Comical Politics

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

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