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Government Making Major

What’s Moves For 2007
Inside: By Adam Doerr

They say that in the world of poli-

surfaced again, in a slightly tweaked fash- (We’re Not
ion. The ordinance breezed through the
tics nothing is certain. This year was city council with even more support than Afraid to
See what the world was certainly no different. From local to
state to national levels there were posi-
before. That was all last semester, and Say It!!)
talking this year in just tives and negatives for Republicans
once students returned back to campus
two pages. Check out the just about everyone was thinking about
and Dem- current ac-
Review’s “Year in Review.” ocrats, tivities, ev-
conser-
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eryone that
is except the
and lib- bar owners,
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Find out the differnce each side
particularly
the owner
between being a good having of Harry’s
its own
leader and “leading good.” victories
Chocolate
Shop, Mary
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ebrate. decided to
At
He’s been to France, then the local
file a lawsuit
to IUPUI, now The Purdue level, all
challenging
the consti-
Review’s got “Dr. Bob” the focus tutional-
Montgomery centered ity of the
on the
....Page 10 smoking
ordinance.
Even when
ban. At it seems like
the be-
Also: Campus Diversions ginning
all is lost,
bar owners certainly know how to put up
for that Boring Class. of the year, the highly touted ordinance a stiff fight.
Comics, and more. came up for a vote on its final reading
and failed, on the swing vote of a RN
It was a very exciting year in state God Bless Us,
politics as well. The short session started
....Page 11 who though it was not strict enough. off with such controversial issues as Major
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The True Meaning of the “Holiday” Season

siers and Americans, that reason is Christ, a girl named Emily and play Joseph. I remember all of the time – that He was
By Chase Slaughter
but even then, I do not believe that He remember those days of my parents car- born for all of us.
has to be the reason for everyone’s sea- rying me to the Christmas Eve service One of my favorite Christmas songs
Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays.
son. There are those among us who cel- already dressed in my pajamas and fall- of all time is “O Holy Night.” There is
Happy Kwanza. Happy Hanukah. It
ebrate other holidays during this time of ing asleep before Bob McClure sang “O a line in that song that goes: “A thrill of
seems that each and every year there
year and, yes, there are those among us Holy Night.” That is Christmas to me. hope, the weary world rejoices for yon-
is another battle raging for Christmas.
who do not celebrate any holiday at all. Something else made me think of der breaks a new and glorious morn.”
What is this battle? Why is it even im-
But whatever the reason for the season is, Christmas this week. I went with a good That’s what this time of year is all about
portant? Aren’t there more important
it is being slightly and utterly degraded friend to see a Christmas program at – a very weary world rejoicing. A world
things to be talking about than what the
each and every year by this argument. I church Saturday night. It was an excel- of sickness, death, war, pain, poverty and
greeter at Wal-Mart should say when
am not even saying that I have to have it lent program and it always brings me everything else; but, for a brief moment,
you come in? Each and every year
my way; you can say “Happy Holidays.” back to the reason why I celebrate this that weary world rejoices and is brought
groups from across all corners of the na-
What I am saying is that people – yes, season of great peace and love and joy. together. This is the reason for my sea-
tion argue what holidays to celebrate and
people, not the government, not Wal- It makes me remember that 2,000 years son, but it doesn’t have to be the reason
how to wish people a merry one. These
Mart or Target, not Hallmark, should be ago a baby boy was born in a manger for your season. That’s the beauty of this
groups range from the American Civil
able to choose how to wish others a hap- to earthly parents. The first people to season – we, Christians, Muslims, Jews,
Liberties Union to Advance America or
py holiday season without fear of lawsuit learn of this boy’s miraculous birth were etc., are all rejoicing for one reason or an-
the American Family Institute and, from
or firing. shepherds in the fields – most interest- other. So, let us be together for the season
what it seems, they all feel very strongly
On Sunday, during the Lafayette – ingly, the very scum of the earth during and drop all of the debates of Christmas,
about the stance that they take. But has
West Lafayette Christmas Parade, I was that time-and later a group of Kings. and just let it believe. Believe whatever
political correctness gone too far? Is it
sitting on our float. I was dressed as an The reason they were the first to know, you like, but let me believe what I like.
really that big of a deal if I say “Merry
elephant and freezing my trunk off when I believe very deeply – is that God was Don’t get mad if I say “Merry Christ-
Christmas” to a Buddhist or a Jew or a
I saw three children walk by decked out proving that Jesus was born for all of mas” and I won’t fell offended if you say
Muslim? I don’t think so, but there again
in their fathers’ bathrobes and it occurred us – the poor and the rich. It is the very “Happy Kwanza.”
I wouldn’t be offended if I were wished
to me, these must be the Three Wise reason why I feel so very connected to Merry Christmas, readers and Happy
a happy Hanukah.
Men. Safe to say, that and other things my fellow man during this season and Holidays!!
Unfortunately, each year as this war
for Christmas rages on, it takes a little put me in the Christmas spirit. I thought why I have a more compassionate and
something out of the reason for the sea- back to when I had to don my Dad’s bath- giving heart than I otherwise do – it is
robe and get up in front our church with remembering something that I should Contact Chase at chslaugh@purdue.edu
son. To me and a vast majority of Hoo-
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Government...
FROM PAGE 1
Moves were debated intensely and vehe-
ment political rhetoric flew across both
sides. Fortunately there was not a major
walk out like the last session. The Repub-
licans maintained the upper hand on a lot
of issues and pushed through in the end.
The Major Moves provision gained sup-
port through local Republicans as well as
less heralded bills including major tele-
communications reform, legalizing out of
state fireworks, and reformed gun laws.
Despite these successes, the Indiana vot-
ers showed their usual unpredictability and
sent the Democrats back into power in the
house in the November elections. In the
State Senate, the Republicans maintained
a majority one seat away from controlling
two thirds of the seats. Was this a backlash
against the Toll Road or was it very effec-
tive campaigning by the Democrats? No
one really seems to know for sure. How-
ever, Daylight Savings Time seems to have
played a major factor with representatives
who voted for the measure being defeated
December, 2006 3
increasing the budget much faster than
ever before. Whatever issue the Repub-
be seen. They always seemed to be at
their best when in the minority, or fac-
licans took up, they seemed to fail to get ing some strict opposition. Already they
any substantive reform passed, whether were clearly talking of a need to return
in the election. Whatever the cause, the immigration, social security, or spending. to “conservative” principles. So from
one thing for certain is that House Speaker It almost seemed like they had become too some Republicans perspective, the na-
Bauer will be sure to liberally use his pow- comfortable with their majority status. tion may not suffer that much, especial-
er to obstruct the Governor’s agenda. This Professor ly if Democrats had to push candidates
is the first time Bert Rockman, a perceived to be more conservative than
he will have to political scientist their GOP opponents.
