Today In Tyranny
*Trond
Harald Håland is a Norwegian man who was allegedly placed in forced psychiatric treatment for over
a week for criticizing the approved COVID narrative online.
Håland’s lawyer,
Barbro Paulsen, says that this is likely the “most direct case” in which the
Norwegian government detained someone over Facebook posts, while claiming that
the country has a history of forcing people into psychiatric treatment for
questioning the government. (Sounds like where Canada and the U.S. are headed.)
*Scott
Gerber, an Ohio Northern University (ONU) constitutional law professor recently
told Michele Tafoya on her podcast that armed town police were present when school
security guards led him away from his classroom to the dean’s office on April
14 without providing a reason, though he is convinced they did it because he challenged
the school’s DEI dogma.
Gerber, in his Wall Street Journal op-ed
“DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School,” said his students appeared “shocked and frightened” when
he was essentially taken into custody, and added, “I know I was.” He said he was
“immediately barred from teaching, banished from campus, and told that if I
didn’t sign a separation agreement and release of claims by April 21, ONU would
commence dismissal proceedings against me. The grounds: ‘Collegiality.’ The
specifics: None.” Wow.
Gerber,
who was vice-chair of the university council, objected to the diversity,
equity, and inclusion (DEI) material the university was pushing, telling fellow
members they needed to remember “viewpoint diversity.”
“Viewpoint
diversity?!” At a college or university? Does Gerber believe in unicorns,
too?
Gerber
told Tafoya that he said to the president of the university at the time that
the school had “drifted over into illegality” in its hiring practices and
scholarship offerings to students in its adherence to DEI principles. He
further stated, “I was naive enough to think … with a tenure and a record like
I have, I could push back a little bit, especially because it’s protected
activity. I’m allowed, you’re allowed, and anyone is allowed to object to
illegality and not be retaliated against, but they did it anyway.” Naïve,
indeed. Didn’t work for Trump, either.
*According
to a lawsuit filed last April by Richard Bilkszto, Kike Ojo-Thompson, a
Toronto-based diversity trainer, told a class of about 200 administrators that
Canada is more racist than the United States. This apparently didn’t sit well
with Bilkszto, a progressive and principal of Burnhamthorpe Collegiate
Institute and Adult Learning Center. According to the lawsuit and
audio obtained by The Free Press, Bilkszto challenged Ojo-Thompson’s
assumption by citing Canada’s publicly funded education system and socialized
health care. (As if that would prove his point.) That apparently didn’t
sit well with Ojo-Thompson, who responded by stating: “What I’m finding
interesting is that, in the middle of this Covid disaster, where the inequities
in this fair and equal healthcare system have been properly shown to all of
us. . . you and your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s
really going on with Black people—like, is that what you’re doing, ‘cause I
think that’s what you’re doing, but I’m not sure, so I’m going to leave you
space to tell me what you’re doing right now.” Say what?!
Bilkszto
killed
himself on July 11.
*Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist, was drowned out by
protesters chanting “F**k you, fascist!” during a recent appearance at Northern
Arizona University. Kirk was at the school for a debate entitled “Prove Me
Wrong: The Government is Lying to You.” Instead, a mob of rowdy protesters
greeted Kirk, many carrying signs with clever bon mots such as “Facists [sic]
fuck off!” “Charlie Kirk has a small face,” “Trans rights = human rights,” and
“Charlie K. is a piss baby.”
So much
for debate. I mean, when you can’t even spell “fascist” correctly, you probably
aren’t going to do well in a regulated discussion of a proposition between two
matched sides. (Mediaite noted that Kirk set up a booth to debate
students only to be “drowned out by screaming students, bullhorns, and even a
brass band.”) The protesters may as well have stuck their index fingers in
their ears and chanted “Farmer in the dell, farmer in the dell…” It would have
been less vulgar…and no more childish and pathetic.
To his
credit, Kirk, unlike Bilkszto, didn’t kill himself. He simply laughed off the ridiculous
and repulsive verbal assaults.
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