Graduate students and alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) have launched a campaign and petition to revoke the degrees earned by Harvard alumni who worked in the Trump administration and Harvard grads in Congress who support the president. My guess is that this petition will go nowhere, but unless a student attends Harvard for free, I’m not sure a degree conferring institution has grounds to revoke something that was paid for. Harvard students create petition to revoke the degrees of Trump supporters: ‘Violent white supremacy’ January 16, 2021 War on law enforcement: Biden’s Treasury nominees meet with leaders of activist groups that support defunding police “This includes all who have used their platforms to deny the validity of the presidential election. The federal government is corrupt and most of the state governments are rapidly catching up to the feds. (RELATED: MLB Bans All Political Donations After Capitol Riots), “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes – rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression – incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” the letter said. If someone tries to verify attendance or graduation, they can then simply reply they have no record of such and such person ever attending their institution. Just click your heels three times and say Harvard students have started a petition to revoke the degree conferred on Trump admin folks and supporters (like Ted Cruz). Has Don’s presidency debacle taught you nothing? Instead, they let a bogus investigation flourish for three years and slow-walked the investigation of that, to the extent it was meaningless. “It’s one thing for 22-year-olds to sign onto something radical but another thing for 40-year-olds to buy into it.”. There is no such thing as cancel culture “. Paying back that college loan would then become the least of their problems, just sayin. According to the FOX Business Network, the school is aware of the petition: A spokesman for Harvard declined to comment other than to say the university is aware of the petition. It is an aggressive and malicious act to at a minimum bully people with divergent points of view. Democrat students at Harvard should have their acceptance contracts repealed. Some encouraging news: “1984” is a top Amazon seller this month (if it is not used as a “how to”). The people it really hurts are the middle and upper middle class degree holders who now can’t ever leave their current jobs because the increasing credentialism of employers means not having a degree makes them unemployable in their current field. “Harvard doesn’t educate them, it validates their views…”. Somehow I don’t think these little twits understand that it’s awful hard to have an eraser all over the countryside. Is Harvard University prepared to take a stand for representative democracy and against violent white supremacy?”. Petition for extending the deadline for submission of completed work. Do students study anything of merit anymore? As soon as one Ivy League university does it, it all the universities and colleges will start doing it. that pt lying in sect 33–comm at nec, run w 347.89 ft to begin, w 976.18 ft, to nwc of ne1/4 of ne1/4, s 931.72 ft, s 76 degrees e 1361.74 ft to inters of sect 32, n 379.6 ft, n 24 degrees e 598.2 ft to inters s/ly rtwy of cnty rd #169, n 44 degrees w 177.02, s 241.5 ft, s 86 degrees w 126.37 ft, n 139.44 ft, n 45 degrees w 480.26 ft to pob … “Nationwide violence is expected in the weeks to come. Confiscatory tuition payments and actual academic work as consideration rather than a mere speech–but in principle, is it not the same kind of thing? You are so right. Don’t be upset by such idiocy. College students are sssoooo stupid. My gut feeling is that revoking earned degrees WILL happen and will happen very soon. © Copyright 2008-2021, Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. I would like everyone to stop saying THEY cannot do this, or THEY cannot do that. If they did something this stupid, their value will drop like a stone. "https://t.co/S28ALiMVeX, — Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) January 15, 2021. You internet gamblers are almost as brave as the internet warriors. It’s not a privilege. But the CCP is now pushing another more sinister, subtle method of control: the social credit system. Seems that colleges and universities revoke honorary degrees all the time. Take away his degree. Harvard is just another college where the connections are more important than the degree itself. Send those children home to the kiddy table in their momma and daddys basement. McEnany, Cruz and Crenshaw had no immediate comment. Those poor fools are going to be really shocked when they realize removing a piece of fancy paper does nothing to lessen intelligence of the previous owner of said fancy paper. I weep for the future of America with children like this being allowed to make infantile, unconstitutional, immoral and ignorant demands like this. Cruz is a Texan and I assume a member of the Texas Bar. Perhaps there’s a business opportunity here: degree/tuition insurance. A university can not revoke an earned degree, unless it can be shown that it was gained through cheating or other impropriety.”