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...telling that the first and only significant student-organized rally on this campus in the aftermath of that horrible tragedy was organized by The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ). To be sure, the HIPJ had the best of intentions. According to their rhetoric, there’s no harm in spreading the erudite gospel of the university to the public at large. As HIPJ members point out, we might be just 21 years old, but we are 21-year-old students. And we aren’t just students, we are Harvard students. Impressive...
More than two weeks have elapsed since HIPJ responded to the terrorist attack armed with flowers and olive branches. These weapons, representing a reckless dismissal of any military action and a knee-jerk preference for peace and amity, are just as dangerous as the ones our nation will use to defend itself. In the real world, peace is secured by righteous armies...
...planning meeting for the rally, HIPJ members admitted they were the lucky ones—not because their loved ones had been spared from the attack, but because they had been sheltered from the difficult, cynical real world. The student perspective was unclouded; everyone else’s was just bitter. How else could a rational America wish to seek vengeance with a military response? It is the university’s duty to preach the mantra of peace, and to drag the misled masses away from war. Stroked by the warm glow of warped social justice and perverted tolerance...
Harvard encourages us to study philosophy, history and religion. But no “unpacking” of texts can prepare us for brutal, real experience. HIPJ claims to stand for and defend justice. Unfortunately, their understanding of the concept comes from a textbook or, more specifically, from the sourcebook of Professor Michael Sandel’s core class. Their attempt to apply their intangible version of justice to real, perilous threats warrants mockery. And their presumption of omniscience reflects the most criminal consequences of a university community as sheltered as ours...
...hope that in the aftermath of the attack, and in the wake of their imprudent rally for peace, HIPJ and its supporters learn the destructive power of their insolence, and the perilous consequence of mistaking our privileged lives at school as relevant to problems on the outside...