work with a Re- at Purdue, be- What does next year hold in
publican gov- lieves that voters store? Professor Rockman believes that
ernor, and with were disgruntled the biggest issue will be Iraq followed
a budget year with the way the by health care and the fight for higher
coming up, fire- war was being minimum wage. He views the Demo-
works are sure carried out and crat majorities as too small to allow
to go off. that was the main them to pressure Bush, who can take the
Nation- reason why they initiative on a lot of issues. It will be a
ally, the Repub- voted Republi- fascinating battle. The rhetoric will be
licans were not cans out of office. intense as politicians attempt to win the
doing very well Many people did hearts and minds of the American peo-
Major Moves?
when it came not seem to be surprised. Some ple.
time to the November 2006 even seemed to be relieved, in-
elections. A variety of scandals including cluding Rush Limbaugh who said, “I’m
Mark Foley and Jack Abramoff hurt the tired of carrying water for people who
Republicans politically. Conservative crit- don’t deserve it.” Is this a good thing for Contact Adam at adoerr@purdue.edu
ics blasted Republican leaders for pushing the Republicans? Well, that remains to
through huge pork barrel spending bills,
It’s the Little Saint Nick, Baby
 THE PURDUE REVIEW
The Idea of a University
by Roger Scruton
The American Spectator © November
2006
University education is big business
in America, with the largest turnover of
all economic sectors in the state of Mas-
sachusetts, and a substantial presence in
every other state in the union. It even has
its own settlements: towns like Princeton,
Syracuse, and Cambridge where the entire
economy is centered on higher education.
Alumni shower gifts on these places that
nurtured their growing pains, businesses
retain them as researchers and consultants,
and every politician hopes for an honor-
ary doctorate or a university trusteeship so
as to take up his position among the Great
and the Good. The university is now an
immovable part of the American economy
and to complain that business could func-
tion just as well without it is to misunder-
stand the nature of modern economies.
The most important products of a mod-
ern economy are not solid objects answer-
ing real human needs. They are expend-
able fantasies, which create the appetites
that they satisfy, and which result from
the exhaustive enterprise of consultants,
managers, re-searchers, and designers,
thousands of whom dance invisibly upon
every productive pinhead. The postmod-
ern economy is a vast and elaborate fic-
tion, maintained by the public appetite for
unrealities. Its most important product is
the celebrity, shaped through print, image,
and digital code, and projected into minds
eager for amazement and addicted to the
spectacle of people who exist solely in the
province of dreams. Learning how to en-
ter this economy, and to extract some of
its profits, is an art that is well worth the
expense of acquiring it, and if that is what
the American university teaches then those
astonishing fees, which have no equivalent
in the academies of Europe, would be an
insignificant payment for an incalculable
reward.
During their time on campus many
students are indeed busy trying out their
potential in the celebrity market, and
learning skills like Internet surfing, vita
inventing, and knowledge simulating that
will be genuinely useful in the world out-
side. Such students take full advantage
of the surrounding opportunities for pre-
tense and seduction, and study to acquire
shallow affections that rise and die in the
realm of dreams. However, they are a mi-
nority, and the university offers them no
official support. It is true that you can
teach just about anything on an American
campus, provided your innovations are
not diagnosed as part of some conserva-
tive conspiracy. Nevertheless, the Ameri-
can university, even if it is dominated, in
its vociferous part, by liberal activists, is
not an ideological institution. It remains
centered on scholarship, and retains some
of that aloof unconcern for the real world
that Plato first institutionalized over two
millennia ago.
To the visiting professor, indeed, noth-
ing is more astonishing than the encour-
agement offered by the American univer-
sity to study and research. Although the
university contains departments and pro-
grams dedicated to the “useful arts” and
others devoted to entirely useless arts like
women’s studies, its central curriculum
in the humanities (which are its dominant
December, 2006
courses of study) remains fixed on that
strange thing called scholarship, the util-
ity of which has been neither definitively
proven nor finally disproved. There is more
scholarship produced in America than in
the whole world besides, and in my own
subject of philosophy it is unquestionable
that the best place to teach it, if not to learn
it, is America. The libraries are bursting
with the journals and the books that you
should have read; you are surrounded by
colleagues with the knowledge that you
envy and with an eagerness for discus-
sion that has disappeared from academies
elsewhere. And the students look on their
professors with awe and amazement, as
spectacles that it is worth every cent of
that tuition fee to gaze at.
So what is the exact place of this schol-
arship in the new economy? Who needs it,
and why? It would need the sardonic ge-
nius of a Veblen to give the full story of the
symbiosis that exists between the pursuit
of knowledge and the “knowledge econ-
omy.” But one thing is certain: the word
“knowledge” does not mean the same in
those two occurrences. It is sometimes said
that “information technology” has vastly
increased the extent and accessibility of
human knowledge. But the claim is false.
“Information technology” simply means
the use of digital algorithms in the trans-
ference of messages. The “ information”
that is processed is not information about
anything, nor does it have its equivalent in
knowledge. It treats truth and falsehood,
reality and fantasy as equivalent, and has
no means to assess the difference. Indeed,
as the Internet reveals, information tech-
nology is far more effective in propagating
ignorance than in advancing science. For,
in the conquest of cyberspace, ignorance
has a flying start, being adapted to the hab-
its of idle minds.
Likewise the claim that we exist in
a “knowledge economy” is entirely un-
founded. The effect of information tech-
nology is to give images precedence over
thought and to multiply a thousandfold the
noise that fills the space in which ideas are
conceived and brokered. Hence when it
comes to the great decisions, noise drowns
out the still small voice of understanding.
It was knowledge that enabled those 1,000
British civil servants to govern the vast
subcontinent of India, or a comparable
number of Roman citizens to bring law
and order to the entire civilized world. It
was knowledge painfully acquired from
books and acquired in silence; and it was
acquired because the competing noise had
been carefully filtered out by educational
institutions that created a common frame
of reference among those who attended
them. America today has several million
civil servants, engaged in multiplying and
perpetuating each other’s mistakes, and
the cause of this is information.
Yet there is no doubt that universi-
ties are still in the business of pursuing
and perpetuating knowledge. How is that
knowledge used? The answer is simple:
it is used to make knowledge. Hollywood
makes celebrities, Washington makes pol-
iticians, the universities make knowledge.
