Academic in America's Heartland

Professor Sues Purdue for Violation of his Free Speech Rights on Islam | FrontPage Magazine

Frontpage magazine and Jamie Glasov did a wonderful job of interviewing me and getting out the issues that "got me here."  You can read about this in the following link:

Professor Sues Purdue for Violation of his Free Speech Rights on Islam | FrontPage Magazine.

I have to say that the only issue that needs to be further understood is that I, and honestly some others, have been fighting this battle for over 19 years on campus.  If you are not a Muslim, but religious, if you are pro-Israel, if you are right of center politically, you will constantly be harrassed, intimidated, and demonized on almost all of our universities. 

What is sad is that most of this is being done with our own tax dollars.

This is what the people of America need to understand very, very quickly.  The Muslims and their liberal allies are attacking religion, not Islam of course, and undermining the First Amendment, using your money.  All state institutions need to immediately audit their state universities for their usage of funds and their rules and regulations that permit Muslims to undermine the First Amendment and replace it with their version of Sharia Law. 

How is this done?  Very simply -- in Islam being "offended" is a legal term.  You are not allowed to "offend" Islam or Mohammad.  It is punishable in a variety of ways up to and including execution.  In the United States, offending someone is a badge of honor especially at a university.  To paraphrase a man who knows much about higher education and the First Amendment, Adam Kissel of FIRE, if you, a student, are not being offended once a week, someone is cheating you out of an education.

That is the fight I have to finish.

Chancellor Keon and the Board of Trustees Have Approved the End of Free Speech

At Purdue University, it is Chancellor Keon with the approval of President Cordova and the Board of Trustees who are attacking and demeaning the Constitutional First Amendment.  If you are disgusted by these activities, and those described in my last blog entry, then contact State Representative Sheila Klinker at 1-800-382-9842.   She is the State Reperesentative who "carries the water" for Purdue University. 

She not only represents the University and their interests, she is also employed by the University.  She is the important person that makes all of this happen.  She can also challenge the abuse of the Administration of Purdue University of the First Amendment.

Here is her letter to me: Dr. eisenstein, FIRE and 1st amend from Rep. Klinker

That was her only communication -- she was ready to investigate.  The result of her inquiry seems to have been an increased attack on my free speech.

Eisenstein Blog Under University Investigation

This is to inform my readers that Purdue University has decided to institute a formal investigation of this blog.   Under the confidentiality requirements which this state university operates, I cannot reveal any of the details.  But I do have an obligation to inform my readers when what they are reading is being investigated by the State of Indiana, or any other governmental body.

For those of you in Indiana, and pay taxes, now you know where your money, at least in part, is being utilized.   I have said from the begining that the attempt here, the goal here, is to close any dissent on my part.  This dissent has been political, religious, and fiscal.   I have presented conservative arguments, argued for the religious perspective, and have frequently battled with the University power structure about their misuse of State funds.

I am hoping for the best outcome.  If you Purdue's violating the First Amendment offends you, call Rep. Sheila Klinker at 1-800-382-9842

Doing My Part to End Student Abuse

Like my faculty colleagues – particularly Professors Colin Fewer and Alan Spector – I too am concerned about abuse of students by faculty.  It is simply unconsciousable that any faculty would ever have a political perspective that differs from their students or from the majority of other faculty members.  It is so wrong to offend anyone in America.

So, to all you students who feel as if you have been offended (particularly you Evangelical Christians – we all know how your world views are de-valued on a university campus) – please feel free to send me your anonymous audio tapes (edited, unedited – who cares) whenever you think your professors have said anything you deem crazy or inappropriate.  I will gladly post them at my website.  Did not get the crazy and/or inappropriate comments on tape?  No problem.  Just send me an email telling me what was said by whom, when, and where (what class, etc.) and I will post that information.

Remember, this in particular involves professors teaching inappropriate topics.  These are such things as politics in an english class, or the environment in a spanish class, or global warming in a sociology class, etc.

Do your professors not give you enough work? Do you think they grade too easily, too harshly?  What rumors have you heard about your professors? I will share your anonymous comments with the world! Just send them in.  I will publicly post the Professor, the class and all pertinent information – while making sure you, the student, remain anonymous.

Professors Fewer and Spector have made it very clear that it is all of our jobs to help students in this manner, and I intend to do my part.  And – do not worry – this is all anonymous.