. The petition is entitled, “Revoke their Degrees,” and was circulated by four students who attend Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, FOX Business has confirmed. It’s no secret that over a dozen Harvard graduates worked hard to spread the disinformation and mistrust that created last Wednesday’s insurrection – from Representative Dan Crenshaw (HKS ‘17), who supported the December Texas lawsuit to invalidate the election, to Senator Ted Cruz (HLS ’97), one of the loudest claimants of fraud and a rare senator still objecting to the election certification after the violence at the Capitol, to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (HLS ’17), who dutifully denies the validity of the election. And did Harvard stop to consider the risk they’d be taking by doing this? The Supreme Court has failed in its responsibility as an unbiased arbiter of law and now we have 20,000 troops surrounding our capitol. The Gramscian Marxists have triumphantly marched through the intitutions, and the institutions are all the worse for it. Elected republicans had one last chance to put up the legal roadblocks to all this foolishness. Just as long as it isn’t a statue erected in your honor. The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election left five dead and nearly killed many more as armed, organized insurrectionists with Confederate flags and Nazi paraphernalia stormed the Capitol in search of members of Congress to kill or capture. Lehigh University has already revoked an honorary degree from Trump, and Middlebury College is considering doing the same to Rudy Giuliani. Now dems are back in power, the demons have been unleashed, when/where will it subside? By continuing to use this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service. Unfortunately, there are many positions that require a college degree, such as being an officer in the military. Failed to secure the southern border, failed to protect legal voters, failed to root out corruption and rabble rousers in elective office. Back in October of 1989 I once joked about something happening if the Big One hit. The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. I’m afraid Cruz may loose his secret handshake privileges. They do not and should not represent a university committed to “strengthening democracy” and “the advancement of justice.”. Take away her degree. This may have the effect of pushing students into state universities, where they presumably have more legal protection. A contract exists between the university and the recipient which guarantees the conferring of the degree upon satisfactory completion of the required study and a payment of all fees. Given their present behavior, allowing them to play any role in government is a horrible concept. ), © Copyright 2008-2021, Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. If Twitter and Facebook, as private institutions, can make all your data disappear, why can’t Harvard do they same, and airbrush you out of existence? I swore never to joke about that again. Geez does that mean a fellow can’t say on his resume that he has a bachelors in BS from Harvard? On this day we celebrate the man who made the statement “The Truth will set you Free!” On this day Mr. Trump, release all of the Obama/Biden election interference as well as the Ukraine issues for We the People to evaluate. 300 students hit with $150K suits would be my version of a forward-based double-down. Speaking of disinformation, every assertion in the excerpted manifesto is a defamatory falsehood. These people are making fools of themselves and if anything we should get their names, and record their behavior. I hope that they cancel thousands of earned degrees because it’s going to make for a great class action lawsuit and hopefully put an end to many of these institutions of “learning”. Who would want to attend if they could decide later on that you weren’t worthy of the degree after you earned it (and paid big money for it), or if you were expelled in your senior year just before graduation because you hurt the feewings of a female classmate and she felt “traumatized” or “uncomfortable” by your presence on campus? They are mostly in appointed or elected positions in government. Isn’t revoking an earned degree kinda like putting toothpaste back into the tube? One other point. Think of all the people with professional degrees — this would be a VERY effective way to destroy a person’s livelihood. His real job, after all, is Senator not lawyer, and Senator has no educational requirements. “Voices from the right and left must always be welcome, but the acceptability of violence in politics should not be up for debate at Harvard.”, (RELATED: MLB Bans All Political Donations After Capitol Riots). Even more fun if one could get a few of the students to flip on their comrades. For those interested… this book; releases this week. Anything goes at elite liberal colleges–they are entirely disconnected from reality, financial or otherwise. Yeah, right. Good luck finding a job.”. Anyway, I doubt that the number of military officers who graduate from Harvard (and fit the “criteria” for having their degrees expunged) would fill a thimble. Now you’ve taken a person’s educational degrees away. The Harvard petitioners must be hallucinating on LSD because there were no Confederate flags and Nazis. Is there some law of physics that prevents this? What is now happening at Harvard is not about honorary degrees. This includes all who have used their platforms to deny the validity of the presidential election. I have read many times that “they will be surprised when they enter the job market.”