KU Prof Sends Anti-NRA Tweet, Teabagger State Legislators Become Apoplectic

[LonePirate]

The freedom loving Teabaggers continue to exhibit their scorn for the First Amendment.

More than 100 current and former University of Kansas faculty and staff Wednesday publicly affirmed the free-speech rights of a professor whose tweet against the National Rifle Association sparked a political firestorm and demands from legislators for his firing.

The statement described the tweet last month by David Guth, an associate professor of journalism, as "intemperate" but said the signers support his right to express his ideas. The statement said promoting freedom of expression should be "a core value of any university."

Guth posted the tweet after shootings killed 13 people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. It said, "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you."

The university placed Guth on paid leave indefinitely, but several Republican leaders of the GOP-dominated Legislature want him fired. Also, Sen. Greg Smith, an Overland Park Republican, has said he won't support budget proposals from the university until Guth is terminated.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/10/02/3035321/kan-academics-worry-over-reaction.html#storylink=cpy

[mwrguy]

1. Good for him!

Truth to power, and all that.

[Hoyt]

2. He's exactly right, except it is more than just the NRA's 4 million members.

Lots of yahoos too cheap to pay dues support the NRA and their leadership's -- Norquist, Ollie North, John Bolton, Teddy Nugent, gun profiteers, etc. -- right wing agenda.

Hope the professor is reinstated so that he can impart his beliefs to students who have finally escaped the influence of their gun cultists, right wing parents' views on our society and life.

[jimmy the one]

3. compare guth to nugent

Guth posted the tweet after shootings killed 13 people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. It said, "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you."

An understandable position of contempt Mr Guth, at the time;
Concerning the outcry from the rightwing over Mr Guth's remark, where was the rightwing outcry when ted nugent said if Obama were reelected he (nugent) would either be dead or in jail within the year? where were the cries to have him resign as nra board member?

OR, ted nugent: About Hillary Clinton: "You probably can't use the term `toxic cunt' in your magazine, but that's what she is. Her very existence insults the spirit of individualism in this country. This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro."
2 About Haiti: "We should put razor wire around our borders and give the finger to any piece of shit who wants to come here."

Where was the rightwing outcry to have ted nugent resign?
Answer: there was none, applying the RW double standard rule - if we do it it's OK, if you do it, it's WRONG.