NY Times weighs in on the right wing attack on Wis. Prof. Bill Cronon

[Scuba]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28mon3.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

"The latest technique used by conservatives to silence liberal academics is to demand copies of e-mails and other documents.

Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli of Virginia tried it last year with a climate-change scientist, and now the Wisconsin Republican Party is doing it to a distinguished historian who dared to criticize the state’s new union-busting law.

These demands not only abuse academic freedom, but make the instigators look like petty and medieval inquisitors.

The historian, William Cronon, is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas research professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, and was recently elected president of the American Historical Association. Earlier this month, he was asked to write an Op-Ed article for The Times on the historical context of Gov. Scott Walker’s effort to strip public-employee unions of bargaining rights. W

hile researching the subject, he posted on his blog several critical observations about the powerful network of conservatives working to undermine union rights and disenfranchise Democratic voters in many states."

[Angry Dragon]

1. Dictators have always worked hard to silence their critics

Even going as far as to imprison them or kill them

Cockroaches do not like the light of day

[Newest Reality]

2. The politics of Serfdom from the Lords in Office who

pay homage to their Kings.

[freshwest]

3. Or our Galtian overlords as some have called them. Too bad they want us all dead. Evil gods.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Given recent history and current law, Cronon should use his own H/W for just about everything

Any thinking person and prof does. While I do not approve in the least of the witch hunt, it is also quite preventable.

My "official" university account is more than a little bare...I like it that way

[malaise]

5. About time liberals destroyed these goons

Fuck Scott Walker!

[Scuba]

6. +1

[alfredo]

7. Too bad Americans have a short memory.

[ck4829]

8. K&R