Some of the scholars are also celebrities,
but this is not the purpose. Scholarship is
its own purpose, and it consists in continu-
ally adding to the libraries from which it
feeds. Much of the result is unreadable;
most of it is unread. But the process goes
4
on, since it is well funded by those awe- sion. Knowledge and scholarship are im-
inspired students, some of whom will de- portant, but largely because they are the
tach themselves in due course from the handmaidens of culture; and the glory of
milling crowd of spectators and join the the university is contained in its role as
ranks of the scholarly elect. A modern uni- the guardian of a literary and artistic heri-
versity could be compared to an ant-heap, tage. Young people attend university, they
in which the library is queen, her swollen thought, not so as to become scholars, but
body constantly enlarged by the fertile so as to become cultivated. Their time in
scholars that cling to her, and surrounded the cloisters is a rite of passage into the
and protected by the sterile bands of stu- life of the mind, and they are to leave for
dent soldiers. the wider world with an intellectual and
Activities insulated from the sur- emotional framework that would inocu-
rounding world, with no purpose other late them against stupidity, and fit them to
than themselves, may seem to have no take charge of the world. The curriculum
economic function. However, as Veblen was built upon works of lasting value, and
saw, that is to take too narrow a view of the role of the teacher was to provide the
human life. In its own way, the purpose- knowledge and skills required to under-
less is functional. Middle-class parents, stand those works, which exemplified, in
whose children provide the running costs Arnold’s words, “the best that had been
of scholarship, are compelled by the high thought and said.”
tuition fees to work harder, just at the mo- That vision still resonates with many
ment when they might have retired. In this university professors. But it is in conflict
way scholarship ensures that the manag- with the aim of postmodern scholarship.
ers, consultants, advertisers, and media Professors hardly have time to surren-
specialists, who are the primary source of der to their mission as teachers, now that
the fictions on which the modern economy they must produce books and articles in
feeds, go on producing at full throttle. a “field” of their own. Gender studies,
Meanwhile their children, sustained in queer studies, and all the other “studies”
the amniotic fluid of academic life, are that pollute the curriculum do not exist for
learning to delay the moment of engage- ideological reasons—though the ideology
ment. By remaining distracted throughout facilitates their introduction. They exist
those years in which energy, ambition, and to provide new fields of scholarship, new
creativity might otherwise search for a journals, new books, new footnotes. And
real target, they are preparing themselves while this serves the postmodern economy
for their forthcoming life among fictions. as well as anything recommended by Mat-
Nothing would be more damaging to the thew Arnold, it detaches the university yet
economy than the entry of young people further from the culture that, for Arnold at
with ideals and a desire to be useful. The least, was its justifying goal.
young must therefore be provided at this
most dangerous age with a spectacle, one Roger Scruton, the writer and philoso-
in which they cannot join, but which awes pher, is most recently the author of Gentle
them with its arcane and seemingly func- Regrets: Thoughts From a Life (Continu-
tionless perfection. After three or four um).
years of this, they lose the ability to dis-
tinguish reality from fantasy, and go with
a subdued but resigned awareness into
the labyrinth where images trade for im- www.spectator.org
ages, and dreams for
dreams.
Such thoughts
might explain the
persistence of this ex-
pensive and seeming-
ly purposeless institu-
tion, in an age when
scholarship lacks the
theological anchor
that tied it to the faith
and hope of ordinary
people. But they do
not explain why so
many conservatives
feel that the univer-
sities are betraying
their mission.
Let me, then, offer
a tentative suggestion.
Humboldt, Newman,
and Arnold, who were
the first to define the
role of higher educa-
tion in a world of de-
clining faith, believed
that the university is
the home of culture,
and they saw culture
as the depository of
all that the human
heart had achieved by
way of self-knowl-
edge and self-expres-
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The Pursuit of Leadership
By Jeff Crites
Leadership is an elusive concept, but
there are definite traits and qualities that
make a good leader, and sometimes com-
pletely different things that make a leader
good. Leadership is not entirely genetic
and therefore, leaders can be made. But,
what is it that makes a good leader? What
is it that makes a leader good? Can these
things be learned?
I came to Purdue University to pursue
leadership knowledge. Why? Because
leaders can be made and I wanted to know
how I can be made a leader. The path I
chose was through OLS in the School
of Technology. I could have also chosen
management since these two areas of
study work closely with one another. It’s
your choice overall. If you want to lead
you study leadership. If you want to man-
age you study management. Basically,
OLS “leadership” graduates hire MNGT
“management” graduates to manage. The
concepts you may learn (if you chose to
accept the mission) in the two schools are
different, neither better than the other, but
are still useful in different ways.
As it turns out, I believe that leaders
may be made and anyone can learn how to
be a good leader. To “lead good”, a leader
must apply the concept of leadership – and
not everyone can do this. Some people
just don’t have the capacity. They don’t
“think” like a good leader and therefore
will never “lead good.”
There is a difference and I could scream
it from building tops. The sounds of daily
living may very well drown out my mes-
sage but I know Peter F. Drucker would
hear it despite the fact that he is nearly
death
Drucker gets the difference between
leading good and not good leading be-
cause he knows: “Successful leaders don’t
start out asking, ‘What do I want to do?’
They ask, ‘What needs to be done?’ Then
they ask, ‘Of those things that would make
a difference, which are right for me?’ They
don’t tackle things they aren’t good at.
They make sure other necessities get done,
but not by them. Successful leaders make
sure that they succeed! They are not afraid
of strength in others.” (Karlgaard, 2004).
The last part is very important because a
successful leader will surround themselves
with others who are the strongest at what
they do – even stronger than the leader.
Strong leaders become most apparent
when we consider whether leaders are
born or made, whether a person who lacks
charisma can become a leader, and what
makes leaders fail. For the most part, re-
searchers have found that leadership can’t
be explained “by way of intelligence, birth
order, family wealth or stability, level of
education, ethnicity, race, or gender.” (By-
rne, 2003). From one leader to the next,
there is an enormous variance in these
kinds of factors.
In general, research shows that every
leader has undergone at least one intense,
transformational experience – what War-
ren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas of
Harvard Business School call a “crucible.”
These events can either make or break you.
For emerging leaders, they do more mak-
ing than breaking, providing key lessons
to help a person move ahead confidently.
If a crucible helps a person to become
a leader, there are four essential qualities
that allow an emerging leader to remain a
December, 2006
leader, according to Bennis and Thomas.
They are:
• An “adaptive capacity” that lets
people not only survive inevitable
setbacks, heartbreaks, and difficulties
but also learn from them.
• An ability to engage others through
shared meaning or a common vision.
• A distinctive and compelling voice
that communicates conviction and
desire to do the right thing.
• A sense of integrity that allows a
leader to distinguish between good
and evil.