. I doubt Harvard will proceed with this, and I am no fan of Harvard (Boston College grad). How can anything good possibly come out of that? Once a person has worked hard to earn their degree from Harvard, their degree can’t be revoked on allegations of their right to free speech. Let Harvard keep all the tuition money they’ve spent and all the millions of dollars daddies tucked into Harvard applications. Now might be a good time to remind these students that the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, a personal friend of President Obama, taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There is no such thing as cancel culture, Is Harvard ready to take a stand for bearing false witness against one’s neighbor? I’d say once given, it is not theirs to take back. Harvard’s students, at least in ‘soft’ studies, are that way when they first arrive, Harvard doesn’t educate them, it validates their views. A suggested revision: “The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election” … began years before the election and involved President Trump only to the extent that the results of the election ensured by any and all means undertaken that he lose the election. Although the rule was enjoined by five district courts, the Supreme Court on Jan. 27, 2020 stayed the only nationwide injunction that had been in effect. According to the petition titled "Revoke Their Degrees," these individuals spread "disinformation and mistrust," which the authors allege helped fuel last week's capitol riots. Follow how this works: first the wokerati persuade Harvard (well, ‘persuade’ is a strong word since many administrators want to do it) to revoke Senator Cruz’s undergraduate degree. I seriously doubt that any military branch is going to fire an officer because some college changed their mind after he’s been commissioned, since his degree is already a matter of record. America will not be lectured about Ted Cruz being a supporter of terrorism by students who attend a school that awarded a degree to Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. It is sad that Harvard has given rise to students so fundamentally uneducated that they would spout this invidious nonsense. Harvard Campaign Seeks to ‘Revoke Degrees’ of Trump Officials and Trump Allies. No job for cancelled dude. Well, you have to realize that Harvard Students are mostly Children. It’s like thinking that the paint color affects the structural integrity of a house. Under President Obama, We the People was a platform where anybody could create a petition online and speak directly to the Administration. No degree, no job. Good luck with that $100,000 expenditure, in Massachusetts, in front a judge who graduated from Harvard and remains in good standing with the school. The school should be prepared to make tons of reparations to those who paid their due and legally earned those degrees. '”, The students commended the university’s decision to remove Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik from the Institute of Politics’ Senior Advisory Committee but noted that “banning someone from a committee or campus because they incited a violent attempt to overthrow the U.S. government is the least the University can do.”, “Accountability is not a partisan demand because the validity of armed insurrection is not a partisan issue,” the letter continued. Makes you wonder who is supporting and funding this type of cancel culture. One of the best life decisions I’ve ever made was dropping out of college, and going to a trade school. It you are taking bets on that, I’ll take the other side of that. Nope, no mistake. “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes – rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression – incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” the letter said. The anti-Israel terrorist Rasmea Odeh was often invited to speak at American colleges until she was deported. Stalin and Hitler could have used the services of people like this. The students called on the university to revoke their degrees because of their claims that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Of course what does Syracuse University Law School when virtual anchor clanker Joe Biden claims he graduated “at the top of the class” from Syracuse? Bwahahahahaha. A lawyer speaks up about the government prosecuting people for ‘hate’ crimes? Nationwide violence is expected in the weeks to come. A doctor speaks up about how the government handled COVID? The personnel description says right their the candidate needs a college degree. And so on. Lehigh University foolishly revoking Trump’s honorary degree being the latest example of this idiocy. All Harvard or any other university of college need do is declare a degree revoked and CANCEL the data. It will happen without regard to legality, good business practices, or ethics. This is not a harmless or stupid missive from a bunch or stupid college students. You have no rights that leftists feel bound to respect. A few hours later the big Loma Prieta quake delayed the World Series. The companies say their systems can sniff out many of the inventive ways students game tests, such as looking at wall-mounted notes, copying