revoke their degrees petition
The fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur is routinely celebrated by leftists on college campuses in the United States. “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes–rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression–incited the violent insurrection on January 6.”. We keep trying to explain: simply hearing something more than once doesn’t make it true. The personnel description says right their the candidate needs a college degree. The excerpt from the petition “The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election…” needs to be modified and shortened considerably. ““I was surprised how popular this petition is even among mid-career students” one student who says he won’t sign on to the effort and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he’s afraid of reprisals.”, Petitioner: “Sign this petition to revoke Harvard degrees of people we do not like. Several students are reportedly circulating a petition that specifically targets White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Dan Crenshaw. There is no such thing as cancel culture, A university can not revoke an earned degree, unless it can be shown that it was gained through cheating or other impropriety. According to the petition titled "Revoke Their Degrees," these individuals spread "disinformation and mistrust," which the authors allege helped fuel last week's capitol riots. Don’t be upset by such idiocy. According to the FOX Business Network, the school is aware of the petition: A spokesman for Harvard declined to comment other than to say the university is aware of the petition. I know employers really like getting letters stating that an employee may be getting their wages garnished in the near future. But of course the next step would be a lawsuit with a demand for heavy punitive damages, a lawsuit targeting not just the institution but individuals in the administration. I would like everyone to stop saying THEY cannot do this, or THEY cannot do that. The Gramscian Marxists have triumphantly marched through the intitutions, and the institutions are all the worse for it. Has Don’s presidency debacle taught you nothing? These guys obviously aren’t using their brains, so whats the harm in taking away something they probably bought in the first place. They do not and should not represent a university committed to ‘strengthening democracy’ and ‘the advancement of justice. If Twitter and Facebook, as private institutions, can make all your data disappear, why can’t Harvard do they same, and airbrush you out of existence? Children of Democrats…. How will this affect revoking an “earned” degree? Then you go after his law degree — after all, if he lacks an undergraduate degree, he wouldn’t qualify to be admitted to law school in the first place. There, fixed it. Isn’t it, so to speak, only a matter of degree? A university can not revoke an earned degree, unless it can be shown that it was gained through cheating or other impropriety.”. “College students are sssoooo stupid. And look at this yearbook I have. and IP Policy, Harvard Students Launch Petition to Revoke Degrees of Trump Supporters in Government. What is now happening at Harvard is not about honorary degrees. Reserve Graduate Credit: Do they teach anything in college anymore? Nationwide violence is expected in the weeks to come. I thought you earned a degree? Cruz is a Texan and I assume a member of the Texas Bar. All Harvard or any other university of college need do is declare a degree revoked and CANCEL the data. And as evidenced by recent actions, it’s coming to YOUR neighborhood very, very soon. Seems that colleges and universities revoke honorary degrees all the time. His real job, after all, is Senator not lawyer, and Senator has no educational requirements. Cancelling his law degree wouldn’t in any way affect a student’s BA/MA (unless, of course, they were all earned at the same school). Send those children home to the kiddy table in their momma and daddys basement. The federal government is corrupt and most of the state governments are rapidly catching up to the feds. I weep for the future of America with children like this being allowed to make infantile, unconstitutional, immoral and ignorant demands like this. Stalin and Hitler could have used the services of people like this. ... or to revoke a hold currently on a student’s account. '”, The students commended the university’s decision to remove Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik from the Institute of Politics’ Senior Advisory Committee but noted that “banning someone from a committee or campus because they incited a violent attempt to overthrow the U.S. government is the least the University can do.”, “Accountability is not a partisan demand because the validity of armed insurrection is not a partisan issue,” the letter continued. Harvard students create petition to revoke the degrees of Trump supporters: ‘Violent white supremacy’ January 16, 2021 War on law enforcement: Biden’s Treasury nominees meet with leaders of activist groups that support defunding police At say $5K a pop for starters, a paltry $1.5M could make a world of hurt for those 300 or so students who participated. America will not be lectured about Ted Cruz being a supporter of terrorism by students who attend a school that awarded a degree to Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. Shame if anything should happen to it.”