Not In Our Name — With a Twist

Three UCLA profs report on their having been mugged politically:

We believe the liberation of Iraq was just and necessary. But last week, we told President Bush that we deplored the war. Was it flagrantly inconsistent for us to make this statement, so contradictory to what we believe? You bet.

Why did we do it?

We were mugged.

We were mugged by about 200 of our faculty colleagues at UCLA. These colleagues condemn the liberation of Iraq and wanted to say so publicly. But they were not content to speak out in their own names, as they had every right to do. Instead, they insisted on speaking in our names — and in the names of the more than 3,000 people on the UCLA faculty....

I rather suspect that, if the three profs have no more than this "mugging" to complain about in, say, a year's time, they will be able to account themselves fortunate.

(Thanks, Peter.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 04/23/03 11:31:48 AM
Categorized as Political.