Given these factors, you may consider
yourself a “good leader.” However, you
need to continue to learn about leadership
and development through classroom learn-
ing as well as on-the-job experiences. This
is why I stress you should at least consider
a minor in OLS while you are at Purdue
University.
I’ve been involved in pursuit of this
goal via various methods including ac-
tion learning, simulation, business games,
role-playing, case studies, and actual work
experiences for more than twenty years.
This is an ongoing effort and there are
definitely things I could do personally to
increase my leadership capabilities.
My leadership capabilities are continu-
ally developing through my own conscious
effort. I’ve truly recognized that there is
a difference between being a good leader
and leading good. Additionally, I believe
that leaders are made not born. Many
business leaders believe this also. One
example, as I mentioned earlier, is Peter
F. Drucker. I realized the importance of
following through with these efforts at the
early age.
At that time, I started a journal– mostly
for reference and refinement. I’ve utilized
this journal as a way to understand where
I went wrong and get my ideas written
down so that I have a more concrete way
of beginning to think about them. This has
really paid off for me in my various en-
deavors, both from a business perspective
and from a personal perspective. Whether
or not I’m hiring new employees or devel-
oping new friendships, my journal is a vi-
able starting reference point.
One of the other reasons I use my journal
is so I can elect other leaders who are best
suited for the job. With that said, I think
that it’s important to note two things:
• I never vote for a person without first
meeting them “in person” and dis-
cussing important issues with them.
It doesn’t matter if the candidate is
campaigning for school board or
president, he or she will not get my
vote without first meeting me and
discussing the issues with me.
• And most importantly, I realize that
the United States of America is a
“constitutional republic” and what
really happens is that I cast a vote
for a presidential candidate and that
vote (IF I’m in the majority of votes
cast for a particular candidate in my
state) determines who actually votes
directly for the president (an elector).
By utilizing the Electoral College
system what we are actually doing
is electing the people who elect the
President.
5
With all this in mind, I vote for a presi- nizations are searching for these specific
dential candidate based on “how I feel” things. It very well could be any one of us,
about that candidate. I’ve tried to meet because we’ve all at one time or another
with and discuss issues with every presi- have asked these types of questions and
dent since President Ford. I’ve valued have followed the path of least resistance.
their opinions and I’m thankful for the People that join liberal political move-
time they’ve taken to talk to me and listen ments are, in some ways, like us. Even
to my points of view. This is important to though it is an extreme example, this is
me and I make sure that is known. just the type of persona that we face among
Essentially, people vote with social liberal students in our classes. Leader-
norms and individual computations based ship techniques that utilize (1) immediate
on a process which involves the least material incentives and (2) a path of least
amount of effort. Albert Einstein and resistance are informative, but doomed to
Henry Moore knew this when it came to failure if this is the only basis to a leader’s
science. Robert Fritz and other social sci- leadership style. These techniques are
entists knew that this may be applied in simply not enough.
our everyday lives as well.
Fritz said, “… As wind moves around Its use is obvious and unambiguous
natural obstructions, seeking the path of to any leader, or follower, who has ever
least resistance, so do we attempt to move seen it used before. A good leader might
around the structures of our lives – getting be aware of such techniques, but I believe
by with as few hassles as possible.” (Fritz, they would never fully employ this meth-
1989). It is no surprise that this is how od of leadership.
people cast their votes.
People cast their votes along the paths The lessons from the pursuit of leader-
of least resistance. They vote for attrac- ship:
tive people. They vote for the educated
and those with experience. They vote for • Obtain leadership knowledge from
men who appear powerful and willing to the right place.
take risks in their favor instead of voting • Be a good leader.
for women. This is just the way we are as • Lead good.
humans. It definitely has to do with what • Solve the problems – ask, “What
we want as a leader and it basically boils needs to be done?”
down to who we are as people and how • Make an effort and expect resistance.
we feel about the candidate. This is why • Know that the U.S. is a Constitu-
we elect transformational and charismatic tional Republic, NOT a democracy!
leaders all the time.
Knowing that I have helped to elect Leadership is an elusive concept, but
transformational leaders and now that there are definite traits and qualities that
I’ve read and studied texts concerning this make a good leader. Leadership is not en-
topic, I’ve become a big fan of “follow- tirely genetic and therefore, leaders can be
ership.” To me, followership is very im- made. There are also completely differ-
portant. Many people don’t know how to ent things that make a leader good. These
follow. If you don’t know how to follow, things can be learned and there is hope for
you’ll never be able to lead. all of us that one day hope to lead.
If people do not know how to follow,
they typically fol- Contact Jeff at crites@purdue.edu
low the path of least
resistance. Specifi-
cally, people join lib-
Ronald Regan on
eral political move-
ments because they
are weak, gullible, Leadership
seeking answers, and
desperately need a
sense of purpose,
authority, discipline,
purity, community,
power, wisdom, re-
venge, and salvation.
Generally, the path
of least resistance is
followed and people
are offered immedi-
ate material incen-
tives.
It is obvious after
reading various ar-
ticles on the Branch
Dividians, the Heav-
en’s Gate cult, and Al
Quaida that a leader
of these cult-like
movements could re-
cruit members most
effectively by simply
offering immediate
material incentives ”Surround yourself with the best people you can
and a path of least re- find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as
sistance. The types
of followers that join long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being
these types of orga-
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The Year in Review

JANUARY Pop Culture Phenomenon FEBRUARY
Bush Ap- High School Musical Premieres
points New Let the
on Disney Channel
Supreme Games
The Made-For-TV Movie de-
Court Justice Begin
b u t e d
Judge Sam- Wa t c h
January
uel A. Alito Jr hurling
20 and
was sworn in until you,
became
at the Supreme well, hurl.
the most
Court hours Millions
s u c -
before Presi- tuned in to
cessful
dent Bush’s Turin, Italy
Disney
State of the on Febru-
Channel
Union address, ary 10th,
movie at
replacing retir- where the
its time Watch Where Your Pointing that
ing Justice Sandra Day O’ Connor. His “Passion
with 7.7 Thing, Dick!
congressional vote was the second-nar- Lives Here” for the XX Olympic
million February 11th, Vice President Dick
rowest Supreme Court conformation in Winter Games with the opening cer-
viewers in its premiere broadcast. Cheney accidentally shot and injured
more than a century, 52-48. “He is a emony at the Stadio Olimpico. Ger-
The soundtrack to the film with the Harry Whittington, a lawyer from Aus-
man of deep character and integrity, and many receives the most metals with
working title of Grease 3 went on tin, Texas during a weekend quail hunt-
he will make all Americans proud as a 11 gold, 12 silver, and 6 bronze. The
to become the #1 selling album of ing trip in Texas. Next time they should
justice on our highest court,” said Presi- United States comes in second with
the year. just go fishing instead.
dent George Bush. 25 metals, nine of them gold.