from … Worse: it radicalizes them, to the point where we’ll see the killers they become, when they get police power. But cancelled dude says, “No, look, here is my diploma. They can ignore it, and never mention it, but it will always have been awarded. There, fixed it. Several students are reportedly circulating a petition that specifically targets White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Dan Crenshaw. to be fair… there are also a bunch of loons hopped up on Tick-Tock and parler outside the capital who want to come in and film facebook live posts and steal shit. Do they teach anything in college anymore? This took longer to bite back. I don’t recall seeing a petition demanding the revocation of his degree. Say, that’s a nice Harvard degree you have there. None. During those same years I also joked sometimes about colleges asking for their degrees back. Then you go after his law degree — after all, if he lacks an undergraduate degree, he wouldn’t qualify to be admitted to law school in the first place. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There must be a mistake!”, Business goes, “Oh, you are one of THEM. I doubt that an earned degree can be revoked. Indeed, revoking degrees doesn’t hurt the high mucky mucks much at all. I know employers really like getting letters stating that an employee may be getting their wages garnished in the near future. A university can not revoke an earned degree, unless it can be shown that it was gained through cheating or other impropriety. This is the first shot in a new front in the war — you can deplatform people on social media, and now you can deplatform people in their working lives. Reserve Graduate Credit: Isn’t it, so to speak, only a matter of degree? We cannot verify your degree. Is Harvard University prepared to take a stand for representative democracy and against violent white supremacy? Just asking for a friend.. My contention is that WE will be surprised at what they are able to do and, also as evidenced by recent events, they are starting to do it. “I was surprised how popular this petition is even among mid-career students” one student who says he won’t sign on to the effort and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he’s afraid of reprisals. If the university decides to say that he no longer has a degree, then he may need to keep heavy documentation to show that the earned the degree. “This includes all who have used their platforms to deny the validity of the presidential election. These guys obviously aren’t using their brains, so whats the harm in taking away something they probably bought in the first place. Students and alumni are demanding that the school revoke earned degrees of people who worked in the Trump administration, and even people in other government positions who support him, such as Senator Ted Cruz. They do not and should not represent a university committed to ‘strengthening democracy’ and ‘the advancement of justice. Sound fair? Donations tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Retired now after finally reaching the retirement finish line of a really checkered “professional” career punctuated by several length stints of unemployment. On Aug. 14, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued final regulations that dramatically change the assessment of public charge inadmissibility. “The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election left five dead and nearly killed many more as armed, organized insurrectionists with Confederate flags and Nazi paraphernalia stormed the Capitol in search of members of Congress to kill or capture,” the letter that was uploaded by Fox Business read. “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes — rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression — incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” reads the petition, which is headlined “Revoke Their Degrees.”. ” There is no such thing as cancel culture, You mean like Mike (aka Martin Luther) King who plagiarized portions of his dissertation at Boston U? I doubt they’d be all that anxious to kick him out. Cancelling his law degree wouldn’t in any way affect a student’s BA/MA (unless, of course, they were all earned at the same school). Notify me of followup comments via e-mail (or subscribe without commenting. You can not repossess an automobile which has been paid for and you can not do the same to an earned college degree. Shame if anything should happen to it.”. Yeah, my first thought upon reading the story headline was huh, do you think they’ll at least give him a refund? Take away their birthdays, too. Anyway, is not an honorary degree granted in consideration for services rendered (e.g. Syracuse does what Occidental did for Obama: block access to his transcripts so you can’t prove he’s lying about what’s in them. