We have been discussing the increasing political violence on the left. That includes a student who published a column recently on “when must we kill them?” I noted that such views are often reflections of the many extremists currently in teaching. That was evident this week in Maine, where English teacher JoAnna St. Germain of Waterville Senior High School called upon the Secret Service to kill Trump and his supporters.
On Tuesday, St., Germain called on Facebook for the Secret Service to “step up” and avoid a civil war by killing Trump and his supporters. She insisted that it would not constitute an assassination because Trump is not a legitimate president “duly elected by the American people.”
She explained that “If I had the skill set required, I would take them out myself.”
Whatever “skill set” St. Germain possess, sanity does not appear to be part of it.
St. Germain later responded to the shock of many that a teacher would be advocating murder, posting “People are quite angry with me for stating openly that Trump and his cronies need to die […] If you’re mad that I’m speaking truth to power? F**k you.”
She insisted that she was not advocating mass murder, but just serial killings, stressing that we should kill Trump and “those in the room with Trump, who are permitting and approving his egregious actions.”
As for those upset by such calls for violence, she supplied the names of the school superintendent and others who are her superiors, adding
I posted knowing I’d likely lose my job and benefits. I have zero shame about what I’ve said. I’m not backtracking a single thing.
I believe Trump and every sycophant he has surrounded himself with (this is not you – if you’re reading this, this doesn’t apply to you. You are beneath his notice and mine) needs to die.
I believe this with the same forceful belief that Hitler and his sycophants needed to die, before they murdered 6 million innocent Jewish persons.
St. Germain is not the first academic to use such language.
Indeed, some faculty members continue to make the news for violent political acts.
It is now common to hear inflammatory language from professors advocating “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements. One professor who declared that there is “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence as killing conservatives was actually promoted.
That is the culture that produces this type of extreme rhetoric among students. These faculty members have normalized violent speech.
Of course, some professors have gone further and committed acts of political violence. Such conduct should be prosecuted and those faculty members fired. However, even in those extreme cases, liberal faculty have often rallied around their colleagues.
Years ago, many of us were shocked by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event. Yet, Click was hired by Gonzaga University. Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests.
At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display. Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and received overwhelming support from the students and faculty. She was later honored as a model for women advocates.
At Hunter College in New York, Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was shown trashing a pro-life display of students.
She was captured on a videotape telling the students that “you’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
Unlike the professor, the students remained calm and respectful. One even said “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering for her students.
Rodríguez continued to rave, stating, “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f–king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.” In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table.
Hunter College, however, did not consider this unhinged attack to be sufficient to terminate Rodríguez.
It was only after she later chased reporters with a machete that the college fired Rodríguez. She was then hired by another college.
Another example comes from the State University of New York at Albany, where sociology professor Renee Overdyke shut down a pro-life display and then resisted arrest. One student is heard screaming, “She’s a [expletive] professor.” That, of course, is the point.
After losing the last election, some on the left are turning to calls for violence or committing political violence. Ironically, they do so in the name of democracy. That is precisely why rage is so addictive and contagious. It gives you license to do things that you would ordinarily never do.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
trump is a goddam.tyrant thats trying to kill us citizens by illegally deporting them. He and all his supporters deserve to be killed for that. Doesnt take a genius or a teacher to figure that out.
TDS?
Anon : Multiple personality disorder. I rest my case.
They have all been criminal “illegal aliens” and invaders since January 1, 1863, when the Naturalization Act of 1802 was in full force and effect, and up to and including when they were inside the U.S. but not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, for example, being subject to a summons to serve jury duty.
Sounds like a threat on the president’s life. Where is the Secret Service?
It’s not a threat. She explicitly said she was NOT going to kill him. She ADVOCATED that the Secret Service and/or military do so, and all advocacy is completely protected.
Q: Where do these “teachers” come from? A: Universities, where “oppression theory,” i.e., DEI” is front and center of education. At all universities, the humanities are saturated in this paradigm. 1) There is little else that provides the shock value needed to impress the INDOCTRINATION into young impressionable minds. 2) Never underestimate the power and efficacy of this worldview coming from a popular professor! Thus we have “teachers openly, philosophically, declaring nothing wrong with murder. The new and perverse version of “academic freedom” shows how LOW higher institutions have fallen.
DEIsts (i.e. class-disordered ideologues).
They were taught the Communist Manifesto and never exposed to, much less taught, the Constitution and Bill of Rights (prior to the unconstitutional “Reconstruction Amendments” of Karl Marx).
