Posted on 04/16/2010 7:35:24 PM PDT by OR Patriot
Jason Levin, the middle school teacher behind the Crash The Tea Party project, is dismissing claims that he misused his position to organize the scheme.
Levin is currently on a paid leave from the Beaverton, Oregon school district where he works while school officials investigate charges that he used school time and equipment to create the website CrashTheTeaParty.org. He told me his attorneys have advised him not to do any interviews while the investigation runs its course. But in a written statement he emailed me this morning, Levin said the charges are without merit.
"Any allegation that I used school district equipment or district time to create or maintain the website is completely and totally false," Levin wrote. "The fact that teachers are held to a higher standard when excercising their right to free speech (in their private lives) is patently unfair."
In a sign that the hullabaloo the project has caused is getting to him, however, Levin has offered the site up for sale -- cleaning his hands of the tea party infiltration plan that drew the ire of conservatives across the country, including Sean Hannity.
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He should be investigated for identity theft if even one person’s identity was stolen. The guy is obviously a moron, Ok who in their right mind, being asked by a total stranger for their social security number, would say Ok here it is. When they call me from my credit card company asking me for the last four digits in order to identify me I refuse to give it to them..who would give it to a total stranger on the street. If somehow his message was screen shot he could be facing a lot of years in the pokey
Could be some parsing going on. I think the original discovery was that the website was constructed with school district software, not equipment. And, for what it’s worth, my dad was a school teacher, and maintaining high standards of personal conduct was just accepted as part of the job. Of course, that was back in the day...
Dirty hippy...:>)
Sorry, Jedi-Jason! Shouting “FIRE!!” in a crowded theater doesn’t count as “FREE SPEECH”!
You are so busted. I hope they pull your teaching credentials too for inciting people to ‘any means necessary’ to ‘demolish the TEA party’!
Don’t forget how smart all these liberals “think” they are.
Conservative=dumb
Liberal =smart
That’s the propaganda being put out by the media and this administration.
Nothing is going to happen to this turd...once this dies down the results of the investigation will be “inconclusive” and this jerk will be back teaching kids next year.....the law means nothing to the left and I’m betting the school administration are big lefties
Apparently, this "punishment" is reserved for government workers.
People like this guy make my skin crawl They are so creepy.
Does he or his followers even have to have obtained someone’s SS number without their permission or under false pretense? Is it legal to solicit others to gather social security numbers?
I know this person very well, but if I told you, I'd have to shoot you. ;-)
Good job boys and girls.
EAGLES UP!!
(Hey! Liberal Lurkers. Bring it on. We'll give more of the same if you want it. Just keep disrupting the Tea Parties and you will be brought to personal ruin and disgrace. We are playing hardball now. We play for keeps.)
clem you my bruthr form another mothre now i wont haf to shank youre as
You were Clem? I registered, but never posted since I knew I could never out perform you.
Shush!
He's trying to play the victim card and your messing it all up. :-)
might as well add this man should not be a teacher when he advocates people dressing up like a Nazis.
So, he’s had to lawyer up. I hope they are billing by the hour and at the standard rate.
He was advocating criminal activity by asking that social security numbers of TP member be collected. He stated that a lot more mischief could be done once the SS numbers were collected.
But since when do people give out SS numbers?
Taking the numbers probably isn’t criminal, but he definitely suggested the could have more fun after getting them. That is why the school board slapped him down.
Thing is, who gives out their SS number? I sure don’t.
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