Islam Cannot be a Religion of Peace

Muslim "peace" is what most of Islam is about. One is fooling themselves to consider Islam just another religious perspective. That could only be justified if one considers that the Incas are also just another religious perspective and that their activities (human sacrifices) are also protected. The exception to Islam being considered a religion, constitutionally, is the requirement that America commit suicide. There is no requirement in the Constitution that America self-destroy. If any other citizens would have had members of their community commit what Muslims have in the name of Mohammed and Islam, that community would have begged for forgiveness long ago. It is the height of arrogance and fraud that Muslims. as a world wide community, have not. All apology is theirs, not the Country which they hit on 9/11.

Ten Reasons Why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace.

Purdue Social Justice Club has Gone Crazy Against Conservative Jew

The Purdue University Chronicle_03.19.12, a student newspaper, is almost exclusively devoted to me, lucky me.  In it, the Purdue Calumet Social Justice Club, has gotten beside itself because I named the wrong person as its advisor on this blog.  Correction: it is not currently Prof. Alan  Spector, instead it is his (to the best of my knowledge) protege, another Marxist, Akili Shakur.  This does not change the nature of the club nor who its real "in the background" adviser is.   By the way, when was the club not under the organziation of either Spector, DeFelice, or both?  These comments in the paper were written by the Treasurer of the SJC and is not a news story; but, a propaganda piece, oh excuse me, an opinion piece -- although it is not presented as such.  Could this be because many of those on the Chronicle staff are also SJC members?

I have talked to Marxists in West Lafayette when these two Professors, Spector and DeFelice, went down there in the 1980's to sell them on the  Progressive Labor Party, and its house organ The Challenge. That publication is about as over the top as one can get (if you have any doubt, just look at a copy of a recent Challenge.)   Keep in mind that DeFelice and Spector had their students actually subscribe to this rag and made the library subscribe to this piece of garbage.  Why is anyone suprised that the Chancellor picks on me?  I wonder if it is because I am Jewish as well as conservative ("oh say it isn't so, he must be silenced!").  No one ever bothered DeFelice or Spector in over forty years of berating and baiting students every single day.

As the Treasurer of the SJC presents, it is true that the Social Justice Club (SJC) and the Criminal Justice Club (CJC) have been at war and have had "bad blood" between them for probably ten years.  Though the SJC Treasurer has it completely wrong as to the reason why.  The reason is, Prof. Spector, through the Black Student Union, identified Prof. Nicky Jackson as a racist.  This was when she was a part of Criminal Justice/Sociology.  They called her a racist in a public gathering in the Student Union.   This reference was the central focus of the gathering.  In addition, Akili Shakur and friends filed a harasment complaint against Prof. Jackson for racism and anti-Black behavior in Jackson's classes.  This was fought for over three years by Prof. Jackson.  The only, and I mean only person on PUC's campus, who stood by Prof. Jackson was me.  It seemed at the time that I was the only one, except for Prof. Jackson who believed in free-speech.  Prof. Tobin also chimed in and called Prof. Jackson a racist in her class around the years 2004/5.  (My, how things change.) By the way, the only way Prof. Jackson won was to get a lawyer and go to court to sue the University's Board of Trustees for failure to protect her civil rights.  The University knew it did not have a leg to stand on and settled.  The final monetary settelment was not disclosed; but Spector and friends including the Administration had to back off.   That is the reason, part of the agreement, that Prof. Jackson is in the History and Polical Science Department, not in Sociology (even though her Ph.D. is in sociology).

By the way, the University administration, under Chancellors Yaeckel and Cohen, told Jackson there is nothing they could and would do because it was free speech.  The students who called her a racist and described her as delivering racist rantings were allowed to do that on campus because the University considered it free speech.  As a matter of fact, Prof. Jackson had to go back to court because even after her initial legal agreement with the University, the Administration and faculty continued to treat her as a racist.  Here is the official filing:  Jackson_complaint.   If anyone is interested in other people who filed on a free speech basis while calling the kettle black, here is Prof. DeFelice's filing:  Gene_defelice_complaint.

What is sad for me today, is to see how someone, Prof. Jackson, who called me practically every day for over two years, crying for reassurance that the University will do the right thing and that truth and civility will prevail, in spite of what it looked like then, has so willingly decided to go after me in quite the same way that others went after her.  I was the sole support person through all her hearings, her interviews, and her legal ideas and strategy.  What is hurtful, is that she never even gave me the benefit of a doubt to even contact me first to see what was going on.

