The Brownshirts Are Teaching The Teachers A Lesson In Humanities - NOT!
by pessimist
I was attempting to get the first cup of coffee in me today while listening to the news. It was nothing spectacular or especially interesting - until this came on:
UCLA Alumni Group Offers $100 For Info On Professors
An alumni group headed by a former campus GOP leader is offering students up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are "abusive, one-sided or off-topic" in advocating political ideologies, it was reported Wednesday.
I just about drenched my monitor spewing jave like molten lava.
"WTF?!?!?!?" I asked, rhetorically, while the bubble-headed bleached-blonde gushed on about how those manly-man conservatives were "going after radical liberal professors" who were "expressing opposition" to King George and the Crusade for Crude.
You could almost hear the love and devotion lotion flowing out of her onto the floor! She sure didn't need new batteries to get her jollies this morning!!!
The year-old Bruin Alumni Association says its Exposing UCLA's Radical Professors initiative takes aim at faculty "actively proselytizing their extreme views in the classroom, whether or not the commentary is relevant to the class topic," the Los Angeles Times reported.
UCLA had this lame response to these fascist dolts:
The university said it will warn the association that selling copies of professors' lectures would violate campus rules and raise copyright issues.
Like they care about copyright laws! I'm sure the Neo-Georgian Guard are shaking in their hob-nailed Nike jackboots!
Who the hell appointed these pinheads to impose their standards on the rest of us?
The Bruin Alumni Association is headed by Andrew Jones, a 24-year-old who graduated in June 2003 and was chairman of UCLA's Bruin Republicans student group.
Just who the hell are they attempting to 'protect'?
Jones said the biggest contribution to the group, $5,000, came from a foundation endowed by Arthur N. Rupe, 88, a Santa Barbara resident and former Los Angeles record producer. He said his organization, which is registered with the state as a nonprofit, does not charge dues and has no official members, but has raised a total of $22,000 from 100 donors, The Times reported.
Subtract the $5Gs, divide by 100, the average donation was about $170. Has the domestic terrorism business gotten so bad that these brown clowns have to go door to door to peddle Hitler Youth cookies?
And just what are they hoping to accomplish with THIS 'educational' extremist activity?
Although the group says it is concerned about radical professors of any political stripe, it has named an initial "Dirty 30" of teachers it identifies with left-wing or liberal causes.
What are they trying to do - set up a hit list for wannabe pay-triots? Did they learn about the abortion doctor hit list, which resulted in one doctor's murder abnd assaults on others, and decide - like those moron troglodytes in Fort Lauderdale, or the ape-men who get off watching 'Bumfights' - "Hey! That's COOL! I wanna do dat too!"
They don't care about what it feels like to be on the receiving end of such terrorism:
We must surely ask whether it is beyond the limits of free speech that a group operating under the laws of the United States can stand up at a press conference, identify targets among people who belong to a category already marked for assassination by ideological colleagues of the announcing group, and then sit back and wait for the inevitable results.In a society awash in the glorification of violence, notorious for unlimited access to lethal military weapons and diffused with people suffering from untreated severe mental illness, the probabilities are excellent that one or more of us will be assassinated. It is a new form of electronic fascism.
Assassination has been a tool of tyrants for thousands of years. The technology and the degreee of “plausible deniability” have improved over time. What is more at stake than the lives of a few doctors is the issue of whether Americans now accept the level of violence and terrorism embraced by the anti-abortion movement as a means of political expression.
Certainly, the people who use them to educate, as these Umber-clothed UBERmenschen are now targetting. Are the emulating those wonderful 'Chri$tian$ in Kansas who attacked a professor for mocking 'unteluhjint deez zein'?
The professors are questioning the motives of this belligerent home-grown BUND, and feel that their very profession is under attack - which it clearly is:
Some of the instructors mentioned accuse the association of conducting a witch hunt that threatens to harm the teaching atmosphere, and at least one of the group's advisory board members has resigned because he considers the bounty offers inappropriate, according to The Times.
Whatever else UCLA isn't doing to defend their professors, at least they aren't forcing them out of chair positions and cancelling classes as was done to the professor in Kansas - yet.
Jesusland uber alles!
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It just goes to show that fascism hasn't quite taken root here like it has in the Farm Belt.