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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At 1:46 PM on 7 March, Harry Bergeron had written:
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Well, I guess I’d do what we’ve been doing in my family ever since we came over from Sicily, and lure them inside. After finishing them off, we’d drag the corpses down into the back basement and bury them with the other ones.
Good exercise, all of it, and it doesn’t take more than a sack or two of pre-emptive quicklime to prevent any reek of decay, particularly if you’re conscientious about how deeply you dig ’em in.
The Greens-Inquisition has truly started to show their real colors. It goes further then just being water melons. The red they show now is that of rage and the red of the blood they want to see oozing from whoever does not agree with them. Dr. Robinson nor his children deserve such treatment. But like the old Catholic inquisition, the current green’s one will attack foremost they deem to be the most dangerous: Those who can and will think for themselves.
I truly hope that Dr. Robinson finds enough protection with in the society to be able to express his opinion without having to fear for the wellbeing of his children.
Here’s the statement from OSU about Robinson’s claims. Pretty much a non-statement, other than there’s no factual basis in the dismissal of the students.
Which claims? Seems as though the students themselves were dismissed under mysterious circumstances. Surely that would merit some kind of explanation?
If OSU are causing as much trouble as they make out, I’d have tried completing the PhD’s at UoM or MIT.
To those who haven’t figured this out….the kids are not the dad. Regardless of what he’s done, the kid’s actions should stand on their own. If they’re guilty of something, then let it be known.
I personally witnessed a professor repeatedly bring in students from his home country and treat them like indentured slaves. They were in the lab by 7:30am, and didn’t go home until after 11pm. There on weekends too.
Just as they’d near the finish of their thesis work, he’d change the topic and force them onto some other project he’d gotten funding for, and once again, grind ’em.
One student who was a lot sharper than the others, and I think maybe wound his towel in a different way, if you know what I mean, applied to and was accepted by Stanford.
Just after he left, this professor called the student’s advisor at Stanford and badmouthed the kid REAL bad. So bad it even got back to me. Yet, there was never any recourse against this prof. We were lucky he finally left. But because he had tenure, he couldn’t be fired.
Bet you weren’t Reddy for that one.
Post-normal academics, I suppose. Look at the greater good (manifested by Democrats in power, of course) and determine how to get there. Solution: destroy Republicans and their families, thus driving opposition away. A very good strategy, actually. Much like attacking skeptics of CAGW science… the end justifies the means.
Democrats have been attacking kids since they were in the womb, this just goes to show how low and disgusting these people are.
Dave N says:
March 7, 2011 at 2:16 pm
If OSU are causing as much trouble as they make out, I’d have tried completing the PhD’s at UoM or MIT.
Here’s the catch…..which the general public doesn’t ever see or really understand…and why that’s a deal killer.
When a student starts in on a project, the advisor, or Principle Investigator (read Professor) has gotten a grant which is used, sometimes along with start-up funds for a new prof, to build up an experiment for the prof’s research. This can easily run from
$25k-50k, and higher. I’ve seen projects run up into the $1/4Mil range.
They also take time to build up, and in physics especially, because you can’t buy stuff off the shelf and just plug it in. Some experiments in nuclear and atomic physics can easily take a couple of years to build up.
Why? The prof has to sit down with the students, and give them the task of designing parts and assemblies that he isn’t going to design. Little by little, the department’s machine shop and/or outside shops start to built parts that aren’t available off the shelf, and trust me, there’s lots and lots of those. Lots. Expensive stainless pieces and parts. Delicate, big, precise, oddball and difficult parts of weird materials too.
Once the pieces are together, you begin runs and sometimes, lots of times, once stuff is stabilized, you sit and take data. Hour after hour. All nite. And you hope that surplus turbo pump doesn’t crap out on you, or you suck some oil out of a dif pump and have to dismantle the WHOLE system and clean EVERYTHING….and start all over again.
Going somewhere else to finish your thesis?? Not unless where you end up has the same experiment…and THAT’s not likely, because seldom will you find 2 researchers at different universities running the same experiment. Why would NSF or DOE fund
duplicates?
That’s why this is very serious. You can’t just pick up and go. You can’t take the experiment with you.
DocattheAutopsy says:
March 7, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Thanks for posting OSU’s cover up piece. But it says:
“Federal law prohibits institutions of higher education from discussing matters concerning our students with anyone other than the student himself or herself without the express consent of the student involved. Given that, OSU will not comment on any allegation regarding the Robinson students or share any personal information concerning them other than the limited “directory information” allowed by law to be shared.”