Now we have a revisionist history being written by the Treasurer of the SJC, when it comes to the CJC and Prof. Nicky Jackson. The blog they mention, which I did put up, focused on the collusion of the Chancellor and the faculty as was shown by emails I obtained through a FOIA request (by the way, I am still awaiting more emails from other FOIA requests).  Not a single word showed up about this either in the Chronicle itself or in the SJC commentary.  Is this what the anonymous professor was afraid of commenting about?   He knows too much?   (Given the public shellacking I have been taking, it is hard to believe that anyone on this campus is fearful of me retaliating against them).  It truly was a plan to "get me."  I wonder why?   To this day, not a single independent piece of evidence has been presented to show that I have ever done anything.  Everything has either been part of free-speech and academic freedom debate on a university campus or it is just items that students and faculty keep repeating that it is so.  Continuous repetition does not make it true; only the perception of it becomes blurred.  The one time that Spector asked me; I emphatically told him no, it was not said. 

All this is ignored by everyone, the CJC, the SJC, Prof, Jackson, etc.  What seems to be important is to get me.  I wonder why?  Have any of you?

Purdue Administration Colludes with Faculty to File Harrasment Charges

These pages have discussed how Purdue University investigated my free speech for over three months. The overall investigation and consequences to me are not yet over.  But that is a story that must wait for another day.

While the University found in my favor in 9 harassment/discrimination complaints, Purdue has done absolutely nothing to protect the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution.  Essentially, if some person, known to me or not, in my class or not, files an harassment complaint of against me tomorrow for exercising my freedom of speech -- such as on this blog, I will again have my free speech investigated.

Investigating free speech is in and of itself against Federal law.  In America, and only in America, can you not investigate someone because you disagree with what they said.  No matter how strongly you disagree.  This is the basis of the American democratic system.  Without it, we are nothing.  This is what Purdue University, its administation and the majority of its "liberal" leaning faculty, do not seem to care about. 

I am a conservative Jew. This makes me a target.  In the past, I vociferously criticized local Democrats.  This meant I was a target (the previous Chancellor Cohen went out of his way to use illegally his administrative position to support local Democrats against my criticism-- particularly Mayor McDermott Jr.).  See previous blogs NWI Comical Politics.

In the wake of my criticism of local Democrats -- and former Chancellor Cohen's efforts to defend those Democrats -- I became the target of baseless complaints; some claim that I hit on women, some claim I hit on men, some claim I harass atheists, some claim that I harass some or all religions; some claim I harass Hispanics, others claim I harass blacks -- the litany goes on and on.  

Now I have turned my attention to the problem of radical Islam and highlighting the failure of moderate Muslims to criticize their co-religionists in hopes of stopping Islamic Jihad.  And I was confining my comments to Facebook.  Yet -- somehow -- even with a new Chancellor, Keon, who has been at PUC about 6 months, he decided to pick-up where Cohen left off.

What did the current Chancellor, Keon, do to continue Cohen's illegal targeting of me?  Chancellor Keon decided that he would advise fellow faculty members to file hostile work environment complaints against me.  

How do I know this?  The answer lies in a series of emails that I was able to obtain through Indiana's freedom of information act.  (I am still waiting for others.  It has been over two months and the University is very slow in providing them to me.)

I am attaching the received emails that I have received for all to see:  Download FOIA_emails_Tobin.

When reading and looking at these emails, the most important information to understand and digest is the degree of collusion between the faculty and Chancellor Keon, with the Department Head's help, to ensure that harassment complaints were filed against me, and what those complaints needed to include in order to be successful against me.  Now -- remember -- Chancellor Keon is the person who must decide if wrongdoing occurred from  a University investigation; thus, it is inappropriate for him to participate prior to the filing of complaints.   It also shows a great effort to get as many faculty and students as possible to file complaints against me.  I DID NOT KNOW ANY OF THIS WAS GOING ON AT ALL.  I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS COLLUSION AFTER I RECEIVED THIS DOCUMENTATION FROM MY FOIA REQUEST.  As is obvious from the emails, I was not asked to any of the meetings that were to take place between my department and Chancellor Keon.

Let's just focus on the collusion. 

The "Eisenstein problem" and the general hysteria about my free speech was solely genrated by the Department Head and some of the faculty.  It certainly seems that they met with the Chancellor together, without me.  In addition, it is certain that at least Professors Jackson and Tobin each had a private audience with him.  (By the way, I also passed Professor Joyce leaving his office during this time and when I called the Chancellor out on this his reponse was he meets with faculty about all kinds of issues and it is none of my business.)  

