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David R. Hoffman

  • THE INSPIRING STORY OF SPINN DRECK
    15 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following story could be true. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty.
    Nobody knew when Spinn Dreck was born that he would eventually become a man amongst men.
    Like many Americans, Spinn Dreck was influenced by events that occurred during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As a child, his little heart pulsated with excitement when he read about George Lincoln Rockwell and his followers driving a “hate bus” through the American South, and his adrenaline flowed when (…)

  • THE SANITY OF HOPELESSNESS
    5 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Oh say can you see by the fluorescent light
    The politicians we’ve bought at our last corporate meeting?
    Whose venal hearts and deceit wrought health care’s defeat,
    While from boardrooms we laughed and then raised premiums?
    And the wars that were fought for the profits we’ve sought
    Gave proof to our shareholders that freedom is bought.
    Oh say does that banner of corporate fascism now wave,
    O’er democracy’s corpse and the working class slaves?"
    Anthem of (…)

  • BOYCOTT CU, TT & UCB
    27 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ever since America was founded, two of its fundamental institutions—its legal system and its system of higher education—have been synonymous with ethics, integrity and fairness.
    But beneath the Statue of Justice’s blindfold and within the confines of academia’s ivory towers lurk amoralities, mendacities and biases so virulent that even Machiavelli would blush.
    Even those who just cursorily follow the news in America cannot help but notice that scarcely a month (and sometimes scarcely a (…)

  • THE NEW BOURBONS
    25 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The most potent weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Stephen Biko
    “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.” So the saying goes.
    But is it necessarily true?
    What if all the streams, lakes and rivers where this man sought to fish were on private (…)

  • WARD CHURCHILL AND THE DEATH OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM
    11 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is a popular adage that states: “Only two things are certain—death and taxes.”
    Now there is a third: “It is certain that the constitutional rights of the individual will always be sacrificed to appease a governmental and/or economically powerful entity.”
    In a recent Pravda.Ru article entitled A TALE OF TWO ACADEMICS, (Parts I and II), I analyzed the diametrical situations faced by two tenured university professors: Ward Churchill and John Yoo.
    Churchill was fired from his (…)

  • A TALE OF TWO ACADEMICS
    19 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Perhaps the most disturbing ability of human beings is the ability to rationalize anything. And this ability tends to rise in conjunction with the level of irresponsibility or stupidity an individual is attempting to justify.
    Evidence of this reality has been painfully clear in America since the start of the new millennium, which ominously began with the coup of 2000, and the illegal occupancy of the White House by George W. Bush and his inept, deceitful, corrupt cabal of warmongers. (…)

  • SO YOU REALLY THOUGHT THINGS WOULD CHANGE?
    2 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have some good news and some bad news.
    First, the good news: After a thorough and diligent investigation, I have solved twenty-five unsolved murders. I know who the murderers are, I know how they committed their crimes, and I have more than enough evidence to convict them.
    Now for the bad news: I am not going to release any of this evidence or demand that any of these murderers be prosecuted.
    While this may seem anathema to the fundamental concept of justice, I have five reasons (…)

  • TEXAS INJUSTICE: THE TRAGEDY OF TIMOTHY COLE
    20 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Within its borders arguably resides the most corrupt legal system in the United States, if not the world: at one time, to increase the prospect of winning convictions, “training” manuals were circulated in some prosecutors’ offices explaining how to exclude racial minorities from juries; one prosecutor who sent an innocent man to prison later joked about this injustice by boasting, “Anybody can convict a guilty man. It takes talent to convict an innocent one”; an African-American activist (…)

  • YES GEORGE, YOU SERVED YOUR MASTER WELL
    14 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now George it is over. Your Faustian deal gave you eight years of illegal and undeserved power.
    And did you make the most of it! You stole elections without hesitation, you lied without compunction, you started illegal wars without any consideration for international law, you shredded the Constitution without any respect for the check-and-balance system, you opened up concentration camps without any concern for the rule of law, and you maimed, tortured, and murdered without any regard (…)

  • THE BEGINNING OF HOPE?
    7 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David R. Hoffman
    Over twenty-five years ago, in January of 1983 to be precise, I wrote my first newspaper article, arguing for the creation of a federal holiday honoring America’s late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Later that same year a reluctant Ronald Reagan—over the vociferous objections of North Carolina’s rabidly racist Senator Jesse Helms, and the “nay” vote of Arizona Congressman (later to become Arizona Senator) John McCain—signed a bill into law designating (…)