Posted on 02/17/2005 1:16:39 PM PST by Alex Marko
Edited on 02/17/2005 1:56:18 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
www.Studentsforacademicfreedom.org is a website for a student ridiculed by liberal professor... Lets help Hannity out
ALex, May I suggest you ask the moderator to modify your original post to include materials in these two paragraph....We need to know the action needed in a synopsis form.
...As a result of growing media attention I am told that Foothill’s Board of Trustees has received hundreds of e-mails. I came to this country to study American political institutions and I have certainly been getting a crash course. I’ve discovered that, as a tax-payer funded college, Foothill has a 5 member publicly elected Board of Trustees who care passionately about Education.
Ironically, as I was going through all of this I learned that California State Senator Bill Morrow was introducing the Academic Bill of Rights to the State Legislature to defend academic freedom and intellectual diversity on California’s campuses. As a result of my own experience and the many stories I have heard from other Foothill students, I am helping to form a chapter of Students for Academic Freedom to get my college and my state to adopt this bill. You can encourage Foothill’s Board of Trustees to pass the Academic Bill of Rights as official school policy by emailing them at http://www.fhda.edu/about_us/board/.
That wasn't an apology,
Sorry, but Sean went from "OK" to just outta here.
Congrats on finding it...and the heads up on using it.
Sean knows better than to take pot shots at ANY conservative group! It just emboldens the powerful moneyed left to go after us.
"But, but...just yesterday, didn't Hannity say FR was a bunch of fringe kooks now?"
No and he addressed the issue on his show today.
You want a direct, in your face way to deal with the issue?Here it is.
Summary:
Tactic one:
A college puts out a product. The product is education.
A professors job is to teach the student, not indoctrinate him with political views or brainwash him, and especially not to harass or ostracize him if he disagrees.
The student pays the professor and the university for the education he is receiving. Thats a transaction.
The basic contract is this:
Student pays the college ( and the professors) for them to educate him so he can compete in the world. ( Not to indoctrinate him in Stalinist propaganda)
The remedy:
Sue the college for product liability. They are not educating the student, they are brainwashing him in political beliefs.
Tactic Two:
Another tactic would be to sue the professor and the college, and everyone else in the food chain for Conspiracy to deny the student his Civil Rights under 42 USC 1983.
Here's the exact statute:
42USC1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights
a.Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.
For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
These guys are not immune from lawsuits because of the Freedom of Education Act. If they step out the job description of the position and exceed their authority, they are acting under the "color of law" as cited in paragraph one of the excerpt.
God luck and good hunting. I feel for the guy because I went through a lot of the same crap in college.
"He apologized today to Freerepublic.com"
I heard him clarify his remarks and he's right. Too many on here attack people on the same side.
Rush, Lucianne, Drudge and himself all went after the MSM and offered an alternative. Instead of recognizing these people for sticking their neck out they're personnally attacked.
Not their ideas or words but personal attacks. They have to ask themselves........who needs that shat, they get enough from the left.
Good point I thought.
I can't find his request, help me out....
disagree, we don't have to "prove" anything. If that were the standard, then ad-hominem attacks (because like it or not, that's what Sean's phrasing leaves no other conclusion of being...) would be holy writ, and we'd all spend our time justifying the defense of our innocence.
He had a brain-fart; I still listened to him; I don't hold it against him; nor do I hold it for him.
Case Closed... Next.
Bottom line, Sean Hannity and FreeRepublic still want the same thing. And this is not a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. All things aside, it's not. Some, and I hope most, FReepers will understand that.
People can think what they want to, obviously, about Sean Hannity, but I'll be an individual and voice my opinion too. I also think that is one of the things that makes FreeRepublic the best conservative blog there is.
I know I would not be the only FReeper to say that we do have our fringe element. I argue like cats and dogs with one FReeper in particular. But deep down I know he still values most of the things I value, even though his life experiences are alot different than mine.
And if push came to shove, and he was being attacked by a liberal demwit, I would have his back in a heartbeat. He'll rename nameless, but if he reads this he will without a doubt recognize himself.
Just my two cents, for what it's worth.
I listen to Sean a couple of times a week, I did today, and I think well of him. He may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I don't see much reason for some people to attack him. He is consistently in support of our military and our president, and he does get some good points across to callers.
I don't know that he's repetitious, or that it's a 17 yo level as some have said--and I have never heard him mention his book. Maybe he does all that stuff on days I don't listen. But I doubt it.
So far, I like Sean Hannity a lot more than I like H&C, and more than O'Reilly.
If you had asked the question yesterday, before his show I would have been happy.
Now I will not use my FReeeper abilities to feather his cap.
That's about it.
he is on his own in whatever endeavor he pursues. I will not help him, but I will help the cause.
Just not one he is associated directly with.
Thanks for the link, brohamie.
We are a discussion board and activism hub. Not a darn blog. Or weblog.
Ok, ColdHeat..how about a "great meeting place and advocacy forum."?
Yes I'll admit I've had the foot in the mouth disease a number of times myself. I was a little peeved with him yesterday, because I thought he was having ego problems, but he does do alot of good things for others. (Just like FR)
It's dot ORG
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