Thank you for making the stands that you have! I appreciate and respect your courage, your competence and your perseverance. I'm offering the following suggestion for support.
You urged asserting that, "We do not believe that the new, unprecedented federal Department of Justice 'task force' has any right to come to our campus without our invitation." It's important to emphasize that "rights" belong to persons and to emphasize that public servants possess mere "powers." Our Constitution repeatedly expressly emphasizes that crucial distinction.
The Preamble emphasizes that "We the People" created our "Constitution" and "Union" to "establish Justice" and "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves." Three times (in Section 1 of Articles I, II and III) our Constitution emphasized that We the People merely "vested" only part of our sovereign "powers" in our public servants in each branch of government. The Ninth Amendment expressly emphasized a principle that was implicit in the original Constitution: all "rights" are "retained by the people." The Tenth Amendment did the same. It expressly re-emphasized that We the People "by the Constitution" merely "delegated to the United States certain limited "powers" and "prohibited by it [our Constitution] to the States" certain "powers" (e.g., in Article I, Section 10 and Amendments XIII, XIV, XV, XIX, XXIV and XXVI) and we "reserved to the States" certain powers and "reserved" to "the people" all residual "powers."
So the crucial question is whether We the People vested power in the DOJ (or the president) to do what they're doing. The First Amendment emphasizes rights and powers that the people necessarily retained, e.g., freedom of thought, expression, association (including at universities). No public servant was given or can possess any power to retaliate against any of us for exercising our First Amendment rights or freedoms.
This is one of the most powerful and important comments I have read on Substack. Chaos rules right now and we must have secure moorings for our sanity and fortitude; your words here, Jack, are a secure port in this storm. Thank you!
I'm afraid you're right (chaos rules right now). My comment, by the way, also shows much of the precise text of the Constitution that proves that six SCOTUS justices lied in Trump v. United States when they pretended that something in our Constitution somehow delegated power to the president to engage in abuses of power that Congress (and a previous president) made criminal.
As Article I emphasized, "All legislative Powers" (all powers to make law) we "vested" in "Congress." Article II emphasized that we "vested" in the "President" only "Power" to "execute the Office of President of the United States" in a manner fully "faithfully" to our Constitution, including "to the best of" the president's "Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," including by "tak[ing] Care that [all] Laws be faithfully executed." No SCOTUS justice actually believed those words delegated to the president the power to engage in abuses of power that Congress (and a previous president) made criminal with a federal statute for the purpose of protecting the people from abuses of power. So the SCOTUS justices just ignored (violated) the text of the Constitution (and federal statutes) that proved their own conduct was blatantly unconstitutional. Our so-called judges on SCOTUS are, to a significant extent, to blame for the chaos that rules right now.
I didn’t know the full story till now. How despicable. I admire and applaud you so much for standing your ground and for being an important voice in the times. ❤️🇨🇦
It is stunning to me that a person such as Dershowitz - a highly intelligent, highly educated person- can be usurped by 'The Dark Side'. How? When one looks at the litany of offenses attributed to trump, with nothing to counter them, the natural reaction is to move away, distance oneself. Yet we see SO many people of Dershowitz's stature mingling and agreeing with the lawless. I see it here in my home in Northeast Ohio, and everywhere we look. Just stunning, and SO wastefully sad.
We are all now subject to the sadistic rages of the mediocre “disappointed White man”. They feel entitled to all the success and power and wealth by “birthright” and are bent on punishing us all for their failures.
Dersch was never highly intelligent. Anybody who has followed is career knows that he's a mediocre lawyer, despicable human being and only way he has got fame is because he's highly corrupted. Psychopaths can demonstrate fake intelligence and fake intellect.
I wouldn’t call Dersh a Yid. That’s somewhat offensive to all Jews, and we are not all like him. Instead, the correct Yiddish term is putz, or schmuck, katzenkop, actually Yiddish has thousands of words to apply to Dersh.
I was just going to remark about the use of “Yid.” Dr. Lee, please apologize. I’m not Jewish but have family who are. It’s a well-known offensive term, sometimes called “The Y word.”
Saying this is inadequate, but thank you for continuing to fight for those of us who didn’t vote for Trump. Actually, you are fighting for America, but slightly more than half the population can’t see that.
It still flabbergasts me how Dr. Lee was treated so unfairly, that is, abused, and the perpetrators got away with it! The irony is that she became a target of the very danger about which she warned. But she thankfully persists!
I like how Retired Army General Xenakis describes the process of removing a mentally unfit person in the military, that is 'if you see something, say something.' As voters and politicians are educated ASAP on public mental health then more dangerous mentally unfit politicians will be prevented from committing destructive behavior.
