Posted on 05/14/2008 11:02:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Like I said before, I worked with this guy...there's more to the story than the article reveals...
Yes, I had a gut feeling [dear Lord] that there was more to this than is being told.
I have a hunch it won’t be long before Hussein M. Mroueh’s daughter or someone like her will be beat up in some dark alley. Imho, it’s just a matter of time.
Definitely free speech to take the word of a student over a teacher. Yep.
My question is, was the kid’s father a terrorist or not?
Their lives, already difficult, are made into living hells by their coworkers and friends.
I've seen that happen numerous times.
The excuse is invariably "he deserved it, did you hear what he said"?
Be interesting to see what all the other noise was about ~
Dunno. What if he wasn't? What if he just happened to be a muzzie? Should the teacher be allowed to call him a terrorist if he's just as muzzie? My point: under the constitution, he should be allowed. However, if he is a loose cannon, the school should also have the free speech to tell him to get his $hit and get out.
We still do not know the whole story. But saying "free speech" IMO is lame. The Dixie Chicks had free speech to slander their own country during war time. County music fans and country music stations had the same free speech rights when they said "don't play the Chicks' misic anymore".
You may be right. I have no way of knowing. Thanks for the response.
You may not know the whole story, but I do. Like I said before, there are convenient pieces of information missing from the article that illuminate this situation a whole lot more comprehensively than is led on. Mr. Schiemann was let go because this was the "straw that broke the camel's back", so to speak. Mr. Schiemann had had several disciplinary problems throughout the past two years and was at the end of his rope...
I had a high school history teacher who was a Viet Nam Vet and a virtual ringer for Sam Kinnison's character in Rodny Dangerfield's, "Back To School." He was also our wrestling coach and I managed to stay on his good side. I never heard him make that exact threat, but some that were pretty close. I really admired that man, and had him write a letter of recommendation for my ROTC scholarship application, and even after going away to college and then the Army, I'd still look him up for a visit whenever I got back home.
And the Chicks still have freedom of speech, don’t they?
I find it amazing that you’re defending a school district for firing this guy for making his comments, and I don’t see them firing people calling Bush a murderer, or running down the US government, or even running down Conservatives.
Give me a break. Freedom of speech does go both ways.
Let’s see them start firing anti-Conservative, pro-Socialists jackasses teaching our kids in school too, just to be fair.
I am not defending the school. I was just saying that "free speech" does not protect one from being fired. Certainly, he had the right of free speech, which he exercised, and he was not imprisoned for saying it. However, an employer can fire an employee for inappropriate speech. The freedom of speech guaranteed in the bill of rights does not insulate one from being fired. I mentioned the Dixie Chicks, because their defenders claimed they were being deprived of their "free speech rights". They were not. They had the freedom to say what they did, but there were consequences.
I do not defend the public screwel system, which wants to indoctrinate kids with their commie/leftist BS. But I would make a distinction between referring to Bush as a murderer and saying something about the parent of one of the students. If (and it is a big 'if') the teacher singled out the student's parent as a terrorist just because he's a member of the religion of peace, then he crossed a line he should not have crossed, and "freedom of speech" does not cut it. It would be like telling a student whose dad is in the military that their parent is a murderer.
As i sit here and read all of the comments it saddens me.I know this family personally and i am a Christian not a Muslim. What the article fails to mention is that this didn’t happen this year it happened last year and they have investigated this for months and it also doesn’t tell you that the day he filed this suit his house was shot at twice and his windows in his Vehicle were shot out, so who is the terrorist oh shall i mention a school official also had his home shot at the same night hmmmm.. This is a family that happens to be Muslim and no they are not from IRAQ, they have lived in the area for many many years and get along very well with the neighborhood, they also run a store and i have seen many times this man give free gas and free food to people who cant afford it but really need it. Just because he is Muslim doesn’t make him a terrorist. The thought process is just well stupid..They call that Racial profiling if you didn’t know. The girl in question is a very sweet girl and i remember the day she came home heart broken and crying because of what had happened. If that was YOUR CHILD and someone said hateful things to them in front of the whole class would you or wouldn’t you file a grievance with the school board i know i would and that is what the father did. He didn’t go in and ask for the man to be fired he filed a complaint and what the school board does with it is their problem. I know very well that this is a free speech agenda, But before you open your mouth and call all Muslims terrorist THINK, Just because we live in America doesn’t mean we all agree with how our wonderful government handles things unfortunately this is another clear cut example of profiling.
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