Embarassing Baxley Bill Dead

Which embarassing Baxley bill you ask? After all, there are so many. Actually, it is the silly discrimination agaiunst wingnuts in college bill. Now that the bill has gone away, the "issue" of poor little GOoPers mad at their professors for bad grades remains: "Bill for class debate sparks a dialogue". More:



"I have not come with a set of demands," he said in a soft voice. "I have come with a burden."

The Ocala Republican told the presidents he has been humiliated for his conservative views. He showed them a cartoon published in the University of Florida student newspaper that depicted a naked Baxley crawling behind a monkey in the evolutionary chain.

Baxley's request: Protect conservatives like him from ridicule by the "liberal elite" on Florida campuses.

"Lawmaker takes his complaints to the top". Yet more on Baxley from Daniel Ruth:

State Rep. Dennis Baxley, R- Rambo, is an Ocala huckster who has turned into something of a Lord Protector of the Apalachee Parkway this session, first trying (unsuccessfully) to inject Tallahassee into the Terri Schiavo tragedy.

Then Baxley, R-A Gun In Every Pot, introduced another piece of patently phony legislation promoting "academic freedom" on state campuses, which might otherwise be titled "The Florida Re-Education Camp Bill," that would stymie expression and dictate to professors how they would teach their classes.

It seems Baxley's "Manchurian Candidate" approach to higher education stemmed from an experience he had while a student at Florida State University, when a professor teaching an ANTHROPOLOGY course had the audacity to lecture on the science of evolution, rather than the young scholar's belief in creationism.

And since Baxley, R-Salem, lacked the intellectual cojones at the time to argue his case for creationism in class, he waited for 30 years until he made his way to the Florida House to bully his views on the public university system.

Why, the next thing you know, medical schools, in addition to teaching aspiring doctors how to perform coronary bypass procedures, will be legally required to give equal academic heft to the laying on of hands.

Alas, the Ocala Roundhead was only getting warmed up when it came to introducing Deadwood-esque legislation.

In essence, Baxley's emotionally manipulative measure merely gives Floridians protections they already possess - namely, that any individual certainly has every right to protect themselves should they find themselves attacked in their homes or on the streets.

The "Hang 'Em High Bill" stipulates anyone has a right to stand their ground and meet force with force should they feel threatened without fear of prosecution.

But citizens always had every right to defend themselves, hardly a revelation there, despite efforts by Baxley, R-Star Chamber, to act as if he had just discovered the concept of self-defense.

"If I'm attacked, I shouldn't have a duty to retreat," said the Harry Callahan of the Capitol - this from a chap who didn't have the chutzpah to take on an anthropology professor in class.

"You Talkin' To Me? You Talkin' To Me?"

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