Archive for January, 2005

Defrocking the Excommunicated

Guest, Paul Fromm

Teacher’s College Seeks to Lift Licence of Dissident Teacher

Three gruelling days of hearings are over and the farce has been adjourned until early July. It takes two hours of preparation for an hour of cross-examination. In 1997, after six years of lobbying the Canadian Jewish Congress and the League for Human Rights (well, not free speech rights) succeeded in pressuring the Peel Board of Education to fire me from my position as an English instructor, after a 24 year career, where I’d been hailed by former Director Robert Lee as an “exemplary teacher.” I had never used the classroom to preach politics. My sin was that I had expressed criticism of Canada’s lunatic immigration policies and had stood up for free speech on my own time, outside of school hours. For having been a heretic and not shown the proper respect for multiculturalism and ethnocultural equity, I was fired.

Now, seven years later, the forces of repression want to take my teaching certificate and I am again on trial for my political views.

Tuesday began with my motion to adjourn for a month. As this is a political trial, I may wish to move that one or more of the three-man Tribunal recuse themselves for political bias. Current law requires a person to raise this issue at the earliest moment. How can I investigate the panel unless I know who they are. I asked repeatedly but was denied this information until Tuesday morning. My motion for adjournment was turned down.

The Ontario College of Teachers is represented, in one way or another by four lawyers. I always enjoy even odds. There’s just me to oppose the strike force from McCarthy Tetrault, the pricy downtown Toronto firm that represents the Teachers’ College – the body that licences Ontario teachers.

Today, I got to start my cross examination of a former Department Head of mine. Her testimony was so whiney, it was laughable. She complained that my very presence made her and her leftist allies afraid and stressed. She admitted that I hadn’t preached at them or discussed my views. It seems that my very existence was an afront to them. So much for tolerance.

They feared for their lives and families, oh not from innocuous me, but from my “associates.” When asked whether my associates — members of the Heritage Front — had ever threatened her, she had to admit they hadn’t. She loves to deal in generalities and flees from specifics. She had heard — she couldn’t be sure where or when or how — that I was “linked” — they love that word — to the Ku Klux Klan. Well, had she ever seen me in a bedsheet? (I probably should have phrased that more delicately.) Well, no. Did she ever ask me about it? Well, no.

I’ll continue this report in a few days.

Paul Fromm

Director

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

p.s. A big thanks to John and Lynda for sitting through these three days and watching my back. Even bigger thanks to my backstage lawyer who has given me the advice and the legal research to be able to mix it up with the lawyers from McCarthy-Tetrault. Thanks to all those who’ve e-mailed me with their support. Tuesday night there was a lengthy item on the CTV news and this article appeared in the Toronto Star on Wednesday. This morning, I appeared on the John Oakley radio open-line show in Toronto. All three callers, including a former student, backed my right to free speech.

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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1106693414504

On trial for views, fired teacher says
2005-01-26 07:53:20 [Education]
A Peel teacher fired in 1997 for allegedly fraternizing with white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups in his free time has pleaded not guilty to discreditable conduct. Paul Fromm, 56, who is representing himself at a disciplinary hearing before the Ontario College of Teachers, yesterday described the proceedings as “a trial of my political views.” Leslie Ferenc reports.

On trial for views, fired teacher says
Fired for alleged links to white supremacists
Now faces charges from profession‘s governing body

LESLIE FERENC
STAFF REPORTER

A Peel teacher fired in 1997 for allegedly fraternizing with white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups in his free time has pleaded not guilty to discreditable conduct.

Paul Fromm, 56, who is representing himself at a disciplinary hearing before the Ontario College of Teachers, yesterday described the proceedings as “a trial of my political views,” saying teachers have the right to express their opinions on their own time.

“You will have to make a decision about teachers and their outside political activity and if it should be censored,” he told the tribunal hearing his case.

