Posted on 04/12/2017 1:26:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
Fresno State University said they will fully cooperate with any federal investigation after a professor posted a series of Twitter messages calling for President Trump to be hanged and for Republicans to be executed.
“To save American democracy, Trump must hang,” Professor Lars Maischak wrote on his Twitter account in February. “The sooner and the higher, the better.”
“Has anyone started soliciting money and design drafts for a monument honoring the Trump assassin, yet?” the professor asked in an earlier tweet.
Fresno State President Joseph Castro said the professor’s comments, first reported by Breitbart News, “warrant further review and consideration.”
“Professor Maischak’s personal views and commentary, with its inclusion of violent and threatening language, is obviously inconsistent with the core values of our University,” Castro wrote on the university’s website.
“The review of these and any other statements will be conducted in the context of rights of free expression, but also for potential direct threats of violence that may violate the law,” he added.
Maischak, who is a history lecturer, also went after Republicans – tweeting, “Justice = The execution of two Republicans for each deported immigrant.”
Maischak told Fox26 News he was “appalled that the president of the university is allowing himself to be instrumentalized for a right-wing smear campaign.”
“Specifically, the suggestion that I had made ‘potential direct threats of violence that may violate the law’ is unwarranted,” he wrote. “It constitutes an embrace by the university of the claims made by right-wing propaganda outlets.”
The professor is not a big fan of the “right-wing” media.
“The function of articles like the one produced by Breitbart and affiliates is to whip up a digital lynch-mob of people sending threats and insults to my email and Twitter accounts, with the ultimate goal of silencing dissenters,” he told the newspaper.
He went on to say he does not condone violence even though that’s exactly what he advocated in his Twitter feed.
“From the context of the entirety of my tweets, this should be evident to anyone reading them in good faith (as opposed to malicious intent),” he said.
In other words, he’s taking the “It all depends on what the definition of hang is” defense.
To say the professor is a prolific tweeter might be an understatement. Consider these gems:
“Specifically, the suggestion that I had made ‘potential direct threats of violence that may violate the law’ is unwarranted,” he wrote. “It constitutes an embrace by the university of the claims made by right-wing propaganda outlets.”
The professor is not a big fan of the “right-wing” media.
“The function of articles like the one produced by Breitbart and affiliates is to whip up a digital lynch-mob of people sending threats and insults to my email and Twitter accounts, with the ultimate goal of silencing dissenters,” he told the newspaper.
He went on to say he does not condone violence even though that’s exactly what he advocated in his Twitter feed.
“From the context of the entirety of my tweets, this should be evident to anyone reading them in good faith (as opposed to malicious intent),” he said.
In other words, he’s taking the “It all depends on what the definition of hang is” defense.
To say the professor is a prolific tweeter might be an understatement. Consider these gems:
“What would you do if your country has been hijacked by a gang of crazed homicidal fanatics? You storm the cockpit #Flight93”
“Mercy towards racists was always the fatal weakness of good Americans. 1865, 1965, they left too many of them alive.”
“If only Mary had had an abortion! We would have been spared this Clerical-Fascist crap. #His Glory my ass!”
“You Fascist Trump-voting white trash scum can wallow in your filthy hell-holes of flyover states. Enjoy.”
Republican students at Fresno State have every right to be deeply concerned about their safety and well-being inside that man’s classroom.
That’s why I believe Professor Maischak should be fired – immediately.
And should Fresno State University decide to retain his services, we should call on the federal government to defund the school. There’s no good reason for our tax dollars to pay the salary of a man who wants to execute the president.
So Fresno State should be given a choice: either fire the professor or lose federal funding.
I hope they throw the book at this dumpkopf and fire him from the University and whatever other legal remedy there.
Where is all the love and tolerance that they demand be given to them?
... and imprisoned for publicly advocating both murder and the violent overthrow of the federal government.
it’s time for some of these knuckleheads that spout off like this to be discovered having mysteriously met the fates they were recommending for others . It would only take a few and you would not be hearing things like that again
He needs to be in jail. Pronto.
We have “professors” who can’t even understand their own language or its meanings. I suppose we have Focault & Alinsky to thank for this mess.
I am ready for you, Lars. Come at me anytime.
Only they are allowed to decide who gets the love and tolerance. They are very important and you shouldn't call them hypocrites.
I don’t how it will be done, or if it will be done, but it’s time for this crap to STOP...
Any parent that sends their kids to any of these types of colleges or what ever they call them now days, should be run out of this country on a rail...
This is over the limit, and these ‘snowflakes’ need a ‘safe room’ over the border in Mexico...lets see how they like life over there for a change!!! And take your idiot parents with you...
So do I. What an idiot.
Same rule for everybody. Jail.
All action has consequences..... hope the admin at Fresno has enough sense to do the right thing and knows where there bread is buttered.
It is entirely possible that institutions harboring individuals making death threats, and other schools depriving conservatives of their civil rights, may have committed federal offenses including but not limited to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government for funding (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to funding documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government regarding federal funding),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate conservative students’ 4th amendment rights.
<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated
with a federally funded enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
ACTION NOW-—Contact your Representative and Senators
Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
TALKING POINTS: sever all federal funds until these institution banish employees making death threats, and cease their discriminatory activity against conservative students
Calling all Patriots . . .
‘We have “professors” who can’t even understand their own language or its meanings.’
A preview of the ‘probe,’:
Prober: Did you mean these statements literally?
Prof: Don’t be silly. It was a metaphor based on the construct of class-based societal privelege.
Prober: You’re good; case dismissed.
CONTACT Fresno State University
Phone 559-278-4240
Official Site-—www.fresnostate.edu
Probably!
IOW, not a tenured professor. Easily fired.
You’re a treasure!
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