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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Jason Levin’s comments to the AP:
“While the man behind the underhanded effort to “crash the tea party,” Joshua Levin, claims that the action will be non-violent, numerous posts on his website’s forum suggest otherwise.
Levin told the Associated Press yesterday that he had organized 65 leaders in cities across the country to coordinate the false flags, which would include portraying people who question Barack Obama’s birthright as crazed lunatics.
“Every time we have someone on camera saying that Barack Obama isn’t an American citizen, we want someone sitting next to him saying, ‘That’s right, he’s an alien from outer space!’” Levin said.
“Do I think every member of the tea party is a homophobe, racist or a moron? No, absolutely not,” Levin said. “Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely.”
Levin said all the attention just serves to make his plan more successful.
“How do you spot a fake tea partier? Do they have a tea bag tattooed on their forehead?” he said. “Thanks to us, the next time you’re at a tea party and you see a guy with a misspelled sign you’ll have to say ‘is this guy an idiot? Or is he just an infiltrator?”
Late Update: Dave Weigel reports on FreedomWorks’ plan to expose infiltrators like Levin and capture them on video at the Tax Day rallies on Thursday. The group is taking Levin’s plan — and the possibility of other infiltrators — pretty seriously, and is planning to point out and confront anyone with a “racist or offensive” sign at a rally on Thursday.
Later Update KATU-TV’s Anita Kissée caught up with Levin at home in Oregon. Check out the video here.
Late late update: Levin, who teaches media technology to middle schoolers, is being investigated by his school district after the district received a deluge of calls, many from tea partiers.
As it turns out……
Jason Levin is actually a middle-school teacher in the Portland, Oregon. He told us originally he was a “software consultant.” Hasn’t he heard of Google?
Uh oh. Turns out Jason might have been spending a lot of paid-by-the-taxpayers “school” time being a snarky, Obamist, anti-American cyber-geek.
It turns out our ever-lovin’ conservative cyber-shark Verum Serum uncovered a “Political Manifesto” which Jason Levin published online in which he rants in favor of legalized heroin, torture, marriage for “everyone” (and groups of everyone), universal health care, Christianity is a lie, and so on.
Oh, and there’s a priceless photo of “Jedi Jason” posing with a light saber. Just the kind of guy you want teaching your young skull of mush, right?
http://www.uncoverage.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/JasonJedi-234x300.jpg
Levin teaches in the media lab at Conestoga Middle School, although he described himself in an interview earlier this week with Talking Points Memo as a technology consultant.
I can spot a leftist teacher on sight. They have visible contempt for the children they “teach”. They are there only to indoctrinate them and like good leftists, they regard their little lives as worthless and expendable.
He is a hostile, mean, and stupid coward. It’s perfectly acceptable that people should be warned about him. Nothing to apologize for.
He wanted attention. He got it.
You DO know that was Mark Levin, right?
To a liberal, it’s exercising free speech when he defecates on a conservative’s front porch.
When a conservative offers up a differing viewpoint on an issue, it’s hate speech.
These people don’t have even a rudimentary understanding of what “free speech” really means in the Constitution.
I guess the heat became more than he could stand.
I still hope he is fired over this, he misappropriated school resources to do it with and for his own benefit. He was selling stuff to help pay costs etc.
It was major fun. But reading iwantpie, FUBO and Clem the Dem also kept me in stitches.
This is funny. “I didn’t do it and it’s unfair that I’m being punished after I did it just because I’m a teacher.”
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