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December 13, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
There’s no doubt about it, lie down with dogs, and you end up with fleas.
Joe doesn’t have the dogs anymore, but after he banished them, the “fleas” preferred to stay with him, and now he’s passing them on to us.
Hanging with a bad crowd is always a bad idea. They don’t change their ways. You end up changing yours.
Plagiarism has always been a Joe thing. He lost his bid for the presidency in 1988 because of it. But now we’re being told “plagiarism is okay,” that is, when a black, female president of Harvard does it.
Harvard President Claudine Gay stole the words of other academics in papers she published between 1993 and 2017, and in her doctoral dissertation, giving attribution to no one.
That’s what plagiarism is. Theft of intellectual property.
Gay took whole paragraphs and excerpts from nearly 20 academics, including two colleagues at Harvard.
And got an award for the dissertation.
The Washington Free Beacon described her plagiarism as “sloppiness.”
The National Society of Scholars said what she did wasn’t kosher.
"If this were a stand-alone instance, it would be reprehensible, but perhaps excused as the blunder of someone working hastily," director of the NSS, Peter Wood said after investigating. "But that excuse vanishes as the examples multiply."
And despite the fact that she neglected to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews on Harvard's campus in her testimony before Congress, the event that catapulted her into the public eye, 500 faculty members signed a petition supporting her and opposing her being fired.
So did the Harvard Corporation, one of the university's two governing boards. The Board issued a statement supporting Gay's continuing in her job, "as the right leader to help our community heal, and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing."
By the "very serious issues," are they referring to plagiarism, by a college president? Or her acceptance of genocide?
Yet, what's in a name, or in a word? Genocide by any other name would smell as sweet. Or would it?
Webster defines “genocide” as “the deliberate killing of a large number of people, from a particular nation or ethnic group, with the aim of destroying that nation or group.”
When you call for genocide in a campus protest, you'll calling for killing.
When you excuse it, you're excusimg killing, something unacceptable in a civilized society. The operative word being “civilized.”
If you watched the Palestinians fleeing in Gaza, you would see that there were some who did so on donkey-drawn carts, something out of a Third World country.
That’s something Joe and Obama want in their plan for America. In their quest to cut America down to size.
And they’re doing a good job.
Yes, it looks like we’ve gone to the dogs.
Acceptance in a college no longer is measured by SAT merit testing.
Who’s your Daddy figures heavily into the balance sheets of who gets into the “good” schools.
Yada, yada. You know the drill.
This isn’t the way it was supposed to be. But here we are, back to where we started in 1776, when we were ruled by a king.
King George cared not a whit about the fate of the colonists, and neither does Joe.
So, what to do when those in charge go against everything the rest of us revere? Eliminate tenure, and impose term limits on Congress.
Then perhaps with the clock a’ticking, Congressmen will put on the steam, and end federal funding to anti-American institutes of education, like Harvard.
And professors who supported a person like Gay, would have to actually work, without a Tenure Parachute.
It’s always easy to see who the destroyers of America are.
They are the ones who sneer during Congressional hearings.
You have only to gaze upon the countenances of FBI Director Christopher Wray, former FBI Director James Comey, FBI agent Peter Strzok, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, just to name a few, to know that it’s the same sneer you saw last week on the faces of university Presidents Sally Kornbluth of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Claudine Gay of Harvard during their testimonies before Congress.
They, like Joe, know that if they stay on the right side of the left, they’ll never have to worry about a thing.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.