[Vision2020] Re: A Swan Dive ?

[Taro Tanaka]

DonaldH675 at aol.com wrote:

>I am unaware of any memo regarding Mr. Swan.  Perhaps you have access  to 
>it
>and would like to place a PDF of it on V2020.  Surely you aren't  relying 
>on
>Mr. Swan's description of it

The points I mentioned were pretty much pulled verbatim from this:

http://www.thefire.org/pdfs/5b7b67bf500f9b2eb4fc622b70ff3ab1.pdf

It would seem to be indisputable that Ed Swan behaved like a total jerk in 
the way he deceptively promoted his tale of woe in cyberspace. That 
certainly makes me want to go back and see if there wasn't also outright 
fabrication and misrepresentation with regard to the original claims that he 
had been subject to discrimination on account of his conservative 
sociopolitical views.

I had been under the impression that the objective facts of the case as 
concerns WSU -- the "who did and said what" -- had been more or less 
objectively established but that there was a difference of opinion as to 
whether all that constituted a violation of Ed Swan's rights, or, to put it 
another way, improper behavior on the part of WSU: with FIRE taking the 
position that what WSU freely admitted doing constituted a violation of 
Swan's rights.

Apparently Ed Swan could give Rush Limbaugh lessons in how to be a big fat 
idiot. But apart from the amount of publicity generated for his case, how 
(if at all) does that impinge on what transpired between WSU and FIRE?

Still trying to get a clear handle on the facts, I remain,

-- The Princess Formerly Known as Prince

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