Ward Churchill Clone Surfaces in New Jersey
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- Date: 28 Nov 2005 09:07:04 -0800
Ward Churchill Clone Surfaces in New Jersey
By Mike Rosen
Rocky Mountain News | November 28, 2005
It's not just the University of Colorado at Boulder that harbors wacko,
America-hating lefties. Behold, the sequel: "Son of Churchill." At
Warren County Community College in rural New Jersey, John Peter Daly,
an adjunct English professor, went off the deep end last week in an
outrageous e-mail to a student.
The student was Rebecca Beach, a freshman and member of a the local
chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a respectable, mainstream
national conservative student organization created in 1960 with
assistance from William F. Buckley Jr. and other leaders of the
intellectual conservative movement. (Disclosure: I've been a guest
speaker in years past at YAF's annual student seminar at American
University in Washington, D.C.)
Rebecca's crime was to invite Lt. Col. Scott Rudder, a decorated Iraq
war hero, to appear on campus on Nov. 17 to discuss with students
America's accomplishments in Iraq. She compounded this felony by
advertising the event via e-mail and by posting fliers around campus
contrasting the number of people killed under communist regimes to
those freed from communism by Ronald Reagan and worldwide freedom
movements.
So you know where Daly sits before you hear where he stands, you should
be aware that he's a member of the Marxist Worker's World Party; a
regular correspondent to their newspaper, Workers World; a gay
activist; and an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in California of
the Peace and Freedom Party (self-described as a "socialist and
feminist political party" calling for "collective ownership" of
industry and "an unconditional end to U.S. military intervention in the
affairs of other nations"). None of this is illegal, of course, but it
gives you a picture of an angry, self-disenfranchised outcast from
mainstream society. That mentality comes through in these highlights
from his e-mail to Beach:
"I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask
others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby
look like fascist propaganda and is \[sic] extremely offensive. \[Daly
is a professor of English!] Your main poster "Communism killed
100,000,000 is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that capitalism
has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily
newspapers . . . thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and
working class people who are recruited to fight and die for Exxon and
other corporations who are earning megaprofits from their imperialist
plunders . . . I will continue to expose your right-wing anti-people
politics until groups like yours won't dare show their face on a
college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their
guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people's
needs."
1. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn has eloquently testified, with first-hand
knowledge, to 100 million murdered under communism.
2. What standing does Daly have to inflict his obtuse politics on his
students and urge them to boycott Rudder's talk? He's not even teaching
political science; it's a freakin' English class!
3. Typical of radical leftist brownshirts, his notion of diversity of
ideas in higher education is to drive conservative groups off campus.
And he has the gall to direct the term "fascist" at others! What would
he say if a conservative professor wanted to drive leftist groups off
campus?
4. Daly isn't merely disagreeing with our foreign policy in Iraq; he's
advocating that American soldiers murder their sergeants and officers!
Typical of pusillanimous administrators, the college has posted a
statement on its Web site diplomatically divorcing itself from Daly's
comments, but invoking its support of the First Amendment, adding that
it's reviewing this as a personnel issue. The First Amendment protects
Daly's speech, repugnant as it is, from prosecution at the hands of
government. As an employee, he's not immune from disciplinary action
for his abusive behavior toward a student. Ironically, it's the free
speech of conservative students at the college that's under assault
here.
Beach says Daly has created a hostile learning environment and has
called for Warren President William Austin to require intolerant
leftists, like Daly, to attend mandatory seminars on free speech,
sensitivity and respect for differing opinions.
I'd say Beach is being far too lenient. Daly has exposed himself as a
bigot and a hysterical seditionist. His intolerance is an affront to
the basic tenet of collegiality to which institutions of higher
learning claim to adhere. He has disqualified himself as a responsible
steward of impressionable young minds. His words are to intellectual
discourse as a cesspool is to the Seven Seas. And he doesn't even have
tenure. If the Warren County Community College administration has any
decency, self-respect and backbone, they'll throw the bum out.
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