Professor Calls Police on Student Supporter of 2nd Amendment
Posted on March 5, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
The assignment for Central Connecticut State University student John Walberg and his two classmates was to give an oral presentation on a “relevant issue in the media.” The three chose school violence for their topic.
After the oral presentation was over, professor Paula Anderson of Communication 140, promptly filed a complaint with the CCSU Police against student Wahlberg claiming he made students “scared and uncomfortable.” Professor Anderson deemed Wahlberg a “perceived risk” and felt it was her duty to “protect” her class.
What did the young man say in his oral assignment that was so threatening? Shockingly, Wahlberg had the temerity to discuss concealed carry laws, guns on campus in the hands of law abiding students, and the problems with the concept of a “gun free zone.” He was gauche enough to have posited that if students and/or professors had legal guns on their persons in 2007 the death toll in the Virginia Tech shooting spree could have been much lower.
Can you now see why John Wahlberg is a threat to the school? Obviously Wahlberg is the next thing closest to a wild-eyed assassin, a dangerous criminal don’t you know? If you don’t see that, then you aren’t alone. But then, we aren’t “professors,” are we?
After professor Anderson filed her complaint, Campus Police confronted Whalberg with a list of guns registered in his name and demanded to know where he kept them.
I was a bit nervous when I walked into the police station,” Wahlberg said, “but I felt a general sense of disbelief once the officer actually began to list the firearms registered in my name. I was never worried however, because as a law-abiding gun owner, I have a thorough understanding of state gun laws as well as unwavering safety practices.
No doubt. When armed authorities begin to demand things of you, it isn’t surprising to feel a bit pressured and uncomfortable.
Wahlberg told the Central Connecticut State University news paper, The Recorder, that he didn’t think his professor was “justified” in calling in the police.
“I don’t think that Professor Anderson was justified in calling the CCSU police over a clearly nonthreatening matter. Although the topic of discussion may have made a few individuals uncomfortable, there was no need to label me as a threat,” Wahlberg said in response. “The actions of Professor Anderson made me so uncomfortable, that I didn’t attend several classes. The only appropriate action taken by the Professor was to excuse my absences.”
Student Wahlberg is a master of understatement.
Robert Shibley, vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), was also taken aback by the absurd over reaction of professor Anderson.
“If all he did was discuss reasons for allowing guns on campus, it seems a bit much to call the police and grill him about it,” Shibley said. “If you go after students for just discussing an idea, that goes against everything a university is supposed to stand for.”
Were it up to this professor, talk of the Constitution of the United States would be outlawed.
Yet another example of the downward spiral of our fetid schools in the United States of America.
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Was she the one who called 911 three times because Mickey D’s ran out of chicken nuggets? That’s what happens when you let ex-hippies teach in college. William Ayers come to mind.
You know, when the PATRIOT act was passed, all that I seem to remember was the left (buzzflash, daily kos ect) going on and on about personal liberty being compromised and the danger of citizens turning other citizens and snitching, slippery slopes, this and that,
So where’s the outrage over this man being turned into the police for doing not a thing wrong, outside of speaking his mind?
Oh that’s right, they’re only concerned because a terrorist may be turned in, or an illegal alien may get snitched on. Otherwise, who cares right? I mean the guy dared to speak his own mind, call the cops!
Once again we see another example of how much of the American sprit has died due to gross acceptance of feel good policies. It is time to realize what you are leading the country too. You think it is divided now just wait the worst is yet to come. The crash that will be caused by the foolish policies of the current administration cannot now be stopped. We have lost our country and our financial system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGHlvnqPdH0
professor Paula Anderson of Communication 140
Communications? What a load of bull. This moron has no idea what the Constitution or she more likely, she supports the government controlling the population by taking their guns from them. That’s the no so hidden agenda here. If you really believe in the Bill Of Rights and Freedom, ask yourself what are you prepared to do to defend it?
If you feel like Wahlberg, that you are being attacked by leftist professors and your rights are not upheld in your school, visit Western Voices World News.
We should fire every teacher on the basis that we an education crises. This, at least, is true. In order for them to be rehired, they would have to pass an exam on the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution AND what it says and means. If they fail this exam, they are banned until they study this ONE piece document.
Clearly, if you cannot understand the writings on one piece of paper, how can you teach the rest of this crap which carries with it so many pages?
It sounds like John Walberg has a possibility of a lawsuit against the police and maybe even the university. I say against the police because it does not sound like they can prove they had reasonable suspicions and against the University because one of their representatives infringed on his academic freedom.
He might have to go through channels at the University before filing the later to see if they act appropriately before suing them for what sounds like a breach of contract.
In a nutshell: Paula Anderson is an incredibly stupid woman.
What a thoroughly ignorant “professor.” If you sympathize will John Walberg and want to help fight this sort of madness, please visit the website of Resisting Defamation.