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To: JohnM who wrote (28128)	9/7/2006 11:07:36 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542907

However, you've given me the opportunity to say, once again, one of the great shames of the present administration is it's failure to criticize these attempts to have "liberal" professors fired. The attempt is to insignificant for any failure to condemn it to be a great shame. And we certainly know that if "they" had the power to do so, that's precisely what they would do. In many cases I don't think that is what "they" would do. Some of them might but many arguing that the professors should be fired would probably not have hiring and firing decisions made by the president of the united states or someone who he appointed. An the reasons for the call for firing need to be considered as well. Calling for someone to be fired because they call the victims of 9/11 "little Eichmanns", or because they have committed academic fraud, isn't the same as imposing a religious orthodoxy on colleges by the order of the government. The two aren't even vaguely equivalent. Even ignoring the difference in the institution and the difference in the power and the significance of those calling for the firings and only looking at intent - For the intent to be similar the people condemning the professors would have to be calling on firing all non-Christian professors, or really all non-fundamentalist Christians. Or perhaps firing all liberals or all members of the Democratic party. Instead they are condemning the fringe of the fringe, and many doing the condemning aren't even calling for the professors to be fired.