From World Net Daily(not the tabloid site World News Daily), with h/t to Green Hell Blog, something that if proven is quite disturbing. Yet given the kind of treatment I’ve recently received at the hands of an eco-zealot who can’t tolerate my views on climate, I’m not surprised.
Some people have no scruples and no shame. – Anthony
Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children
By Art Robinson
In an effort to do my part in rescuing our country from the out-of-control Obama administration, last year I ran for Congress in Oregon’s 4th District against 12-term incumbent, far-left Democrat Peter DeFazio, co-founder of the House Progressive Caucus.
Although I won the nominations of the Republican, Independent and Constitution Parties and the endorsement of the Libertarian Party, a massive media smear campaign by DeFazio, paid for with money raised by MoveOn.org and from special interests favored by DeFazio in Washington, resulted in a 54.5 percent to 43.6 percent victory for DeFazio in a race that was expected to be much closer.
Although I had never run for public office before, I immediately announced my candidacy for Congress again in 2012.
However, when you take a stand for what’s right, sometimes there is retribution.On Nov. 4, 2010, as soon as the election results were in and they were sure their candidate had won, faculty administrators at Oregon State University gave new meaning to the term “political payback.”
They initiated an attack on my three children – Joshua, Bethany and Matthew – for the purpose of throwing them all out of the OSU graduate school, despite their outstanding academic and research accomplishments. OSU is a liberal socialist Democrat stronghold in Oregon that received a reported $27 million in earmark funding from my opponent, Peter DeFazio, and his Democrat colleagues during the last legislative session.
Read full story here: Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children
UPDATE: I decided to pull the direct link to the website that hurled unspeakable insults to me by an eco-zealot, they don’t deserve the traffic WUWT will generate for them. Such things are best handled by other means. So, I used WebCite to permanently log the website, and you can view it here, scroll all the way to the bottom and note “corrections”: http://www.webcitation.org/5x0pgZdgl
UPDATE2: OSU has posted a statement which you can read here
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It’s a tragedy that we have to share this planet with these grossly uncouth people. Anthony, I checked out that buffalobeast website where you were so roundly, improperly and undeservedly trashed. My sincere thanks to you for not allowing this vile abuse to turn you and good people such as Art Robinson from your path of decency in assisting to enlighten those many who have open minds and are decent prople.
Thank you again!
Geoff Alder
“If you’s will be quiet, we’ll leave your family alone. Don’t make us tell you again!”
I’m so glad we have a new, kinder tone in the world. Without it we might be seeing blood in the streets.
I wouldn’t think the school cared what the Democratic candidate thought. Merely learning that there was a Republican related to these students was likely enough incentive for Oregon State to hound them.
You have to question the morality and the intelligence of the socialists (now there’s a misnomer) when they sink to these abyssal depths.
This is so sad…. really. [snip]
As a lifelong Democrat and a former resident of Oregon, I am deeply ashamed.
Wow. Given this is from WND, I’d like to see some verification from a more objective source, but it sounds like the loonies have taken over the asylum at OSU.
Anthony: regarding your mention at the Beast, I suggest you look at it as making the honor roll, much like Steve Mc’s mention as one of Fifty People Who Matter at the New Statesman. You are in some very fine company as a member of that list.
These eco-zealots aren’t progr – I mean liberals are they?
Quickly reviewing the Tenets of classical Liberalism I think we should find them and accepting pleasant lot …
From: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jo52/POS254/libtenets.html
Tenets of classical Liberalism
1. Individual autonomy
The basis of society is the individual. Humans are primarily motivated by self-interest.
2. Individual rights
If the individual is autonomous, then all individuals must be free and equal. This implies political equality, the protection of individual rights, respect for individual choices, and the use of reason in making decisions. “I am free and thus I rule myself.” The key individual rights are freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of worship, and the right to property.
3. Religious toleration
Individuals and the state must respect one’s right to worship as one pleases. Implies a separation of church and state.
4. Popular sovereignty and consent
Government should be ruled by the people rather than by a monarch, a religious figure, or some other elite. Government’s legitimacy rests on the consent of the governed..
5. Limited and representative government
The government’s role in society and the scope of its power should be clearly defined. The purpose of government is to protect individual’s life, liberty, and property. Further, in a society of autonomous individuals pursuing their own self-interests, government must represent the various interests of that society. This implies representative government, majority rule, constitutional government, and the rule of law.
6. Private property
Society should generally encourage the private accumulation of property rather than place restrictions on it. This implies an economy of free markets, equality of opportunity in the market, and competition. In sum, liberalism defends capitalism.
7. Universalism and progress
All people are fundamentally the same. Differences of culture, religion, race, gender, nationality, etc. are ultimately superficial. Overall, liberalism tends to interpret historically progressively: society, economy, technology are all advancing and elevating the human condition in the process.
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I wouldn’t bother giving that web site [the Beast] any credence at all. It’s a cess pit. It’s not even witty.
