"Unrepentant Pro-Life Sign-Destroying UC Santa Barbara
Prof Indicted--Media Yawns"--1st Amend a.w.o.l.
By Tom Blumer, Mar. 22, 2014, Newsbusters
In
another development most of the establishment press, with the usual exception of Fox News
and the unusual exception of Reuters,
has thus far predictably ignored, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce
Dudley announced on
Friday the indictment of University of California-Santa Barbara
Associated Professor Mireille Miller-Young on charges of "theft from a
person, battery, and vandalism." The case's first hearing is scheduled for
April 4.
Read more: www.newsbusters.org
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By Eugene Volkh, Mar. 21, 2014, Washington Post
The press release from the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office is here. For more on the case, see here. Perhaps the incident will indeed “set a good example for [the professor's] students” (the professor’s views, stated to the police, of what she was doing) — or at least teach them a good lesson — though perhaps not in the way the professor intended.
The press release from the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office is here. For more on the case, see here. Perhaps the incident will indeed “set a good example for [the professor's] students” (the professor’s views, stated to the police, of what she was doing) — or at least teach them a good lesson — though perhaps not in the way the professor intended.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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The Santa Barbara
Independent had a story on this last week, but I’ve just seen the police report
(linked from a follow-up story),
and it has to be read to be believed. First, a quick summary from the newspaper
article:
According to 21-year-old Joan Short
— a student at Thomas Aquinas College and a member of the Christian pro-life
group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust — she, her 16-year-old sister Thrin,
and 11 other Survivors had set up three large signs in an area of campus heavy
with foot traffic called the Arbor. The banners, along with literature the
activists handed out, displayed graphic imagery of late-term abortions that
Joan said was intended to “begin conversations” with passing students.
Joan said that at around 11 a.m.,
Dr. Mireille Miller-Young — an associate professor with UCSB’s Feminist Studies
Department — approached the demonstration site and exchanged heated words with
the group, taking issue with their pro-life proselytizing and use of disturbing
photographs. Joan claimed Miller-Young, accompanied by a few of her students,
led the gathering crowd in a chant of “Tear down the sign! Tear down the sign!”
before grabbing one of the banners and walking with it across campus.
Joan said she called 9-1-1 and
Thrin started filming, and that the pair followed Miller-Young and two of her
students … into nearby South Hall. As Miller-Young and the students boarded an
elevator, Joan said that Thrin repeatedly blocked the door with her hand and
foot and that Miller-Young continually pushed her back. Miller-Young then
exited the elevator and tried to yank Thrin away from the door while the
students attempted to take her smartphone. “As Thrin tried to get away, the
professor’s fingernails left bloody scratches on her arms,” Joan claimed. The struggle
ended when Thrin relented, Miller-Young walked off, the students rode up in the
elevator, and officers arrived to interview those involved.
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