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Action Alert: Stand up for the Constitution right here in Michigan

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Mon Dec 03, 2007 at 11:33:10 AM EST
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It's not every day that an opportunity like this comes along. Right here in the State of Michigan a public institution is attempting to not only infringe on the taxpayers right to get their money's worth (something few public institutions aren't adept at) but to actually restrict an individual's Constitutional rights.

By this point everyone's likely well aware of Dennis Lennox and his crusade to protect the taxpayers from Central Michigan University and their decision to grant a professorship to Gary Peters, a candidate for Congress some two-hundred odd miles away in Oakland County. Lennox has become a thorn in Peters' side and a constant migraine headache for the school administration which backs the Democrat candidate one-hundred and ten percent.

They've harassed Lennox, they've threatened him with expulsion and they've questioned his mental state all because he has the audacity to follow the good professor around with a video camera when he's on public property asking legitimate and reasonable questions.

Dean Pamela Gates went so far as to physically assault Lennox when he tried to serve a FOIA request for records relating to Peters.

And all of that is rotten to the core. But the "solution" to their "problem" is much worse. They've blocked the use of video cameras on public property. Even the ACLU agrees that the move infringes on Lennox's Constitutional right to free speech (a story Right Michigan brought you a half day before anyone in the MSM).

So what does any of this have to do with you?

Read on...

Everything. We all have a rooting interest in this case. Every last one of us. The Constitution counts or it doesn't. Period. We follow it or we don't.

But you know all that. What you didn't know is that you can actually help defend freedom right here, right now.

CMU's Board of Trustees will meet on campus December 6th. That's this Thursday.

We're asking everyone to contact the school's president, Michael Rao, and the Board of Trustees before the meeting to express your outrage, frustration and disappointment in the way CMU is handling the Peters controversy by trying to crush political dissent, belittling students who speak out against a professor or a politician and most importantly, for their efforts to subvert the Constitution.

Agree or disagree with Lennox's tactics, this is an easy call. Here's hoping our friends in the regressisphere will join us in the effort as well.

Please shoot an email to each of the following Board members and ask them to defend Lennox's Constitutional rights:

Mr. Jeffrey R. Caponigro, chair: capon1jr@cmich.edu

Ms. Stephanie Comai: comai1s@cmich.edu

Mr. Brian W. Fannon: fanno1bw@cmich.edu

Ms. Jacqueline N. Garrett: garre1jn@cmich.edu

Dr. Marilyn French Hubbard: hubba1mf@cmich.edu

Dr. Sam R. Kottamasu: kotta1sr@cmich.edu

Mr. John G. Kulhavi, vice chair: kulha1jg@cmich.edu

Ms. Gail F. Torreano: torre1gf@cmich.edu

Dr. Michael Rao: (989) 774-3131

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Action Alert: Stand up for the Constitution right here in Michigan | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden)

Dennis Lennox (none / 0) (#1)
by whatever on Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 12:49:23 AM EST

A serious question:

Why do we applaud when tactics are employed that don't seek dialog but only seek confrontation and an emotional response that can be exploited on message boards and Internet sites?

What is Mr. Lennox's moral responsibility to conduct himself in a mature, respectful fashion? The ends do not justify the means.

A serious reply by Nick, 12/04/2007 05:51:13 AM EST (none / 0)

Dean Gates is a thug (none / 0) (#3)
by Victor Laszlo on Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 06:18:04 AM EST

Frankly, Dean Pamela Gates had an opportunity to be a model of civility and maturity. Instead, she actually degenerated into a typical neo-communist thug by assaulting and battering Lennox for exercising his First Amendment rights.

re: Pam Gates by whatever, 12/04/2007 10:09:10 AM EST (none / 0)

You mean personal attacks like this? by Nick, 12/04/2007 10:14:16 AM EST (none / 0)

Constitution (none / 0) (#4)
by joshuastjohn on Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 08:53:12 AM EST

"The Constitution counts or it doesn't."

Nick, are you going Ron Paul on us?

Seriously, he's really struck a nerve with them if they've lost the ability to handle themselves in a professional manner.

CMU issues (none / 0) (#5)
by rdww on Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 09:31:22 AM EST

As a CMU alum, I have a problem with the abuse done to Dennis Lennox. However, this issue fades in comparison to another playing out at CMU right now, the "noosing" incident that occurred in the IET building. A Halloween prank has been seized upon by every liberal interest group and poverty and race huckster across the state to demand "prosecution" for a victimless non-crime. While writing to the CMU trustees, we need to make clear to them that we won't tolerate another senseless race-based witch hunt of the sort that humiliated Duke University.

For the record (none / 0) (#8)
by whatever on Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 10:14:52 AM EST

Mr. Peters position is being funded by a Griffin Endowment--the same endowment used to fund two Republican instructors elsewhere.
Mr. Lennox knew that Pam Gates was not the person he needed to give the FOIA to, nor did he ask permission to videotape (a common courtesy of respect). He sought only confrontation, noteriety, and publicity.
What is Mr. Lennox's current status, pray tell, in the CMU Student Republican Party?

I've taught at CMU. I know many of those instructors. They're the salt of the earth, fair, open minded. Then again, none of these people--aside from Mr. Lennox--are trying to gain publicity for themselves and make themselves the center of attention.

Fair, open-minded, courteous and respectful by Nick, 12/04/2007 10:16:39 AM EST (none / 0)
For a CMU Prof... by John Galt, 12/04/2007 01:22:10 PM EST (none / 0)

attack? (none / 0) (#9)
by whatever on Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 10:16:34 AM EST

You call that an attack?!

Good grief. That poor camera got touched!

whatever says by PMOTVRWC, 12/04/2007 01:24:07 PM EST (none / 0)

Assault is assault. (none / 0) (#13)
by John Galt on Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 01:25:12 PM EST

I'm glad you know the Dean. Personal relationships in such a stressful environment can be very important in keeping stress levels low.

I'm surprised you would condone such shameful actions. She may very well be a good, decent person. But good, decent people can still do horrible things.

While I can understand the Dean's actions, I do not condone them and certainly think they should have consequences.

What I don't understand is your willingness to condone the activities, and condone the school's willful ignorance of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Overreaching??? by rdww, 12/04/2007 02:09:46 PM EST (none / 0)

If...if.. if.. by John Galt, 12/04/2007 02:17:03 PM EST (none / 0)

Yup... by rdww, 12/04/2007 03:22:16 PM EST (none / 0)

rdww says by PMOTVRWC, 12/04/2007 04:00:56 PM EST (none / 0)

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