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"From what I have already seen of the workings of the Soviet Government, I can only say that anybody who lifts his hand against it ought to be shot!"This quote is from Paul Robeson, the man who is perhaps most famous for his rendition of the song "Old Man River." Much to Robeson's chagrin, Stalin did in fact kill millions of his own people right around the time Robeson made this comment in the mid 1930s. Robeson attended Rutgers University and has several buildings on campus named for him, including the Paul Robeson Library, and the Paul Robeson Campus Center. Would we expect college staff to protest the naming of several buildings after a man who accepted Stalinism and its crimes with open arms? -No, of course not.
Rutgers happens to be the alma mater of economist Milton Friedman. Friedman was a champion of individual rights and has arguably done more for personal freedom than any other person in the 20th century. In the clip below, Friedman explains why he is in favor of his free market capitalist ideals.
Friedman was the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics, and was also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award offered by the United States to a civilian citizen. With such a positive list of credentials, Friedman should be a shoe-in for naming honors at his old universities of Rutgers, the University of Chicago, and Colombia correct? Wrong. Friedman has no buildings named in his honor at any of these universities, and a recent decision to name an institution within the University of Chicago after Friedman was met with harsh criticism. Who would dare take such a position? Liberal professors of course!
![Death warrant signed by Stalin which lead to the execution of 22,000 non-Stalinist Polish officers. Leftist Paul Robeson must have been proud...is this what Naomi Klein and her liberal buddies prefer? [Source: Wikipedia].](../../pictures/stalin.JPG)
Liberal pundit Naomi Klein spoke at the International House in Fall 2008 and had the following to say about the Friedman building being proposed for the University:
"The Milton Friedman Institute is going to be the academic equivalent of a big yellow Hummer parked in the middle of your beautiful campus: a two hundred million dollar dinosaur gone extinct before the paint is dry." (source Chicagomaroon.com)This remark was preceded by Divinity School Professor, Bruce Lincoln, who said:
"I want to thank all of you and all those beyond this room who share our concerns about the influence of Milton Friedman, Chicago School Economics, neoliberalism, crony capitalism, and the Milton Friedman Institute," [Source: Chicagomaroon.com]
The full complaint by Klein, and the list of liberal professors against the Friedman Institute are to be found here.
Why are Klein, Lincoln, and the list of liberal professors so opposed to a Nobel Prize/ Medal of Freedom winner having a building named after him on a campus where he taught for three decades? Because, unlike Robeson, Friedman didn't support communism, didn't support the cold blooded murder of millions of anti-communists, and he didn't believe that the government should rule your daily existence. Friedman was a champion of individual freedom. Klein and her liberal professor allies are enemies of freedom and the perpetuators of various slanders and lies to the American public chronicled in this article. Naomi, would you support the Friedman Institute if Milton Friedman had not been awarded the Nobel Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom, but rather the Lenin Peace Prize from Joseph Stalin? I guess Paul Robeson's Lenin Peace Prize is just more esteemed by pundits and liberal professors.
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