Fromm faces several misconduct charges, including failure to maintain professional standards, not complying with college regulations and bylaws, disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional and/or unbecoming conduct, and practising while in a conflict of interest. If found guilty, he faces anywhere from a reprimand to losing his licence to teach in Ontario.

In his opening remarks, Fromm noted that of the 57 cases of alleged professional misconduct on the college’s list of discipline cases, his is the only one involving a teacher’s political or religious views. Some 90 per cent relate to inappropriate sexual acts with students, while the rest deal with such issues as theft, inability to manage a classroom and forgery of credentials.

“I’m embarrassed to be in such bad company,” he said.

Despite years of highly publicized political activities outside of work, Fromm said he kept his views to himself in class and there were no complaints about him professionally.

His request for a one-month adjournment was denied. He wanted the delay so he could do background checks on the panel members to determine their political opinions and if they would be biased against him.

Fromm said he wants to hold on to his teaching licence “as an option,” calling it “a matter of principle and honour.”

His off-duty political activities, including co-founding Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform Inc. — which, according to the notice of hearing, attacked the “principles of multiculturalism and tolerance” — did have an impact on his students, colleagues and the community, argued college lawyer Caroline Zayid. According to the seven-page notice of hearing, Fromm attended numerous political meetings over the years, including a 1990 Martyr’s Day rally. During a speech, he hailed John Ross Taylor, who promoted hatred with anti-Semitic messages taped on his phone machine, as a hero. Taylor died in 1994.

Fromm’s remarks were recorded on videotape and played yesterday. Among other things, it showed some participants giving Nazi salutes and a swastika banner in the hall.

In 1991, Fromm was at a Heritage Front meeting to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday. In 1994, he attended a rally of the white supremacist group the National Alliance, where he sat on stage with former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke.

“Can a person engaged in such off-duty activity be a teacher in the first place?” Zayid said.

She acknowledged that Fromm has the right to freedom of speech, “but it doesn’t mean he can also be a teacher.”

Retired Peel District School Board superintendent Sandra Birthelmer testified that Fromm was reprimanded in 1991 for blurting out the words “scalp them” during a Toronto race-relations committee meeting, while a speaker talked about the need to curb racist groups.

Despite a warning, he continued his activities, she added.

The hearing continues today.
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I repeat.

Political Correctness is not like a religion, it IS a religion.

ZERO tolerance. Scorched-earth policy — no competing religious doctrine or thought allowed or unpunished.

Ex-communicate. Neutralize.

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Bad is Bad. Good is Good.

I was talking to a Trappist monk a few years back, and he was talking about how things used to be. Trappists were known as the masters of self-torture.

They never spoke. They slept about five hours a night, interrrupted constatntly to get up for canonical hours. Their beds were rock. Some wore hair shirts. They ate no meat, poultry, eggs, fruits, beans, and a list of anything else that might not be bland enough.

They did heavy labor every waking hour.

They were famous.

The idea was that God and Satan thrived on human agony.

For centuries in Spain the saying was, “Life is not good or we would not need so many philosophers.”

So apparently, after hundreds of years of being famous for the agony God loved so much, the Trappists woke up one morning, said, “This is insane,” and STOPPED it.

Now you have to explain to the young what the Trappists were in the 1960s.

And here is the revolution that no one notices that really matters.

You can either provide for people’s needs and WANTS or you can explain why they must Suffer.

Any moron can torture you. Practically no one on earth can think of a way to make you happy. By exactly the same token, any guy who learns to read can sit on his backside, spout out impressive words preferably in Greek or Hebrew or Latin, and explain the Purpose of Suffering.

This guy’s theme song is that of the group which calls itself The Greatest Generation:

“You think you had it rough? Let me tell you what Rough is….”

So you feed him and bow down to him.

And one day, in some Trappist monastery, somebody dragged himself out of his stone-hard bed of pain and said, “Why the Hell? God LIKES this?”

Jesus stopped going over the undercurrents and interpretations of the Ten Commandments and said be good to others.