So the Robinson kids just have to give them permission. Best to do that very publicly. Then these weasels cannot hide behind that excuse.
Tucci78 says:
March 7, 2011 at 2:13 pm
“Good exercise, all of it, and it doesn’t take more than a sack or two of pre-emptive quicklime to prevent any reek of decay, particularly if you’re conscientious about how deeply you dig ‘em in.”
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That’s OK, Tucci78. I probably needed to clean off my monitor anyway. Here I am reading all these serious comments and come across one from the great healer of the east and end up snorting coffee everywhere. Thanks, Pal.
Far from suing the Daily Beast, you should frame it. As time goes by and it becomes apparent that some of the people they’ve targeted are basically good (don’t want to defend Bill Gates), they’ll deny they ever wrote it. As I said: children behaving badly. It’s great stuff, from a certain perspective, and terribly witty, but, they probably won’t want their names associated with it 20 years from now when sea level hasn’t risen and we haven’t had the AGW-apocalypse. So, make sure you find out the actual names of the people behind the comments.
The stuff railing against BP was on the money, though.
From the OSU statement:
The university has found no factual basis for the accusations made against those
faculty members. [and]…the claims made therein are baseless and without merit.
Seems they performed a speedy investigation. Unless the same claims and accusations were made known first to the school and some time ago at that.
No threats should ever be given including these:
Climate scientist Michael Mann says he has received hundreds of them — threatening e-mails and phone calls calling him a criminal, a communist or worse.
ABC News
Climate scientist Michael Mann says he’s received hundreds of threatening e-mails and phone calls calling him a criminal, a communist or worse.”6 feet under, with the roots, is were you should be,” one e-mail reads. “How know 1 one has been the livin p*ss out of you yet, i was hopin i would see the news that you commited suicide, Do it.”
“I’ve been called just about everything in the book,” Mann, who runs of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, told ABC News. “It’s an attempt to chill the discourse, and I think that’s what’s most disconcerting.”
Mann is not the only one. The FBI says it’s seeing an uptick in threatening communications to climate scientists. Recently, a white supremacist website posted Mann’s picture alongside several of his colleagues with the word “Jew” next to each image.
One climate scientist, who did not wish to be identified, told ABC News he’s had a dead animal left on his doorstep, and now sometimes travels with bodyguards.
Ian Murphy says:
March 7, 2011 at 2:06 pm
“You are not smart. And you’re a coward. And not smart.”
[Note: this comment is from the blog that smeared Anthony. ~dbs, mod.]
Thanks mod. Just went to check that site. You did not mention that Ian here is one of the co-authors of that simplistic attack piece but his comment here does exhibit the same kind of ‘sophisticated’ and repetitive writing skills exhibited here.
With critics like this, really, who cares? Just wish they would post their deep thoughts here more often so we could marvel at them.
Does Ian want a cracker?
Somebody call David Horowitz.
And of course:
Death threats received by Tony Windsor reveal that the debate over a carbon tax is not really about economic efficiency or policy effectiveness, or even about party politics. It’s about the way responses to climate change threaten the worldview and cultural identity of some groups in the community.
Here, as in the United States, rejecting climate science and resisting greenhouse policies have become lore in the resurgent movement of right-wing populism whose dominant sentiment is anger.
After calling him a “f***ing dog”, Tony Windsor’s anonymous caller said “I hope you die you bastard”, a level of aggression way out of proportion to the possibility of a small rise in energy prices.
It seems implausible that 3 students from the same family with very good grades would be expelled from university without some level of conspiracy.
So either the 3 students are acting in concert and in a gross breach of academic standards, or their department is. The evidence against the 3 students would need to be overwhelming, as yet I haven’t seen any. If the actions of the department are as stated, the university should not only expel the faculty members involved, the should seek whatever criminal redress possible under law.
Actions such as these (should they have substance) are a direct threat to the democratic institutions of the United States and should be forcefully dealt with by all levels of government and the judiciary.
Anthony:
When they are writing junk like that, you know you have them on the run.
You’re doing great work.
And there is this:
The scientists say the threats have increased since the furore over leaked emails from the University of East Anglia began last November, and a sample of the hate mail sent in recent months and seen by the Guardian reveals the scale and vitriolic tone of the abuse.
The scientists revealed they have been told to “go gargle razor blades” and have been described as “Nazi climate murderers”. Some emails have been sent to them without any attempt by the sender to disguise their identity. Even though the scientists have received advice from the FBI, the local police say they are not able to act due to the near-total tolerance of “freedom of speech” in the US.