Anthony,
Please tell me that you are taking immediate legal action. That is by far the most disgusting behavior I’ve ever seen or read. (regarding the website you linked to)
Art Robinson writes,
“They initiated an attack on my three children – Joshua, Bethany and Matthew – for the purpose of throwing them all out of the OSU graduate school, despite their outstanding academic and research accomplishments. OSU is a liberal socialist Democrat stronghold in Oregon that received a reported $27 million in earmark funding from my opponent, Peter DeFazio, and his Democrat colleagues during the last legislative session.”
Think there might be more to this story?
REPLY: As representative of the side that espouses such ugliness, won’t don’t you tell us, “Gneiss”? – Anthony
What is it about these people? They seem to be so insecure in their position that they have to mount these most egregious attacks on people in case they are forced to confront their biases.
As for that “bit” about Anthony , the errors in there alone make you see how wrong they are never mind the childish comments about his character.
Right doesn’t always prevail but in this instance it most assuredly will.
Once again we see the influence of political zealots at our higher ed institutions. Once again, the alumni can help by retracting any potential and current gifting.
Considering how openly these people are smearing a particular family of students, one can imagine the amount of horrids acts that are incidiously taking place.
Why are the classmates not in mass protesting?
Beyond shamefull , but unfortunately it’s what I’ve come to expect from a democrat! Most of them lack the ability to compete fairly and must stoop to despicable means in order to win! I don’t even know if my vote counts anymore here in Oregon as the voting mechanism is so open to fraud and controlled by the democrats who have no ethical standards what so ever!
Time to call in the U.S. house of representatives to deal with this corruption… oh wait…
Personal attacks are intended to get you so enraged that you lose focus on what you set out to do — whether that’s publish information, win a political office or even just debate a point. Personal attacks are a rotten, low-down, cowardly strategy. It’s horrible to be on the receiving end. But we have to carry on and recognize that it’s just a strategy. Let’s try never to let that strategy win.
Absolutely disgusting! I’ve seen this kind of prejudice at work in academic departments, and I am even a victim of such prejudice. For a bastion of higher learning to take capricious action against students due to political ideology simply works against the entire purpose of “higher education’.
The faculty involved in terminating these three Ph.D. students should instead be censured and terminated.
Climate skeptics dont have party, so there are skeptics who vote democrats as well. And all politicians are narsistic, sellfish ar.. ho…
I read the full article. It makes me sick.
When I have children, I hope that places like this are not all that’s left for them to attend school at.
If the cases of these students are as outlined in the article, then the family and the students need to contact FIRE as soon as possible. FIRE will evaluate, and if they believe that OSU is indeed infringing on their 1st admendment rights, they will take action. They have a good record in these sorts of cases.
http://www.thefire.org
Could the guy have picked a worse outlet for this story than WND? Simply because the story is there, it has no credibility.
Although the story seems unbelievable, I have personally seen this kind of thing happen a few times in my community. I witnessed the careers of two professionals destroyed. In both of these cases, they were initiated by subordinates who wanted to take over their positions. As horrifying as the OSU situation is, the depths to which people will sink does not surprise me anymore.
As much as one wants to believe that good will triumph over evil, this isn’t always the case. Particularly when engaged in a struggle for survival against these type of people. I think Dr. Robinson is handling this in the best possible way. In the cases I listed above, one opted to fight through legal channels and still has not had resolution after several years. The best scenario for the Robinson students would be to prevent their expulsion, not to seek compensation later. I would recommend the family consult with a lawyer and fight the expulsions. Perhaps they can initiate a legal defense fund where concerned parties to make contributions?
Also, we need more champions like Professor Higginbotham, who clearly stood up and did the right thing at his own extraordinary personal cost. Good luck to the Robinson family and Professor Higginbotham.
What utter ugliness of mind and spirit impells people to even think such evil nonsense. In the Beast thing, no-one could take such obvious and slimy nonsense seriously. In the Robinson case, the move to eject good and blameless students because their father dared to stand to represent his party of choice is unadultered evil.
I tend to agree with you guys. But knowing university systems as I do, it is VERY VERY easy for these kinds of actions to take place well-hidden from the eyes of the media. This could all be a result of closed-door meetings on campus, even long-time people in that department may not know about it. What I’m saying is, yes, it would be nice to get confirmation but you’ll likely never get it unless you go to OSU and start asking questions yourself.
My entire collection of articles and blogs, seen here at “The ’96-to-present smear of skeptic scientists” http://climategatecountryclub.com/profiles/blogs/the-96topresent-smear-of details the extent the enviro-activists have gone to marginalize skeptic scientists and anybody affiliated with them. One of my articles tells about specific efforts to smear Mr Robinson’s Oregon Petition Project back in 1998 which still get repeated today, “The Curious History of ‘Global Climate Disruption’ ” http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/the_curious_history_of_global.html
No offense to skeptic scientists and their belief that the truth will ultimately win out when their research is presented – I had this discussion with Dr Sherwood Idso in 2010 – mere presentations of science assessments is not enough. A tsunami of public outrage could occur if people discover how much information the mainstream media has withheld or distorted about skeptic scientists. Someone in a high public place has to break the dam. This won’t happen until people start drawing more attention the second half of the AGW mantra that says “the science is settled / don’t listen to skeptic scientists because they are corrupt”.