Until his sudden catapult into the public eye, Blum, 72, had lived the quiet life of a second-string America-hater. The child of Polish Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Brooklyn, studied accounting in college, and, as an anti-communist with aspirations to become a foreign service officer, he went to work at a computer-related position in the U.S. Department of State in the mid-1960s. The Vietnam War radicalized him and he resigned from State in 1967 to pursue a career of far-left advocacy and sabotage (he claims to have revealed the names and addresses of over two hundred CIA operatives). For nearly forty years, Blum has written op-eds after articles after books pursuing his hobbyhorse to prove the alleged evil of the U.S. government officials, whom he has compared to “chainsaw baby killers.” अचानक लोगों की नजर में आने से पूर्व 72 वर्षीय ब्लम अमेरिका विरोधियों की दूसरी श्रेणी के रुप में गुमनाम जिन्दगी जी रहे थे. पोलैन्ड के यहूदी आप्रवासी माता-पिता की सन्तान ब्लम ब्रुकलिन में पले-बढे. .उन्होंने कालेज में कामर्स की पढाई की. कम्युनिस्ट विरोधी होने के कारण विदेश सेवा में अधिकारी बनने की आकांक्षा से वे 1960 के दशक में अमेरिका के राज्य विभाग में कम्प्यूटर सम्बन्धी कार्यों में लग गये. वियतनाम युद्ध ने उन्हें कट्टरपंथी बना दिया. 1967 में नौकरी से त्यागपत्र देकर उन्होंने वामपंथी प्रचार का जिम्मा लिया और तोङफोङ के कार्यों में लिप्त हो गये. (उन्होंने दावा किया है उन्होंने सी.आई.ए के करीब 200 कार्यकर्ताओं के नाम और पते लोगों को दिये हैं.) करीब चालीस वर्षों तक वे लेखों और पुस्तकों के माध्यम से अमेरिका प्रशासन के अधिकारियों की बुराइयों को प्रकाशित करते रहे.
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If the advisory board is not the ideal solution, it is the best to be hoped for at the moment, given the power of the higher-education lobby. I am ready to give H.R. 3077 a chance. But should the board not come into existence or fail to make a difference, I'll advocate the better solution - defunding - and work to spread these ideas among the public and in Congress. My opponents will then learn what happens when truly I am “actively pushing” for Congress to adopt a measure. Comment by Martin Kramer in his “ Sandbox ” commentary: Pipes on HR3077 . Daniel Pipes devotes his column this morning to HR3077. Reminder: the bill would create an advisory board for the Title VI program of government subsidies to area studies at universities. The bill's radical opponents, especially Arab and Muslim advocacy groups, have portrayed Pipes as a prime initiator or backer of the bill. But Pipes, who now serves on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and once served on the Fulbright board, hasn't been a great believer in HR3077. Nor has he been an activist for it. Truth is, he doesn't think much of such boards. Pipes would rather defund Title VI, or divert its post-9/11 windfall to an alternative network of centers devoted to terrorism studies. For now, he's willing to give the board idea a chance. Since I strongly support HR3077, I'm grateful for his endorsement, however reserved. But if the board isn't created, or fails to effect any change, he promises to launch a defunding campaign. Should that happen, I'll be right behind him. Tue, Feb 24 2004 9:45 am Related Topics: Academia , Middle East studies , US politics receive the latest by email: subscribe to daniel pipes' free mailing list This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete and accurate information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL. Comment on this item यदि सलाहकार बोर्ड उपयुक्त समाधान नहीं है तो मेरी दृष्टि में उच्च शिक्षा लाबी को कुछ समय के लिये इसका अधिकार दिया जाना चाहिये। मैं H.R 3077 को एक अवसर देने के पक्ष में हूँ और इसके लिये कांग्रेस और लोगों में जनमत बनाने का आग्रह करूँगा । तब मेरे विरोधियों को पता चलेगा कि कांग्रेस को एक समाधान के साथ सक्रिय रूप से कार्य करने का क्या असर होना है।
