Some victories against modern leftist oppression
Increasingly, the overbearing and sometimes violent effort by the left to squelch dissenting views is being met by legal action, and increasingly it appears that legal action is producing positive results. In just the last few days, we have just a few examples:
- Lindsay Shepherd sues Wilfrid Laurier University, claiming ‘attacks’ have ‘rendered her unemployable in academia’
- SPLC agrees to $3.3 million settlement over its ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’
- Washington University agrees to pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit from conservative students
- Jordan Peterson’s threatened lawsuit forces Pennsylvania University professor to back down over tweet calling him an incel [involuntary celibate], a misogynist, and a white nationalist
- Judge: City officials can be held liable in Confederate statue lawsuit
The last story is especially interesting. The city councillors of Charlottesville are being sued for their decision to remove two Confederate statues. The judge ruled that these councillors could be personally liable should they lose the case, especially because their action appears to directly violate a state law.
In the nine-page letter, Moore says that he thinks the council “was acting beyond its authority” and that it was not a “legitimate” legislative activity when the council voted to remove the statues, in contravention with a state law that prohibits the disturbance or removal of war memorials.
The left has for decades been able to violate laws like this with impunity. All of the cases above are examples of that kind of nonchalance to the law and to the truth. In the past no one would challenge them on their acts, and they would get away with it. It appears now that the right is beginning to finally push back, and with some success.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Increasingly, the overbearing and sometimes violent effort by the left to squelch dissenting views is being met by legal action, and increasingly it appears that legal action is producing positive results. In just the last few days, we have just a few examples:
- Lindsay Shepherd sues Wilfrid Laurier University, claiming ‘attacks’ have ‘rendered her unemployable in academia’
- SPLC agrees to $3.3 million settlement over its ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’
- Washington University agrees to pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit from conservative students
- Jordan Peterson’s threatened lawsuit forces Pennsylvania University professor to back down over tweet calling him an incel [involuntary celibate], a misogynist, and a white nationalist
- Judge: City officials can be held liable in Confederate statue lawsuit
The last story is especially interesting. The city councillors of Charlottesville are being sued for their decision to remove two Confederate statues. The judge ruled that these councillors could be personally liable should they lose the case, especially because their action appears to directly violate a state law.
In the nine-page letter, Moore says that he thinks the council “was acting beyond its authority” and that it was not a “legitimate” legislative activity when the council voted to remove the statues, in contravention with a state law that prohibits the disturbance or removal of war memorials.
The left has for decades been able to violate laws like this with impunity. All of the cases above are examples of that kind of nonchalance to the law and to the truth. In the past no one would challenge them on their acts, and they would get away with it. It appears now that the right is beginning to finally push back, and with some success.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
As someone once noted ‘The law is such an inconvenient thing’.
The Lindsay Shepherd Affair: Update
Jordan Peterson channel
June 20, 2018
https://youtu.be/PkNv4LFpGf4
37:28
“I’m sure many of you remember Lindsay Shepherd, the teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University who was subjected to an unwarranted inquisition after showing a video of me debating Nicholas Matte about Bill C16. In her statement of claim (which I read in its totality in this video), Shepherd notes that her mistreatment continued unabated at Wilfred Laurier, despite the university’s hypothetical apology and offer to mend its ways. She also claimed that she has been rendered unemployable as an academic (a claim I believe, having served on many university search committees, and knowing full well that any whiff of scandal is enough to disquality a candidate entirely). I talked to her lawyer after reading her claim, and decided that I would also pursue Wilfred Laurier and the professors and administrators directly responsible for this debacle. I am not convinced that Wilfred Laurier learned what needed to be learned even after being dragged through the national and international press, in what was the biggest scandal that ever hit a Canadian university.
Maybe two lawsuits will help rectify that. We’ll see.”
Dr. Jordan Peterson
June 20, 2018
You’re always accusing people of being fascists. The one thing the fascists and the Confederacy had in common was a deep and abiding love of human slavery. Hundreds of thousands of Southerners went to their deaths fighting so that human bondage — the right to own other human beings as property — could so long endure. There was no other reason they seceded.
Think about that when you judge efforts to remove monuments to that awful inhuman cause.
D.Messier. Yup. The southerners were fascists also. My complaint here has nothing really to do with them. It has to do with the behavior of today’s extreme leftists, who often consider themselves above the law, who often appear to not respect election results (as did the rebels in the south), and frequently commit acts of violence against those they disagree with.
The fourth story here is about government officials who did not obey the law. Interesting that you have no concern about the other four stories.