Posted on 11/20/2005 2:11:07 PM PST by CometBaby
HERNDON, VA –Young America’s Foundation exposed Warren Community College’s radical Professor John Daly, who in an email to student Rebecca Beach, vowed to intimidate those students who host conservative speakers and called for American soldiers in Iraq to murder their superiors.
Instead of admonishing the professor’s intemperate attack on a student’s right of free expression, Warren Community College President William Austin said Prof. John Daly has “first amendment rights” to harass Rebecca. Furthermore, the President is trying to bully Rebecca into silence. He said Rebecca, not Prof. John Daly, is ruining the college’s name by going on talk radio and television exposing Daly’s mean spirited email.
In an interview with the Express-Times, a local New Jersey paper, Daly stood by his email to Rebecca. He told the paper that Rebecca’s conservative group is an “ultra right-wing, possibly fascist, group.”
Daly’s email to Rebecca came after she sent a note to faculty announcing the appearance of decorated war hero Lt. Col. Scott Rutter to discuss America’s accomplishments in Iraq.
Daly’s unedited email can be read in full below.
“Prof. John Daly knowingly intimidated one of his students. That’s not protected by the First Amendment,” said Jason Mattera, spokesman for Young America’s Foundation. “It was poor judgment to hire Daly to begin with. Warren Community College compounds their ineptitude by defending Daly’s harassment of Rebecca.”
One of the nice things about the Internet and FR is that these things are difficult to hide, a few hundred emails from out of state gets peoples attention.
And for those specific reasons he should be fired for cause.
No kidding. I can't really blame this guy for the media blackout on what's really happening in Iraq, but this guy has seriously questionable principles and what really got him screaming was a true statement about communism (that should tell you something right there).
I suppose Mr. Daly hasn't heard of the 40,000 Kurds getting nerve-gassed in Iraq or the 1.5 people that he's killed or the tens of thousands that he and his sons have torture-murdered for fun. How about the 600,000+ people that have been found so far in Iraqi mass graves. Mr. Daly wants freedom of political expression, how about Saddam murdering every political opponent that he's ever had? Guys like Mr. Daly always say, "Sure, Saddam was a bad guy, but..." When you're a communist, there's always a "but".
Saddam has killed people in his government who were doing their jobs too well and were in danger of being promoted ahead of his cronies in the Iraqi govt. Maybe Mr. Daly should read this: http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0704/world1.shtml
If Beach was black and she wanted to bring Sharpton on campus and her white professor ranted that she was a left wing communist stalinist and he would do everything to keep her off campus. And replace the quote with "true freedom begins when our troops shoot their superiors" with "if whites do not unite, they will lose their rights to colored people" and let us see how the college will defend First Admendment rights.
Great info. Thanks!
Oops, make that "1.5 million that Saddam has killed."
it would be so gratifying to tell both of these a-holes that they've just spent their last day on the job, and that they were going to be escorted by security back to their offices to clear them out, and that anything left in their offices after 1700 would be auctioned off by the sheriff. and then id hold a meeting of all faculty and staff in the university and explain what i did, and that anybody who didnt like it was probably part of the problem, and could expect similar treatment if they ever tried to harass a student over his/her political or civic involvement.
Check out Post 14. Could this happen at a school near you?
Try that at your work place and see how long you have a job.
I didn't see in the professor's comments where he attacked the student personally or threatened her personally.
His comments are disgusting but he has the 1A right to say them. The professor and the college president have made their choice ... the parents who send their kids to this school need to make theirs.
The guest host gave him several opportunities to restate it and he said he never wrote that but then he got tied up in a lie and all but admitted it. What a loser.
Professor Daly’s Email
The full unedited text of Professor Daly’s email follows.
Dear Rebecca:
I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look like fascist propaganda and is extremely offensive. Your main poster "Communism killed 100,000,000" is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that CAPITALISM has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily news papers.
The U.S. government can fly to dominate the people of Iraq in 12 hours, yet it took them five days to assist the people devastated by huricane Katrina. Racism and profits were key to their priorities. Exxon, by the way, made $9 Billion in profits this last quarter--their highest proft margin ever. Thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and working class people who are recruited to fight and die for EXXON and other corporations who earning megaprofits from their imperialist plunders.
If you want to count the number of deaths based on political systems, you can begin with the more than a million children who have died in Iraq from U.S.-imposed sanctions and war. Or the million African American people who died from lack of access to healthcare in the US over the last 10 years.
I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like your won't dare show their face on a college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people's needs--such freedom fighters can be counted throughout American history and they certainly will be counted again.
Prof. John Daly
I disagree with the college president's assessment of this. The instructor wasn't talking personal political views, he was talking facts and he was getting it dead wrong. Let's review his claims (and I've thrown in my comments in square brackets):
This is actually a good thing
Students will become aware ot this and realize they are being screwed over and brain washed
There is nothing lost by suing and there is everying to gain.
You force two way tolerance through that school, you probably get money damages for the damage done to students and perhaps a year of tolerance training for the schools liberal preditor that Emailed the threats to kids.
Yes, I coinsider them for sure threats.
Response: An example of the liberal midset. Such 'mentition' invariably supports; sedition, treason and vice addiction. Their "Rights!"
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