At what point do you call it mob action? Disturbing the peace maybe?
They are protecting the gravy train, so any means necessary. Teachers dedicated to their work, to be sure.
Yelling “peace” in a crowded capitol.
Be happy, be vocal. Get it off your chest by putting it on your chest. Now it can be done at (Dist. 204, Neuqua) Valley High, thanks to pursuit of the matter in the courts by an inadequately celebrated free-speech protector, Alliance Defense Fund.
Very yucky business, this quelling of dissent. Rampant among us, as in (liberal) Oak Park, where gays & lesbians squelched the reverend who wanted to discuss changing from g&l to straight. Gays & L’s, feeling their oats in our fair village, put their feet down, and the guy lost his venue. Fascist behavior, I say.
Man from Kosovo did it. Article doesn’t say he’s a Muslim.
Like perps not racially identified in U.S. accounts, nor religiously, for that matter, even in midst of jihad.
Let no man (er, person) say Muslims do this.
Please see Loyola prof admits stealing artifacts on Page 6 of March 02, 2011 issue of Chicago Sun-Times
He’s sorry for his “mistake,” one of the seven deadly mistakes, probably.
Like many others, I went right to the article to see who dissented. It was Alito, whose phrase “verbal assault” is crucial, in this case “vicious,” which is also crucial, I’m sure. Which would leave courts the job of deciding what’s an assault and what’s vicious, and that could be knotty indeed. I speak as a newspaper reader, period, will be looking for other comments, needless to say.
New v.p. for mission & ministry at the Jesuits’ St. Louis U. The post is not new. It caught my attention because the same appointment was made last March at Wheeling (WV) Jesuit U., where it is new, apparently in anticipation and certainly expectation of Wheeling Jesuit’s hiring its first non-Jesuit president.
The position allows educationally experienced Jesuits who do not want to head a college or university and/or would not be considered for such a job to help shape one in the Jesuit tradition.
This one at St. Louis U. held a similar position at Wheeling Jesuit, in fact, as director of campus ministry — maybe also as director of Mission and Identity, as the release has it. Hmmm. “Campus chaplain” begot “director of campus ministry” begot “director of mission and identity” in the ever-vibrant world of denominating people assigned to college or university.
Another budget-issue article, from NCReporter, all about damage from cuts:
Responding to the demands of new tea party-backed members of Congress and concerns among independent voters about the growing federal deficit, the White House and congressional Republicans proposed steep cuts in the federal budget, many of which will affect programs that aid the poor and vulnerable.
Many Catholics have warned that the budget is being balanced on the backs of the poor and the U.S. bishops conference has urged Congress to maintain funding for programs that aid the poor.
In a letter to members of Congress released last month, Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, called on Congress specifically to spare cuts to community health centers, job re-training and affordable housing programs, as well as aid to migrants. We remind Congress that the poor and vulnerable have a priority claim on our limited, although still substantive, financial resources, Blaire wrote.
Is there a bishops’ committee on fiscal responsibility? How government spending hurts poor people by encouraging inflation and endangering the fiscal well-being of the nation? Tell me which of these Departments & Programs has or provides room for such a committee?
Even bishops with heart in right place — we can’t assume that of all of them, fallen human nature being what it is — are caught up entirely in results of de-funding. Except for abortion and same-sex marriage, have they ever objected to government interference or complaisance? Are there no moral issues bound up in the statist approach?
Chi Trib’s Vikki Ortiz Healy comes up with featurization of real problems, a tear-jerker well done. But something’s missing as it is in many, I’d say most, such stories, namely any nod towards the fiscal insanity that has led to this situation and the need to cut the budget before worse things happen, far worse than this loss to young apparently unwed parents in Cicero.
Parents and child at Morton East (Trib pic)
Thank heaven for little girls, sang boulevardier Maurice Chevalier, and thank it for a culture and perhaps religious motivation that leads them to have their babies in the first place. But is it hard-hearted to ask for a little balance in such stories?
Pro-choicer Frances Kissling urges retrenchment for tactical reasons.
Writing Feb. 20 in the opinion section of The Washington Post, Kissling said abortion rights advocates can no longer pretend the fetus is invisible. … We must end the fiction that an abortion at 26 weeks is no different from one at six weeks. … We need to firmly and clearly reject post-viability abortions except in extreme cases.
More more more at NCReporter.
There’s a long history of such message-changing. Birth control advocates once urged eugenics reasons, switched to women’s rights.
Chi Trib’s Dan Hinkel does protesters (as linked below). This morning he gave us a comfy-cozy, ain’t-we-havin’-fun account of Madison statehouse protesters. It’s front-page stuff on home-delivery hard copy today, including a 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 mid-page pic of college kids reliving sleep-over days in the house down the block in third grade.
“We all sleep together [in the statehouse], and we all wake up to the sound of the drums,” says protester Damon Terrell in a pull quote atop the picture.
Hinkel had spotted Terrell looking “as if he were headed off to his bedroom at home.” Instead, he was heading for what the protesters were calling “the people’s house.”
It was happening in “famously liberal-minded Madison — sometimes derided as an island of idealism in a sea of reality” — in a protest of “sustained intensity” such as Madison’s “longtime activists” could not remember.
Not only that, it had “diversity” — “construction workers wearing hard hats, firefighters playing bagpipes, liberal activists waving placards, students scooting into sleeping bags.”
Teachers too, as we know. Terrell wants to be one, and “so many teachers have protested that schools throughout the state have been forced to shut down.” But they are not part of this story, which is mostly a celebration of youth and activism. Hinkel is a UW-Madison alum, ’04, so you can’t blame him for getting nostalgic.
As for editors who asked for the story (I presume) and gave it such play (I know they did that), please: What kind of world do they live in and who do they think their readers are?
Nostalgia not from Hinkel directly, but from former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, who is running for mayor:
“There’s nothing like it,” said former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, who says he was tossed to the ground and beaten by police with nightsticks at a bloody war protest in 1967. [Three years before the UW
physics department was blown up and a
researcher killed as antiwar protest]“In a decade of antiwar protests, we were never able to reach the building trades, the Teamsters and the nonunion people that this touched in the first 48 hours,” said Soglin, who is again running for mayor.
Money, money, money, Paul. The market has determined response. It’s the way people are. Teachers have a good deal and want to protect it. Unionists see theirs in jeopardy. Antiwar protests fizzled as soon as the draft was ended, Paul. No market for protesters seeking not to get killed or serve in Army. It’s as clear as the bushy mustache on his face. 
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