The American people are not blind to this. Congress will act.

Raphael, I don’t think BoT listens to anyone outside of its adminstrators. They forgot that they serve the whole university, not the administrators! Btw, can you contact me? It is very important. Thanks

Sarah, an excellent question! Why aren’t they doing something actively other than sending a long letter to BoT where it was ignored? Why didn’t FSSA authorize the lawyers to do more?

Jean, Jordan has no forgiveness in his heart. He wants to punish the protesters for throwing out Fernandes and is using the court to settle out his personal vendetta against the students. This is so wrong!

Leo, no kidding! We need to do something about this travesty!

Debbie, it is time that BoT be held accountable for their actions! This is too crazy!

I cannot believe this is happening in America. Where is the democracy? Where are the students’ rights?

Whoever you are- you are misinformed about generally everything you have stated. You apparently (like most pro-Fernandes/IKJ fan) feel the need to bash the students.

Most people are not suspended first. In fact, most people are giving the benefit of the doubt first- ever heard of “innocence until proven guilty”?

Apparently, you have no idea of what is really happening on campus. I know- because I go there almost everyday.

Last week, for example, I came across a 23 year senior-who happens to be in the Honors program at Gally. This person told me that he/she has been suspended from the internship position that/he/she had. This student “crime”? He/she doesn’t know! This student was involved in the protest- but did nothing to destroyed property or anything like that-and in fact does’nt know of anythign that happened like that.

This student told me that he/she will not be coming back to Gallaudet unless this is clear ASAP(two semester left before graduating). This student was very angry that he/she did not have any opportunity to defend himself/herself- and on what possible legal basis is IKJ adm. charging this student? We don’t know. This student has asked and asked…and asked. NO response from anyone.

I have seen many many students that are in the same “boat”.

What smacks of pure vengeance is that by your “ill-logic” reason, the entire 1988 protesting group should have also been “punished”-yet no one did. And IKJ enjoyed the entire 18-19 years of his Lordship.

Now, when things are going against His Highness, he decides to “get tough”.

Please, BoT…IKJ…please stop the hypocrisy for all of us… please stop this rotten smell of “student misconduct”.

And finally, as it has been pointed out-NONE of this would have happened if the BoT did their job in the first place.

Raphael J. St. Johns, C-87, G-00

The point about Lincoln is simply that there are valid situations when it is proper to break the law. Lincoln did it, and we hail him as a hero.

Likewise, history will show that the Gallaudet protesters were very correct to break the law.

Morality demands that the Board stop the reprisals. The students were right, the Board was wrong.

The Board ADMITTED they were wrong when they terminated Fernandes.

You didn’t read what I wrote carefully. It has nothing to do with Supreme Court decisions involving students.

NO ONE in the United States is allowed to be in charge of police officers and make up false reasons for getting the police to take actions based on the *content* of people’s speech.

When Jordan, Kelly and Batten-Mickens make up (invent) false allegations in order to give people persona non grata status and order them off the campus, that’s exactly what they are doing. They are taking actions based on the *content* of the speech of those people.

That is forbidden by the Constitution.

The police are forbidden to be used in manners to deal with content in this manner, especially involving the valid issue of what the protesters were involved in. They have every right to engage in free speech on the issue of Fernandes and the flawed search process. Jordan has NO RIGHT to interfere based on the content of their speech.

The president’s pardon power is granted to the presidency by the U.S. Constitution. It is the only exception to our country’s rule of law.

There does not appear to be a similar power that IK Jordan has for pardons.

At most, what I’ve seen in terms of breaking the law is apparently Gallaudet’s failure to include a member nominated by GUAA, but that is mainly procedural (not to say that Gallaudet’s wrong or that GUAA is right, but this is a serious and substantive issue) and has little to do with the serious charges of lawbreaking and corruption that I regularly find in these blogs.

These charges WILL be thrown out of court if they consist of nothing but baseless allegations. That’s the way the judicial system works. Talk to any deaf lawyer and they’ll tell you the same thing. You need to have a solid foundation for making those charges and so far I’m not seeing anything.

There are serious allegations supported with ample evidence. I suggest you remove the blinders from your eyes, but hey, if you prefer to bury your head in the sand and deny, deny, deny, that’s your prerogative.