I am writing in response to Leonard Mandell, who is the associate dean for Student Services at NIU’s College of Law. Mr. Mandell, at an introduction to incoming first-year law students, spared no time letting everyone know his political party of choice and went off on a tangent of how the only WMDs are President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. I say to you, Mr. Mandell, shame on you for taking time not to introduce yourself to the students as someone they can trust, but to get on the proverbial soap box of politics – especially to a group of students who, in their first year of law school, are not in a position to disagree with anyone. Not everyone in law school, or an undergraduate at NIU, is a liberal Democrat.

However, you do create the type of environment that plays into something I said to a current NIU law student. My comments to this law student are that most college students are force-fed false information by the liberal professors who hide out at campuses around the country. Most students don’t have enough access to real facts to debate their professors or don’t want to take the chance of getting a lower grade for pointing out that their professors don’t know what they are talking about. These professors usually cannot make it in the real world, so they hide out in academia instead. Many didn’t get a chance to protest during Vietnam, so they use every opportunity to create their own current Vietnam so they can say: “I am a war protester just like you were in the ’70s, John Kerry.”

They brainwash young, impressionable minds and create politically uneducated adults in our society. Worst of all, the students become non-critical thinkers, which is ironic given the fact that most undergraduates pay to get an education and become critical thinkers. Many Democrats can create only shallow arguments in political conversations, blast sound bites or Democratic Party talking points and recite false information given to them from movies such “Fahrenheit 9/11” or “Bowling for Columbine,” which are cleverly edited propaganda pieces full of misleading inaccuracies. Let the students of NIU choose who they should vote for. Let them seek out the facts from all news sources.

It’s funny that Mr. Mandell talks about the Democratic National Convention like it was a Phish concert; the fact remains the convention had very low Nielsen ratings.

Mr. Mandell, what are you going to say when the truth about your buddy and his lies about Vietnam are fully exposed? Liberals, you are officially on notice, and Big Brother is always listening!

M. Joseph Manno

DeKalb resident