It is much easier to go nuts over the Sabbath than it is to find one single thing you can do to HELP your neighbor.

No, Virginia, Suffering is not good. It is cheap.

Good is good. Bad is bad.

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There are no Secure Wars

Some of the comments on getting me on radio broadcasts had comments about the fact that messages recommending me were not “secure.”

We had a saying in DC: “Never write down anything that you would not want to see on the front page of the Washington Post tomorrow.”

I don’t ever write down anything that needs to be “secure.”

Yesterday I was once again Stormfront’s special guest and, more important, I was David Duke’s special guest on his FIRST internet radio broadcast.

[You’ve been reading for a very long time. Now listen. Winsome, at ease, cogent, a memory, and a contagious humor. Don’t forget to notice that the ladies “love” me (my voice, that is). Bless them. The technology for broadcasting uses products by Nullsoft and for best listening quality and compatibility, you may wish to download the newest version of its free Winamp player at http://www.winamp.com/player/

Now, LISTEN to Rep. Duke’s Town Hall with Special Guest Bob Whitaker Webcast of Jan. 23rd archived at http://www.davidduke.com:8000/content/dd/dukeradio23Jan05.pls – about 90 minutes worth. ]

Dave is big on Jews and keeps referring everything back to Jews. My interest in Jews begins and ENDS with the fact that any white gentile like me who dares worry about the destruction of his own race is accused of being antisemitic and anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

Am I worried about someone taking some statement of David Duke’s and sticking me with it? Sure I am. But there comes a point when all that goes out the window.

I may get hurt. But things have gotten beyond that point.

No, I am not “secure.” Yes, I am taking a chance. In the normal world, when the screen tells you that you are not secure, you should read it over.

But there comes a time when you have to say, “Screw security, this is war!”

And the more of us who do that, the less that threat means.

I’m going in.

I didn’t say that “I’m going in” was the Shrewd thing to do. I know that if they destroy me for going in, all the Shrewd people will say, “He should have known better.”

But I’m going in.

They have pushed me too far.

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1/22/05 Insider Letter

*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***

(reprinted to Blog from email list of 1/22/05)

My years in Washington have taught me a few indelible lessons. One of them was the subject of my first book, A Plague on Both Your Houses, which was written in 1976. In it I registered my disgust with BOTH liberals and conservatives, the latter a term which is pretty meaningless these days.

I use the expanded term “Respectable Conservative” for what I called conservative back then. But that term can be misleading. These people are totally unrespectable, and they are conserving nothing but the respect of liberals.

On the other hand, there are honest leftists out there. Even though we may be at odds on key issues, one can deal with honesty. It is much better to have an honest man who holds contrary opinions than a dishonest one who agrees with you.

A case in point: a recent blog comment by a leftist student at Georgetown confirms what I state in Why Johnny Can’t Think:

From what I’ve read of your book so far (the 27 page preview – and I’m ordering it), as a person who is center-left, much of what you say makes perfect sense to me.

However, as much as the academic one-sidedness can be an annoyance (Thankfully not so much at Georgetown, at least in the international relations department), I can’t help but note that it is far more dangerous in the policy arena today.

For instance, political correctness is, indeed, about as close to a religion as it gets. (Maybe a better term is ‘worldview’? Many Buddhists consider Buddhism, for instance, to be not a religion but a worldview)
http://whyjohnny.com/blog/index.php?p=367

That was posted on the same day that the “Respectable Conservative” website WorldNetDaily neglected to post my letter to the editor. See for yourself what WND considers unprintable:

The firing of the TV weatherman in Las Vegas for a slip of the tongue makes it ever clearer that Martin Luther King’s birthday is the true Holy Day of America’s state religion. Move over Jesus. Martin Luther King is now the god of America’s state religion.

In my book Why Johnny Can’t Think: America’s Professor-Priesthood I have a chapter entitled, “Who Is The God Of America’s Established Religion?” I explained that it was Hitler. Now I’m claiming that it is King. Am I contradicting myself?

