Today’s blacklisted American: College football coach fired for putting up hand-written sign saying “All lives matter.”
Opinions banned by Illinois State University’s football team.
They’re coming for you next: Kurt Beathard, an offensive coordinator coach for the Illinois State University football team, was fired because he replaced an official school poster that had been pinned to his office door that specifically endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement with a hand-written sign that said, “All lives matter to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
[Head coach Brock Spack] asked Beathard to remove the poster, which the offensive coordinator did. “Meanwhile, another coach who wanted to replace Beathard as offensive coordinator had taken a picture of Beathard’s poster and shared it with the football players,” the lawsuit alleges. Apparently, the picture upset some of the football players.”
“On 9/1/20, some of the football players boycotted practice,” the lawsuit said. “Spack came to Beathard’s office and informed him that it looked like Lyons [another coach he had gotten in trouble for making fun of Black Lives Matters] was going to keep his job but that Beathard was in trouble over the poster.”
The next day, he lost his job because Spack did not “like the direction of the offense.”
Beathard, who had worked for 25 years as a football coach, has filed a lawsuit [pdf] against both Spack and Lyons in the federal courts, claiming that they fired him “for one reason and one reason only: He did not toe the party line regarding the Black Lives Matter organization.” The lawsuit also notes that his firing violated the school’s own policy, which states:.
“Illinois State University … is strongly committed to the ethical and legal principal that each member of the University Community enjoys the right to free speech. The right of free expression and the open exchange of ideas stimulates debate, promotes creativity, and is essential to a rich learning environment… As members of the University Community, students… and staff have a responsibility to respect others and show tolerance for opinions that differ from their own.”
Whether Beathard can win his case in court is entirely unknown. The courts no longer automatically support the free speech rights of conservatives.
The mob and petty tyrants on the left know this, which is why they don’t worry about destroying their opponent’s lives for merely expressing an opinion. For decades the left has been immune from punishment, and so like all bullies now takes full advantage of that immunity. Until we as a society cry “Enough!” and make these jack-booted thugs pay for their actions, they will remain empowered and will continue to escalate their oppressive ways.
Soon it won’t simply be getting their opposition fired. They will work to get them imprisoned, or worse.
And if you don’t believe me, just take a look at the tweets from leftists in this article. The screen capture to the right is typical. You could also take at these essays by me here, here, here, and here. And that’s only a small sampling.
The hate and rage from these bullies is now about ready to do its worst, and that isn’t simply getting people fired. Or as David Horowitz once said, “Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”
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Opinions banned by Illinois State University’s football team.
They’re coming for you next: Kurt Beathard, an offensive coordinator coach for the Illinois State University football team, was fired because he replaced an official school poster that had been pinned to his office door that specifically endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement with a hand-written sign that said, “All lives matter to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
[Head coach Brock Spack] asked Beathard to remove the poster, which the offensive coordinator did. “Meanwhile, another coach who wanted to replace Beathard as offensive coordinator had taken a picture of Beathard’s poster and shared it with the football players,” the lawsuit alleges. Apparently, the picture upset some of the football players.”
“On 9/1/20, some of the football players boycotted practice,” the lawsuit said. “Spack came to Beathard’s office and informed him that it looked like Lyons [another coach he had gotten in trouble for making fun of Black Lives Matters] was going to keep his job but that Beathard was in trouble over the poster.”
The next day, he lost his job because Spack did not “like the direction of the offense.”
Beathard, who had worked for 25 years as a football coach, has filed a lawsuit [pdf] against both Spack and Lyons in the federal courts, claiming that they fired him “for one reason and one reason only: He did not toe the party line regarding the Black Lives Matter organization.” The lawsuit also notes that his firing violated the school’s own policy, which states:.
“Illinois State University … is strongly committed to the ethical and legal principal that each member of the University Community enjoys the right to free speech. The right of free expression and the open exchange of ideas stimulates debate, promotes creativity, and is essential to a rich learning environment… As members of the University Community, students… and staff have a responsibility to respect others and show tolerance for opinions that differ from their own.”
Whether Beathard can win his case in court is entirely unknown. The courts no longer automatically support the free speech rights of conservatives.
The mob and petty tyrants on the left know this, which is why they don’t worry about destroying their opponent’s lives for merely expressing an opinion. For decades the left has been immune from punishment, and so like all bullies now takes full advantage of that immunity. Until we as a society cry “Enough!” and make these jack-booted thugs pay for their actions, they will remain empowered and will continue to escalate their oppressive ways.
Soon it won’t simply be getting their opposition fired. They will work to get them imprisoned, or worse.
And if you don’t believe me, just take a look at the tweets from leftists in this article. The screen capture to the right is typical. You could also take at these essays by me here, here, here, and here. And that’s only a small sampling.
The hate and rage from these bullies is now about ready to do its worst, and that isn’t simply getting people fired. Or as David Horowitz once said, “Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
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1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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Proof yet once again…..
There seems to be little Difference between Today’s Progressives and Yesterday’$
Einsatzgruppen………
Or Stalin’s executions of Three Thousand of the Soviet Armies best Officers Before and after the German season invasion of the Motherland.
See:. Great Purge in 1939, prior to the Red Army Purge of 1941
Alton-
good stuff.
“I Will Not Be Leaving Quietly”
Five Times August (July 2021)
https://youtu.be/1NVnfM_H7TY
3:35
ooooohhh……
An official school poster ….. officially posted on his door …. oooohhh ….
What made THAT poster OFFICIAL ?
And not HIS ?
Hand written perhaps ?
Left or right handed ?
Pen, Chalk, or Crayon ?
Baseball or Swimming coach ?
Masked or Naked ?
VAX or DOOMED ?
oooooohhhh …. this is so exciting.
Was his poster not official ?
Loss of reason can be a real pain.
Alton-speaking of WWII, the name of the teacher who had kids play Holocaust was ‘Jurkowski’ where this coach is ‘Beathard?”
This is Dick Tracy’s universe and we are just living in it-like defund the cops Scanlon who got jacked’…and an actor from Home Alone tried to throttle his lady…after missionaries used the stars to escape Haiti…you can’t make this up…of course in my state-one kid out of two playing with a forklift gets mashed…
Lyons is Larry Lyons, who was the ISU Athletic Director at the time. He has since retired on his own volition. Please clarify this in your article. As conservatives, we must be 100 percent accurate, unfair is it is.
Two news items that happened over the holiday weekend. Rogue Warrior Marcinko of Seal Team “6” died…as did Sarah Weddington of Roe v. Wade…the sword vs the scalpel.
Thoth’s scales are ready to judge.