Posted on 12/07/2007 8:23:13 AM PST by Sopater
Agree.
Free speech most important when stupid people say stupid and despicable things.
Nary a news source mentions that the guy was likely a liberal troll and just trying to get a rise out of other posters.
It could have been a “ruse”. After all, he was assuming the persona of his impression of a red-neck conservative.
Why do the Liberals do it? Well, actual racist incidents (white against black, anyway) have become much rarer than they used to be -- and how can we continue to believe we're a racist society, if racist acts are so rare??
Liberals are just picking up the slack. For the children.
He's preparing his resumé and portfolio to teach at Duke University. It makes perfect sense
No need to bring his grandma into this...;^)
Isn’t criminal, but is it IS a basis to fire the clown.
Next time some 3rd grader gets busted for drawing a gun on a piece of paper he should claim he was just trying to get that smartass conservative kid in trouble.
So this liberal teacher went to a conservative blog pretending to be a conservative and posted vile and nasty garbage.
All so he could direct his teacher friends to the conservative website to read the vile and nasty garbage that those vile and nasty conservatives post there...which was him.
I think you meant “grammar” but maybe you did that on purpose.
I agree he should be fired.
My biggest problem is that if this guy was conservative he would likely be charged because it would be assumed that he meant it. Of course, it is also assumed that this liberal didn’t mean it.
The action is not the crime, it is the assumed intent.
Please tell me that this twisted freak isn’t going to be allowed back in a classroom with children.
Since the poster was not presenting himself as himself, I presume the grammar and spelling errors were intentional—examples of the rhetorical devices of enallage and barbarismus, respectively.
Grammar.
I think that’s spelled “grammar”.
I’m pretty sure that there are people who are in jail today for “speech crimes” that were not as extreme as this teacher’s insidious comments. I don’t know where they draw the line at free speech/speech crime.
By the way, has Bill O’Reilly covered this story and called the blog where the teacher posted a “hate site”?
Yeah, while I would stand in line for hours to kick this guy in the stones, I couldn’t believe that he was arrested in the first place. If saying stupid stuff on the internet is a crime, then I suppose that a great many of us who post of FR would have felony records by now. The 1st Amendment was meant to protect unpopular speech, popular speech needs no such protections by definition. What constitutes popular speech changes with the times and the crowd though.
Police, tipped off to the comment by a West Bend School District employee, traced the Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to "Observer's" computer and arrested Buss on Nov. 29.
The fact of the matter is you can be arrested for free speech in America.
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