by Paul Craft
Senior Staff Writer
Ralph Nader, famous consumer advocate, 2000 Presidential Election spoiler, and one of the “100 Most Influential Americans of All Time” according to The Atlantic Monthly, spoke on Valentine’s Day in Kresge Auditorium. Hosted by the ASSU Speaker’s Bureau, Stanford-in-Government, and the Stanford Law School’s American Constitutional Society, the event drew a large- but under capacity- mix of undergraduates, law students, and community members. In a speech entitled, “There Can Be No Daily Democracy with No Daily Citizenship,” Nader gave a thoughtful, matter-of-fact, and seemingly impromptu talk on civic engagement, academia, and general life philosophy.
Foremost, Nader stressed students’ “moral imperative to lead” through civic engagement and social justice. True to his usual form, Nader delivered this message from the perspective of the iconoclastic outsider, deriding everybody and everything from Republicans, to Democrats, to corporations, to public television, and even his old law school professors.
Please read the rest of this OPIONON PIECE masquerading as a News report at:
http://www.stanfordreview.org/Archive/Volume_XXXVIII/Issue_1/News/news2.shtml
Nader is hardly the person that should be lecturing anyone on "Moral Imperative"! His leftest leanings and Anti-American rantings over the last 20 years or so and have included many calls to ignore laws for political reasons.
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