Reflections From a Murky Pond

Some people question the value of modern, Liberal education. We call those people intelligent, patriotic Americans. This is because, academics aside, there is nothing of value in Liberal education and much that actively seeks to devalue America.

Worse, the higher one goes in education the lower one seems to sink into treason and evil.

Harvard is a perfect example of this. Academically, it’s a very fine university. What it teaches its students beyond academics is another and more horrific story altogether. Take what the once august institution taught one of its students, Sandra Korn, to believe and then allowed it to be published in the The Harvard Crimson as evidence of this.

In its oft-cited Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the American Association of University Professors declares that “Teachers are entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results.” In principle, this policy seems sound: It would not do for academics to have their research restricted by the political whims of the moment.

 Yet the liberal obsession with “academic freedom” seems a bit misplaced to me. After all, no one ever has “full freedom” in research and publication. Which research proposals receive funding and what papers are accepted for publication are always contingent on political priorities. The words used to articulate a research question can have implications for its outcome. No academic question is ever “free” from political realities. If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals simply in the name of “academic freedom”?

Instead, I would like to propose a more rigorous standard: one of “academic justice.” When an academic community observes research promoting or justifying oppression, it should ensure that this research does not continue.

Yes, that’s right. The Harvard bint was academic and scientific freedom curtailed in favor pandering to the desires and agendas of certain special interest groups and those among the student body who enable them. It’s what she’s been taught is justice, which must, in what passes for her mind, trump freedom every single time.

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Somethings must not be allowed to go unpunished. One of these horrid things is when a teacher or school administrator abuses and American child and tries to strip them of the constitutional rights in an effort to further indoctrinate them.

On Thursday, December 12, 2013  Zachary Golob-Drake, a 5th-grader at the Patel Partnership School in Tampa, FL won first place in his class’ public speaking competition, thereby earning the privilege to represent his school at the the regional 4-H Tropicana Public Speech contest.

That was when the trouble began.

Young Zachary’s speech was entitled, “In the Name of Religion” and mentioned the historical use of religion as an excuse for violence and the Muslim Terrorism of the modern age.

The Patel Partnership School’s assistant principal, Candice Dodd pulled Zachary aside before school was dismissed that day, told him his speech was inappropriate and stripped him of his ribbon and position representing the school in the regional competition.

“She started talking to me about how she thought my speech wasn’t appropriate for 4th and 5th graders and she thought that probably I would have to rewrite my speech, take the religion out or not compete.”

He said he told her he needed to think about it at home.

“She said to me probably the fairest thing to do is to take your ribbon,” he said, noting that he then got emotional.

By the time his older brother picked him from school, he was crying.

None of the boy’s hard work, feelings, or Constitutional rights mattered at all to this worthless piece filth, Candice Dodd. It was somehow offended by the winning speech and decided to demand that he either completely rewrite it or sacrifice the trappings and privileges of his victory.

No! Such petty tyrants and domestic enemies of America cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can they be allowed to hide behind the rights when their crime is violating of others’ rights, especially when it’s the rights of an American child of tender and impressionable years.

As this thing has violated others, let it be well and truly violated in its turn.

Candice Dodd

Work Email: Candice.dodd@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Work Tel#: (813) 983-3966
Work Address: 11801 Bull Run Drive, Tampa, FL 33617

Home Tel#: (813) 671-0106
Home Address: 11418 Newgate Crest Dr Riverview, FL 33579

As I can find no image for this this worthless piece of filth, go softly and cautiously if you choose to confront it at home in some manner. While no other Candice Dodd could be located near Tampa, FL, this is not 100% proof that the contact info is correct.

At a bare minimum and only as a start, this vermin should be fired. Americans need to make an example out of it by making it clear that we, the People will no longer tolerate its kind amongst us.

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Rep. Pete Olson (R-TXs) and 10 other House Republicans have drafted four articles of impeachment against Holder. They plan on introducing these articles of impeachment as early as today, though the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) won’t commit to moving forward with any of the resolutions of impeachment.

Yet Rep. Goodlatte has little or argument with the content of these resolutions. He’s just unlikely to act upon them.

Under Attorney General Holder’s watch, there has been a lack of leadership and a politicization of the Justice Department. Scandals from the Fast and Furious gunwalking operation to the seizure of reporters’ emails and phone records in national security leaks investigations have undermined the Department’s credibility and the American people’s trust. Attorney General Holder has also politicized the rule of law by refusing to enforce laws he doesn’t like.”

The only way to restore credibility at the Department of Justice is through an improvement in the quality of leadership. President Obama should make a change in the leadership of the Department of Justice to restore the confidence of the American people in our nation’s top law enforcement agency.

This combined with the expected utter lack of support from Speaker John Boehner (“R”-OH) means that the efforts to impeach and remove Attorney General Eric Holder from office are most likely doomed from the start and that Holder will remain protected from the consequences of his myriad high crimes and misdemeanors.

A Moral And Philosophical Divide

Perhaps prophetically, the House is divided morally and philosophically on the matter of Impeaching Holder or Obama.  The House Republicans fall into two camps: those who adhere to the philosophy of Deontology and those who follow the dictates of Consequentialism. With the Senate, still being firmly in the hands of the Democrats, very unlikely to convict Holder no matter what he has done there is no point beyond doing the right thing for its own sake for the House to indict him.

Obviously, the deontologists want to do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do and the fact that nothing will come of it doesn’t really come into the picture insofar as they’re concerned.

Conversely but equally obviously, the consequentialists want to do the right thing but only if doing so will produce a beneficial and ethical result, which any attempt to impeach Holder won’t do since, even of the House indicts, the Senate won’t convict.

With such a fundamental philosophical and ethical divide, the House is unlikely to take any action against Holder.

The Politics of Hate and Othering

Of course, one must not make the mistake of attributing too much devotion to people, especially professional politicians. Most people don’t have a strong tendency towards letting their ethics and morality cause them to put themselves at risk. This is even more true of professional politicians since they want to keep their jobs.

This tendency towards amorality in favor of survival is exacerbated by Obama’s success, with the aid of the ever-complicit Lamestream Media, in the politics of division, hate, and othering. He’s has both successfully redefined bipartisanship and labelled any GOP dissent from his agenda as obstructionist, classist, and racist. That inherently has a chilling effect on many Republican politicians – as Obama and his handlers meant it to.

This has, from what little we’re allowed to know about him, has always been Obama’s preferred modus operandi. He divides people, gets his side to think of the opposition as the Other, and gets them to vote against them rather than to vote for him.

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So, for both philosophical and materialist reasons, I sincerely doubt that the impeachment of Eric Holder will move forward at all. Most likely it won’t even be heard or debated by the House Judiciary Committee Chairman.

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