"Stephen Xenakis-Fitness for Duty Exams: Preventing Autocratic Abuse"
Everyone needs to encourage open inquiry and debate about significant and controversial issues (including this newsletter’s community), one of which is the “where does human bias come from” issue. In my debatable opinion, there are two options. Option 1 is to understand—and Option 2 is to misunderstand—the Libet experiment.
Benjamin Libet’s famous experiment is arguably the most important experiment in the history of the field of psychology. My debatable opinion is that it is the most important experiment in the entire history of science.
Option 1 reveals that the unconscious mind detects a conflict of interest, chooses between a “right is might” or a “might is right" approach, and forms unconscious intent in roughly one third of a second. What is the conscious mind doing? Waiting for unconscious intent to tell it what to do. Hopefully, it will be tasked with discovering that which is “right,” and then the intent will be to act based on that discovery.
Is Option 2 one of many manifestations of a “might makes right” response? That’s debatable, but it is my opinion.
On February 27, 1860, in his Cooper Union campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln—who would go on to prove himself to be an expert on violence—was expressing his understanding of its cause when he said, “Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
In my debatable opinion, a reflexive “might makes right” response is not only a bad habit, but also a bad seed, and violence is its fruit. Alternatively, and to paraphrase Aristotle, we are what we repeatedly do. A “right makes might” response to a conflict of interest is not an act, but a good habit.
It's a good thing that Arnold Schwarzenegger possesses brain muscle as well as body muscle. 400 million US dollars is a lot of money and it will take a long case and strenuous measures to recover the budgetary shortfall. This may be an opportune time for Columbia University and all other universities and institutions of learning at all levels, both in America and globally, to prioritize distance and online learning. The surest, most cost-effective method of fulfilling the basic human right for every human to access continuing education and equipping for successful, remunerated participation in society is through prioritizing distance and online learning in government and in private spheres, which also grows enrollments by including all ages and statuses (employed, unemployed, self-employed, etcetera). The continuing demand for onsite based education is continuing to bottleneck planetary education on Earth with comprehensively catastrophic effects. G-d bless!
Most people are unaware of Alan Dershowitz’s lengthy history as a professor at Harvard Law School. Do a Google search or start by reading the article link below. But, very few are aware of his silencing of a well known journalist at the Boston Globe, Mike Barnicle. To understand Alan Dershowitz’s tactics, one should consider how he ‘crucified’ Mike B for an article he wrote in 1990. It seems Dershowitz over his lifetime has skirted the truth and when accusations against him are not to his liking he relentlessly pursues the accusers. According to the report, Mike Barnicle wrote: ...."Or the time he told me and a friend as we stood by the Out-Of-Town-News stand that, in Al’s exact words, “I love Asian women, don’t you? They’re so submissive.”" Consistent with that allegation and his history, it's interesting that Dershowitz went so swift and hard at Dr. Lee.
In his book “Abuse Excuse” (1994), Dershowitz complained about victims of domestic violence and leans into his attacks on ‘feminism’. It’s rumored as well, that AD has meddled in the family court system. He’s written about his support of ‘parental alienation’ which is used to protect the ‘abuser’ in custody cases. (Dr. Lee’s personal family: story https://cafemom.com/parenting/catherine-kassenoff-domestic-abuse-mothers) There are many articles written about Alan D. Again, do a Google Search. The articles often are favorable and telling about the power of a man that the writers know has a trail of unethical and immoral behavior. His history reads like the character in the film “Catch Me if You Can”.
Alan Dershowitz is only one of many powerful, white men in society who’ve demonstrated they will crush any institution or ruin anyone's reputation simply because they can. It seems to take a lot more to prove malice of men like Dershowitz than it does to defend truth, facts and integrity.
Dershowitich alternative reality. Wake up on notice Tesla and Twitter are under siege by dark star which may be Russian. Beware Russia is recruiting via LinkedIn. My sources are Andy McCabe and Rachel. If you are disgruntled be aware.
Thank you for making the stands that you have! I appreciate and respect your courage, your competence and your perseverance. I'm offering the following suggestion for support.
You urged asserting that, "We do not believe that the new, unprecedented federal Department of Justice 'task force' has any right to come to our campus without our invitation." It's important to emphasize that "rights" belong to persons and to emphasize that public servants possess mere "powers." Our Constitution repeatedly expressly emphasizes that crucial distinction.
