Posted on 11/22/2005 6:21:40 AM PST by pookie18
Emergency meeting scheduled tonight on remark soldiers should kill superiors
New Jersey college's board of trustees has called for an emergency meeting tonight to discuss how to handle the controversy surrounding an e-mail by a professor suggesting soldiers in Iraq should kill their superior officers.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the e-mail by adjunct English instructor John Daly of Warren County Community College was a reply to freshman Rebecca Beach for her announcement of a campus program last Thursday featuring decorated Iraq war hero Lt. Col. Scott Rutter.
Daly wrote: "Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors."
Daly said Sunday he was worried he would be fired tonight and already had been told not to show up for the three classes he was scheduled to teach today, according to Inside Higher Ed, an online news source.
The instructor said he stood by the e-mail message, but it was being taken out of context. His comment about soldiers turning their guns on superiors was meant "in the most metaphoric sense," he explained.
Daly also said that because Beach was never one of his students, he thought she was a "Young America's Foundation organizer and sent the message with that in mind.
He would have used a different tone if he had known she was a freshman, he said, although the content wouldn't have changed.
In his e-mail, Daly said he would ask his students to boycott the event and also vowed "to expose [her] right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like [Rebecca's] won't dare show their face on a college campus."
Young America's Foundation, which came to Beach's aid, said that besides organizing the event, Beach's offense was hanging up fliers contrasting the number of people killed under communism to those liberated under President Reagan.
Beach responded to Daly's written tirade with a demand that Warren President William Austin institute seminars on free speech and sensitivity to teach intolerant faculty members to be respectful of differing opinion.
The college has issued three statements since the controversy began, with support for Daley apparently declining with each one, Inside Higher Ed said.
On Thursday, the college posted a statement on its website saying:
The viewpoints of this professor in no way depict the views of Warren County Community College, its administration, or the Board of Trustees. The College does however support the constitution, the first amendment, and the right to free speech.
Additionally, Mr. Daly's message was sent as a one-to-one message, via e-mail, to one person, and not to the college community. Finally, the College is viewing this message as a personnel issue and will be addressing it according to the policies and procedures of the College.
Austin attended the lecture Thursday night, and the next day, the college's statement, noting the speech went well, added criticism of Daley, quoting Austin as saying the e-mail was "disgraceful and offensive."
Saturday, the college announced the board had scheduled the emergency meeting, noting Tuesday was the first day such a meeting could be held legally.
"The Board of Trustees intends to consider the welfare and rights of its students, the college community, and the public in lieu [sic] of recent events. The board will also consider personnel issues," the statement said.
In the interview last night, according to Inside Higher Ed, Daly said it was entirely appropriate for him to criticize "a pro-war rally."
People should be outraged that military recruiters are able to attract the college's students to enlist because they can't afford tuition and find good jobs when they graduate.
"The YAF is trying to turn back affirmative action and to promote the war, and I have a right to speak out," said Daly, who noted he's been teaching at Warren for about a year.
He also teaches at another school but declined to give the name because of the current controversy.
Referring to the threat of being fired, Daly said his situation reflects a trend for non-tenured instructors.
"As more and more professors are teaching part time, this is a direct attack on our academic freedom," he said.
Daly's e-mail also claimed that "capitalism has killed many more" people than communism and that "poor and working class people" are recruited to "fight and die for EXXON and other corporations."
""Termination is excessive. I'd settle for an old-fashioned tar-and-feathering of the traitor."
I vote for both."
Actually a thorough tarring and feathering causes death. The large percentage of the skin is burned very badly by the hot tar, deep shock is caused by the intense pain of hot tar in close proximity to nerve endings, and removal of the tar takes a layer of skin with it exposing the flesh to infection. A very uncomfortable way to go.
Sound of Vonage song playing...
Woo Hoo, Woo Hoo Hoo Hoo
What would Daly think of a student writing, "Real freedom will come when students in NJ turn their guns on their professors"? We don't have to guess, do we?
Keep us up to date.
Or the college could lower tuition. Maybe the good prof could offer his services for free.
It was stated in an earlier story he used his personal AOL account.
Termination is excessive. I'd settle for an old-fashioned tar-and-feathering of the traitor.And allow this monster continued access to developing minds?
The students should turn their guns on the professor {in the metaphorical sense of course}, don't use a gun... use a grenade. Splatter his lazy, commie butt over his office. Is that metaphorical enough? Please don't take my words out of context, I'm certainly against violence. Piece {er, is that peace?}. Whatever, I'm sure the college board will take good care of this lefty loon. s/off
You're joking, right? Do you really think he'd be teaching after being tarred and feathered?
Read what it involves.
Safe assumption: assume all college professors are Ward Churchill-lite until proven otherwise.
Would the MSM be screaming bloody murder? Bet on it.
Painful...but not necessarily fatal.
Read what it involves.
I sent this scumbag an email that fairly lit 'im up. I'm sure he was deluged with such.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.......
.......and don't ya just LOVE it when they whine when called on their bulls**t???? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
In some sense, I fear a "cleaning house" at the MSM outlets and universities.
To some degree, it's good to keep the nutburgers of the left in their
ghettos.
No telling what real damage they might do if allowed to roam at will
in open society.
At least when they are at ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN or a university, we know where they
are and can keep an eye on them.
To quote the end of one of my favorite movies, "Trading Places"...can't we have both?
Extra Primo Good Mr. Coleman, sir.
FYI: http://www.warren.cc.nj.us/
For immediate release: November 19, 2005
Warren County Community College to Hold an Emergency Meeting
The Board of Trustees of Warren County Community College will convene an emergency meeting of the Board, Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 6:30 PM. This meeting was called by Board Chair Edward Smith.
The Board of Trustees intends to consider the welfare and rights of its students, the college community, and the public in lieu of recent events. The Board will also consider personnel issues.
The college President, Dr. William Austin reiterates his statement that comments made by Mr. Daly are his own. The opinions Mr. Daly has expressed do not represent the views of the community college, administration, faculty, staff or students, nor do his views align with the college’s mission and core values.
College President Dr. Austin said, “The Board of Trustees’ meeting is scheduled for the first legally available date.”
Everyone knows what tar and feathering involves, that being tar and feathers, primarily. It wouldn't stop him from continuing his program of indoctrination any more than the constant refutation and public humiliation of Democrats stops them from relentlessly pushing their agenda.
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