Related: No Free Speech at UMass
Of course, we all know there are different strokes for different folks here in AmeriKa.
"Spitzer draws line between policy, personal ethics; Harvard speech steers clear of scandal, mostly" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | November 13, 2009
.... The madam of the prostitution ring that was broken by the FBI sent a letter for the center’s director questioning how Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer could be welcomed, while she is serving five years of probation, cannot leave New York during that time, and must register as a sex offender “for pleading guilty to providing him with call-girls.’’
Kristen Davis, who writes a blog calling herself, “The Manhattan Madam,’’ said in the letter that, “I deplore hypocrisy and abhor public officials who use their power to commit and cover up their own crimes and to lie and deceive the same public they have promised to protect.’’
Oh, I LIKE HER!!! How much for an hour of your time?
(I just want to TALK, readers!)
The center’s director, Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School, said in a statement and to the crowd yesterday that he does not condone Spitzer’s past, but said the former governor was invited to speak at a lecture focusing on finances, “because he has an extraordinary breadth of experience as both a governor and prosecutor involving institutional corruption issues in the financial sector.’’
Would they invite a rapist? A terrorist?
They may have important things to say on certain topics!
Lessig said he never received a letter from Davis, and that the invitation to speak at Harvard was unrelated to the actions that forced Spitzer to resign....
Yeah, not in his case!
Related:
"Spitzer was likely a target of a White House and Wall Street operation to silence one of its most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis."
Yeah, that is why he REALLY had to resign!
They have SOMETHING on EVERY ONE of them, don't they?
Tara Jayaratnam, a student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, said society tends to hold public officials to high standards, often overseeing the expertise they may be able to bring to a debate. “It was good he came, and I’m glad Harvard had the courage to bring him, because we had to hear that voice,’’ she said.
The *ew must be allowed to speak, right?
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Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’
The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US’s money supply — is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble after bubble” in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York.
Well, they don't want to hear that!
Did he say that at the conference and you just didn't report it, Glob?
