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| Oregon Teacher Panel Probes Educator Determined to 'Demolish' Tea Party |
| 2010-04-15 |
| A middle school teacher in Oregon who announced his intention "to dismantle and demolish the Tea Party" on his "Crash the Tea Party" Web site is under investigation by his state's Teacher Standards & Practices Commission. The investigation by Oregon's teacher licensing agency comes in response to a public outcry over Jason Levin's public statements that he'll do anything short of throwing rocks to bring down the Tea Party. Levin, the media teacher at Conestoga Middle School in Beaverton, is the leader of a group that says it wants to infiltrate and bring down the loosely organized anti-big-government Tea Party movement. He has said he would seek to embarrass Tea Partiers by attending their rallies dressed as Adolf Hitler, carrying signs bearing racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets, and acting as offensively as possible — anything short of throwing punches. His school district is defending his right to free speech, but it's investigating whether he used district computers to spread his political message or worked on his Web site during school hours. In a recent interview with Talking Points Memo, Levin said of his plans, “Our goal is that whenever a Tea Partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right there next to them saying, 'Yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!'" In a now deleted post on his “Crash the Tea Party' Web site, Levin called on his supporters to collect the Social Security numbers — among other personal identifying information — about as many Tea Party supporters as possible at the numerous rallies scheduled to take place on Thursday – Tax Day. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #3 should be good when they google the tool's resume. Jason Levin: Idiot and coward, and likely to cause ill to children in his care by his intemperate views? Public danger? You decide. There's no evidence he's a personal danger to children, Jason Levin, but who can tell what's in his heart? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-15 21:26 |
| #2 All bark and no bite from what I hear. |
| Posted by: Beldar Threreling9726 2010-04-15 20:36 |
| #1 anything short of throwing punches. So how do you feel about receiving punches, Jason? Not that I would publicly advocate punching an annoying jackass in the nose. Political dirty tricks run afoul of America's Jacksonian sense of fair play. And you know how Old Hickory got when he was provoked. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-04-15 14:26 |