Posted on 03/27/2004 11:17:45 PM PST by Conservative Bueler
Conservative student finds some allies
By Richard Halstead, IJ reporter A 17-year-old Sonoma high school student who has received national publicity because of his conservative political views received a warm reception from a group of Marin Republican women yesterday. Tim Bueler - who has called his teachers at Rancho Cotate High School "liberal traitors" and angered minority students there with inflammatory language - told the 30 members of Marin Republican Women Federated who turned out to hear him speak that they felt like family. Bueler, dressed yesterday in a black suit and white open-collared shirt, contends that teachers at Rancho Cotate are failing to provide students with an education that is fair and balanced politically. "There is a liberal slant in every course I take," Bueler said. "They have rewritten the history my grandfather lived." He noted that he learned everything he knows from his grandfather, who served in World War II, talk radio and books outside school. In an effort to drive home his point, Bueler quoted Adolf Hitler: "'When I have your kids I have it all.'" The Conservative Club he organized at the school last fall has been outlawed because its leaders won't place the club's money in a shared student body account. But Bueler is attempting to start similar clubs at high schools around the country. "Marin is No. 1 on my list," Bueler said. Sherry Johanson, a spokeswoman for Marin Republican Women Federated, said her group was interested in hearing Bueler speak because students at some Marin schools share his concerns about teacher bias. "One of the problems that we're seeing as Republicans is that high school students are not getting a true education," Johanson said. "They're complaining themselves," she said, noting that she has spoken with students at Redwood High School in Larkspur and Sir Francis Drake High Schoo in San Anselmo. "They feel they're not getting both sides of the story." The controversy swirling around Bueler, a junior at Rancho Cotate, gained momentum in December when he wrote in a Conservative Club newsletter, "Liberals welcome every Muhammad, Jamul and Jose who wishes to leave his Third World state and come to America - mostly illegally - to rip off our health-care system, balkanize our language and destroy our political system." "I didn't sugarcoat it," Bueler said yesterday, after repeating the incendiary language. "That set them off." This invoked a spate of laughter from the audience. After his article was published, Bueler says he was harassed, threatened and called a "Nazi" by some students. Instead of offering him protection, his principal suggested he go home for several days to allow the storm to blow over. Bueler's refusal to do so has won him praise and attention from conservatives nationwide - including on Fox television's "The O'Reilly Factor." "I had every right to be in school," Bueler said. The school's superintendent assigned security officers to escort Bueler to class for the next two months. "That's gone," Bueler said. But Bueler continues to attract the ire of those who don't share his conservative views. He said a Latino student threw a bottle at him two weeks ago. "Conservatives, by nature, are rebels," Bueler told his audience yesterday, recalling that he recently got in trouble with a group of Sonoma Republicans for criticizing President Bush's push for temporary amnesty for illegal aliens. After Bush announced that policy, Bueler was quoted as saying, "The Republican Party is too liberal for me." Bueler said he believes creationism should be taught side-by-side with evolution in high schools and he considers homosexuality a sin. "I'm a Christian, first and foremost," Bueler said. He told his audience that he appreciated their "lonely" efforts to preserve the republic. "You must have felt like a minority in your own country," Bueler said. "You are no longer alone; the younger generation is here. Only a more conservative America can survive."
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