‘Firefly’ and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus
September 26th, 2011Via: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education:
A professor has been censored twice, reported to the “threat assessment team,” and threatened with criminal charges because of satirical postings on his office door. Campus police at the University of Wisconsin–Stout (UWS) censored theater professor James Miller’s poster depicting a quotation from actor Nathan Fillion’s character in the television series Firefly, and the police chief threatened Miller with criminal charges for disorderly conduct. After UWS censored his second poster, which stated, “Warning: Fascism,” Miller came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.
“Colleges and universities are supposed to foster brave and bold environments of freewheeling intellectual inquiry and expression. If a quote from a network science fiction show is a bridge too far, something has gone seriously wrong,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said.
illustrated here is the real danger caused by 911, this absurd encouragement of obtuseness and corruption in all levels of bureaucracy. just some more ridiculous “threat assessment team” or whatever these thought police call themselves in the local districts, we all know who the campus police really protect in these college towns.
i suppose it really was before 911, going back to columbine, dont even get me started on the matrix premier being pushed back because of the “cultural values” promoted, i seem to remember nobody like cops or federal agents being shotup and pipebomed by dylan and eric. then going to school and having every black leather wearing alternative and artsy student targeted as “potential threats” and put on lists compiled by most of the teachers, to shallow to see people behind the dress choices of adolescents. from what i gathered, the columbine shooters were alot more like cho and anders, in that their diaries painted two functional sociopaths more like the american ideal, good old patrick bateman. even w/ a clear written record people still see what they want to see. in this case death threats via posters on a college professors door.
at least these rampage types dont seem like leader mindset influencers, just brainwashed drones following instructions, suprised im still pissed off about the columbine shootings results.
black trenchcoats coming back via transhumanist robocop adam jensen probably gonna require another school shooting to alienate the intelligent and alternative artsy young folks. unless im behind the times and there is some new easy cultural target to scapegoat for american violence. all the voyeurism in the world wont stop corruption from creating another anders when the powers that be deem it hightime for more blood.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-394535/Columbine-diaries-reveal-chilling-insight.html
JUST clean cut apathetic sociopaths, NOT goths or artists or anyone halfway interesting, yet here we are 12 years later same shit in middle and high schools, colleges too since v-tech, threat assessment my ass, bet they cant say shit about serial daterapists or future ponzi scheme managers crawling around campus. just some firefly fan.
anyone interested here is more WI foolishness in campus politics. how bad will it all get before the end?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Barrett
This looks to me like another step in the forced march towards Zero Tolerance.
Zero tolerance of anything, from anyone – ever.
They started easing it in at the K-12 levels of institutional education after the Great Columbine Panic – no water guns, no inch-long plastic “guns”, no pointing your finger at someone and saying “bang”, no student artwork or stories or poetry with any reference to personal or institutional violence. Now they’re taking it to the next level, the arena where people naively believe that, since they’re paying through the nose to get the piece of paper, they have freedom to express themselves uncensored.
Zero tolerance – they’re not there to tolerate, they’re there to make you learn what they have decided you need to know in order to be successful. Please have your loan forms all filled out, line for the Bursar’s office forms on the right, you’re not here to express yourself, and our professors are not paid to encourage such foolishness.
Professor Miller’s lucky he’s not in Tennessee, or they’d be nailing him for “causing emotional distress” (https://cryptogon.com/?p=22885)
Zero Tolerance – it’s the wave of the future.
yes, pessimistic:
“threat assessment my ass, bet they cant say shit about serial daterapists or future ponzi scheme managers crawling around campus.”
i work at an institution of allegedly higher education, and every 4 months the students are struck with a “hold” on their records–preventing them from doing anything academic or financial–until they update their ’emergency contact information.’ i’m sure it makes their fretful parents feel safer knowing THE SYSTEM has their phone number in case of a campus terror-like event. yes, it was a direct response to the VA tech incident. no, it does nothing about the rape, harassment, intimidation, and/or assault that you will never be ’emergently contacted’ about, dear parents. nevermind the closet sociopaths excelling in the MBA program.
sigh.
i knew captain mal was my hero for a reason. i wanna go be a space pirate cowboy outlaw with a crew of fugitive humanities professors.
This, dear friends, is the real reason Firefly was cancelled. You can’t have people spouting off about freedom on nation TV! It might wake the sheeple up…