Professors stick up for mob rule [University Tyranny]

Newspapers hardly run obituaries unless somebody pays for them, so you probably didn't see the official death notice of the English language a couple of weeks ago. When the University of Missouri released a letter from 115 faculty members supporting their colleague Melissa Click and demanding that the school "defend her First Amendment rights of protest and freedom to act as a private citizen," words lost all meaning. "First Amendment rights," in this case, are Click's rights to order a mob attack on a student journalist who was covering a protest on the Missouri campus last November. Notice the absence of words like "allegedly" or "accused of" in that sentence. The entire incident was captured on video.

It shows a videographer from Missouri's student newspaper approaching one of the demonstrators at a campus protest against racism and asking if he can interview her. An angrily scowling Click immediately intervenes. "You need to get out, you need to get out," she demands, shoving the reporter, although the demonstration was taking place in a public area of the campus. "I actually don't," replies the reporter. "All right!" snaps Click, turning to the crowd to shout, "Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here!"

Luckily, Missouri students have more sense than their professors (though that's apparently a low bar) and the demonstrators didnâ€™t respond. But local prosecutors, who along with millions of others saw the video on the Internet, did. They charged Click with assault. She last week avoided jail by agreeing to perform community service and stay out of trouble for a year...

Having taught at a Big 10 University for six years, I can say that our academies of higher learning are little totalitarian factories. College professors facilitate safe spaces for students who cannot tolerate diverse ideas like free markets, personal responsibility, and critical debate, yet encourage mob beat downs of any dissent to their Marxist order. Like something out of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" liberal professors quickly expose and demonize any conservative professors trying to hide among their order. Survival as a conservative professor at an American University is only accomplished by "laying low", "being subdued", and "ducking and covering". Students have been so conditioned to believe "free markets are evil and unfair", "free speech is evil and unfair", "whiteness is evil and unfair", that it is virtually impossible to move them. Public funded university totalitarian factories are perhaps them most successful tool ever conceived by Marxist professors to saturate students for half a decade in Marx, Stalin, Mao, and Gramsci. By the time students come out of school, they are wise in their own eyes hating the constitution, morals, religion, our founding fathers, white people, God, heterosexuals, and business. They are ready and willing to goose step into place for the 'fundamental transformation' of the United States. God help us...

"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn

No this is not “ when tenure is a very bad thing”.

This is what tenure often was from its very inception.
It is exactly what the people who have opposed the concept of tenure were saying it allowed to happen. It isn’t new and it isn’t rare.

The people who wished to believe it was something else are exactly like the people who believed that cops never committed rapes or random assaults.
As with police misbehavior, the only difference is that now there are video cameras to show the idiots who lived in imaginary cloud castles what the truth is.

Patriots, please note that the Founding States had decided that the states did not have to respect the rights protected by the Bill of Rights. Only the feds were obligated to respect those rights. It was not until the 14th Amendment (14A) was ratified (under very questionable circumstances) that the states also obligated themselves to reasonably respect the rights protected by the Bill of Rights.

But also note that the congressional record shows that John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, had clarified that the 14th Amendment did not take away states rights.

”The adoption of the proposed amendment will take from the States no rights [emphasis added] that belong to the States.” - John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of first column)
”No right [emphasis added] reserved by the Constitution to the States should be impaired . . .” - John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe. (See top half of 1st column)
”Do gentlemen say that by so legislating we would strike down the rights of the State [emphasis added]? God forbid. I believe our dual system of government essential to our national existence.” - John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column)

So the states still have the power to reasonably limit our constitutionally enumerated rights.

In fact, Justice Reed had noted that it was the job of judges to balance 10A-protected state powers with 14A-protected rights.

"Conflicts in the exercise of rights arise and the conflicting forces seek adjustments in the courts, as do these parties, claiming on the one side the freedom of religion, speech and the press, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and on the other the right to employ the sovereign power explicitly reserved to the State by the Tenth Amendment to ensure orderly living without which constitutional guarantees of civil liberties would be a mockery." --Justice Reed, Jones v. City of Opelika, 1942.

And while I am not up to speed with the specifics of the Missouri incident referenced by this thread, I think that the university had the right to limit free speech in order to prevent people from getting hurt. The example of somebody shouting ”fire” in a crowded theater comes to mind.

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