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."
His comment about soldiers turning their guns on superiors was meant "in the most metaphoric sense," he explained.
From Wikipedia...."In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two seemingly unrelated subjects. In a metaphor, a first object is described as being a second object. Through this description it is inferred that the first object has some of the qualities of the second. In this way, the first object can be economically described because implicit and explicit attributes from the second object can be used to fill in the description of the first. This is exploited in literature and especially in poetry, where with few words, emotions and associations from one context can powerfully be associated with another, different subject. "
Where's the "metaphor" in "Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors." Now we know he's a liar too. Hope he gets fired.
Daly sounds like the typical college English professor. No one takes those people seriously, do they?
Yeah, it's always a "metaphor" when they get caught calling for someone's death. Anything less and it's just "understandable frustration", as one of my liberal friends told me when I expressed some annoyance at a professor calling a group of women "Republic*nts". "I'm sure he was just frustrated..."
(Also, shouldn't an English professor realize that there aren't degrees of metaphorical speech? Either it's a metaphor or it's not.)
THis bastard marxist/communist should not only be fired...he should be tarred and feathered and then drug out of town on the end of a rope or chain.
Yes, only LEFT WING views are allowed to be freely spoken on campus. Students should not be allowed to know there is a different view.
Real intellectual freedom will exist when students realize that their professors are leftists failures.
I doubt that it does but if it does it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Perhaps the stress will get to him.
BWHAHAHA! Taste your own medicine, liberal idiot!
He's an english instructor right?
Let's pass out the short story "The Lottery" and make everyone read it. Then this "professor" can win the lottery.
Daly should stick to golf...he gets into enough trouble out there on the links.
Cry me a river you commie c**ks***er placemarker.
A little human shield work in Iraq might be helpful as well...
Like a college is going to get rid of a Radical Communist. He'll probably get promoted to dean.
Thread from yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526039/posts
Furor Over an E-Mail [Daly to be fired?]
Ms. Beach and other REAL Americans have turned thier guns on you, Mr. Daly.( Speaking in a "metaphoric sense" of course)
Then let him volunteer as a human shield for his next "hero" suicide bomber. Maybe his being there absorbing some of the shrapnel will save some lives.
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.
Does anyone know if he used the schools email system as opposed to his personal email?
First the "professor" says that he has freedom of speach, then you look at his email and realize that his real goal is not to prevent "these types of groups from showing their face on campus" (his respect of freedom of speach is just stellar here!) and then you look at his type of speach and realize it's what the campus police usually would refer to as "hate speach". As usual liberals want to muzzle everybody with "sensitivity" and speach codes, but they should never apply to them because they enjoy "academic freedom". Despicable!
Sounds like he's being exposed until he won't be able to show his face on campus.
Exactly what he threatened to do to the student.
Is this what they mean by Instant Karma?
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