Dispatches from the Culture Wars: DaveScot Endorses Intimidation and Bullying

Profile

Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media.(static)

Search This Blog

Other Information

Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb

Ed Brayton is a participant in the Center for Independent Media New Journalism Pilot Program. However, all of the statements, opinions, policies, and views expressed on this site are solely Ed Brayton's. This web site is not a production of the Center, and the Center does not support or endorse any of the contents on this site.

Ed's Audio and Video

YearlyKos 2007

Video of speech on Dover and the Future of the Anti-Evolution Movement

Audio of Greg Raymer Interview

E-mail Policy

Any and all emails that I receive may be reprinted, in part or in full, on this blog with attribution. If this is not acceptable to you, do not send me e-mail - especially if you're going to end up being embarrassed when it's printed publicly for all to see.

My Ecosystem Details

Subscribe via Email

Stay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest.

Sign me up!

« My Apologies | Main | From Washington to the Nation »

DaveScot Endorses Intimidation and Bullying

Category: Dover Lawsuit
Posted on: July 8, 2006 9:52 AM, by Ed Brayton

This comment is rather blunt even for someone of DaveScot's loutishness. Speaking of the Dover plaintiffs, he endorses bullying their children and committing vandalism to drive them out of town:

I hope someone keeps track of the 11 parents and their children. Everyone in Dover knows damn well that no children were forced to listen to the 60 second announcement regarding evolution and intelligent design. So what you have is 11 parents whose religious hostility extended to such a trivial matter they were willing to make the tiny school district pay a million dollars.
I grew up in a small town and when a few people pull crap like that that hurts everyone there will be payback. I won't be at all surprised if the children of these parents are so badly ostracized and abused by other students that they're forced to find another school and the parents will be snubbed and insulted and their cars keyed and their coworkers and supervisors making their lives miserable that they'll all end up moving away.

I hope that's all tracked so that the next group of parents that gets their panties in a bunch and volunteers to the be the designated shitheads know what it's going to cost them.

Very nice, Dave. Let's endorse the bullying and abuse of children and the destruction of property toward people you disagree with. What a jerk.

Comments

I think Dave/Larry is ignoring the subsequent election.

It will take intimidating more than 11 families, I think

Posted by: Jim Ramsey | July 8, 2006 11:31 AM

As so often happens, DaveScot's (or Larry the impersonator) posting reveals far more about himself than his opponents. His lack of morals, Christian or otherwise, are conspicuously visible for all to see. It just goes to show that when someone wraps themselves in the flag and stands on the Bible, he/she/it is invariably mean spirited and devoid of morals.

Posted by: Keanus | July 8, 2006 12:35 PM

I won't be at all surprised if the children of these parents are so badly ostracized and abused by other students that they're forced to find another school

Unless of course they are the captain of the football team or a cheerleader. Then people won't say a word.

I don't know how you stomach reading this guy day after day Ed. He has it exactly backwards, the town should be upset at the ignorant people they put in charge of their educational system requiring a group of parents to reset the district on a correct course.

His threats of violence simply show an immature and potentially unstable mind.

Posted by: Chance | July 8, 2006 12:46 PM

Well yeah, he obviously ignores reality here. The blame for that suit and the cost it incurred should go to the old school board, who ignored not only their own lawyer but even the Discovery Institute, who told them not to do it or they would lose an expensive lawsuit. Then they had the gall to lie in Federal court to try and cover their butts. But not, let's blame the kids and bully them to "send a message". This is moral insanity.

Posted by: Ed Brayton | July 8, 2006 12:57 PM

Good lord. I don't know how you can stand reading that man's posts. They are offensively stupid. Not to mention that blog is just butt-ugly. Even yahoo messenger looks better that that. It's like a multi-pronged assault on every standard of decency there is.

Amusingly, Larry actually disagreed with him about harassing plaintifs. Of course, not because it's a dispicable thing to do, but because it can get you sued.

Posted by: Leni | July 8, 2006 1:45 PM

DaveScot is certainly a leading ID sycophant and rabidly Republican, but I don't believe he claims to be a Christian. Mind you, that gives him even less of an excuse for his warped sense of moral outrage.

He's a little man with big ideas and nothing to show for it. He claims to be a self-made multi-millionaire when in truth he just happened to be a Dell employee with stock options at the right time during the 90s. He claims to have taught himself more about science that he could have going to college (he's autodidactic, don't ya know) when in reality everything he's learned is from reading popular science magazines like SciAm.

And so on.

The amusing thing is that in making grandiose claims about his abilities and accomplishments he simply reveals to all (who care to notice) how much of a paper tiger he really is.

Posted by: tacitus | July 8, 2006 3:22 PM

If it's such a "trivial matter" why is Dave so upset? Why isn't he suggesting hunting down the old schoolboard for costing the distric so much money for something so "trivial"? I feel sorry for Dave's parents.

Posted by: RandomGuy | July 8, 2006 3:23 PM

Dave is jumping on the "intimidate plaintiffs" bandwagon. Both Stop the ACLU Coalition and wingnut blogger Rocco DiPippohave posted private citizens' addresses and phones online this past week, in retaliation for so-called unAmerican activities.

Posted by: wheatdogg | July 8, 2006 7:28 PM

I'd be careful Ed, from reading Larry's blog I can tell that he's complete obsessed with you. He seems to respond to nearly everything you write.

Posted by: Matthew | July 8, 2006 8:23 PM

He can't come to terms with the fact that his side lost in the Dover case, so he resorts to wishing innocent children harm. That is so DaveScott.

Posted by: Sexy Sadie | July 8, 2006 9:36 PM

The man is scum, but he's not necessarily wrong about what's going to happen. It's entirely possible that the people of Dover will blame the plaintiffs for their "attack on religion", rather than blaming the school board for their illegal actions in "defending" it.

Of course, as Jim Ramsey pointed out, it's possible that they *won't*. Here's hoping.

Posted by: Seraph | July 10, 2006 11:56 AM

I grew up in a small town and when a few people pull crap like that that hurts everyone there will be payback.

Oooooh. I really did grow up in a small town. "Payback" hurts the small town by causing a brain drain (just ask my small town).

Davey made that self-made millionaire claim at my blog too. I know a poseur when I see one. He may indeed have moolah but he's still no computer scientist or biologist no matter how many gen Sci mags he drags his finger across.

Posted by: Kristine | November 14, 2006 10:38 AM