UNITED STATES COURT of APPEALS Grants Immunity Against LA RAZA CONTEMPT FOR FREE SPEECH

THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS NATION MORE RACIST THAN LA RAZA MEXICANS! THERE IS NOTHING MORE CONTEMPTUOUS OF FREE SPEECH THAT LA RAZA!

THE UNITED STATES COURT of APPEALS HAS DETERMINED THAT FREE SPEECH STILL EXIST EVEN UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION!



Prof's anti-Latino
e-mails:
harassment or free
speech?

Posted 1h 17m ago

By David Moltz, Inside Higher Ed

Overturning the ruling of a lower court, the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has
granted Arizona's Maricopa Community College
District immunity from a lawsuit filed by a group of
Latino professors who charged that college officials
had not sufficiently disciplined a colleague who
sent e-mails they viewed as discriminatory.

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's opinion Thursday on
behalf of a three-judge panel is a strong
endorsement of academic freedom. It argues that
"courts must defer to colleges' decision to err on the
side of academic freedom." In doing so, the opinion
defends the decision by Glendale Community
College and Maricopa Community College District
officials not to discipline or dismiss Walter
Kehowski, a Glendale mathematics professor who
"sent three racially charged" e-mails via the
institution-maintained distribution list.

Maricopa and Glendale officials declined to
comment on the decision, saying they needed more
time to review it. Kehowski, however, praised the
decision.

"I am very pleased to see that the 9th Circuit Court
has upheld freedom of speech and academic
freedom by explicitly recognizing the value of open
inquiry in a free society," he wrote in an e-mail to
Inside Higher Ed.

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Kehowski's first message, sent in October 2003 to
"every district employee with an e-mail address,"

concerned Dia de la Raza, or "Day of the Race" — a
holiday that some Latinos celebrate instead of
Columbus Day. In the e-mail, he asked, "Why is the
district endorsing an explicitly racist event?"

A week later, Kehowski sent another e-mail that
began, "YES! Today's Columbus Day! It's time to
acknowledge and celebrate the superiority of
Western Civilization." In the message he also quoted
various articles, including one that asserts that
"America did not become the mightiest nation on
earth without values and discrimination" and argues
that "(o)ur survival depends on discrimination."

Another two days later, Kehowski sent the third
message, in which he quoted a colleague's e-mail
calling his messages "racist." He responded,
"Boogie-boogie-boo to you too! Racist? Hardly.
Realistic is more like it." He also linked to a website
he maintained on the district's server. On his site,
Kehowski wrote that "(t)he only immigration reform
imperative is preservation of White majority" and
encouraged readers to "(r)eport illegal aliens to the
INS."

After great commotion among faculty members over
Kehowski's e-mails, Phillip Randolph, then
president of Glendale, sent a note to everyone at the
college.

"The openness of our (e-mail) system … allows
individuals to express opinions on almost any
subject," Randolph wrote. "However, when an e-mail
hurts people, hurts the college, and is counter to
our beliefs about inclusiveness and respect, I