. So you get that. “Harvard doesn’t educate them, it validates their views…”. It will happen without regard to legality, good business practices, or ethics. The Supreme Court has failed in its responsibility as an unbiased arbiter of law and now we have 20,000 troops surrounding our capitol. This may have the effect of pushing students into state universities, where they presumably have more legal protection. “This includes all who have used their platforms to deny the validity of the presidential election. Perhaps there’s a business opportunity here: degree/tuition insurance. Retired now after finally reaching the retirement finish line of a really checkered “professional” career punctuated by several length stints of unemployment. You have no rights that leftists feel bound to respect. It’s no secret that over a dozen Harvard graduates worked hard to spread the disinformation and mistrust that created last Wednesday’s insurrection – from Representative Dan Crenshaw (HKS ‘17), who supported the December Texas lawsuit to invalidate the election, to Senator Ted Cruz (HLS ’97), one of the loudest claimants of fraud and a rare senator still objecting to the election certification after the violence at the Capitol, to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (HLS ’17), who dutifully denies the validity of the election. The petition is entitled, “Revoke their Degrees,” and was circulated by four students who attend Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, FOX Business has confirmed. I seriously doubt that any military branch is going to fire an officer because some college changed their mind after he’s been commissioned, since his degree is already a matter of record. Worse: it radicalizes them, to the point where we’ll see the killers they become, when they get police power. Only if ‘earned degree’ is being used. The person who earned the degree PAID for it. Harvard Campaign Seeks to ‘Revoke Degrees’ of Trump Officials and Trump Allies. There is no such thing as cancel culture “. How can anything good possibly come out of that? One of the best life decisions I’ve ever made was dropping out of college, and going to a trade school. “The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election left five dead and nearly killed many more as armed, organized insurrectionists with Confederate flags and Nazi paraphernalia stormed the Capitol in search of members of Congress to kill or capture,” the letter that was uploaded by Fox Business read. Is there some law of physics that prevents this? We cannot verify your degree. And did Harvard stop to consider the risk they’d be taking by doing this? None. As soon as one Ivy League university does it, it all the universities and colleges will start doing it. If they did something this stupid, their value will drop like a stone. It is sad that Harvard has given rise to students so fundamentally uneducated that they would spout this invidious nonsense. Now might be a good time to remind these students that the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, a personal friend of President Obama, taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Geez does that mean a fellow can’t say on his resume that he has a bachelors in BS from Harvard? They will be served! Anyway, I doubt that the number of military officers who graduate from Harvard (and fit the “criteria” for having their degrees expunged) would fill a thimble. It is an aggressive and malicious act to at a minimum bully people with divergent points of view. Harvard students have started a petition to revoke the degree conferred on Trump admin folks and supporters (like Ted Cruz). Ditto mortgage providers. But oh no! Even more fun if one could get a few of the students to flip on their comrades. Well, you have to realize that Harvard Students are mostly Children. During those same years I also joked sometimes about colleges asking for their degrees back. Follow how this works: first the wokerati persuade Harvard (well, ‘persuade’ is a strong word since many administrators want to do it) to revoke Senator Cruz’s undergraduate degree. Elected republicans had one last chance to put up the legal roadblocks to all this foolishness. Revoking Cruz’s degree won’t do anything to Cruz. Title: The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. "https://t.co/S28ALiMVeX, — Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) January 15, 2021. If someone tries to verify attendance or graduation, they can then simply reply they have no record of such and such person ever attending their institution. The companies say their systems can sniff out many of the inventive ways students game tests, such as looking at wall-mounted notes, copying from … Speaking of disinformation, every assertion in the excerpted manifesto is a defamatory falsehood. My gut feeling is that revoking earned degrees WILL happen and will happen very soon. Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes–rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression–incited the violent insurrection on January 6. Lawdy lawdy lawyers! From there you go after the professional licensing. Of course what does Syracuse University Law School when virtual anchor clanker Joe Biden claims he graduated “at the top of the class” from Syracuse? The guy says he graduated from Harvard, but Harvard says they have no record of him. Also, all these progs at Harvard who are basically totalitarians? Anything goes at elite liberal colleges–they are entirely disconnected from reality, financial or otherwise. Now dems are back in power, the demons have been unleashed, when/where will it subside? ” There is no such thing as cancel culture, After all, these idiot petitioners have a right to petition and be heard by the Harvard administration because of their 1st Amendment Rights, which they are turning into a farce to benefit their cancel culture. Is it ready to take a stand for pushing false memes and the politics of personal destruction? When the Dems create enough devastation, we will win and can then apply their own rules to them. The Harvard petitioners must be hallucinating on LSD because there