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Title: Professor Axed For VT Stunt: Re-Enacted Tragedy To Tout Pro-Gun Perspective
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URL Source: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=195909
Published: Apr 21, 2007
Author: By Casey Ross
Post Date: 2007-04-21 10:52:35 by Mind_Virus
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Professor Axed For VT Stunt: Re-Enacted Tragedy To Tout Pro-Gun Perspective By Casey Ross Boston Herald Reporter Saturday, April 21, 2007 - Updated: 12:00 AM EST Nicholas Winset was fired yesterday from his position as an adjunct professor at Emmanuel College, shown in the background. (Staff photo by John Wilcox) An Emmanuel College professor has been fired after re-enacting the Virginia Tech massacre in his classroom in order to air a pro-gun viewpoint that offended students at the Catholic liberal arts school, the professor charged yesterday. Nicholas Winset said he was terminated and permanently barred from campus following a Wednesday lecture in which he dramatized the massacre to show that deranged gunman Cho Seung-Hui could have been stopped if another student had been carrying a gun. “If there were more guns in society, the response time to the (rampage) might have been much faster,” said Winset, an adjunct professor of financial accounting. “Someone might have been able to do something to stop it.” In an interview yesterday, Winset also decried media coverage of the massacre, saying, “Just because everyone is portraying this as the national tragedy of the year doesn’t mean it is. More people died of AIDS today” than in the massacre, he said. Administrators at the college apparently did not appreciate Winset’s classroom message. They quickly fired him via a one-page letter delivered by courier yesterday. “You are hereby directed not to enter the College campus or any College owned property at any time for any reason,” the letter states. “Also enclosed . . .is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts form, How to File for Unemployment Insurance Benefits.” A spokeswoman for Emmanuel College, Molly Honan, would not give the college’s rationale for firing Winset. She said the school’s policy is not to comment on personnel issues. Winset, 37, of Newton called the college’s decision to fire him “pathetic,” and said it will have a “chilling effect” on professors’ willingness to engage in open discussions about controversial issues. “A classroom is supposed to be a place for academic exploration,” he said. “It’s just gotten so politically correct. It’s sad that we have come to this point.” Winset said he gave students a disclaimer before he started his Virginia Tech re-enactment, which involved him pointing a Magic Marker at students and saying, “Pow.” He then had another student shoot him with an imaginary gun to make the point that Cho could have been stopped by another student with a firearm. Winset said the skit was meant to be a somewhat tenuous segue into an assignment asking students to examine whether the massacre has had an impact on the financial markets, which have remained healthy in tragedy’s aftermath. He said he wanted students to see that intense media focus on a story does not always mean it has the same relevance to the markets or to society in general.”
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
This is beyond pathetic.
He'll retire on the lawsuit.
"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war." -- Thucydides
No doubt...the lawyers will feast on this one.
incredible intolerance on the part of the people running the college. makes me wonder 'what good are universities?'
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
He actually linked his point of view to a legit discussion and assignment, and, he made a valid point that should be discussed. BUT, he pissed on the altar on unilateral personal disarmament which as you know is a fundamental plank of the NWO agenda. And, unfortunately for this well intended but naive professor, MASS is another anti gun state. Of course cops and anti gun crusaders may legally arm there. You can bet that Ted Kennedy's bodyguard can lawfully tote his SMG in the state. And, like anti-gun hypocrite Kennedy the founder of Handgun Control, Inc., Nelson T. "Pete" Shields saw the utility of firearms for his own protection. He held a (at that time) hard-to-get Delaware concealed weapons permit to defend himself against the people he was trying to disarm. After his son was murdered by The Zebra killers Shields chose to target the inanimate weapon rather than the racist blacks who broke his heart.
As someone here observed, "It's the fool, not the tool."
If America had evolved as a gun free culture from the beginning or shortly after it's quite likely that we wouldn't be here now. If America had joined Britain in the confiscation of handguns, then rifles and eventually airguns, it would have created mass disobedience as did the 18th amendment, or the ban on the production and transportation of alcohol. (except for Jews, who lined up to lawfully buy Kosher wines-"Ive got a big family so I'll need a couple of cases of MOGEN DAVID!") Brutal murders with knives, baseball bats, cars, etc., are unworthy of discussion because the issue of crime is a red herring. The simple truth is that politicians and would-be master planners don't fear these things and disarmament isn't about crime. American gun owners are the only reason why we are still a sovereign people with a servant govt, at least technically. But, after decades of media and public school programming, the buying of the largest plurality of voters with tax dollars and numerous promises of free lunches to favored groups and even individuals (some of the hostages from the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis are included by name in the IRS code because they were granted tax forgiveness) the puppeteers of the global fractional banking conspiracy are almost ready to make their move. But, they're uncertain of guaranteed victory and there is no historical precedent to guide them. The last chapter of Edward Bernays' methods has yet to be written, and it could be text that the masters behind the scenes are not alive to read, and they fear that. I'm glad.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
This is beyond pathetic.
#3. To: YertleTurtle (#2)
He'll retire on the lawsuit.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#4. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
#5. To: lodwick (#1)
(Edited)
This is beyond pathetic.
#6. To: HOUNDDAWG (#5)
#7. To: lodwick (#6)
As someone here observed, "It's the fool, not the tool."
#8. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
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