"Of course, the Department of Education, like most other federal agencies, should not exist and should be abolished. Short of that happening, the least the bureaucrats can do is help us get a few tenured sociopaths off the public payroll."
Mike Adams
"Thanks to a recent speech by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, more people are discussing the
real world repercussions of the eight-year war on due process waged by the Obama Department of
Education. Out of that discussion, there is a consensus emerging, which recognizes that basic due
process protections must be restored on our university campuses. These changes are particularly
needed in the context of campus sexual harassment and sexual assault tribunals. But once due
process is restored, we need to vigorously pursue campus prosecutions against those who knowingly
and maliciously accuse others of sexual assault and/or sexual harassment. Proactive measures are
particularly needed to combat false charges of harassment that are politically motivated as the
problem has now reached epidemic proportions on many campuses.
"This politicization of harassment did not start with Anita Hill – but she did accelerate a dangerous
trend that was already in progress. After the relatively unknown law professor accused Clarence
Thomas of sexual harassment she became a household name. Other professors were watching as she
profited from those politically motivated accusations. Thus, it was just a matter of time before such
accusations started to spread throughout academia. Here is a brief history of how the problem has
manifested itself at the mid-sized liberal arts university where I teach.
"1995. A feminist philosophy professor was personally offended by another professor’s argument
that there should be different degrees of rape – because she thought all rapes were equally horrific.
Thus, instead of trying to persuade him to adopt her point of view, she reported him to the Dean of
Arts and Sciences for allegedly creating a hostile work environment . . .
"1999. A feminist criminology professor was upset by her department chairman’s decision to run for
a second term. So she tried to defeat him by standing up in the middle of a department meeting and
accusing him of sexual harassment . . .
"2001. The aforementioned criminology professor leveled three more accusations of harassment
against another professor who had criticized her publicly for making the first four false accusations.
These new accusations were also investigated and found to be false. This brought her career total to
seven false sexual harassment allegations. Nonetheless, she was retained without any disciplinary
consequences. " . . .
