{"id":182488,"date":"2015-09-01T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/01\/remember-the-loon-who-wanted-the-government-to-assassinate-law-professors-who-he-disagreed-with\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:16:00","slug":"remember-the-loon-who-wanted-the-government-to-assassinate-law-professors-who-he-disagreed-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/01\/remember-the-loon-who-wanted-the-government-to-assassinate-law-professors-who-he-disagreed-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Loon Who Wanted the Government to Assassinate Law Professors Who He Disagreed With?"},"content":{"rendered":"
It looks like he won’t be teaching at West Point anymore<\/a>:<\/div>\n

A law professor who published an inflammatory article<\/a> urging attacks on law professors and \u201cIslamic holy sites\u201d and who has been dogged by accusations of misrepresenting his academic and military credentials has resigned from the US Military Academy at West Point, the Guardian<\/i> has confirmed.<\/p>\n

US military academy official William Bradford argues that attacks on scholars\u2019 home offices and media outlets \u2013 along with Islamic holy sites \u2013 are legitimate <\/p>\n

Although West Point hired William C Bradford on 1 August, a spokesman said the prestigious undergraduate institution where the US army educates its future officers parted ways with the controversial academic on Sunday, the day after the Guardian<\/i> published an article<\/a> highlighting Bradford\u2019s proposals to treat US scholars as \u201cenemy combatants\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr William Bradford resigned on Sunday,\u201d army lieutenant colonel Christopher Kasker, a West Point spokesman, told the Guardian<\/i> on Monday. Bradford had taught five lessons for cadets in a common-core law course, from 17 to 27 August. <\/p>\n

The West Point resignation marks the most recent academic departure for the controversial Bradford, following a decade\u2019s worth of apparent exaggeration of his service record and academic career.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how thoroughly West Point vetted Bradford before hiring him.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Bradford has had a checkered academic career. In 2004, he quit a job teaching at the Indiana University School of Law after allegations emerged that he had exaggerated his military service, portraying himself inaccurately<\/a> as a Gulf War veteran, an infantryman and a recipient of the prestigious Silver Star, an award for gallantry in action. <\/p>\n

The army provided Bradford\u2019s releasable service history to the Guardian<\/i> on Monday. Bradford was commissioned into the army as a second lieutenant \u2013 the same rank West Point cadets hold upon commissioning \u2013 in 1995 and served the majority of his six-year service in military intelligence in the army reserve. He neither deployed nor earned any awards. <\/p>\n

In 2005, the Guardian<\/i> has learned, Bradford took a visiting professorship at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, teaching property law. A former student who wished to remain anonymous said Bradford\u2019s behavior included \u201cdoing push-ups in class [and] making students stand and give answers in a military-like manner\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bradford, the former student said, ended up leaving his class \u2013 and ultimately the college \u2013 without grading the final exam. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously?  This guy was employed at West Point?<\/p>\n

Whoever is responsible for his hiring put “Wingnut Welfare” over both academic integrity as well the good order and discipline in the armed forces.<\/p>\n

They need to be fired, and whatever security clearance that they might have needs to be replaced by a Cap’n Crunch decoder ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like he won’t be teaching at West Point anymore: A law professor who published an inflammatory article urging attacks on law professors and \u201cIslamic holy sites\u201d and who has been dogged by accusations of misrepresenting his academic and military credentials has resigned from the US Military Academy at West Point, the Guardian has …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,967,975,969,1006,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-bigotry","category-employment","category-evil","category-military","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}