The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, July 23-August 10 is showing “Rachel,” an investigative documentary which the organizers expect will encourage “spirited debate“, yadda yadda. Cindy Corrie, one of Rachel Corrie’s parents–and posthumous promoters–will be there.

Looks like yet another orgy of hard Left romantic self-congratulation.

Yesterday I received an email from the intern that I spoke with at the LA Museum of Natural History regarding the picture of Karl Marx. According to him the the picture was placed there in order to give a time reference to other historical events in relation to California history. It seems that Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1848, the same year that gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill. Apparently, there were other images as well, including an engraving from the French Revolution and a picture of Queen Victoria which I didn’t notice. If I had read the information at each of the displays I would have seen this, but I was too busy chasing my three year old daughter around the museum.

The picture is most certainly Karl Marx. In fact, it’s the most famous of all pictures of Marx.

This one: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/images/Karl_Marx.jpg

I’ll email the pictures I took later tonight so you can see for yourself.

Looking on the web for any connection between Marx and California, the only thing I could find was this quote from Fredrick Engels, taken from Engels’ eulogy for Karl Marx:

“And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow-workers — from the mines of Siberia to California, in all parts of Europe and America — and I make bold to say that though he may have had many opponents he had hardly one personal enemy.”

Link: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/death/dersoz1.htm

Very strange.

teachers do have as much a impact on the nation though as a soilder.

“Impact” — possibly. I was refering more to the question of who or what they’re obliged to answer to. Is a librarian’s obligation more to his or her profession or to the local community? The same applies to teachers. If a teacher is required by the community to teach something which runs contrary to their professional obligation, do they stick with their professional obligation or to the demands of the community?

Even though a soldier may have personal misgivings about the broad moral justification of a mission (e.g. the war in Iraq), I don’t think he or she has to deal with the same sort of ambiguity. Unless you’re talking about war crimes, orders are orders — if you are a soldier and you don’t follow them, you’re not doing your job as a soldier.

teachers do have as much a impact on the nation though as a soilder. they help form and mold the minds of the youth, who eventually participate in the democratic process.

Its just sad star, that the ethics of the teachers and gov’t employees of berkely are lacking so much that they can’t even attempt to be impartial.