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[Reggie]

Her motive was anger over being denied tenure.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/02/police_chief_reyes_shelby_cent.html

[Reggie]

Amy Bishop killed her brother with a shotgun in 1986. She discharged three shells and the police considered it accidental. I don't know how in the world someone could accidently discharge three shells from a shotgun. One would be easy to explain, but not three. I guess she "accidentally" reloaded the chamber between shots.

She was also a suspect in mailing a pipe bomb to a Harvard professor.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2704167/dr_amy_bishop_professor_who_killed.html

[mises]

She also held some guy hostage at a car dealership and assaulted a stranger at a Denny's (over a high chair).

[mises]

You know the higher ed job market is tight when a Harvard PhD can't get tenure at a school I've never heard of.

[Reggie]

[bucheon bum]

Yeah, I have a cousin who used to live in Huntsville, and I went to a small college about an hour away. Never heard of it before this incident either.

I'm also wondering how a) she got into Harvard's PhD program b) was able to stay there long enough to get her degree.

[young_clinton]

I worked at the University of New Mexico for a short time. During that time I got a good idea of the kind of people you find in the professor grad student scene. It's full of sociopaths, absolutely full. I think sociopaths have a good perception of what they have to do to look desirable for the job and they are also very ruthless to other individuals they have contact with. Intellegence and aptitude are not the main factors at universities anymore.

[Street Magic]

[.38 Special]

According to the talking heads, she was denied tenure partly because a body of her students (undisclosed number) petitioned the administration to replace her.

She must have been some kind of lecturer

Unfortunately, in a country as vast as the US, I'd reckon there are more people like her out there somewhere

[mateomiguel]

[rocket_scientist]

A few days ago, liberal blogs trumpeted banner headlines about a Massachusetts man who was charged with stockpiling weapons. It seems he was a Tea Party activist and a Sarah Palin fan. Naturally, this confirms the left's suspicion that all conservative activists are violent anti-government terrorists. Well, I wonder what those same bloggers will make of this tidbit in today's Boston Herald about Amy Bishop, the Alabama professor who recently went on a shooting rampage killing three people:
A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was �obsessed� with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.
I don't have any reason to believe Bishop's crime was politically motivated. However, when a Harvard-educated professor "obsessed" with far-left politics goes on a killing spree her politics are considered incidental by the same people who think everyone who complains about the IRS is an Eric Rudolph in the making. (Oh and for what it's worth, Rudolph, McVeigh and others frequently cited by the left aren't exactly the right-wing, Christian terrorists they would have you believe.) Bishop's politics are worth pointing out for no other reason than to show that the idea there are disproportionate levels violence on the right is a self-serving fiction. To that end, I highly recommend Jesse Walker's essay from Reason last fall, "The Paranoid Center: How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent."


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Murderous-Alabama-professor-far-left--84396817.html#ixzz0gHLGpnNd

[Street Magic]

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