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press, Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press) Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to revoke the permit for Calgary-based TC Energy's Keystone XL pipeline was a "gut punch," characterizing it as a direct attack on the trade relationship between the two countries. The guy says he graduated from Harvard, but Harvard says they have no record of him. I’m going to wait until an audio version comes out…hopefully not too long. If someone has earned a degree and paid for it, how do they think they can legitimately revoke it–it’s not a privilege at that point–I think it’s property. Everyone has that right because of their inherent 1st Amendment Rights within our great Constitution. Then there are Affirmative degrees, which far too often, are not earned. Children of Democrats…. "A Harvard degree is a privilege, not a right. The petition began circulating on Wednesday and is said to be gaining some traction among both current and former students, FOX Business has learned. Claim: Following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Harvard University was considering revoking degrees from high-profile Trump supporters. Lawdy lawdy lawyers! Does seem the students are the teachers these days. Can’t wait until the service academies do this. ““I was surprised how popular this petition is even among mid-career students” one student who says he won’t sign on to the effort and spoke on the condition of anonymity because he’s afraid of reprisals.”, Petitioner: “Sign this petition to revoke Harvard degrees of people we do not like. “A Harvard degree is a privilege, not a right.”https://t.co/S28ALiMVeX, — Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) January 15, 2021, Several Harvard graduates were named, including Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes–rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression–incited the violent insurrection on January 6. Students and alumni of Harvard University are signing a letter, titled, “Revoke Their Degrees,” which asks Harvard’s leadership to take action against Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany by banning them from campus and stripping them of their degrees. Only if ‘earned degree’ is being used. Is it ready to take a stand for pushing false memes and the politics of personal destruction? Ditto mortgage providers. and IP Policy, Harvard Students Launch Petition to Revoke Degrees of Trump Supporters in Government. How will this affect revoking an “earned” degree? From there you go after the professional licensing. But oh no! ... or to revoke a hold currently on a student’s account. In my perfect world, after Gibsons wins and gets the settlement check from Oberlin, I would like to see some of that money set aside to go after the individual students at the protests. Unless it is contrary to the laws of physics they can, and even then, they may try. It’s unfathomable to me how stupid it is to revoke an honor from a sitting US President. Also, all these progs at Harvard who are basically totalitarians? So you get that. Harvard students have started a petition to revoke the degree conferred on Trump admin folks and supporters (like Ted Cruz). They will be served! Does that include a tuition refund? I would have been much happier that way. I so regret both college and grad school, and wish I had stayed true to my family’s blue-collar roots. graduation speech)? At say $5K a pop for starters, a paltry $1.5M could make a world of hurt for those 300 or so students who participated. Erase all records of the student attending. Incomplete Grade Contract: ... Used by students beginning their studies at Mason Korea to document changes in academic plans. It’s that easy. “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes–rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression–incited the violent insurrection on January 6.”. When the Dems create enough devastation, we will win and can then apply their own rules to them. Title: The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We keep trying to explain: simply hearing something more than once doesn’t make it true. And if they’re tall enough, revoke their height. Harvard University students have started a petition to revoke degrees that were given to supporters and staff of President Donald Trump. And as evidenced by recent actions, it’s coming to YOUR neighborhood very, very soon. But of course the next step would be a lawsuit with a demand for heavy punitive damages, a lawsuit targeting not just the institution but individuals in the administration. The fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur is routinely celebrated by leftists on college campuses in the United States. And look at this yearbook I have. “Harvard must revoke the degrees of alumni whose incendiary language and subversion of democratic processes — rooted in a history of white supremacist voter suppression — incited the violent insurrection on January 6,” reads the petition, which is headlined “Revoke Their Degrees.” So who has the right to heard??? The excerpt from the petition “The campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election…” needs to be modified and shortened considerably. The person who earned the degree PAID for it. After all, these idiot petitioners have a right to petition and be heard by the Harvard administration because of their 1st Amendment Rights, which they are turning into a farce to benefit their cancel culture. “College students are sssoooo stupid. Revoking Cruz’s degree won’t do anything to Cruz. Call Matt makers who have been around legal insurrection for quite a while, Hlhave seen my comment before: Harvard is ceased to be a university, and has become more and more a punchline. Why can they not revoke a degree? I thought you earned a degree?
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