MARCH Rebuilding Freedom APRIL

Scottland Enforces Smoking Ban Oscars Overlook Jolly Ranchers;
C o n - 2006 European Floods
Lafayette is not Crash Instead
struction
the only little ha- In the biggest Oscar upset since Shake-
began on
ven in the world speare beat Tom
the Free-
that is going Hanks, Paul Hag-
dom Tower,
smoke free. The gis’ Crash beats
April 27th,
isle of Scottland out the Ang Lee di-
in New
is putting out their rected Brokeback
York City
cigarettes as well. Mountain in a re-
breaking a
The Smoking, sult that “stunned”
deadlock
Health and Social the New York
between High Danube levels caused significant
Care Act of 2005 moved into effect by Times, suggesting L.A. hometown bias.
the Port flooding in parts of Serbia, Bulgaria and
March 26 after being passed by the Scot- Film critic Kenneth Turan also observed
Authority Romania, damaging property and infra-
tish Parliament last year. No longer can that some Academy members displayed
of New York and New Jersey, which structure near the shores of the river. The
you smoke in restaurants, schools, pubs, “discomfort” with the subject matter of
owns the site, and private developer effects of high water across Southeastern
or in a kilt playing your bagpipes on the Brokeback Mountain. He suggested that
Larry Silverstein. The 1,776-foot Europe were blamed on the poor levee
shores of Loch Ness. You will no longer these voters might have instead voted for
tower is the centerpiece of the rebuild- systems in the affected countries. 32,000
be able to breathe fire. And that goes for Crash so that they could still “feel like
ing effort for the World Trade Center, people were in danger of losing their
you too, Nessie. they were good, productive liberals”,
which was destroyed in the September homes.
hence Crash’s victory.
11, 2001 attacks.

MAY
A Day Without an
Immigrant
Immigrant workers
and suporters stayed
home and abstained
from commerce in
a boycott of United
States schools and
businesses on May 1,
an protest against the
enforcement of U.S.
immigration laws.
The date was chosen to
coincide with May Day, an international
Labor Movement holiday. The organiz-
ers called for supporters to abstain from
buying, selling, working, and attending
school, to demonstrate the extent to which
illegal immigrants’ labor is needed for the
U.S. economy. Supporters of the boycott
rallied in major cities across the U.S. to
demand general vindication and legaliza-
tion programs for such non-citizens.
JUNE
Ozzie Heats Up U.S. Cellular Field
Microsoft A long-
Enron Cheifs Found Guilty; Ken Founder Do- simmering
Lay Dies Before Sentence nating Time feud with
After a 56-day trial ending with a For Charity Chicago Sun-
jury verdict on May 25, Jeffrey Skill- Times colum-
ing and Kenneth Lay were found nist Jay Mari-
guilty for their role in the demise of otti and White
Enron. Skilling was found guilty of Bill Gates, Chairman of the Micro-
Sox Manager
19 out of 28 counts against him, in- soft Corporation announces June 15th
Ozzie Guil-
cluding one count of conspiracy, one he will step down from his daily du-
len boiled
count of insider trading (although he ties in 2008. He wants to shift his daily
over. Mariotti
was acquitted of the other nine counts life to his charity, the Bill and Melinda
wrote a col-
of this particular charge), five counts Gates Foundation. His successors will
umn criticiz-
of making false statements to auditors, be Microsoft Technical Officer Ray
ing Guillen,
and twelve counts of securities fraud. Ozzie Gates, 50, will continue on as the
calling him “senseless and immature,” for
Lay was found guilty of 10 counts company’s chairman after transferring
ordering rookie relief pitcher Sean Tracey
against him; Because each count car- his duties over a two-year period. Gates
to hit Texas Rangers batter Hank Blalock
ried a maximum 5- to 10-year sen- will continue on with the company after
after the White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski
tence, legal experts said Lay could transferring his duties over a two-year
was twice hit by pitches from the Rang-
have faced 20 to 30 years in prison, period.
ers’ Vicente Padilla. Guillen responded by
but passed away on July 5 before his calling Mariotti a “f--” and was fined or-
sentence was carried out. dered to attend sensitivity training.
 THE PURDUE REVIEW
JULY
Israel and Lebanon Conflicts
Israel filed a complaint with the UN
Security Council and UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan, urging the inter-
national community to enforce coun-
cil resolutions calling on the Lebanese
government to disarm all militias within
its borders and to extend its authority
throughout its territory and specifically
to southern Lebanon and its border with
Israel after Hezbollah militants kidnap
two Israeli soldiers
SEPTEMBER
Crikey! Crocodile Hunter Steve
Irwin Killed By Stingray
On September 4, Irwin
was fatally pierced in the
chest by a stingray spine
whilst snorkeling at the
Great Barrier Reef, at Batt
Reef, which is located off
the coast of Port Douglas in
Queensland. Irwin was in the area film-
ing his own documentary. News of his
death brought widespread shock. Aus-
tralian Prime Minister John Howard ex-
pressed his “shock and distress” at the
death, saying that “Australia has lost a
wonderful and colorful son.” Hundreds
of people visited Australia Zoo to pay
tribute to the deceased entertainer and
conservationist.
NOVEMBER
Saddam to be Hanged
Saddam Hussein had been found guilty
on November 5th of crimes against human-
ity in ordering the deaths of 148 Shi’ite
villagers in the town of Dujail in 1982
and sentenced to death by hanging. When
the judge announced the verdict, Saddam
shouted “God is great!” and “Long live
Iraq. Long live the Iraqi people! Down
with the traitors!” The New York Times
later said Saddam Hussein’s verdict and
sentence would “come under review by
the nine-judge appellate chamber of the
trial court. There is no time limit for the
appeal court’s review, but Iraqi and Amer-
ican officials who work with the court said
that the earliest realistic date for Saddam
Hussein’s execution, assuming it stood up
to review, would be next spring.”
December, 2006
**** 2006 ****
MySpace Becomes the Most Visited
Web Site in the U.S. Now that’s some-
thing to blurb about.
News Corp’s MySpace.com surpasses
Yahoo! Mail for the first time, and has
b e - come the
number- one most
visited website in
the Unit- ed States.
Critics have found
that the distance
afford- ed by the
Internet emboldens
members, such as females who feature
photos of themselves in little clothing on
their profile pages, to behave in ways that
they would not behave in person, and that
this duplicity undercuts the central phi-
losophy of MySpace, which is to bring
people together.
