Eric Holder Participated in Armed Campus Takeover of ROTC Bldg

OUR ATTORNEY GENERAL PARTICIPATED

IN AN ARMED TAKEOVER

OF FORMER COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ROTC OFFICE

What is the deal with Obama’s radical friends
and administration officials? Anyone think that if this happened to be a
Republican with a past like this that we would hear about it??? What is with
the Malcolm X Lounge standoff in “honor of a man who recognized the
importance of territory as a basis of nationhood” Really Eric???

As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970,
future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of
an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a
group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’
Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.

Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy
Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether
Holder himself was armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.

Holder was then among the leaders of the
Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC
office be renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.” The change, the group insisted, was
to be made “in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a
basis for nationhood.”

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The details of the student-led occupation,
including the claim that the raiders were “armed,” come from a deleted Web
page of the Black Students’ Organization (BSO) at Columbia, a successor group
to the SAAS. Contemporary newspaper accounts in The Columbia Daily Spectator,
a student newspaper, did not mention weapons.

Holder, now the United States’ highest-ranking
law enforcement official, has given conflicting accounts of this episode
during college commencement addresses at Columbia, but both the BSO’s website
and the Daily Spectator have published facts that conflict with his version
of events.

Holder has bragged about his involvement in
the “rise of black consciousness” protests at Columbia.

“I was among a large group of students who
felt strongly about the way we thought the world should be, and we weren’t
afraid to make our opinions heard,” he said during Columbia’s 2009
commencement exercises. “I did not take a final exam until my junior year at
Columbia — we were on strike every time finals seemed to roll around — but we
ran out of issues by that third year.”
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Though then-Dean Carl Hovde declared the
occupation of the Naval ROTC office illegal and said it violated university
policy, the college declined to prosecute any of the students involved. This
decision may have been made to avoid a repeat of violent Columbia campus
confrontations between police and members of Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) in 1968.

The ROTC headquarters was ultimately renamed
the Malcolm X lounge as the SAAS organization demanded. It later became a
hang-out spot for another future U.S. leader, Barack Obama, according to
David Maraniss’ best-selling ”Barack Obama: The Story.”

Holder told Columbia University’s graduating
law students during a 2010 commencement speech that the 1970 incident
happened “during my senior year,” but Holder was a freshman at the time.
“[S]everal of us took one of our concerns — that black students needed a
designated space to gather on campus — to the Dean [of Freshmen]’office. This
being Columbia, we proceeded to occupy that office.”

Holder also claimed in his 2009 speech that he
and his fellow students decided to “peacefully occupy one of the campus
offices.” In contrast, the BSO’s website recounted its predecessor
organization’s activities by noting that that “in 1970, a group of armed
black students [the SAAS] seized the abandoned ROTC office.”

While that website is no longer online, a
snapshot of its content from September 2010 is part of the archive.org
database.

In a December 2010 GQ magazine profile of Holder,
one of his Columbia friends confirmed that he and Holder were both part of
the ROTC office takeover.

Holder particularly “connected with four other
African-American students” at Columbia, correspondent Wil S. Hylton wrote.
“We took over the ROTC lounge in Hartley Hall and created the Malcolm X
Lounge,” said a laughing Steve Sims, one of those students.

Hylton described Sims as “the attorney
general’s closest friend” and “a man Holder describes as his ‘consigliere.’”

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