The problem appears less severe in the UK but, Professor Phil Jones, the UEA scientist at the centre of the hacked email controversy, revealed in February he had been receiving two death threats a week and had contemplated suicide. “People said I should go and kill myself,” he said. “They said that they knew where I lived. They were coming from all over the world.” The third and final independent review into the issues raised by the hacked UEA emails is due to be published on Wednesday when Sir Muir Russell presents his panel’s conclusions.
Professor Stephen Schneider, a climatologist based at Stanford University in California, whose name features in the UEA emails, says he has received “hundreds” of violently abusive emails since last November. The peak came in December during the Copenhagen climate change summit, he said, but the number has picked up again in recent days since he co-authored a scientific paper last month which showed that 97%-98% of climate scientists agree that mankind’s carbon emissions are causing global temperatures to increase.
Schneider described his attackers as “cowards” and said he had observed an “immediate, noticeable rise” in emails whenever climate scientists were attacked by prominent right-wing US commentators, such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.
Like all sound bastions of higher learning would do, Oregon State quickly went into CYA mode. In the end it will be “nothing to see here”, just as it was at EAU and Penn State.
The other side showing their true colours.
Ian Murphy says:
March 7, 2011 at 2:06 pm
“You are not smart. And you’re a coward. And not smart.”
Please go away and grow up. How old are you anyway? 5?
Great suggestions above that the Robinsons contact FIRE. What isn’t clear to me is whether they’ve already consulted a lawyer. This sounds pretty actionable to me, and I’m just skimming the few facts offered here. One thing that jumped out at me is the possible theft of intellectual property. Maybe the kids, as Ph.D candidates, have signed away all their rights to the work they’ve done; but maybe not. Somebody needs to read whatever agreements and by-laws the OSU may have in place regarding the relationship, the funding, the various elements of work the kids have done (when, where, with whom, on whose dime: maybe, very probably is, federal money in the mix here). Insofar as this activity would result in breach of contract; theft of IP; conversion; plagiarism or wrongful attribution; fraud on the funding agencies; false claims; etc; it ought to offer some good shots. Yes, the OSU has its lawyers and its flacks. But they’re not free, and they’re probably already “at capacity” so they will not be happy to get stuck with a complaint seeking injunctive relief (and I’d think that, when it’s your Ph.D hanging in the balance, with years of your life already gone and no clear way to start again, the “irreparable injury for which money damages is insufficient” criterion of a plea for injunctive relief would seem to be met). Point being, you want multiple salients: air, land, sea, indirect fire, direct fire, interdiction, etc. A well-developed plan and the wherewithal to see it through. Once you’ve got that in place, you may not have to commit very much of it, because the OSU will see that the better part of valor is to back off what it’s doing. Which appears to be a long-shot play, with outrageous tactics, merely to satisfy an impulse for revenge against the parent of the kids. What a poor prize, for which they would risk so much: scandal, damages, whacking legal fees, possible Congressional or other legislative inquiries, maybe some effect on accreditation, damage to campus “spirit,” distraction (and legal fees!) to the individual faculty implicated in the plan, etc.
Just my SWAG.
Brad one thing to point out the pages quite another to broadcast the URL
that’s whereyou went wrong
be as upset as you wish
Hmmmm!
From the Guardian:
The scientists say the threats have increased since the furore over leaked emails from the University of East Anglia began last November, and a sample of the hate mail sent in recent months and seen by the Guardian reveals the scale and vitriolic tone of the abuse.
The scientists revealed they have been told to “go gargle razor blades” and have been described as “Nazi climate murderers”. Some emails have been sent to them without any attempt by the sender to disguise their identity. Even though the scientists have received advice from the FBI, the local police say they are not able to act due to the near-total tolerance of “freedom of speech” in the US.
The problem appears less severe in the UK but, Professor Phil Jones, the UEA scientist at the centre of the hacked email controversy, revealed in February he had been receiving two death threats a week and had contemplated suicide. “People said I should go and kill myself,” he said. “They said that they knew where I lived. They were coming from all over the world.” The third and final independent review into the issues raised by the hacked UEA emails is due to be published on Wednesday when Sir Muir Russell presents his panel’s conclusions.
Professor Stephen Schneider, a climatologist based at Stanford University in California, whose name features in the UEA emails, says he has received “hundreds” of violently abusive emails since last November. The peak came in December during the Copenhagen climate change summit, he said, but the number has picked up again in recent days since he co-authored a scientific paper last month which showed that 97%-98% of climate scientists agree that mankind’s carbon emissions are causing global temperatures to increase.