English Prof Exits After Controversial Anti-American Message to Student
by Jim Brown
November 29, 2005
(AgapePress) - - A professor at Warren Community College in New Jersey has resigned following public outcry over his call for the fragging of U.S. officers. English professor John Daly recently sent a terse e-mail to freshman student Rebecca Beach, criticizing her for organizing a campus event featuring a decorated Iraq war hero. In the e-mail to Beach, Daly wrote that "real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors." Daly has since resigned his adjunct position at Warren Community College.
Jason Mattera with the Young America's Foundation, who came to the aid of Beach, says the college has also agreed to implement tolerance training for "leftist" professors.
"This is a victory for the free-speech movement on college campus, and a victory for Rebecca Beach," ways Materra. "She's had overwhelmingly support from members of her community, national support, and has been exposing this man."
Beach believes public outcry forced Daly out of his job and prompted the college to implement the tolerance training. "The American people [have] voiced their opinion and voiced their outrage that an employee of the government ... would say these things to a student, and intimidate and harass the student like this," she observes. The student says she considers Daly a government employee because the college is a state institution.
And although Beach believes the matter has been resolved on her campus, she fears Professor Daly may resurface at another college. "I am worried about that happening," she confesses, "and I don't want to see it happen because, honestly, I don't believe he's in a position to be teaching."
In his e-mail diatribe to Beach, Daly argued that "capitalism has killed many more" people than communism, and that "poor and working class people" are recruited to "fight and die for Exxon and other corporations."
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
