Posted on 11/29/2015 4:07:23 PM PST by lowbridge
On the day that a gunman attacked a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility, Mike Adams was in North Carolina.
Yet, Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington notorious for his anti-abortion and Christian views, was on the receiving end of an inquiry from a fellow professor who wondered about Adams' potential involvement with the shooting suspect.
"Did you correspond with him Mike? Maybe inspire him a bit to complete his mission of murdering a university officer and 2 civilians?" Richard Greenleaf, a sociology and criminal justice professor at Elmhurst College, a private liberal arts school in Illinois, wrote in an email to Adams after the attack.
Greenleaf attached the mugshot of Robert Dear, the suspected gunman who killed three people when he attacked the Colorado Planned Parenthood, to his email. The subject line of the email read, "Another Mike Adams inspired nut case."
According to Adams, the two professors have never actually met, but he has received many emails from Greenleaf in the past. A columnist for Townhall, Adams has even shared one of Greenleaf's unsolicited emails regarding a class syllabus. Adams told TheBlaze that Greenleaf regularly sends him emails to ask about his involvement any time there is a mass shooting or tragedy.
"The fact that a professor would email me repeatedly accusing me of being involved in multiple murder conspiracies is truly mind boggling," Adams told TheBlaze. "The fact that he is a criminal justice professor moves it beyond parody. Greenleaf falls short of any reasonable standard of professional competence. His conduct is simply inexcusable."
Greenleaf told TheBlaze that his inquiries into Adams' involvement with tragedies of this nature stem from his writings at the conservative news site.
"Rhetoric has consequences," Greenleaf simply said.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
This kind of unthinking hatred and vitriol from the left- color me astonished/sarc.
I like Mike Adams. I’m sure he can hold his own and rip his colleague ‘another one’.
It sure does, psycho.
Wouldn’t this qualify as “microagression”?
Not so micro if you ask me.
Any info re: motive aside from an anonymous quote from the Washington Compost?
Why is The Blaze giving credence to the left’s perspective by using the word “notorious”?
Slavery had the nut John Brown and we’re saddled with this nut (and others). Of course, I’m still not sure if this nut really cared at all about abortion. At least, JB was definitely obsessed with slavery.
But, of course, expecting libs - and academic libs - to remember history is expecting too much.
Somebody needs a hobby.
That asswipe Greenleaf is either off his meds, or needs to have them increased.
His local police force should probably do a ‘wellness check’ to see if he has access to any dangerous firearms, wouldn’t want to see him hurt himself, you know? ;)
Indications are that the media narrative is beginning to unravel:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3366139/posts
these emails should be reported as workplace harassment
The so-called professor who wrote the email is daft and downright creepy. Putting the image and email together took some time.
Just bats.
The news said this crazy guy not only shot a cop, but at shoppers waiting. They seemed to indicate that it was more directed at the cops and at random.
Not trying to minimize this guy at all, they didn’t seem to indicate it was PP people that were the targets. But rather the guy was in their building.
Is there different information? Thanks in advance. I have not heard anything specific about the victims of this kook. But I have not seen all the details.
Appalling.
I’m an ex fan. But he was wronged here. Big time.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/interesting_family_background_of_the_colorado_springs_shooter.html
Many outlets have been saying the Colorado Springs shooter was from Western North Carolina, where I live. Since I have been active in the local prolife community, this bothered me. So I did a little snooping on-line.
I found that Dear does own property in Buncombe County (Asheville) though he lists his address on the property records for both parcels as South Carolina. The properties are low end. He also appears to have a residence in unincorporated Hartsel, Colorado and was registered to vote there as an unaffiliated voter. I'd say that makes him a Colorado resident. He never registered to vote in North Carolina.
Since Dear doesn't seem to have held a regular job, one has to wonder how he paid his bills. Property taxes are probably low on those two parcels, but it still takes ready cash. The family is from South Carolina. I have to wonder if the tax bills go to a relative or trustee there. From a professional point of view, he seems to me like the type of person whose inheritance might be put in a spendthrift trust. And I do suspect there might be some money in his family. One report says Dear listed his occupation as a "self employed art dealer." That's not usually an occupation for someone with middle or working class roots.
Some people aren’t worth the time.
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