The TSA Implicates the 3-1-1 Rule
The Transporta-
tion Security Ad-
ministration (TSA)
announced it is
adjusting its total
ban on liquids, gels
and aerosols which
went into effect
Tuesday, September
26. Travelers will
be allowed to carry
liquids 3 ounce or
less in containers that fit comfortably in
ONE quart-size, clear plastic, zip-top bag
through security checkpoints. Even toilet-
ry items like deodorants are considered for
inspection. Even bottles of water are not
allowed for transportation after UK Police
arrested 21 people in connection to blow-
ing up U.S. aircrafts with liquid-gels.
Democrats In; Rumsfeld Out
The Democratic Party won a majority of
the state governorships and the U.S. House
and Senate seats each for the first time
since 1994. For the first time in the history
of the United States, no Democratic in-
cumbent lost, nor did Republicans capture
any open House, Senate, or Gubernatorial
seat previously held by a Democrat. The
final Senate result was decided when Dem-
ocrat James Webb was declared the winner
in Virginia. Allen and fellow Republican
incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns (Mont.)
both conceded defeat, ceding control of the
Senate to the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi be-
came the first-ever woman speaker of the
house. The Associated Press then reported
on November 8, that U.S. Secretary of De-
fense Donald Rumsfeld after facing criti-
cism from war generals. President Bush
nominated Robert Gates for the position.
Pluto Gets the Boot Out of Our Solar
System
The International Astronomical Union
(IAU) come up with a definition of what
a planet officially is. Pluto doesn’t fit the
definition because it failed to dominate its
orbit around the sun in the same manner
that other planets do. Planets, in order to
be called planets, must: orbit around the
sun, be large enough that it takes a round
shape, and must be clear of other objects
in its orbit of other objects. Pluto has been
officially “demoted” to the status of dwarf
planet. All astronomical textbooks will
now have to be changed.
Six killed in Amish School Shooting
The shooting occurred on the morn-
ing of Monday, October 2, Charles Carl
Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-tank truck
driver took hos-
tages and even-
tually killed five
girls (ages 7–13)
and himself at
West Nickel
Mines School, a
one-room Amish
schoolhouse in
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. This marked
the third school shooting in the United
States in less than a week after the Platte
Canyon High School shooting on Septem-
ber 27 and Weston High School shooting,
on September 29. The village decided to
have the school bulldozed to the ground
but the brethren community wish to for-
give Roberts for his actions.
AND INTROUDCING THE
NUMBER ONE THING TO DO IN
2006:
APOLOGIZING
You heard it straight from
the horse’s mouth. At least he
wouldn’t have said anything
bad about our troops, Mus-
lims, the Jews, or Michael J.
Fox. Or would he? Seems ev-
erywhere you went this year,
someone was sticking their
foot in their mouth. Luckily
you can always blame it on
the alcohol. Or on that pri-
vate detective sitcom you had
that no one ever saw. Hey, no
one is perfect. We all botch
a few jokes every once in a
while, even the ones who are
too smart to fight in Iraq. So
before the year lets out, don’t
forget to turn to someone and
say “I’m Sorry.” Maybe next
year, we will learn to forgive
and forget.
7
AUGUST
Scotland
Yard Foils Ter-
rorist Plot to
Blow-Up Air-
craft
British Police
Arrest 21 people
in connection
with a terrorist
plot, a plot “in-
tended to be mass murder on an unimagi-
nable scale,” Metropolitan Police Deputy
Commissioner Paul Stephenson said. The
plot involved hiding liquid explosives in
carry-on luggage, and six to 10 flights
would have been targeted according to re-
ports. U.S. President George W. Bush said
the plot was “a stark reminder that this na-
tion is at war with Islamic fascists who
will use any means to destroy those of us
who love freedom, to hurt our nation.”
OCTOBER
Korea Nuclear Testing
On October 3, North
Korea announces plans
to conduct a nuclear test.
The first test is conducted
three days later an un-
derground facility at Gilju in North Ham-
gyong province. President George W.
Bush, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and
South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun,
are among world leaders to condemn
North Korea’s nuclear testing, calling it
“provocative”, “irresponsible” and “a se-
rious threat to peace”, respectively. The
United Nations Security Council adopts
Resolution 1718, imposing sanctions on
North Korea in response to their recent
nuclear test. Bush on October 14 declares
the UN Security Council has taken “swift
and tough” action and sent a clear message
to North Korea about its nuclear weapons
program.
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Spotlight on Academia:
Professor Robert Montgomery a.k.a. Dr. Bob
Associate Professor of Engineering
by Ryan Bourlier he finally came to Purdue University for
The average student never meets his
or her professors. I would know; I’ve been
an average student ever since I stepped
foot on campus, and I have never once met
any of my professors, until now. In a re-
cent urge, I have decided to try to increase
student awareness of Purdue University’s
most valuable resource, its teaching staff.
So, every month I will interview a new
Purdue professor and write a mini-biogra-
phy to appear here in the Purdue Review.
Dr. Bob, the preferred nickname
of one of Purdue’s most well liked pro-
fessors, started out as a “military brat” by
his own description. He lived and went to
high school in Paris, France on the week-
days, and would be bused back to the US
military base in Fontainebleau for the
weekends where his parents lived. While
traveling with his parents, in France or
wherever, Dr. Bob would dream of being
a scientist with the U.S. government, us-
ing his skills in math to achieve whatever
goals set out before him. All things do
come to an end however and when then
French President Charles de Gaulle oust-
ed American troops from France Dr. Bob
did come home. He spent some more time
training and working hard in school when
December, 2006
the first time.
He graduated from Purdue Uni-
versity with a bachelors degree in civil
engineering and started to work in the
transportation engineering area. After
a brief stint with the Washington, DC
Department of Transportation, Dr Bob
switched his attention to the University
of Maryland, where he got his MS in
Transportation Engineering. His next
position, with the City of Indianapolis,
had him looking for a part-time job to
supplement his income, so he spent some
time working Friday and Saturday nights
at Pizza Hut until his wife’s uncle sug-
gested he contact IUPUI. There, he was
hired to teach a night class in FORTRAN
programming. This first class opened his
world up to new possibilities and slowly
led him to where we know him today.
After that Dr. Bob finished up his PhD
at Iowa St. and started to teach at Purdue
and the rest is evident today.
Dr. Bob currently spends his
time taking care of his students, whether
that be writing up difficult homework
problems (firetruck/robotic arm), writing
even more difficult exams, or helping stu-
dents get through either or both of those.
