Ah yes, communists in action…
I say “communists” because appearing at :23 in the video is a World Can’t Wait sign – WCW being an organization with clear Communist origins.
Anyways, check it out. It’s actually somewhat scary: a video – posted a few hours ago at youtube – of “Recreate 68″ protesters physically assaulting Fox News staffers outside the DNC.
Effing brutes.
(As an aside, the weirdest part of the video is at 1:32 where an old hippie with sunglasses and a French beret awkwardly yells, “Some people say Fox is a corporate whore.” Haha…”Some people“? You sure about that? Clearly, this is someone who never took the dictum “owning your words” to heart.)
Anyways, it totally reminds me of ISO. Back in 2006, I wrote up an essay regarding my experience of the organization, which I’ll excerpt below.
One of the few thriving organizations at UIC is the ISO (an acronym for International Socialist Organization), a rather confrontational left-wing group that has recently dedicated all its efforts to expelling military recruiters from campus. Possessing a passion that seems to interpret everything as black or white, the socialists see the recruiters as a deceptive and destructive force (which may or may not be true), and – as such – an evil that must be purged. When word gets out that the recruiters are on-campus, in a heartbeat, the ISO is on the scene: actively screaming, yelling and – when necessary – even exerting physical force, whatever it takes to abolish what they perceive to be a non-negotiable evil. At the very least, this translates into censorship, into stifling the recruiter’s right to free speech.
Concerned with what I continuously observed to be a complete disregard for a fundamental freedom, I went to one of their meetings and asked why two opposing views couldn’t co-exist – why they couldn’t simply respect the recruiter’s the right to speak while simultaneously providing the student body with contrasting information. This way, two vessels of purported knowledge would be at work and it would be up to the rationale of the college student to decide the superior. In response, I received not an answer but a fanatical reaffirmation of their position: that the recruiters were lying “monsters” coercing our young people to die in the name of a criminal war.
