Heritage Hate on Campus - Commentary by Jim Dean, Heritage TV

Jim Dean, Heritage TV producer/host

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and Vice-Chairman of the Georgia Heritage Council.

Heritage Hate on Campus – Commentary by Jim Dean

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." ---George Orwell
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. " ---George Orwell
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. " ---George Orwell

Dear folks,

What you will read below is hard to believe, but then again it isn't. Years ago when Southern Heritage was being targeted as the 'victim de jour' of a running-out-of-steam 'civil rights' movement, I warned the DAR* and SAR* people that they should get into the fight. They asked why, and I responded that despite what you care or don't care about regarding Southern heritage, they will be coming for you next. They did not believe me. I do not think there was a single press release from either group on this issue. They took a pass.

** Editor's Note: SAR is "Sons of the American Revolution" and DAR is the "Daughters of the American Revolution." Both are hereditary organizations whose members must be genealogically documented as participating in the American colonies' secession from the British empire.

Later, when the some of the churches began joining the Confederate heritage lynch mob, I warned them that they were cutting their own throats. They now have learned that was true with the expansion of 'hate crime' laws that now make free Christian speech (quoting of certain Bible verses) into 'acts of hate' punishable by law. [See Making Truth a Crime commentary.]

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own." --Thomas Jefferson

College campuses are a special breed of institution. On one hand, you would think they would be bastions of free speech and the exchange of ideas, and they can be. But they also suffer from multiple personality disorder. They can turn on a dime and repress free speech...as many of the campus "speech codes" do, enforced by poltically correct "thought police."

And why? That's easy. They do it for the same reason it has always been done. Free speech is not really a two-way street for these folks. They use and support it when they perceive a benefit, and they chuck it overboard when they perceive a threat.

I have to tell you that this is quite widespread on America's campuses. What is unusual here is that a George Washington speech is considered harassment. The hypocrisy here runs off the scale.

Poet Nikki Giovanni's Virginia Tech memorial speech was given wide acclaim, and it was an uplifting message. In later interviews, she described how bothered she was with Cho's hate filled writing and did not want him in her class. But some Internet sleuths dug up some of her earlier writings and they could easily be compared to Cho's hate rants, or worse. Mass media decided to take a pass on publicizing this hypocrisy. They had already built her up and did not want to embarrass themselves.

Television and print 'news' audiences are falling off. One of the reasons is that more and more people are learning that they have scammed us over and over whenever they have desired to do so. They are no longer trusted. News is not news. Truth is not true. Some opinions are tolerated and others are not.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." --George Orwell

Our own media has declined into being a mass manipulation tool that is now just one step above the old Soviet or Red Chinese 'media' systems. The difference is merely who is pulling the strings and why, but they will lie to the public (including lying by omission) when it suits them.

The fight is upon us people. Think about it. If you can be fired for sending out George Washington's Thanksgiving Day proclamation, where are they going to go next? Do you think they are going to retire...as in their job is done and now they will go home? No, they won't. They will come back. And they will keep coming back until they find doing so a very unpleasant experience. It's time to do unto others folks.

Hate is alive and well on our campuses, and even subsidized by the taxpayers. These folks are the flip side of the conservative elites. No one and nothing else matters but them and what they think. These folks deserve all the disrespect that they show the rest of us.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face --- forever." ---George Orwell
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." ---George Orwell

You might want to send Chancellor Glasper a letter. As always, be polite but firm. Anything nasty is just thrown away and makes them feel superior. All the nasty letter writers from our side do a great disservice, literally undermining our work. I have a call in to their PR lady. It's no surprise that her phone machine is on.

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and Vice-Chairman of the Georgia Heritage Council.

Professor Forced Out for Citing George Washington

Newsmax.com
Monday, May 7, 2007

A tenured college professor is set to be fired for simply sending out an e-mail to colleagues containing George Washington’s "Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789.”

Already professor Walter Kehowski at Glendale Community College in Arizona has been placed on forced administrative leave and the school’s chief has recommended his termination.

"It simply boggles the mind that a professor could find himself facing termination simply for e-mailing the Thanksgiving address of our first president,” said Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

On Nov. 22, 2006, the day before Thanksgiving, Kehowski, a professor in mathematics in the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) sent the e-mail containing Washington’s message to all MCCCD employees, using a district-wide service designated for "announcements.”

Within weeks, five MCCCD employees filed harassment charges against Kehowski, claiming his message was "hostile” and "derogatory.” They complaining employees also cited the fact that the e-mail contained a link to Pat Buchanan’s Web site, where Kehowski had found Washington’s proclamation. Buchanan, a conservative commentator, had also posted to his Web site criticisms of immigration policies.

On Jan. 3, 2007, MCCCD found that Kehowski was guilty of violating policies limiting e-mail usage to messages that "support education, research, scholarly communication, administration, and other MCCCD business.”

These policies also prohibit "mailings to large numbers of people that contain unwanted solicitations or information.”

However, MCCCD employees commonly use the "announcements” service to send out unsolicited information, according to a statement from FIRE.

Recent e-mails sent out using this service include an advertisement for purchasing goats for orphans in Uganda, quotes about Women’s History Month, and a reminder about the health benefits of eating bananas.

"To FIRE’s knowledge, not one of the senders of these e-mails has been forced to cease teaching or threatened with dismissal,” according to the organization’s statement.

On March 9, MCCCD Chancellor Rufus Glasper placed Kehowski on administrative leave and recommended to the MCCCD governing board that he be dismissed. Kehowski has since appealed that decision and will defend himself at a hearing before a panel of three faculty members on June 5.

Kehowski contacted FIRE for help, and FIRE wrote to Glasper on April 25 to protest the actions against Kehowski, asserting that e-mailing a proclamation from George Washington or including a link to Pat Buchanan’s Web site does not constitute punishable harassment.

FIRE reminded Glasper that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that for workplace expression to be considered "harassment,” it must be "severe or pervasive enough to create an objectively hostile or abusive work environment.”

Sending a link to a Web site, which readers can either visit or simply ignore, does not fit this standard, FIRE maintains.

Glasper responded with a letter on April 30, but failed to address any of FIRE’s concerns, according to the group’s statement.

"It is dark day for free speech and common sense in Arizona,” Lukianoff said.

"If the MCCCD believes at all in the importance of the right to free expression, or even just in basic fairness, it will undo its illiberal actions and exonerate professor Kehowski immediately.

"This situation is an embarrassment to MCCCD and would be laughable if a professor’s most basic rights and very livelihood weren’t on the line.”

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"Society is an open-ended partnership between generations. The dead and the unborn are as much members of society as the living. To dishonor the dead is to reject the relation on which society is built - a relation of obligation between generations. Those who have lost respect for the dead have ceased to be trustees of their inheritance. Inevitably, therefore, they lose the sense of obligation to future generations. The web of obligations shrinks to the present tense." ---Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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