The Preamble emphasizes that "We the People" created our "Constitution" and "Union" to "establish Justice" and "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves." Three times (in Section 1 of Articles I, II and III) our Constitution emphasized that We the People merely "vested" only part of our sovereign "powers" in our public servants in each branch of government. The Ninth Amendment expressly emphasized a principle that was implicit in the original Constitution: all "rights" are "retained by the people." The Tenth Amendment did the same. It expressly re-emphasized that We the People "by the Constitution" merely "delegated to the United States certain limited "powers" and "prohibited by it [our Constitution] to the States" certain "powers" (e.g., in Article I, Section 10 and Amendments XIII, XIV, XV, XIX, XXIV and XXVI) and we "reserved to the States" certain powers and "reserved" to "the people" all residual "powers."
So the crucial question is whether We the People vested power in the DOJ (or the president) to do what they're doing. The First Amendment emphasizes rights and powers that the people necessarily retained, e.g., freedom of thought, expression, association (including at universities). No public servant was given or can possess any power to retaliate against any of us for exercising our First Amendment rights or freedoms.
This is one of the most powerful and important comments I have read on Substack. Chaos rules right now and we must have secure moorings for our sanity and fortitude; your words here, Jack, are a secure port in this storm. Thank you!
I'm afraid you're right (chaos rules right now). My comment, by the way, also shows much of the precise text of the Constitution that proves that six SCOTUS justices lied in Trump v. United States when they pretended that something in our Constitution somehow delegated power to the president to engage in abuses of power that Congress (and a previous president) made criminal.
As Article I emphasized, "All legislative Powers" (all powers to make law) we "vested" in "Congress." Article II emphasized that we "vested" in the "President" only "Power" to "execute the Office of President of the United States" in a manner fully "faithfully" to our Constitution, including "to the best of" the president's "Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," including by "tak[ing] Care that [all] Laws be faithfully executed." No SCOTUS justice actually believed those words delegated to the president the power to engage in abuses of power that Congress (and a previous president) made criminal with a federal statute for the purpose of protecting the people from abuses of power. So the SCOTUS justices just ignored (violated) the text of the Constitution (and federal statutes) that proved their own conduct was blatantly unconstitutional. Our so-called judges on SCOTUS are, to a significant extent, to blame for the chaos that rules right now.
I didn’t know the full story till now. How despicable. I admire and applaud you so much for standing your ground and for being an important voice in the times. ❤️🇨🇦
It is stunning to me that a person such as Dershowitz - a highly intelligent, highly educated person- can be usurped by 'The Dark Side'. How? When one looks at the litany of offenses attributed to trump, with nothing to counter them, the natural reaction is to move away, distance oneself. Yet we see SO many people of Dershowitz's stature mingling and agreeing with the lawless. I see it here in my home in Northeast Ohio, and everywhere we look. Just stunning, and SO wastefully sad.
We are all now subject to the sadistic rages of the mediocre “disappointed White man”. They feel entitled to all the success and power and wealth by “birthright” and are bent on punishing us all for their failures.
Dersch was never highly intelligent. Anybody who has followed is career knows that he's a mediocre lawyer, despicable human being and only way he has got fame is because he's highly corrupted. Psychopaths can demonstrate fake intelligence and fake intellect.
Dershowitz is as despicable as the orange sadist and the muskrat. (Don't have a descriptive name for him yet.)
Dershowitz is an ugly little attention-seeking toilet rat.
Thanks for the moniker!
I wouldn’t call Dersh a Yid. That’s somewhat offensive to all Jews, and we are not all like him. Instead, the correct Yiddish term is putz, or schmuck, katzenkop, actually Yiddish has thousands of words to apply to Dersh.
Yes, that term, 'Yid', made me uncomfortable, too.
I was just going to remark about the use of “Yid.” Dr. Lee, please apologize. I’m not Jewish but have family who are. It’s a well-known offensive term, sometimes called “The Y word.”
Disappointed, Dr. Lee.
Dr Bandy didn't call anyone a name. "YID" is the name of the authors new book.
Did not catch that. Thanks for pointing it out!
Well 'Yid' is an "unoffensive" term that I would never use, especially with a Jewish friend or acquaintance.
These fascist dirt bags should be prosecuted for violating citizens first amendment rights to the freedom of speech and expression.
Dr Lee,
Saying this is inadequate, but thank you for continuing to fight for those of us who didn’t vote for Trump. Actually, you are fighting for America, but slightly more than half the population can’t see that.
Dershowitz is a sycophantic little nobody screaming absurdities to be a somebody.
It still flabbergasts me how Dr. Lee was treated so unfairly, that is, abused, and the perpetrators got away with it! The irony is that she became a target of the very danger about which she warned. But she thankfully persists!
I like how Retired Army General Xenakis describes the process of removing a mentally unfit person in the military, that is 'if you see something, say something.' As voters and politicians are educated ASAP on public mental health then more dangerous mentally unfit politicians will be prevented from committing destructive behavior.
