Ban tenure before it kills again.
Posted on 02/13/2010 11:47:33 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
That's Bill Delahunt.
However, there is currently no indication that he did the covering up.
It may be that he dropped the prosecution because there was insufficient evidence. It is more likely the Police Chief at the time (or someone else in the Department) 'lost' the evidence (investigation reports) to protect Amy Bishop (and more specifically her mother).
Basically, to conclude Delahunt was involved in 'covering it up' is not 'in evidence' at this time.
Oh brother. She claimed in 1986 that the shotgun went off accidentally TWICE??!! And Congrssman Delahunt, ADA at the time, chose NOT to bring charges and the case history file is gone. This one stinks.
Oh. And Amy’s daddy is rich? Hmmm. We should check political donations on this.
IF this turns out to be true, then it would seem to point the finger more at Delahunt.
As I said on another thread, the reason for these kind of things (coverups) involve either greed (follow the money), or lust (who was sleeping with whom).
If Amy Bishop's grandfather was a big donor to Delahunt, then....
To try to link a tragedy like this to someone's political views, which we really don't even know, is a new low on IDIG. This thread should be deleted by the moderator, IMO.
See #15.
Cops seem to think there is.
I saw that after my first comment, and acknowledged that NEW information in a subsequent post.
Which I, of course, missed....
Story is unfolding fast. No wonder Delahunt is lying low right now. He's afraid to say anything until others tell what they know.
Ban tenure before it kills again.
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From that headline I will surmise she is a leftist.
It looks like that article was posted hours before the shooting, but it’s not impossible that Bishop was acting in a way that led people to recently look into her past. Some of the staff may have felt threatened and asked for an assessment about what she might be capable of. She had been acting strangely, it seems.
what was/is Daddy’s name?
The time line looked close and it seemed out of character for a former DA to make a decision that rashly but it is curious. Just a coincidence I guess. Let’s see how long it takes Delahunt to say anything of substance. The longer it takes, the more likely he’s getting his story straight and did cut Amy Bishop loose for a reason that had nothing to do with the facts of what she did.
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“That request was denied. The appeal went through the appeals process.
Amy told me she believed that there was a good chance of the appeal working.”
Despite her expressed hopes, Seemann said tenure denials rarely get reversed.
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Having experienced (peripherally) a sister-in-law that succeeded
in an appeal process at a major “State Univerity” to gain tenure...
it can be a harrowing experience.
Especially when the tenure candidate is “ahead of the curve” in
regard to the tenured faculty.
E.g., a tenure candidate working in plant genomics in a department
heavy with cutting-edge agronomy...for the 1950s-1970s.
Being basically a free-market guy with lots of friends/family
in the academic sphere...you fight for tenure.
And accept defeat at an institution.
Then MOVE ON.
E.g., Carl Sagan denied at Harvard (IIRC), gets tenure at Cornell U.
(yeah, an evil university). And I know personally of a few other
cases of accquainences don’t get tenure at Ivy League Universities...
but get tenure at respectable universities.
The gals at the state pen will be real impressed. Not.
No. It makes perfect sense.
Remember that the modern university is a very egalitarian place and that you are tenured based mostly on the opinion of other faculty.
Just what do you think lessor researchers in charge of promotion at a government university are going to do to someone that has out-produced them?
Pull out their guns and riddle her with bullets ?
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