She also "teaches" black cultural studies plus pornography and sex work.
Our tax dollars funds such useless "studies".
Posted on 11/06/2014 12:08:44 PM PST by Morgana
The pro-life students who were assaulted by University of California Santa Barbara Professor of Feminist Studies, Mireille Miller-Young have filed sit against her. In August Miller-Young was sentenced in a criminal case in connection with an assault on pro-life young people who took the pro-life message to the UCSB campus.
Miller-Young was sentenced to 108 hours of community service, 10 hours of anger management, and three years probation for her assault on a group of pro-life students in early March. She was also ordered to pay a small fine and restitution of almost $500.
The incident took place on the Santa Barbara campus, where Miller-Young attacked and forcibly took property from teenagers who were exercising their free speech rights in the public square to educate about abortion and promote its alternatives. As a result, Miller-Young was convicted of grand theft, vandalism, and battery in July.
Now, the pro-life legal organization Life Legal Defense Foundation filed a civil suit in Santa Barbara County Superior Court on behalf of a group of pro-life students against Miller-Young and the University of California. The civil suit seeks compensation for physical battery, property theft and civil rights violations.
As the pro-life legal group told LifeNews, despite Miller-Young’s conviction and clear evidence supporting it, the university did not publicly censure or reprimand her for the criminal actions. In fact, communications from university officials implied that the youth who had been peacefully engaged in advocating a pro-life worldview caused the incident.
Miller-Young’s assault on the group took place in early March on the Santa Barbara campus. The professor first verbally attacked and then forcibly took a sign from the young people who were in a free speech area exercising their right to educate the campus community about abortion and promote its alternatives.
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Life Legal said that, when some of the group tried to follow her, Miller-Young violently scratched the arms of one of them, 16-year-old Thrin Short. Now Short and ten others are seeking compensatory and punitive damages against Miller-Young and the University of California Santa Barbara. Also named as defendants in the suit are several students who assisted Miller-Young in the theft and destruction of the sign.
“This is a mature, supposedly educated woman charged by the University of California to convey knowledge, and instead she conveyed discrimination and intolerance. Not only was she out of line in attacking students, but she literally drew blood from a minor,” said Dana Cody, President and Executive Director, Life Legal Defense Foundation.
Miller-Young issued a half-hearted apology that cited her supposed pregnancy as the reason for the attack but she and her professor colleagues attempted to blame the pro-life students for their assaults.
“While Miller-Young submitted a written apology to the court for taking and destroying the sign, the sincerity of that apology is undercut by other letters she submitted from colleagues, several of which attempt to shift the blame onto the pro-lifers,” Katie Short said.
“Regardless of the actual level of her remorse, her conviction on three misdemeanor charges will undoubtedly be sufficient to dissuade her from any repetition of her outrageous conduct. The prosecution itself should have disabused her of the notion that she could victimize pro-lifers with impunity, an attitude clearly on display in the video,” she said. “We hope that anyone else who might consider violence or vandalism against pro-life advocates will take note.” VIDEO ON LINK The incident, which took place on March 4, saw two pro-life students Thrin and Joan Short, lead the peaceful pro-life outreach event with 11 friends, most of whom were students from Thomas Aquinas College. They used signs displaying images of abortion victims to begin conversations with students before a confrontation by Professor of Feminist Studies, Mireille Miller-Young turned violent.
The angry professor interrupted the students’ calm interaction with the activists by grabbing a pro-life sign out of the hands of one of them, carrying the sign off through the campus flanked by her students, and then assaulting Thrin Short while trying to hide from police, who were on their way, the group said. Police officers later found the remains of the sign, which had been destroyed. UC Santa Barbara police are completing their report to be submitted for prosecution.
The professor’s tired left scratches on the arms of one pro-lifer.
Excellent. Maybe the University will learn to set aside a pool of money to pay off the suits this professor will repeatedly cause. They certainly will not have the courage or character to fire her.
The University should be included in the suit. At this point, they’ve no motivation to change the behavior of any of their staff (and for lots of other evident reasons as well).
I call it turnabout fair play myself. Good news. Thanks for posting.
Personally this is the only safe recourse these people have. THey don’t want to attack back.
Perhaps if this becomes standard it will start reducing liberal physical attacks on us. THey must be sued out of existence and their lives made miserable for acting that way. It will follow them around forever.
Right now they face zero consequences and so continue to do this kind of assault without fear. We must put the fear of God back into them. Suing them into the poorhouse is the way to do it. Good Christian legal groups can help. ACLJ, Liberty Counsel, ADF, and others could further their missions by working with Christians attacked for being Christian.
Outstanding—Way past time to fight fire with fire.
All turning the other cheek does is get you smacked twice.
"... Legal Defense Foundation filed a civil suit... on behalf of a group of pro-life students against Miller-Young and the University of California. "
Miller-Young didn’t get jail time. If this had been an assault on an abortionist it would have been jail time.
So... a feminist claims she was hysterical because of her hormones? Way to go, reactionary retrogressive!
From the article “... and the University of California”
From Romans chapter One. ( I happened to open my Bible to this passage just a moment ago.)
This is the result of rejecting God, base and violent behavior.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
She also "teaches" black cultural studies plus pornography and sex work.
Our tax dollars funds such useless "studies".
The author must’ve been tirade by that last sentence.
You would think inciting mob violence against students would be a firing offense.
This is great news, that witch deserves to be sued. Thanks for posting.
LOL! Thanks for the clarification. I couldn’t figure it out.
She has given up any claim to the title FEMINIST; she failed to ABORT!
Now just imagine the braying of the leftists if it had been pro-life people attacking abortion-lovers. Madcow would still be yapping about it on her show. Proves once again that lib/leftists are the biggest hypocrites around.
Good - I missed that bit (paragraph 4)... admittedly not sure why that wasn’t in P1, but whatever.
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