{"id":182493,"date":"2015-08-30T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/30\/why-does-this-guy-teach-at-west-point\/"},"modified":"2015-08-30T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T00:56:00","slug":"why-does-this-guy-teach-at-west-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/30\/why-does-this-guy-teach-at-west-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does this Guy Teach at West Point?"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Bradford, an assistant professor at West Point is calling for the assassination anyone who opposes his view of the world<\/a>, as well as the law schools where they work.<\/p>\n

Additionally, he wants Islamic holy sites bombed, just because:<\/p>\n

An assistant professor in the law department of the US Military Academy at West Point has argued that legal scholars critical of the war on terrorism represent a \u201ctreasonous\u201d fifth column that should be attacked as enemy combatants.<\/span>

<\/span> In a lengthy academic paper, the professor, William C Bradford, proposes to threaten \u201cIslamic holy sites\u201d as part of a war against undifferentiated Islamic radicalism. That war ought to be prosecuted vigorously, he wrote, \u201ceven if it means great destruction, innumerable enemy casualties, and civilian collateral damage\u201d.<\/span>

<\/span> Other \u201clawful targets\u201d for the US military in its war on terrorism, Bradford argues, include \u201claw school facilities, scholars\u2019 home offices and media outlets where they give interviews\u201d \u2013 all civilian areas, but places where a \u201ccausal connection between the content disseminated and Islamist crimes incited\u201d exist.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cShocking and extreme as this option might seem, [dissenting] scholars, and the law schools that employ them, are \u2013 at least in theory \u2013 targetable so long as attacks are proportional, distinguish noncombatants from combatants, employ nonprohibited weapons, and contribute to the defeat of Islamism,\u201d Bradford wrote.<\/span>

<\/span> West Point is the revered undergraduate institution north of New York City where the US army educates its future officer corps. It prides itself on the rigor of its curriculum. Representatives from the school said Bradford had only begun his employment there on 1 August. <\/p>\n

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

In the paper, Bradford identifies himself as an \u201cassociate professor of law, national security and strategy, National Defense University\u201d, seemingly his previous job before West Point. But a representative of the National Defense University said Bradford was a contractor at the prestigious Defense Department-run institution, \u201cnever an NDU employee nor an NDU professor\u201d.<\/p>\n

It appears not to be the first time Bradford misrepresented his credentials. He resigned<\/a> from Indiana University\u2019s law school in 2005 after his military record showed he had exaggerated his service<\/a>. (Among his paper\u2019s criticisms of supposedly treasonous lawyers is \u201cintellectual dishonesty\u201d.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why is this guy not asking if we want fries with that for a living?<\/p>\n

Why is he working at West Point?<\/p>\n

Why was he a contractor at the National Defense University before that?<\/p>\n

This is particularly troubling when one considers that his record before both of these jobs was clouded by credible allegations that he had consistently lied about his life story.<\/p>\n

Why does this guy continue to get jobs in the national security establishment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Bradford, an assistant professor at West Point is calling for the assassination anyone who opposes his view of the world, as well as the law schools where they work. Additionally, he wants Islamic holy sites bombed, just because: An assistant professor in the law department of the US Military Academy at West Point has …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,969,1006,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-military","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182493"}],"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=182493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}