Posted on 11/06/2015 4:21:52 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Video from investigative journalism outfit Project Veritas (PV) released Thursday morning shows a Cornell administrator shredding a copy of the U.S. Constitution after a PV journalist posing as a student told the administrator the document is triggering.
Elizabeth McGrath, Cornellâs Lead Title IX Investigator, is seen in the video feeding pages from a pocket-size Constitution through a paper shredder after the undercover journalist says it would be therapy for her. McGrath asks the journalist if she would like to participate, an offer she declines.
I have my own personal reasons why the Constitution is very triggering for me, the PV journalist tells McGrath. In response, McGrath calls the Constitution a flawed document and calls those wrote wrote the Constitution flawed individuals. The video cuts to her saying the Supreme Court Justices who voted against same sex marriage were, you know, really out of their mindsâ¦
When McGrath suggests the document be left with her, the PV journalists asks if they could shred the document as therapy for her, to which McGrath responds, Absolutely. Right before the shredding, McGrath says, Free speech means freedom to destroy whatever you want to as well. Vice President of University Relations Joel Malina released a statement on the video, reading in part, Whatever personal views [McGrath] may have shared in order to connect with a âstudentâ who appeared to be in crisis, as an employee of Cornell University she was appropriately focused on addressing the apparently urgent need of the person before her and not on any larger political context. At the time of publishing, a request for comment delivered to McGrath had not been immediately responded to.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecornellreview.org ...
Sure. For something or someone well understood and stable, substitute something counterfeit and manipulable. Who is better able to stand up to the serpents? Not individuals, standing alone and without the support of their kin groups.
You are right, kindred groups were once the building blocks of society, which corporatizing interests of the left and right have sought to pulverize, to leverage their own power.
Tacitus tells us that when the German hero Arminius sought to transform his advisory and leadership-based chiefdom into an absolute monarchy after his victory over the Romans, it was a cousin who responded to his direct command by killing him -- thus saving the people from the savior. This the kinsman did in full view of the court, and not one finger was raised against him as he left the hall afterward. He defended his rights, and everyone else's, and even admirers of Arminius recognized the fact.
The Washington Times also reported:
University officials agree to rip up Constitution in undercover video"Project Veritas president James O’Keefe, known for his undercover video operations against ACORN and the National Public Radio, said the videos showed that the willingness to cut up the Constitution was “not an isolated incident.”
Conservatives have long accused academics of shredding the Constitution, figuratively speaking, but a Project Veritas sting operation recently caught them doing it literally.
Undercover video released last week showed administrators at Yale, Cornell, Syracuse, Vassar and Oberlin agreeing to rip up copies of the Constitution handed out off campus after an investigator posing as a student described the document as “triggering” and “oppressive.”.....................
..................................."Because in the end, you have got to laugh out loud at these videos as you listen to this chick moan and groan over the Constitution," she said in a Friday commentary. "It the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard, and these officials swallow it hook, line and sinker."
Mr. O'Keefe, who makes a cameo dressed up as a copy of the Constitution, said he was also surprised that the operation worked.
"When this idea came up in our newsroom about campus administrators shredding the Constitution because it's a trigger against students, we didn't think people would actually fall for it," he told Campus Reform. "We underestimated just how stupid and politically correct these people are"
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