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Pennsylvania teacher fights suspension over DC protest
jAP via WPXI ^ | January 27, 2021 | Michael Rubinkam

Posted on 01/28/2021 10:02:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — One day after the deadly insurrection in Washington, a Pennsylvania school district announced it was suspending a teacher who, the district asserted, “was involved in the electoral college protest that took place at the United States Capitol Building.”

Three weeks later, Jason Moorehead is fighting to restore his reputation and resume teaching after he says the Allentown School District falsely accused him of being at the Capitol during the siege. The district says Moorehead’s social media posts about the events of Jan. 6, and not just his presence in Washington that day, are a focus of its probe.

The middle school social studies teacher had attended Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally — at which Trump exhorted supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” against the election results, which he baselessly claimed were fraudulent — but Moorehead said he was never any closer than a mile and a quarter to the Capitol that day and did nothing wrong.

He said the district’s statement unleashed a torrent of harassment and death threats and damaged his professional standing. Moorehead, who remains suspended with pay, wants district officials to apologize, set the record straight and put him back in the classroom.

(Excerpt) Read more at wpxi.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: pennsylvania; protest; teacher

1 posted on 01/28/2021 10:02:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

And punished. Those leaders should be evicted !


2 posted on 01/28/2021 10:04:21 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Group guilt is a hallmark of marxists. You were at the rally along with two hundred thousand other Trump supporters. A handful were involved in entering the Capital illegally. All two hundred thousand are now guilty.


3 posted on 01/28/2021 10:07:07 AM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What did Katie Couric say ... this educator needs to be reprogrammed.


4 posted on 01/28/2021 10:07:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Flick Lives

Would this also apply to a Antifa protest if only a handful of people in the crowd became violent? We all know the answer.


5 posted on 01/28/2021 10:11:58 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The most important sentence in the article:

“In his letter, Freund, the district solicitor, demanded that Moorehead surrender his district-owned laptop for inspection.”

That will do it.

Don’t turn over the laptop and be fired or turn over the laptop and they will ‘find’ something on the laptop that will be cause for termination.


6 posted on 01/28/2021 10:12:58 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Notice how there are no conservative legal groups clamoring to take this person’s case pro-bono.


7 posted on 01/28/2021 10:18:30 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Meatspace

He should wipe it with a cloth first


8 posted on 01/28/2021 10:18:36 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SpaceBar

Yep, that has been bugging me for a long time now. Apparently the atmosphere is now so toxic that conservative. Ayers or any lawyers representing g conservatives usually, are plumb afraid to take the cases. Why? Because the murderous violent left are attacking them. Making their lives miserable. Issuing death threats against them, destroying their businesses. Canceling them etc. And law enforcement and the left turn a blind eye to the massive amount of crimes and vio.ence being co mitted by the domestic terrorists known as antifa and blm

Yet let a conservative go stand outside the courthouse in a pe a ceful protest, and they become public enemy number 1


9 posted on 01/28/2021 10:23:21 AM PST by Bob434
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
If Trump's supporters had done an ACTUAL Insurrection dozens of Congressmen would be dead and they’ d still be having firefights at the Capitol. The left COUNTs on the good guys being law abiding.
10 posted on 01/28/2021 10:25:35 AM PST by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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To: Nateman

Screw all of these people, the face of the enemy is clear and they should be afraid to walk the streets.


11 posted on 01/28/2021 10:29:43 AM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Flick Lives

There Are No Guardrails On The Left

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3929301/posts

America is entering a terrible period in its history at an accelerating pace, now that the Left has taken control of all the critical reins of power in the government, the mainstream media, social media, and big tech. Unfortunately, history teaches with laser clarity that there are no guardrails restraining the behavior of the Left when it is so empowered.


12 posted on 01/28/2021 10:33:06 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Being at a Trump speech is legal assembly.

Protesting in front of the Capitol is legal Free Speech.

Did this teacher allegedly do anything illegal, like entering the Capitol without the explicit invitation of Capitol police (which would lead any normal bystander to reasonably conclude it was legal?


13 posted on 01/28/2021 11:19:10 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Allegations of vote fraud cause you to 1)Provide contrary evidence or 2)Censor and erect razor wire)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Nothing seems to have been found. Here is a video of the teacher and lawyer talking with Smerconish on CNN. (scroll)

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/2021/01/a-lehigh-valley-teacher-was-suspended-for-being-in-dc-during-insurrection-but-he-says-he-was-only-there-to-witness-a-historic-day.html?outputType=amp&fbclid=IwAR16xvXR6Ev6HAjP1cQ35KC-_cZpwug7jXiRpgKNNlQYVoVigVkWb9fU_50


14 posted on 01/28/2021 11:45:33 AM PST by Jessarah
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The third paragraph gives the “journalist” away as being a lying, dog-face pony soldier.


15 posted on 01/28/2021 12:18:56 PM PST by Russ (I )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Only idiots would call what happened in DC an insurrection. A protest, yes. A riot, not really. An insurrection: the idiot’s choice for improper word choice.


16 posted on 01/28/2021 1:00:53 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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