Some of you may have read my previous posts about the objections by a large number of the faculty to the building of the Bush Library, Museum, and Institute at Southern Methodist University. Perhaps it seems like a small flap over an unimportant matter in a red state city. I am here to respectfully request you to think again.
Why you should care about the Bush Institute at SMU:
1. Why not Bush's actual alma maters, Yale or Harvard? Why SMU? Because Cheney and a small, arrogant local elite of Bush's biggest backers believe they can do whatever they want in University Park and Dallas, even though the whole of Dallas County voted for Democrat Chris Bell for governor and threw out 41 of 42 Republican judges.
2. The contents of the Library will be off limits to genuine scholars for decades, while the Institute will provide yet another semi-respectable sinecure for the likes of Dinesh D'Souza to blame liberals and the left for all the ills in the world. Stanford sure as hell doesn’t brag about Hoover, but Hoover leeches off Stanford’s reputation with every article that mentions its name.
3. They believe they will fortify themselves in this bunker and rewrite history to glorify Bush and Cheney. I hope we will never, ever let them forget that we know what the Bush Institute really is.
How you can help:
Kick and recommend, please!
Sign this petition:
http://www.protectsmu.org. As you will see, it's being freeped and drives the rightwingers into a frenzy, because self-identified Christians are signing it and making devastating comments about this maladministration. You don't have to be a Methodist or a Christian to sign. Please sign, and pass it on – surely 50,000 sigs is not an unreasonable goal?
Here’s another petition to "Protect SMU From The "Leftist Bush-Hate Kooks" Opposing The Bush Presidental Library Being @ SMU":
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SupportSMUBushLibrary/index.html. Now, I’m not saying you should trash it or anything, though, especially because the cowardly owner will certainly erase any unfavorable comments.
In closing, do any web experts here know why you cannot find The Bush Library Blog,
http://bushlibraryblog.wordpress.com, by googling Bush Library or Bush Library SMU?
Thank you for reading this.