were no Confederate flags and Nazis. Graduate students and alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) have launched a campaign and petition to revoke the degrees earned by Harvard alumni who worked in the Trump administration and Harvard grads in Congress who support the president. No degree, no job. Let Harvard keep all the tuition money they’ve spent and all the millions of dollars daddies tucked into Harvard applications. A few hours later the big Loma Prieta quake delayed the World Series. Take away his degree. Harvard’s students, at least in ‘soft’ studies, are that way when they first arrive, Harvard doesn’t educate them, it validates their views. McEnany, Cruz and Crenshaw had no immediate comment. On Aug. 14, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued final regulations that dramatically change the assessment of public charge inadmissibility. Paying back that college loan would then become the least of their problems, just sayin. “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes — rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression — incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” reads the petition, which is headlined “Revoke Their Degrees.”. Say, that’s a nice Harvard degree you have there. Those poor fools are going to be really shocked when they realize removing a piece of fancy paper does nothing to lessen intelligence of the previous owner of said fancy paper. This is not a harmless or stupid missive from a bunch or stupid college students. You are so right. No job for cancelled dude. The anti-Israel terrorist Rasmea Odeh was often invited to speak at American colleges until she was deported. On this day we celebrate the man who made the statement “The Truth will set you Free!” On this day Mr. Trump, release all of the Obama/Biden election interference as well as the Ukraine issues for We the People to evaluate. This is the first shot in a new front in the war — you can deplatform people on social media, and now you can deplatform people in their working lives. Harvard students have started a petition to revoke the degree conferred on Trump admin folks and supporters (like Ted Cruz). Call Matt makers who have been around legal insurrection for quite a while, Hlhave seen my comment before: Harvard is ceased to be a university, and has become more and more a punchline. And so on. “Voices from the right and left must always be welcome, but the acceptability of violence in politics should not be up for debate at Harvard.”, (RELATED: MLB Bans All Political Donations After Capitol Riots). Is Harvard University prepared to take a stand for representative democracy and against violent white supremacy?”. I’m afraid Cruz may loose his secret handshake privileges. Lehigh University foolishly revoking Trump’s honorary degree being the latest example of this idiocy. They do not and should not represent a university committed to “strengthening democracy” and “the advancement of justice.”. that pt lying in sect 33–comm at nec, run w 347.89 ft to begin, w 976.18 ft, to nwc of ne1/4 of ne1/4, s 931.72 ft, s 76 degrees e 1361.74 ft to inters of sect 32, n 379.6 ft, n 24 degrees e 598.2 ft to inters s/ly rtwy of cnty rd #169, n 44 degrees w 177.02, s 241.5 ft, s 86 degrees w 126.37 ft, n 139.44 ft, n 45 degrees w 480.26 ft to pob … “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes — rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression — incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” reads the petition, which is headlined “Revoke Their Degrees.” Take away their birthdays, too. Bwahahahahaha. "A Harvard degree is a privilege, not a right. “A Harvard degree is a privilege, not a right.”https://t.co/S28ALiMVeX, — Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) January 15, 2021, Several Harvard graduates were named, including Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Failed to secure the southern border, failed to protect legal voters, failed to root out corruption and rabble rousers in elective office. I doubt Harvard will proceed with this, and I am no fan of Harvard (Boston College grad). By continuing to use this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service. One other point. ), © Copyright 2008-2021, Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. This includes all who have used their platforms to deny the validity of the presidential election. Unless it is contrary to the laws of physics they can, and even then, they may try. A doctor speaks up about how the government handled COVID? A lawyer speaks up about the government prosecuting people for ‘hate’ crimes? The petition began circulating on Wednesday and is said to be gaining some traction among both current and former students, FOX Business has learned. You can not repossess an automobile which has been paid for and you can not do the same to an earned college degree. Now you’ve taken a person’s educational degrees away. The people it really hurts are the middle and upper middle class degree holders who now can’t ever leave their current jobs because the increasing credentialism of employers means not having a degree makes them unemployable in their current field. Syracuse does what Occidental did for Obama: block access to his transcripts so you can’t prove he’s lying about what’s in them. Back in October of 1989 I once joked about something happening if the Big One hit. It’s not a privilege. 