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7.12.06 @ 12:01AM

TREACHERY UNPUNISHED?
Re: Robert M. Goldberg's Engineering Communism: American Style:

The most interesting part of this piece is where Staros blames Berg for leading Staros into the temptation of communism. It seems that City College of New York acquires no responsibility for failing to inform their students about the failures of communism that occurred as far back as our Civil War. Apparently, City College of New York is more likely to advocate warning labels for what is consumed by the stomach than what is consumed by the mind.
-- Danny L. Newton
Cookeville, Tennessee

Based on the information presented in the article, Joel Barr/Berg is now apparently living (again) in the USA.

If this is true, one question immediately comes to mind: Why is Barr/Berg not in prison? There's no doubt that he is a traitor. He admits that he is guilty of treason against the United States of America. Yet he apparently is not only free, he's capitalizing on his infamy to line his own pockets (and is, of course, a media darling).

If our government can't (or won't) punish those responsible for committing heinous acts of treason against our nation, I suppose we shouldn't dare hope that the editorial staff of the New York Times will be punished for the unlawful disclosure of classified, top-secret information.

They used to say that treason never prospered, because if it did, "None dare call it treason." Now, it not only prospers, it gets seven-figure book deals.
-- Gavin Valle
Peapack, New Jersey

Editor's note: Joel Barr/Joseph Berg died in 1998. He was never charged after his return to the America simply because the U.S. government never pressed the case. On the contrary he received a passport, voted, and obtained SSI and Social Security payments.

THE WHACKY ADJUNCT
Re: Christopher Orlet's Blogs 3, Moonbats, 0:

I am glad you caught this and exposed it. I was not familiar with that website, but I saw the controversy on Michelle Malkin's. Very, very strange. Is it me, or is there a very bizarre element of vituperation characterizing the Left? I have been a supporter of David Horowitz, but I had not realized that we were in some cases such as this one talking about depravity in academe. I thought it was "just" politics.

The question about Ms. Frisch and the University of Arizona is the same that came up with Ward Churchill: who hired and promoted her? Who supervised her work? What is going on? And what is the National Academy of Sciences doing in the picture?
-- Greg Richards

Not since the Vietnam War, all of the protests against the "Military Industrial Complex," the FBI, CIA, and any other government entity that has an enforcement or intelligence authority have we been bludgeoned the tiresome scenario: the little guy getting in his verbal licks against the upper class, or the insular politician with the supportive audience in tow.

It's nice to see it come home to roost when a Churchill or this whack-job Frisch gets a REAL dose of their own romantic vision: "Speaking Truth to Power."

Yeah, we got that...in spades. What are we waiting for?
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

There are a couple of key points that Chris Orlet got wrong in his story. First, Jeff Goldstein considers himself a "classical liberal" (in his own words), so I believe this may disqualify his blog from the conservative moniker. Second, Ms. Frisch is an adjunct instructor, not a professor in any sense of the word, and should not be associated with the label. This information comes directly from Michelle Malkin's blog and Protein Wisdom, specifically a response written by Jeff Goldstein to Inside Higher Ed. I appreciate Chris and the Spectator giving the entire event a high profile, though, and think the coverage is otherwise excellent.
-- Ken Lizotte
Bristol, Vermont

Christopher Orlet replies:
Classical liberalism and conservatism are synonymous, in my book. Dr. Frisch is no longer listed on the University of Arizona website, but is still listed on the University of Oregan's site as "Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences."

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