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UPenn prof calls for imprisonment of filmmaker Sam Bacile; Update: Butler locks her Twitter account
Twitchy ^ | September 12, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 09/12/2012 11:55:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Butler@AntheaButler

Good Morning. How soon is Sam Bacile going to be in jail folks? I need him to go now.When Americans die because you are stupid...

12 Sep 12

Anthea Butler is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The title of her most recent book, The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Angels Are Galvanizing the Religious Right, gives you a pretty good idea of where she stands politically.

This morning, she strongly implied that Sam Bacile is responsible for yesterday’s embassy attacks and, as a result, should be tossed into jail.

Bacile is an Israeli filmmaker who lives in California and has gone into hiding. He made the crappy movie that is being used as a pretext to justify the violence that erupted in Egypt and Libya yesterday.

But is making a movie that makes Muslims angry a crime? Butler appears to think so.

Of course, like any academic, Butler purports to support free speech rights:

@AntheaButler

And yes, I know we have First Amendment rights,but if you don't understand the Religion you hate, STFU about it. Yes, I am ticked off.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

But it is clear that she gets most excited when arguing that those rights are highly circumscribed:

@AntheaButler

@blmoyer And people do to jail for speech. First Amendment doesn't cover EVERYTHING a PERSON says.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

@AntheaButler

I am all for free speech, but you better damn well understand that actions have consequences, and what you mock is another persons belief.— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

@AntheaButler

@jason_a_hines the murder of the Ambassador and the employees is wrong, wrong. But Bacile will have to face his actions which he had freedom— Anthea Butler (@AntheaButler) September 12, 2012

12 Sep 12

Sounds like Anthea Butler, Sally Kohn, and Mike Barnicle would get along swimmingly.

Related: Twitter users call for the arrest and murder of Terry Jones

Update: Butler has gone into CYA-mode and locked her Twitter account.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: academia; antheabutler; egypt; inquisition; islam; libya; muslims; obama; palin; pennsylvania; univpennsylvania; upenn
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To: chris37
“Why do Americans blame themselves and other Americans for killings that were committed by someone else entirely?”

It's abortion think; Somebody commits a crime and a baby gets the death sentence without a trial.

41 posted on 09/12/2012 12:31:17 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again")
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To: henkster

I don’t know. I think it goes beyond that. Self loathing, envy, jealousy and loathing of this country in young people is being manufactured in schools.

It also exists in liberal adults, and they pass it to their children as if it is duty.

It is growing at a fast rate, and it will continue exponentially with new children.

They are making the people that they need, and it starts very early in life.


42 posted on 09/12/2012 12:31:39 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another good reason why I never send money to my alma mater......


43 posted on 09/12/2012 12:32:00 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ

To paraphrase Obama’s radical Chicago minister Wright, “Obama’s chickens have come home to roost”.


44 posted on 09/12/2012 12:32:46 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet


MMMOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
45 posted on 09/12/2012 12:35:13 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I'm a grown-ass man, I thought I'd seen it all.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Pot scrubbing hair.


46 posted on 09/12/2012 12:37:05 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sent a juicy note to Penn’s abuse email address.

Yeah, I feel abused.


47 posted on 09/12/2012 12:39:11 PM PDT by tickedoffnow (No more...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jail Anthea .......for threatening to impede the First Amendment Rights of another.


48 posted on 09/12/2012 12:41:21 PM PDT by Cliff Dweller (No such thing as a threat... just targets)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
…and I just read that the University of Penna was on the list of universities that agreed to ban political correctness on campus in favor of free speech.

Here's the link.http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/06/southern-schools-dominate-list-best-colleges-for-free-speech/

49 posted on 09/12/2012 12:42:02 PM PDT by Eva (Obama and Hillary lied, Americans died.)
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To: tickedoffnow

Link for the rest of us?


50 posted on 09/12/2012 12:47:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: liberalh8ter

Anthea Butler frowns on your shenanigans.


51 posted on 09/12/2012 12:51:20 PM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: BilLies

How about this word for her? Nincompoop.


52 posted on 09/12/2012 12:53:12 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess learning about the US Constitution is not required in our education system any longer............


53 posted on 09/12/2012 12:53:28 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for e an the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

54 posted on 09/12/2012 12:56:01 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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To: jtal

It appears she does.


55 posted on 09/12/2012 12:56:55 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Link for Penn’s email abuse address:

abuse@isc.upenn.edu


56 posted on 09/12/2012 1:01:03 PM PDT by tickedoffnow (No more...)
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To: isthisnickcool

Sorry for the poor taste in my post above.

I’ve somewhat got to the point with some of the morons that happen to be black as I have with all the moslems. I’m just sick and tired of them. I’m even more sick and tired of the media who promotes these anti-Americans, anti-Christian and racist people.

I never cared about islam before 9/11 and I never cared about skin color before Obama. That was before the moslems started killing my American brother and sisters and before Obama started pitting the races against each other.

We are approaching a time where people are going to start throwing aside the political correctness and calling some of these people what thye are....


57 posted on 09/12/2012 1:02:53 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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To: isthisnickcool

What? The enemy? They passed that line some time ago...


58 posted on 09/12/2012 1:14:53 PM PDT by tickedoffnow (No more...)
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To: Eva
Yeah? Wasn't Penn where the "water buffalo" incident took place?

Penn's response was more in support of cultural marxism, rather than against it, iirc.

59 posted on 09/12/2012 1:17:52 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: liberalh8ter

Racist commie *unt.

LLS


60 posted on 09/12/2012 2:03:40 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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