Agree.
Free speech most important when stupid people say stupid and despicable things.
Nary a news source mentions that the guy was likely a liberal troll and just trying to get a rise out of other posters.
Why do the Liberals do it? Well, actual racist incidents (white against black, anyway) have become much rarer than they used to be -- and how can we continue to believe we're a racist society, if racist acts are so rare??
Liberals are just picking up the slack. For the children.
Isn’t criminal, but is it IS a basis to fire the clown.
So this liberal teacher went to a conservative blog pretending to be a conservative and posted vile and nasty garbage.
All so he could direct his teacher friends to the conservative website to read the vile and nasty garbage that those vile and nasty conservatives post there...which was him.
Please tell me that this twisted freak isn’t going to be allowed back in a classroom with children.
I’m pretty sure that there are people who are in jail today for “speech crimes” that were not as extreme as this teacher’s insidious comments. I don’t know where they draw the line at free speech/speech crime.
By the way, has Bill O’Reilly covered this story and called the blog where the teacher posted a “hate site”?
Yeah, while I would stand in line for hours to kick this guy in the stones, I couldn’t believe that he was arrested in the first place. If saying stupid stuff on the internet is a crime, then I suppose that a great many of us who post of FR would have felony records by now. The 1st Amendment was meant to protect unpopular speech, popular speech needs no such protections by definition. What constitutes popular speech changes with the times and the crowd though.
I’m a little confused... “Criminal use of computer systems”? Not on HIS blog, not on his time, not on his computer. Nope.
I think a lot of people missed his point though. He was talking about the TEACHERS union, which is why this was an issue.
“I’m fairly certain the First Amendment doesn’t delineate between stupid and intelligent speech,” Robinson said. “It protects it all.”
Or all liberals would be in jail.
I’m not sure that free speech includes solicitations to murder people.
And it’s all the dirtier since he did it to spread hatred of supposed conservative bigots.
It’s virtually certain that the misspellings were deliberate. He was pretending to be an ignorant redneck, and he assumed that conservatives are too dumb to spell correctly.
He’s a liberal playing a sick game, so they excuse his behavior as the right to self expression. If he had actually been a conservative just expressing his opinion, I doubt they would have been so quick to invoke the First Amendment. They would have fired him summarily and would never have forgiven him.
If he wasn’t a member of the NEA, the MSM would be going NUTS over this story.
I agree that public disgrace is enough of a punishment. On the other hand, if it wasn’t investigated as a crime, we’d never have known the facts.
Agreed. I can’t believe personally that they even thought about bringing criminal charges. Fire from job I can understand, but criminal charges? Hate it when I have to defend people I don’t agree with.
This reminds me of the ‘minorities’ that hang nooses on their own dorm doors, or write racist graffiti on public buildings to ‘call attention’ to white racism when they can’t find any valid true samples of it handy.
they do not understand conservatives at all.