Not at all.

In order to get Christians and those shaped by Christian values in America to change their religion, the left couldn’t immediately take them away from the worship of the good Christian God to the evil leftist god Hitler. No, they needed a “good” leftist god. That god is Martin Luther King.

Jesus taught that we were to worship God not in word, but in deed. Jesus did what He taught, He “practiced what He preached.” He was a living example of His teachings.

Martin Luther King was also a living example of his teachings. Namely, that it doesn’t matter what you do, if you articulate the right ideology.

The Pharisees worked tirelessly to catch Jesus in one little contradiction so they could destroy Him. The friends and promoters of MLK write openly about his sordid life. FBI and other government files on MLK’s private life were so embarrassing that they were officially sealed for fifty years and will probably never all be released.

G. K. Chesterton once wrote that making people accept in practice what they reject in principle is a form of religious persecution. What else is Political Correctness? None of the tenets of Political Correctness work. They have all proven disastrous over and over again. But not even the slightest deviation from PC orthodoxy is allowed from anyone.

Every day it seems, someone is being fired or attacked for the slightest gaff. A TV weatherman in Las Vegas for a slip of the tongue. Prince Harry for wearing a swastika to a costume party.

This is nothing but the meanest and most small-minded religious persecution ever witnessed on the face of the earth. The slightest infraction results in immediate damnation and eternal penance. Even Shylock would have been shocked by the mercilessness of the cult of Political Correctness.

This is the predictable result of giving college professors complete control of our educational system. The seminaries for the religion of Political Correctness are called Universities and Colleges. Every member of the media, every government school teacher, every government bureaucrat, and every corporate executive MUST attend an approved seminary and be blessed by its Priesthood.

Professors are the Priesthood of Political Correctness. The blessing bestowed is called a diploma. Academia is a completely isolated and inbred system that becomes further and further removed from reality. That is because they are not held accountable by anyone. No one demands that what they teach actually works in the real world.

Professors are tyrants. They create and bless little tyrants with diplomas, who then spread this system far and wide. We must cut it off at the root. We must DEMAND an end to the teaching of the religion of Political Correctness NOW. We PAY for these universities. They are accountable to US.

If we don’t, we will get more of the same. Early Americans held the Boston Tea Party to protest a much less preposterous outrage. Why don’t we learn something useful from our history for a change?

Now do you see why I keep hammering away at this point? Why WE have to start a revolution, not wait for it to become “respectable?”

Bob

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1/15/05 Insider Letter

*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***

(reprinted to Blog from email list 1/15/05)

We can thank the greed of Coretta Scott King and family for not having to hear as much about MLK as the left would like to shove down our throats. Since they have started charging royalties for news stations to play the old tapes of him, it has cut down on his exposure.

The King holiday is a perfect example of how leftists would run the world. It is basically a liberal hate whitey fest. It is a perfect occasion for them to come together and wring their hands over the evil Southerner, and whine about how Whites haven’t completely rolled over and played dead for them yet.

It also gives respectable “color blind” conservatives a chance to grovel for their pay. They get to prate around like a bunch of domestic turkeys showing off their feathers.

Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be the symbol of the US of A. He probably didn’t have in mind the tame lot that most Americans have become. But if you’ve ever put out feed for domestic turkeys, you’ll see how they immediately run to each new handful of scratch. It doesn’t matter how large a pile is there, they are ready for the new.

That’s how respectable conservatives are. They are kept in a protected environment and fattened up well. They just run from one leftist idea to the next, never thinking that what they already have might be better. The old is immediately forgotten as soon as they see something new.

Respectable conservatives would rather turn the entire world into a brown ghetto than have to stand up to their masters. They have happily traded the religion of Jesus for the religion of Equality. If that’s not bad enough, they have to get up and crow about it every chance they get. They have to condemn those of us that don’t go along.

Respectable conservatives can have their religion of Equality. They can go to hell.

Oops. I’m being redundant again.

Bob

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