Dr. Bob calls this working for the students
and explains that this is the reason he
stayed a teacher. He enjoys helping stu-
8
dents achieve their best and likes spend-
ing time with them, in fact, he wishes
he could spend more time working for
his students and less time doing admin-
istrative work. In his spare time Dr. Bob
can be found helping out at his church
or playing his 1977 Rickenbacker 4001
bass guitar which he has been learning
to play for the past couple years. He is
also notorious for his trombone playing,
bicycle riding, and singing, but be care-
ful of his Karaoke.
One of Purdue’s most able pro-
fessors, Dr. Bob has graced the halls of
Engineering for many years past and
hopefully for many years to come. If he
does happen to leave this university, it
will be most likely be to spend his well
earned paychecks in the mountains of
North Carolina or on Missouri’s Lake of
the Ozarks.
Words of Wisdom: Dr. Robert “Bob” Montgomery
1) “Make studying your full time
day job.” stay on campus from your
first class to your last class and do your
homework and study, that will free up
your evenings for some R&R.
2) Get adequate sleep, nutrition, and
exercise.
Contact Ryan at rbourlie@purdue.edu
 THE PURDUE REVIEW
THE PURDUE REVIEW IN REVIEW 2006:
The Case for Limited Government (From Vol. 1, Issue 1)
by Neal Evens
The American government today has
grown far beyond its duties and limita-
tions. The purpose of a government is to
protect its nation’s people and interests,
not regulate the lives of its citizens. Our
current system has become a trillion-dol-
lar international business, a growth that
has resulted in greed and corruption in
every branch of the federal government.
While politicians should be civil servants,
they are businessmen, often serving their
own self-interests before those of the na-
tion. Thus politics for many has become a
lifelong career, not the temporary service
that was intended by the founders of this
country.
During the Constitutional Convention,
Benjamin Franklin considered proposing
that elected government officials not be
paid for their service. While a volunteer
job may not always attract the most able
minds, this is a stark contrast to the cur-
rent salaries of US congressmen. Most
members of the House of Representatives
and Senate currently make $158,100 a
year, as well as receiving a yearly pension
after leaving office. I quote Ron Paul, R-
Texas, on the issue, “Members of Con-
gress are elected by the people to handle
the affairs of this nation in a responsible,
efficient manner, not to enrich themselves
Thank You Neal For the Really, Really Awesome Pictures
December, 2006
for a lifetime…to participate in a pension
plan at taxpayer’s expense would for me
be hypocritical and immoral,” and Paul
Sperry, journalist, “congressional pensions
provide double to triple the benefits offered
by most private employers, studies show.
In fact, they are so generous that some for-
mer lawmakers’ annual pensions are twice
as high as their pre-retirement congressio-
nal salary.” Also, lawmakers and staffers
can retire with a guaranteed full pension at
age 50 after 20 years of service, whereas
most Americans must wait until they are at
least 60. Only treason can strip lawmakers
of their pension; former Ways and Means
Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski
was convicted of embezzling and still re-
ceived yearly benefits of nearly $100,000.
Compared to American workers, 85 per-
cent of who work in the private sector, few-
er than four out of ten even have a pension,
which may not be guaranteed, and averages
at a fixed $7,500 a year; congressional pen-
sions are adjusted to keep up with inflation.
Bringing congressmen’s payment plans in
line with those of the rest of the nation
would save taxpayers about $100 million a
year according to Money magazine. Not an
amount to be shrugged off in today’s era of
huge deficit spending.
As the government grows larger and
more powerful, the people in effect be-
come weaker. One may argue that the gov-
Photos of the Year By Neal Evans
ernment is a representation of the people.
I argue that most politicians are very far
removed from the average American,
and rightly so. The average American is
probably not capable of running a coun-
try, but at the same time these politicians
are abusing their responsibility. They are
simply securing their own well-being by
wasting what time they do spend in ses-
sion. There are limits to what the govern-
ment can and should do, and our lawmak-
ers are creating a false aura of importance
about what they do. How can a politician
expect to receive these compensations in
a limited government? They cannot. Con-
gress must keep busy enough and appear
important enough to receive their cushy
pay and pensions.
So how many hours does congress
spend debating petty issues? And how
many are wasted on the important ones
due to an inefficient system? How about
the congressional committee to deal with
steroid use by professional baseball play-
ers, or the 57-day filibuster in 1964? Con-
gressmen in the south used to filibuster
Civil Rights bills by talking for hours or
days on end. After a certain required time
for discussing a bill, a senator may say
whatever he or she wants, even read out
of a book. This is not the best utilization
of the government’s time or America’s
tax dollars, nor is debating an overblown
9
ballgame. Congress should convene to co-
operatively and effectively pass bills that
will resolve the nation’s pressing and rel-
evant issues.
Under the idea of limited government,
the job of lawmakers would be to protect
the nation from attack, regulate business
to an extent, and promote freedom and
democracy throughout the world. Heavy
regulations and taxes only serve to stifle
the country. Politicians impose pollution
control laws and numerous taxes whereas
scientists and engineers find cleaner and
more efficient ways to produce goods.
Instead of imposing heavy trade tariffs
and alienating foreign countries, perhaps
the government should be convincing the
rest of the world to grant human rights and
enact basic pollution controls. This would
level the playing field as far as manu-
factured goods as well make the world a
cleaner and more pleasant place to live.
The politician, if acting improperly, is a
leech on society, while the minds that in-
novate and create are those who advance
the world. These minds need to be free to
invent and utilize what is available rather
than be stifled by the rule of an imposing
government.
Edit November 2006
Contact Neal at nevans@purdue.edu
 THE PURDUE REVIEW
Student Critique on National Issues:
In Prgogress: Destroying America?
Submitted by H.P. Sayler
It’s nice to make everyone happy,
give everyone what they want and accom-
modate to everyone’s needs, but let’s re-
member the majority here. Sure, it’s fine to
spend millions of dollars every year to give
every race an equal opportunity, but there
are some things that just grind my gears. It
seems you can’t buy a product in today’s
society without getting and surely paying
for extra instructions in every language
known to man. I think that companies
should start offering an English-only line
of products at a reduced price. Why should
I have to help pay a person’s salary for
translating instructions that I don’t need?
This example is just one of COUNTLESS
annoying and unneeded services provid-
ed in America where the majority speaks
English. I feel like I’m just supporting the
cause of the problem, which are people
avoiding to learn English even though they
live in America. This is a whole other issue
all together, but I had to touch upon it.
At this point I would like to pres-
ent to you with an article that brings to-
gether everything I am trying to get at and
is very well stated. I received the following
article in an e-mail some time ago and can-
not prove its validity, but its main point is
what is important and cannot be summed
up any better. I find the following article
very stimulating and true to life.
