Posted on 06/20/2019 2:16:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
As a right-wing alumna of far-left Oberlin College, I have four words for the administration in response to last week's ground-breaking $11 million jury verdict in the defaming of the humble Gibson's Bakery:
You had it coming.
I have five more words for Oberlin as arrogant college officials continue their obstinate war on the Gibson family even after the much-deserved courtroom defeat:
You still don't get it.
After the college sent out Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Donica Thomas Varner's June 7 email to alumni disparaging the verdict and lying about the basis for the trial, the jury whacked Oberlin's calumnious crapweasels with an additional $33 million in damages caused by their libel, intentional interference with business, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Ironically, thanks to Big Business GOP-sponsored tort reforms in Ohio 15 years ago, the awards may be greatly reduced to the relief of the radically liberal college, as Legal Insurrection blogger and law professor William Jacobson points out.
Still, the jury's message to administrators who incited hatred against Gibson's is loud and clear: Stop the racial smears.
Because white townies are presumed guilty until proven innocent, minority students and their mentors leaped to protest alleged institutional racism by a bakery that has nobly and peacefully served and employed people of all races and backgrounds since 1885. Social justice agitators attempted to turn three black student shoplifters into Rodney King-style martyrs and the white Gibsons into the Simi Valley police of Lorain County in late 2016. In August 2017, after the SJW noise died down, the trio of grabby-handed students pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges ranging from attempted theft and aggravated trespassing to underage purchase of alcohol. They acknowledged in statements that Gibson was within his right to detain shoplifters and all stated in court that Gibson's actions were not racially motivated.
But those admissions were small consolation to the Gibsons, who the dean of students attacked publicly in knee-jerk protests immediately after the theft and who other officials savaged privately in extensive, profanity-laced communications leading up to the bakery's lawsuit and trial. Oberlin Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo put herself in the middle of the maelstrom, complete with bullhorn and flyers declaring Gibson's to be a "RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION." Oberlin VP of communications Ben Jones lambasted the bakers: "F--- em ... they've made their own bed now." And special assistant to the president Tito Reed condemned the Gibsons' "combined audacity and arrogance to assume the position of victim" as the college sought to pressure the family into exempting all student shoplifters from criminal prosecution in exchange for restoring canceled cafeteria contracts.
I received an even more defiant letter from Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar on June 14 vowing that "this is not the final outcome." Ambar warns of a "lengthy and complex legal process." Indeed, I'm now hearing from infuriated Oberlin insiders this week that the college persists in treating the Gibson family horribly and refuses to end the horror show, all while blithely assuring alumni that "we value our relationship with the town and region that are our home."
Bull.
For decades, grievance-mongering Oberlin elites have bullied and defamed innocent white people without consequences in their multicultural Ohio enclave. False racial allegations and toxic identity politics are the bread and butter of Oberlin campus life. I've documented multiple hoaxes, stoked by Oberlin's campus outrage industry, which have exploited fake hate by phantom white bigots to expand the affirmative action empire.
—Back in the 1990s, Asian American students claimed that a mysterious racist had spray-painted anti-Asian racial epithets on a campus landmark rock; they used the incident to clamor for more departmental hiring. The culprit was a warped Asian American student.
—Another Asian American student I knew accused a white library worker of racism after the poor staffer asked the triggered student to lower the blinds where she was studying.
—In spring 1990, two black female students baselessly accused David Gibson of bigotry after he told them they were not allowed to sit at an outside table because they hadn't purchased any food items from his store. The rule applied to everyone. The perpetually aggrieved students demanded an apology to the entire black student population.
—In 2013, hyped by the administration and power-seeking minority groups, Oberlin made international headline news for a "KKK sighting" that turned out to be a person walking around campus wearing a blanket.
Oberlin alum Beth Kontrabecki Walters summed it well for me in her reflections on campus life and the Gibson's verdict: "What was once considered a forward-thinking and prestigious institution has now become the poster child for intolerant, myopic crybabies. Oberlin should not appeal this decision. ... The multimillion-dollar reward to Gibson's is the public's way of sending a message; it's high time these insulated left-wing incubators put an end to the out-of-control politically correct culture. ... They made an example of Oberlin, and while I agree with the jury completely, as an alum, it is extremely embarrassing nonetheless."
Instead of reexamining its fundamental contempt for Midwest family values, entrepreneurship, the presumption of innocence and the truth about its racial hucksterism, Oberlin recently announced the appointment of a new "Multicultural Resource Center" director focused on nominating future speakers for the college's segregated Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ students graduation ceremonies and advancing the "advocacy, equity, and belonging for marginalized students."
In other words: More of the same old toxic stew of anti-white activism masquerading as "education" that landed Oberlin in such humiliating legal trouble in the first place. The jury voted. Now it's time for more parents, alumni and donors of ideological insane asylums like Oberlin to vote with their own feet and pocketbooks. De-fund the divisive defamers of American higher education. It's the only way they'll learn.
In 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, SCOTUS ruled that segregation is unconstitutional and “separate but equal” was not equal. Sixty five years later, we’re right back where we started. Except for the trillions spent on enforcing the ruling.
Isn’t it time for SCOTUS to reassert the ruling OR admit they made a mistake?
“De-fund the divisive defamers of American higher education. It’s the only way they’ll learn.”
It’s the only way they’ll stop. I don’t think they’re capable of learning.
Liberals have attempted to engineer a world for themselves in which they are free from consequences: abortion, homosexuality, pedophilia, depravity, drugs, alcohol, illegitimacy, overspending, etc.
They couch it in all manner of anodyne terminology: choice, pride, sexual freedom. If they can’t make it a positive, they attack anyone who disapproves as a prude, judgmental, a hater, etc.
Among the many problems they created for themselves was the parasite class. These are people who aren’t all that interested in the high-minded talk - they just want their check. Or booze. Or drugs. The three ‘students’ were lab-perfect parasites. Violent ones.
The mass delusion has also resulted in the current state of affairs in which amoral people believe they are the most moral among us. They’ve gone from ‘leave us alone’ to ‘we won’t leave you alone.’
The perpetrators of this will still be rewarded and employed
Oberlin refuses to admit that which Pogo, the possum, accepted as the obvious: “We have met the enemy, and he are us.”
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The DOJ needs to charge Oberlin with aiding and abetting...... and related crimes.
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Michelle Malkin went to Oberlin??! too funny
How did she ever last 4 years there??
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CASE IN POINT The state of Georgia tried convicted and jailed 27 corrupt educators under this law.....
<><> for falsely taking public money,
<><> for falsifying official school records, and so on.
BACKSTORY The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). The Georgia General Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law. (RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).
In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law. To bring a case under Georgias RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies). RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicy-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.
ITEM---Any public official using tax dollars to flout that law is a lawbreaker.
ITEM-- in cases where govt officials on the public payroll not giving public notice is a violation at the federal level of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which requires notice in the Federal Register. Laws demand that taxpayers have the opportunity to submit views in writing.
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If proof is established that RICOed criminal public officials impaired the region's commercial and economic activity, that could also be prosecutable under the Hobbs Act.
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government for funding (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government,
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate 4th amendment rights.
<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a public enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers should demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
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bump
I think Clarence Thomas just last week made a general comment about revisiting bad decisions or decisions leading to “unexpected” perversions thereof.
Except he referred to the doctrine of stare decisis.
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