"Stephen Xenakis-Fitness for Duty Exams: Preventing Autocratic Abuse"
https://youtu.be/vdtChF07ryU?si=XJzMjvTsSfKn5UTn
Everyone needs to encourage open inquiry and debate about significant and controversial issues (including this newsletter’s community), one of which is the “where does human bias come from” issue. In my debatable opinion, there are two options. Option 1 is to understand—and Option 2 is to misunderstand—the Libet experiment.
Benjamin Libet’s famous experiment is arguably the most important experiment in the history of the field of psychology. My debatable opinion is that it is the most important experiment in the entire history of science.
Option 1 reveals that the unconscious mind detects a conflict of interest, chooses between a “right is might” or a “might is right" approach, and forms unconscious intent in roughly one third of a second. What is the conscious mind doing? Waiting for unconscious intent to tell it what to do. Hopefully, it will be tasked with discovering that which is “right,” and then the intent will be to act based on that discovery.
Is Option 2 one of many manifestations of a “might makes right” response? That’s debatable, but it is my opinion.
On February 27, 1860, in his Cooper Union campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln—who would go on to prove himself to be an expert on violence—was expressing his understanding of its cause when he said, “Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
In my debatable opinion, a reflexive “might makes right” response is not only a bad habit, but also a bad seed, and violence is its fruit. Alternatively, and to paraphrase Aristotle, we are what we repeatedly do. A “right makes might” response to a conflict of interest is not an act, but a good habit.
It's a good thing that Arnold Schwarzenegger possesses brain muscle as well as body muscle. 400 million US dollars is a lot of money and it will take a long case and strenuous measures to recover the budgetary shortfall. This may be an opportune time for Columbia University and all other universities and institutions of learning at all levels, both in America and globally, to prioritize distance and online learning. The surest, most cost-effective method of fulfilling the basic human right for every human to access continuing education and equipping for successful, remunerated participation in society is through prioritizing distance and online learning in government and in private spheres, which also grows enrollments by including all ages and statuses (employed, unemployed, self-employed, etcetera). The continuing demand for onsite based education is continuing to bottleneck planetary education on Earth with comprehensively catastrophic effects. G-d bless!
Dear ole Columbia
I have two degrees from Columbia and was studying there during 1968. Fascinating what's taking place now. Please keep us posted. All the best.
Most people are unaware of Alan Dershowitz’s lengthy history as a professor at Harvard Law School. Do a Google search or start by reading the article link below. But, very few are aware of his silencing of a well known journalist at the Boston Globe, Mike Barnicle. To understand Alan Dershowitz’s tactics, one should consider how he ‘crucified’ Mike B for an article he wrote in 1990. It seems Dershowitz over his lifetime has skirted the truth and when accusations against him are not to his liking he relentlessly pursues the accusers. According to the report, Mike Barnicle wrote: ...."Or the time he told me and a friend as we stood by the Out-Of-Town-News stand that, in Al’s exact words, “I love Asian women, don’t you? They’re so submissive.”" Consistent with that allegation and his history, it's interesting that Dershowitz went so swift and hard at Dr. Lee.
https://mattofboston.com/alan-dershowitz-the-word-on-the-street-21607/ I remember finding that story after Dr. Lee was fired from Yale and the unusual manner, with expediance and seeming fear/submission on the part of Yale’s review committee.
In his book “Abuse Excuse” (1994), Dershowitz complained about victims of domestic violence and leans into his attacks on ‘feminism’. It’s rumored as well, that AD has meddled in the family court system. He’s written about his support of ‘parental alienation’ which is used to protect the ‘abuser’ in custody cases. (Dr. Lee’s personal family: story https://cafemom.com/parenting/catherine-kassenoff-domestic-abuse-mothers) There are many articles written about Alan D. Again, do a Google Search. The articles often are favorable and telling about the power of a man that the writers know has a trail of unethical and immoral behavior. His history reads like the character in the film “Catch Me if You Can”.
Alan Dershowitz is only one of many powerful, white men in society who’ve demonstrated they will crush any institution or ruin anyone's reputation simply because they can. It seems to take a lot more to prove malice of men like Dershowitz than it does to defend truth, facts and integrity.
Dr Lee, Historian Branko Milanovic explains how universities have become factories. This also explains why they removed you from Yale.
https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2024/universities-factories
Dershowitich alternative reality. Wake up on notice Tesla and Twitter are under siege by dark star which may be Russian. Beware Russia is recruiting via LinkedIn. My sources are Andy McCabe and Rachel. If you are disgruntled be aware.