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Category: Religion
Posted on: August 29, 2008 9:33 AM, by Greg Laden
Webster Cook, the Florida student who was physically and politically attacked by forces directly and indirectly allied with the Catholic Church, was impeached and found guilty by the school government of his college. This is according to a source close to Webster, his friend, Benjamin Collard.
For more information on events leading up to this, see this guest blog by Benjamin of August 17th.
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Comments
I must say that the standards for impeachment seem quite arbitrary. Setting new standards for corruption and cronyism, shredding the constitution one has sworn to uphold, and prevaricating your nation into an unjust war do not qualify, but cracker theft does.
What exactly was he found guilty of?
Posted by: Virgil Samms | August 29, 2008 9:36 AM
On August 13 you told us that Webster Cook (was) Acquitted. What's up? Are these different charges?
Posted by: Virgil Samms | August 29, 2008 9:38 AM
Virgil, if I recall correctly, this is him losing his place in student government. So it looks like his political rival, who brought the university disciplinary charges Cook was acquitted of, got what he wanted anyway.
Posted by: Stephanie Z | August 29, 2008 10:08 AM
Right. He was aqquitted of charges within the colleg's own kangaroo court, to which any student may, apparently, be dragged for breaking school rules. This is a different procedure having to do with his position in the School Government.
So yes, it would appear in the absence of any other evidence that Cook's rival used thugs linked to the Catholic Church to remove his competitor.
This is almost as bad as what I saw at the State Fair yesterday...
Posted by: Greg Laden | August 29, 2008 10:34 AM
This whole impeachment business seems rather odd.
When I was at university in the UK we had a problem with an elected official in the student union who had voiced support for the aims and methods of the IRA. The only option we had for removing him from office was to call an emergency general meeting of the union, making sure we had enough people in attendance to form a quorum and then pass a vote of no confidence.
The impeachment business sounds like a bunch of self-important people playing lets pretend lawyers.
Posted by: Matt Penfold | August 29, 2008 10:34 AM
This is the difference (a difference?) between the US system and the UK system.
Our elected officers and judges are more like royalty ... rotating royalty. In the UK they are more like hired officials with the committee being the parliamentary or electoral body.
Posted by: Greg Laden | August 29, 2008 10:46 AM
Isn't this a state university? How can this be happening?
If we can't bounce out white supremacists at our uni, I just don't understand how eating a cracker can be a problem.
Grrr.
Posted by: bug_girl | August 30, 2008 8:42 AM
Posted by: Virgil Samms | August 30, 2008 10:28 AM