It is clear Chancellor Keon's business was me and he directed the faculty how to word and structure the harassment filings against me and when "he" needed them turned in.  He also makes it clear to them that he will be making the decision (wink, wink).  I have to admit that it is possible that the various members of the faculty are inventing stories in their emails to each other that they never knew would go public.  It is possible.  What is more likely is that what they say is true and it was Chancellor Keon who advised them how to attack my First Amenment rights.

Who are the players in the emails:

Nicky Jackson -- Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Kathy Tobin -- Associate Professor of History

Saul Lerner -- Professor of History

Miriam Joyce -- Professor of History

Richard Rupp -- Head of the Department and Associate Professor of Political Science

Chad Steacy -- I have no idea who he is.

Purdue Social Justice Club -- An anti-American, Marxist group that considers American soldiers "angels of death."  Adviser is and has been Prof. Alan Spector.

Alan Spector -- Professor of Sociology, outed left wing Marxist (even Marxists reject his violent and anti-American views) and member of the anti-American People's Worker Party.  Paid over $85,000.

Colin Fewer -- Associate Professor of English

The Chancellor told them to file "work place" harassment complaints (to get around free speech). In trying to meet the Chancellors guidelines to show a pattern of behavior, one faculty member alleged a dispute over a name plate in 1991!

This is outrageous. More outrageous is that the University investigated it!

Stay tuned -- there are more communications coming from other FOIA requests.  And, there are substantive issues that I will also address, such as the problem with the alleged "tapes" of my alleged "lectures".

Victory: All Nine Complaints Dismissed for Professor Who Criticized Muslims - FIRE

This is the best charcterizaiton of events in this case. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education was and is magnificent in its protection of the American Constitution's First Amendment.

FIRE Victory for Free Speech

This is an important milestone for all faculty and students to defend their rights in academic freedom and exercise of conscious. So far the system has been forced by FIRE and the Indiana State Legislators to operate as the founders intended..

Purdue's Pity-full Response to FIRE

It is a complete embarrassment that Chancellor Keon responded to FIRE with such a moronic and childish letter.  Understand that you Hoosier taxpayers are paying this man over $350,000 per year for this enlightened mental activity.  Where can I find a way to steal money so easily.  I wonder if he even spent 10 minutes on this important question?

Here is the response:

  PUC response to FIRE

What Did the Tapes Really Show?

Ever since my attack by Purdue University and its PC police began, central to their argument has been a "recording" of my lecture.  Specifically what I supposedly "meant" on those tapes.  I will now try to explain these to those who still believe in the freedom of speech in the United States.

One, these tapes are completely anonymous.  I do not know who taped them, when they taped them, or how many "hands" it has been through.  It is obvious that they have been edited.  That is obvious by the "perfect" eight minute "edited" sections.  Some of what is on these tapes has clearly been "doctored" or "tampered".   Each lecture, from the class from which these tapes are alleged to have come from, was for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.  (By the way, there were 15 weeks, so that is 45 hours of lectures in total.)  Thus, what is heard is 8 minutes from either one lecture that was over 2 hours in length or multiple lectures each of which were over two hours in length.  To use an art term, there is no provenance for these recordings.  They are of no use as evidence (or even as a good example.)  All of this would be true of any "recordings" that would "pop-up."   Why not one from ten years ago, or five, or 20 etc. etc. etc.?

Two,  Not a single student from the class that these tapes were alleged to be from has ever filed a complaint.  They had 120 days into the summer to file a complaint with the Department Head, the Dean, or with the Chancellor.  Nothing, not a word, not an issue, until I came under attack this fall when it all of a sudden "surfaces."   Thus, no student who was actually in the class had any issue with my lectures.  That is the official and true record of events.

Three,  Some of the arguments that are presented come from the specific books I used in the class and addressed the topic of the class.  The best that I can tell, it is claimed that these came from a class entitiled: Introduction to Jewish Studies.  One may not like the arguments that were being made by these books, but they are legitimate subjects of debate. Two of the books that I used were: The Israel Test by George Gilder and Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin.  The first book argues that the root cause of modern anti-Semitism is envy of the Jew, be it in Israel or in other countries.  The second book makes the case that the Jewish condition is unique in relationship to all other groups.