300 students hit with $150K suits would be my version of a forward-based double-down. But cancelled dude says, “No, look, here is my diploma. Some encouraging news: “1984” is a top Amazon seller this month (if it is not used as a “how to”). (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press, Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press) Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to revoke the permit for Calgary-based TC Energy's Keystone XL pipeline was a "gut punch," characterizing it as a direct attack on the trade relationship between the two countries. I doubt that an earned degree can be revoked. Just as long as it isn’t a statue erected in your honor. The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election left five dead and nearly killed many more as armed, organized insurrectionists with Confederate flags and Nazi paraphernalia stormed the Capitol in search of members of Congress to kill or capture. graduation speech)? “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes – rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression – incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” the letter said. Students and alumni are demanding that the school revoke earned degrees of people who worked in the Trump administration, and even people in other government positions who support him, such as Senator Ted Cruz. Students and alumni of Harvard University are signing a letter, titled, “Revoke Their Degrees,” which asks Harvard’s leadership to take action against Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany by banning them from campus and stripping them of their degrees. Take away her degree. Is Harvard University prepared to take a stand for representative democracy and against violent white supremacy? Do students study anything of merit anymore? Democrat students at Harvard should have their acceptance contracts repealed. Claim: Following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Harvard University was considering revoking degrees from high-profile Trump supporters. And if they’re tall enough, revoke their height. Who would want to attend if they could decide later on that you weren’t worthy of the degree after you earned it (and paid big money for it), or if you were expelled in your senior year just before graduation because you hurt the feewings of a female classmate and she felt “traumatized” or “uncomfortable” by your presence on campus? Just click your heels three times and say “I was surprised how popular this petition is even among mid-career students” one student who says he won’t sign on to the effort and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he’s afraid of reprisals. Donations tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. I swore never to joke about that again. Is Harvard ready to take a stand for bearing false witness against one’s neighbor? Does that include a tuition refund? Good luck finding a job.”. They are mostly in appointed or elected positions in government. A contract exists between the university and the recipient which guarantees the conferring of the degree upon satisfactory completion of the required study and a payment of all fees. Can’t wait until the service academies do this. It’s like thinking that the paint color affects the structural integrity of a house. If someone has earned a degree and paid for it, how do they think they can legitimately revoke it–it’s not a privilege at that point–I think it’s property. Incomplete Grade Contract: ... Used by students beginning their studies at Mason Korea to document changes in academic plans. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail (or subscribe without commenting. My contention is that WE will be surprised at what they are able to do and, also as evidenced by recent events, they are starting to do it. A suggested revision: “The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election” … began years before the election and involved President Trump only to the extent that the results of the election ensured by any and all means undertaken that he lose the election. I’d say once given, it is not theirs to take back. These people are making fools of themselves and if anything we should get their names, and record their behavior. Lehigh University has already revoked an honorary degree from Trump, and Middlebury College is considering doing the same to Rudy Giuliani. Just asking for a friend.. So who has the right to heard??? (RELATED: MLB Bans All Political Donations After Capitol Riots), “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes – rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression – incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” the letter said. This took longer to bite back. Although the rule was enjoined by five district courts, the Supreme Court on Jan. 27, 2020 stayed the only nationwide injunction that had been in effect. I’m going to wait until an audio version comes out…hopefully not too long. Indeed, revoking degrees doesn’t hurt the high mucky mucks much at all. Under President Obama, We the People was a platform where anybody could create a petition online and speak directly to the Administration. If the university decides to say that he no longer has a degree, then he may need to keep heavy documentation to show that the earned the degree. You mean like Mike (aka Martin Luther) King who plagiarized portions of his dissertation at Boston U? to be fair… there are also a bunch of loons hopped up on Tick-Tock and parler outside the capital who want to come in and film facebook live posts and steal shit. I have read many times that “they will be surprised when they enter the job market.”. My guess is that this petition will go nowhere, but unless a student attends Harvard for free, I’m not sure a degree conferring institution has grounds to revoke something that was paid for. The students called on the university to revoke their degrees because of their claims that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Good luck with that $100,000 expenditure, in Massachusetts, in front a judge who graduated from Harvard and remains in good standing with the school.