Law Professor Objects to Solicitations to Help Our Troops in Afghanistan

[ClearedHot]

Almost put this in the WTF thread, but I think it deserves its own.

Prophetic words from the Liberal Anti-War Law Professor and an enlightening view of his opinion of U.S. service members..."I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings."

https://abovethelaw.com/2011/11/law-professor-objects-to-solicitations-to-help-our-troops-in-afghanistan/

[MCO]

It beat you to the WTF thread... But still, ridiculous.

[spaceman]

Wow... What a frickin retard

[OregonHerc]

The dean isn't much better...

While I personally intend to donate a care package for our troops, I respect the right of others to hold a differing perspective. Essential to a university environment is respect for, and protection of, free speech, academic freedom, and faculty governance. There are times when we, as a university community, particularly as professors who study and teach about constitutional rights and discourse, will disagree with each other, whilst simultaneously defending our rights to have divergent viewpoints. It is my hope and expectation that we continue to speak to each other respectfully about the issues and concerns of the day. Ultimately, it is this robust exchange of ideas that makes for a great university. Suffolk Law, while valuing debate on U.S. military policy, has a well-deserved reputation for supporting armed services personnel in the pursuit of their J.D. degrees and career goals.

Camille Nelson

Dean, Suffolk University Law School

[BitteEinBit]

I wouldn't let these professors get under your skin with their opinions. Notice, they have an opinion that differs from reality, but the reality hasn't changed. I think that means their "opinion" is pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. We're still going to go to war, and war is still going to involve deploying overseas and killing people who want to kill us.

Nothing against lawyers, but just consider this...while these professors have every right to express their biased opinion on what they think the military is all about, they are the same ones who defend murderers, rapists, child molesters right here in America. Their very profession, at least on the defense side of the house, actually calls it "success" when they win a case and their otherwise guilty child molester, murderer, rapist goes free....and this jackass is responsible for teaching those defenders...must mean he supports the crimes (using his logic).

These are just typical liberal professors talking out of both sides of their mouths because they think they have an agenda. No one will know who that jackass is two weeks from now. Let them speak freely, it won't change anything. The fact remains that they support rapists, murderers and child molesters right here in America (generalizing and using his logic).

[dream big]

This professor is part of a small minority, even my most left wing friends had something patriotic to say on veterans day. This guy is a douche, and an insignificant one at that.

[Guest]

[Rockafire Explosion]

This professor is part of a small minority, even my most left wing friends had something patriotic to say on veterans day. This guy is a douche, and an insignificant one at that.

The way you worded this implies that there is some correlation between political viewpoints and level of patriotism. I know that some on the extreme right have worked hard since 9/11 to set that tone, but I like to assume that most people are smart enough to not buy into it. The military isn't an instrument of the right-wing, so it's hardly noteworthy that people with left-wing views support the military.

The professor sounds like a piece of shit though.

[Guest]

The way you worded this implies that there is some correlation between political viewpoints and level of patriotism.

The military isn't an instrument of the right-wing, so it's hardly noteworthy that people with left-wing views support the military.

And should we infer basis the way you worded your response that support of the military = patriotism?

Patriotism and support of the military are not the same thing. I know many on the far left who feel they are in fact being patriotic by not supporting the military.

[brickhistory]

https://dailycaller.com/2011/11/15/massachusetts-anti-military-law-professor-attended-university-of-moscow/

Michael Avery, a Suffolk University Law School professor who made headlines for an email to colleagues calling care packages for United States soldiers abroad “shameful,” attended the University of Moscow from 1968 through 1969, The Daily Caller has learned.

Avery’s studies in the U.S.S.R. coincided with the height of the Cold War and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, punishing a period of liberalization known as “The Prague Spring.” That 1968 invasion marked the launch of the “Brezhnev Doctrine,” which declared: “When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries.”

[Guest Hueypilot812]

He apparently wasn't aware of the fact that Stalin had executed a number of US expatriates following WWII. These people moved to the Soviet Union to share in the "socialist dream" and be part of the revolution...interesting that people like this idiot are the same types that complain our nation is a police state.

[Guest]

Who else was a student in Russia...?

[Big Bear]

I agree that this guy is a complete jerkoff. He forgets (ignores?) that a military member willingly says "I'll go fight wherever you need me" whether that war be in afcrapistan in an "unpopular" war, or at the shores of our own country, as our next war could be. If the latter were the case right now, I'll bet his opinion of it's "shameful" to support our military members would be a bit different. Separate the war from the warrior.

But like big dream said... he's insignificant. He has no bearing on national policy, the US military, common sense, or anything outside of the urine running down his tweed suit pants when terrorism or war knocks on his front door again.

[Hacker]

actually calls it "success" when they win a case and their otherwise guilty child molester, murderer, rapist goes free....

An "otherwise guilty" person? YGBSM.

Presumption of innocence. Check it out.

[Ziplip]

https://www.foxnews.c...-for-us-troops/

Fellow law professor currently deployed quit his job at the college cause the of asshole's rant.

Edited November 22, 2011 by grounded_flyer

[Spur38]

to U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Robert Roughsedge. That's how you stand by your convictions.

I hope he has hundreds of job offers when he redeploys.

He will and perhaps politics....