Four. In continuation of two and three above, some quotes are simply taken out of context and are plain wrong.  Without knowing the books I used and the context within which some of this material was presented, one cannot possibly determine whether a statement is unacceptable or acceptable.  Not being in class, one cannot make judgements about what one has no idea about.  Live lectures have a physical interaction in them for meaning that cannot be captured on audio tape.  That is definitely lost in a doctored clip.  Clearly, those very students who were actually in the class and heard my lectures firsthand, did not have any objections.

FIRE's LETTER to PURDUE

  FIRE letter to Purdue U Calumet Chancellor Thomas L. Keon, January 24, 2012-3

This is the cease and desisit letter from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to Purdue.  There has been no answer from the Purdue Administrators, yet.

Muslims take charge of Egypt

Here is what happens when Muslims get in charge of a country and by bad luck or misplaced idealism there happens to be Americans there.  The goal of the Muslim religion, at this time in history (i.e. the past 300 yeas), is to disgrace the West and in particularly, America.  (Actually Israel is first; but America is a close second.  For Ossama though, America was always first.)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/5/egypt-sends-43-ngo-workers-including-19-americans-/.

As the article above points out, Americans working for NGOs in Egypt will go to trial just to embarass the United States, especially when one of them is the son of an American Cabinet member, Secretary LaHood. 

Dollar Seen Losing Global Reserve Status -- End of America

Dollar seen losing global reserve status - FT.com

How far has the United States fallen? And, in such a short period of time. In fifty years, even less, it has gone from having the most sought after, most stable, and most valued currency to the status of "has-been" or almost banana-republic.

When I have indicated it is the end, it is. Now it is clear that America has ended its capacity to impress the world with its value or economic strength and system. This is not all Obama's doing; but, he has finished the dive of America into the ground. Where he could have pulled American out of its dive or even prevented the dive, that was not going to be one of his options. 

Whether this was because of ideology or incompetence, it is not going to change the consequences to America.  There will be complete unavailability of sustaining the welfare state, never mind America's defense projection.  All countries will have to move away from America and most of it will become Spanish in a very short period of time.  Remember, the end is never dramatic.  It is just a slow walk into the abyss and I mean slow.

For economic power, countries, i.e. Europe, are now turning to China.  That is where the new growth and future is. 

Elderly, 94 year old, woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search

A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.

via www.newsherald.com

This should finally speak to the fact that what is necessary is religious, ethnic, and racial profiling. This will be the only way to get to the terrorists. Know who you are dealing with first. It is not the "adult diaper" that is the threat, it is the nature of the person and their associates that matters. 

Why is it that Americans cannot understand than when a 90 year old Muslim women with adult diapers is going on a plane with her 5 young adult male Muslim relatives it is a problem to be checked.  A 90+ year old lady from Dustin, Florida who is probably Christian IS NOT A PROBLEM.

That is why the TSA has can never prevent terrorism in the sky.  Only make the rest of America suffer.   Focus on the terrorist; not he means.  There are infinite number of means; but, only a finite number of terrorist profiles.

 

Flash to Obama: Airbus Trounces Boeing with Another Record Order

Airbus trounces Boeing with another record order - Yahoo! Finance

And what does Obama do for Boeing? His wife, Michelle, is dancing with the carrot growers in South Africa while his NLRB is attacking Boeing's ability to lower production costs and is forcing Boeing to spend management time dealing with government bureaucrats and anti-business leftists of the Obama administration.

Cook County Taxpayers Owe $108 billion Treasurer Pappas Says. Ain't This Country Great?

Cook taxpayers owe $108 billion, county Treasurer Pappas says: Greg Hinz | Crain's Chicago Business

Now Americans should know what the Democrat Party is about. Theft until you can no longer fund it any more. Than they all act surprised, "stunned" I should say.  This is standard operating procedures for the "Chicago Model" of Democrat politics.  This has been an inside job since the people who are owed the debt are directly linked or are the same people who gave the money out in the first place.  (and they were not the taxpayers.)

You now have Rahm Emmanual trying to sound like a Republican by denying evrything that has happened financially and becoming a fiscal conservative.  This is all a scam that he learned at the knees of Bill Clinton and Barak Obama.  Not to mention his original mentor: Chicago's own Mayor Daley, whose brother now runs the White House.

By the way most of the money is owed to people and organizations that have not been productive nor have added to the national wealth.  They only knew the right people.  Even the robber barons left something for the rest of us.  The Democrat party most of the time does not even claim to do that while it is pick-pocketing the taxpayer.