It’s all Central Planning, Control of the Means of Production (i.e., unconstitutional regulation), Redistribution of Wealth, Social Engineering, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” and the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat (i.e., hired help),” aka one-man, one-vote democrazy that nullifies and voids the restricted-vote republic of the American Founders.
Well-she is an English teacher so logic is not her strong point.
An “assassination to prevent a civil war”. She obviously does not know history either since an assassination kicked off the First World War . She also fails to understand that there was an election and her side lost. You know what the constitution lays out. That means it was a legitimate election. And that President Trump campaigned on and is doing exactly what he said he would do. So again her logic is seriously flawed if not laying prostrate on the ground.
She must realize that her name is now appearing on many lists to be one of the first casualties of this civil war she would cause.
She seems to be past rage and more into incoherence and maybe even a manic phase.
Her flawed logic also fails to deduce that she advocates doing exactly what the Nazis did.
She deserves at least a visit by the Secretary service for a welfare check. She may have fallen and can’t get up. Maybe she landed on her head.
Also I would suggest all parents at her school immediately demand that their children be re-assigned to someone sane.
I wonder if she is a member of NEA or AFT. Sounds like their members of late
Especially due to school shootings… a psychiatrist might be able to find the source of her hate. A really intelligent psych. All it takes is the murder of loved ones.
Ah, the source of her hate.
Clearly she was not born Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Blake Lively, or Margot Robbie.
She got the leftovers and decided it was a good idea to exacerbate them, which is a definitive indicator of her self-loathing.
Perhaps, perhaps much worse like the trafficking Virginia Gueffre endured in childhood or worse…
On the otherhand she wants a promotion to a college level…
She is the poster child for why I no longer tell folks i taught for 33 years.
rigged election by russian hacking and republicans tossing democrat votes. The US didnt actually vote for this tyrant and we all know it.
Winning!
GEB,
Great comment. All the more reason for parents rights and school choice.
The cure for this type of nut job graduating and being given a teacher’s certificate is do to education what Trump is trying to do to the swamp. The fish rots from the head and the university system is where the rot starts. This got a big jumpstart from woodrow wilson the progressive academic turned president who ensconced the first wave of radical socialists within academia and it has never recovered. Only a full fumigation of academia (like tenting a home infested with termites) could even hope to restore academic standards and remove the last vestiges of socialism and all the evils that stem from it.
“It’s the [union], stupid!”
– James Carville
It seems that just under the surface of seemingly ordinary people, a violent tendency festers and then erupts with sufficient reinforcement. Historically, many are the opposition leaders that have stirred and charged their more unstable ranks to violence. This happened on American campuses during the Vietnam war, and even a few decades earlier some many miles away. The polite term is anarchist, but the correct term is willfully violent, The use of hate often furnishes the trigger.
P.S. At least by the photos on air today, some of them may have sexual identity problems.
Wasn’t Kent State more about young men saying I don’t want to go to war?
Its the jab….
Somehow, becomng a public employee is corrupting. Somehow, public employees come to think of themselves as a ruling class, always entitled to rule, never bound by the rules of society or the legal political system.
“It’s the [union], stupid!”
– James Carville
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Unions are illegal and unconstitutional criminal organizations whose sole bargaining chip is the threat of trespass, violence, property damage, intimidation, and worse.
Abortive ideation, perchance affirmative action, a human rite, planned to relieve a “burden”.
Last year according to ATF 700 million guns in circulation. Careful what you wish for.
I’m your Huckleberry. Say When.
this is why we need to
end public unions: the Political Army of the Democrats
End Federal Aid to cities, states, non-profits and colleges!
The Constitution ended federal aid to cities, states, non-profits and colleges in Article 1, Section 8, 1789.
Public unions are illegal and unconstitutional criminal organizations.
Democrat = Hate Filled Fascist
Communists.
Res res est:
The Founding Birth Parents of the 69 Genders thought that discussion should be reasoned in these newly minted United STATES of America. The Revisionists, because of their unreasonability, now endanger discussion wherever they spew their ignorant chatter. I tire of of it. Now, we chuckle at it. But there will come a time, probably tomorrow, when their lunacy will become in the form of full metal jackets and we will trade laughter for tears and uncontrollable anger. So are my fears
– Res Res Est
What if it is controlled anger that affords and enhances carefully focused and targeted response to those advocating violence such as the Loon in question. We have been warned they intend us harm….have they in their zeal overlooked the inherent and legally enshrine Right to Self Defense?
They might have a problem if they overdose on Huckleberries….just saying.
