say) -- I knew that winter soldier investigation was Communist propaganda. Even though I was a new Leftist, even though I wanted to United States to lose the war, I did not like what Jane Fonda and John Kerry did. But the truth is that with John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy more responsible than anybody because he engineered the toppling of Nixon. Teddy Kennedy--what they did---was force America’s withdrawal in the middle of a war without a secure peace or a secure regime in South Vietnam. They’re responsible for the deaths of two and half million Indo-Chinese who were slaughtered by the Communists after the Democrats cut off the aid. And that movement was spearheaded by Fonda and Hayden who had caucuses in the Congress to get that done. Yes. They are American traitors and Jimmy Carter gave—
Now Hayden, today, is writing articles on how the United States can be defeated in Iraq; how we can defeat the United States in Iraq—articles on the internet. They want—the Howard Deans, the—Teddy Kennedy just yesterday—want the same thing. A withdrawal will mean not only a bloodbath in Iraq of all of our Allies and all the people in the Muslim world who want freedom, it will mean a bloodbath in the streets of New York and Washington as well. So, I want them to be tied to their history. The Conservative—we can live with—they got sixty-million votes. (clapping)
In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock got 66 percent of the vote. The label isn’t a problem. All right, thank you.