***************
We know Dick Lamm as the former
Governor of Colorado. In that context his
thoughts are particularly poignant. Last
week there was an immigration overpopu-
lation conference in Washington, D.C.,
filled to capacity by many of America’s
finest minds and leaders.
A brilliant college professor by
the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked
about his latest book, “Mexifornia,” ex-
plaining how immigration- both legal and
illegal was destroying the entire state of
Californian. He said it would march across
the country until it destroyed all vestiges of
The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado
Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and
gave a stunning speech on how to destroy
America. The audience sat spellbound as
he described eight methods for the destruc-
tion of the United States. He said, “If you
believe that America is too smug, too self-
satisfied, too rich, then let’s destroy Amer-
ica. It is not that hard to do. No nation
in history has survived the ravages of time.
Arnold Toynbee observed that all great
civilizations rise and fall and that, “‘An au-
topsy of history would show that all great
nations commit suicide.’”
“Here is how they do it,” Lamm said:
First, to destroy America, turn America
into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicul-
tural country. History shows that no na-
tion can survive the tension, conflict, and
antagonism of two or more competing
languages or cultures. It is a blessing for
an individual to be bilingual; however, it
is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The
historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it
this way: “The histories of bilingual and
bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate
are histories of turmoil, tension, and trag-
edy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Leb-
anon all face crises of national existence in
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which minorities press for autonomy, if not
independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have
divided. Nigeria suppressed and ethnic
rebellion. France faces difficulties with
Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.’”
Lamm went on: Second, to de-
stroy America, “Invent ‘multiculturalism’
and encourage immigrants to maintain their
culture. I would make it an article of belief
that all cultures are equal. That there are
no cultural differences. I would make it an
article of faith that the Black and Hispanic
dropout rates are due solely to prejudice
and discrimination by the majority. Every
other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, “We could make the United
States a ‘Hispanic Quebec’ without much
effort. The key is to celebrate diversity
rather than unity.
As Benjamin Swarz said in the Atlantic
Monthly recently: “The apparent success
of our own multiethnic and multicultural
“‘History shows that no nation can
survive the tension, conflict, and
antagonism of two or more competing
languages or cultures.’”
“I would develop a mantra: That
because immigration has been good for
America, it must always be good.”
experiment might have been achieved not
by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the
dominance that once dictated ethnocentric-
ity and what it meant to be an American,
we are left with only tolerance and plural-
ism to hold us together.
Lamm said, “I would encourage all im-
migrants to keep their own language and
culture. I would replace the melting pot
metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It
is important to ensure that we have vari-
ous cultural subgroups living in America
enforcing their differences rather than as
Americans, emphasizing their similari-
ties.”
“Fourth, I would make our fastest grow-
ing demographic group the least educated.
I would add a second underclass, unassim-
ilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to
our population. I would have this second
underclass have a 50% dropout rate from
high school.”
“My fifth point for destroying America
would be to get big foundations and busi-
ness to give these efforts lots of money. I
would invest in ethnic identity, and I would
establish the cult of Victimology. I would
get all minorities to think that their lack
of success was the fault of the majority. I
would start a grievance industry blaming
all minority failure on the majority popula-
tion.”
“My sixth plan for America’s downfall
would include dual citizenship, and pro-
mote divided loyalties. I would celebrate
diversity over unity. I would stress dif-
ferences rather than similarities. Diverse
people worldwide are mostly engaged in
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hating each other- that is, when they are Third World as corporations create a Third
not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, World in America- take note of California
or stable, society is against most historical and other states- to date, ten million illegal
precedent. People undervalue the unity it aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent
takes to keep a nation together. Look at the of George Orwell’s book “1984.” In that
ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that story, three slogans are engraved in the
they belonged to the same race; they pos- Ministry of Truth building: “War is peace,”
sessed a common language and literature; “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is
and they worshipped the same gods. All strength.”
Greece took part in the Olympic Games. Governor Lamm walked back to his
A common enemy, Persia, threatened their seat. It dawned on everyone at the confer-
liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong ence that our nation and the future of this
enough to overcome two factors: local pa- great democracy is deeply in trouble an
triotism and geographical conditions that worsening fast. If we don’t get this immi-
nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. gration monster stopped within three years,
“E. Pluribus Unum”- From many, it will rage like a California wildfire and
one. In that historical reality, if we put destroy everything in its path, especially
the emphasis on the ‘pluribus,’ instead of The American Dream.
the ‘Unum,’ we will balkanize America as
surely as Kosovo.” ************
“Next to last, I would place all Our country can’t expect to keep
subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk at its current pace of acceptance. The coun-
try and the people here simply cannot take
it. Sure, people say that other races may be
the majority in a certain number of years
and such, but that hasn’t happened yet. I
also think that recent illegal alien legisla-
tion will tremendously impact growing mi-
nority numbers. To an extent, I feel that the
majority population in this country would
fall under the category reverse discrimina-
tion. This is due to the many exceptions
being made to put the minority in a more
positive light. Anytime a minority doesn’t
receive what they see as equal to the major-
ity, they do one thing- complain. No other
word could be used to describe this, but
the point is, they do this until they get their
way. Why should the majority give in to
such a small minority? They do to receive
votes and not be accused of the word ev-
eryone is afraid of, racist.
about anything against the cult of ‘di-
versity’. I would find a word similar to
‘heretic’ in the 16th century – that stopped
discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words
like ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobe’ halt discussion Do you have any thoughts
and debate. Having made America a bilin- or opinions on this or other
gual/bicultural country, having established
multiculturalism, having the large founda- issues?
tions fund the doctrine of ‘Victimology,’ I
would make it impossible to enforce our
immigration laws. I would develop a man-
Let us know
tra: That because immigration has been ThePurdueReview@aol.com
good for America, it must always be good.
I would make every individual immigrant
symmetric and ignore the cumulative im-
pact of millions of them.”
In the last minute of his speech,
Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound
silence followed. Finally he said, “Lastly, I
would censor Victor Hanson Davis’s book
“Mexifornia”. His book is dangerous. It
exposes the plan to destroy America. If
you feel America deserves to be destroyed,
don’t read that book.”
There was no applause. A chill-
ing fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud
above every attendee at the conference.
Every American in that room knew that
everything Lamm enumerated was pro-
ceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet
pervasively across the United States today.
Discussion is being suppressed.
Over 100 languages are ripping the foun-
dation of our educational system and
national cohesiveness. Even barbaric
cultures that practice female genital muti-
lation are growing as we celebrate ‘diver-
sity.’ American jobs are vanishing into the
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