There is that old Saw about opening up a large can of Whoop Ass and spilling it all over yourself that could be the end result of their ambitions.
SUPPRESS THE REBELLION
Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,” close the border, rescind rebel sanctuary cities, compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens, revoke birthright citizenship, make English the sole official language, commence a war to defeat the rebellion, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms, and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save, not the Union, but the Nation, eradicate the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
(SARC/ON)
This story is at least a week old and yet she hasn’t been fired yet? Now imagine if she said the exact same thing about Obama or Kamal Harris. Imagine if she said the same thing about Hamas protesters. Imagine if she said the same thing about any liberal Democrat.
I am really tired of the hypocrisy and double standard that out justice, prosecutor and police departments use in blue states. If this woman who sounds insane said this while teaching in Florida she would be out before DeSantis had lunch. But the liberal governor of Maine, you know, the lady that loves men playing against women in sports, will do nothing about this vile rant.
On another note, where the heck is the SS and the FBI. DO you think Garland would have sat around if some right wing nut job said this about Biden?
Can we at least get the Secret Service to pay these people a serious visit? Or is that too much to ask or expect.
Its free speech. Nutty, but still protected speech. Even Turley knows this is just perfectly legal rage rhetoric.
Do you think DJT should get a trial and all the millions of supporters?
Actually Anon, calling for the assignation of the president is not protected speech regardless of who the president is. She has committed a felony and I would expect she’ll learn that lesson soon enough. We are witnessing the natural progression of leftist ideology that has permeated the Democrat Party going back a few decades. Absent the institutional guardrails that would traditionally mitigate such behavior the extremism is turning violent. Look at the support for the guy who gunned down the insurance exec. Today it was reported that a 19 yr old who firebombed a Tesla dealership walked free because he is trans. JT is to be commended for calling out the spread of rage rhetoric from the left and the resulting violence it creates.
Actually, Tubwater, you are wrong and Anon is right. If she wants an “assignation” with the president that’s between her and Melania, but calling for his assassination is speech, and therefore it is protected. This is America, where a person can advocate absolutely anything at all, including the president’s assassination, bringing back slavery, resumption of the Holocaust, or the violent overthrow of the USA itself. Not only is there no law against it, there CAN’T be a law against it.
Has she been fired yet? Has she been pink-slipped? This is not normal.
Nothing is normal…what can be said is there have been gruesome murders and drug running and gangs are embedded now. DJT is attempting to move the worst out. Most likely the border will be militarized and there is a distinct possibility the military will move into Mexico to rid North America of drugs and gangs in the next 3 years. He’s not kidding…IMO
Crikey. Turley finds some off-the-wall teacher to impress upon his MAGA nutties that all the left is crazy. Never mind that the craziest of all is still sitting in the oval office.
You’re the problem.
Before reading the comments and seeing 24 people had commented, I wondered to myself how many comments I’d read before I came to the first comment from a left wing crank criticizing Turley for writing about this “teacher” who publicly calls for Trump’s assassination.
You win. Yours in the fifth comment to the original post (excluding people who responded to other commenters.) And it comes only 6 minutes after the first comment by whimsicalmama at 2:37.
Incarceration is the solution.
Wow. Looking at her – really: that generation is just ****ed, and we are going to have to deal with that fact in the future, whether we like it or not. These are not sane people, not by any stretch; let’s talk to the people thought it was a good idea to hire them.
Really: in 10-15 years, we are going to be in a world of hurt (literally) due to these generations. Politics do not factor into this one.
“Politics do not factor into this one?” Let’s experiment with “cultural sanity” in relation to MSM and political influences, and top it off with academic poisoning. As a “Wild-Ass Guess”, one can easily conclude that nut-jobs such as this, are the direct products of institutionalized leftist orthodoxy from all of the previously mentioned democrat bastions.
There should be some statue that would permit prosecution of this individual.
Careful what you wish for.
There can’t be. Congress has no power to make such a law.
All that I really want to know is who awarded this miseducated hater a teacher’s certificate and what dysfunctional school board hired her. She is a disaster, of course, but who is responsible for putting her anywhere near children?
@whimsicalmama
Something important to understand: the people administering her credentials are basically her. We have passed the point of no return in some cases. This has been the case for some time in education. And that is before we even get into parenting. We have a big, big problem on our hands.
Yes, our media/education industry is as deep and fetid a swamp as are our governments.
James,
This and they are the reason why parents rights and school choice are becoming such hot button issues. Any sane and normal parent would not want their child anywhere near someone like this.