Totalitarian teacher Cory Heidelberger uses Blogger Control Act tactics to stifle conservative blogger's free speech

A couple of years ago Cory Heidelberger posted this:

The South Dakota Newspaper Association is inducting longtime newspaperman Noel Hamiel into its Hall of Fame this month. I herewith tender my official protest, or at least least my official asterisk, to Hamiel's exaltation.

SDNA President Lucy Halverson says her organization is bestowing this honor on Hamiel because he "has had a positive, powerful impact not only on the newspaper industry in South Dakota, but throughout our state as well." However, during his two-year tenure as a Representative from District 20 in the South Dakota Legislature, Hamiel sought to have a negative impact on that online citizen journalism that complements and competes with his industry.

Hamiel was the prime House sponsor of the 2010 Blog Control Acts. This vague, sloppy legislation would have imposed onerous legal burdens on bloggers and other citizens using the Internet to share news and commentary. Hamiel's two bills would have required bloggers and others to keep detailed records of every person who visited their websites and created new legal liabilities for folks who maintain websites that allow comments. These record-keeping requirements and legal risks would likely have shut down blogs and chilled online speech across South Dakota.

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But it bears remembering that Noel Hamiel supported significant First Amendment restrictions on the online speech of all South Dakotans. Such advocacy against the First Amendment warrants at least an asterisk on Hamiel's nice new plaque in the Newspaper Hall of Fame.

Those detailed records would be a simple IP log. That is why I was surprised to see Heidelberger using  an IP address to intiminate a blogger over at SDWC:

Yes, we know from your IP. How does the boss feel about your blogging from work? Does your boss take a sheerly hands-off approach to use of official Internet /resources?

Today Cory implemented his threat:

According to the best evidence available, "Julie Gross (NE)" appears to be Andrew Shiers, former instructor at Dakota State University, now a lecturer in math at the University of Central Oklahoma. (Mr. Kurtz profiles Mr. Shiers here.) Since last summer, a series of comments have come to my blog and other websites under the names of "Julie Gross," "Robert Johnson," "Al Johnson," and "Bob J" (the latter handle masquerading under the e-mail address of current DSU professor Robert Jackson). The majority of comments from these handles that I have been able to analyze have come from IP addresses at the University of Central Oklahoma (and I welcome webmasters to review their stats and see how many of those personal attacks and politically charged comments come from the public university servers during work hours).

I'm pretty sure Matt Varilek is no alcoholic. I have no idea what or how much Mr. Shiers drinks and don't much care. And Larry and I could be wrong about who specifically at the University of Central  Oklahoma has been so obsessively insulting and attacking me, Matt Varilek, and others in the South Dakota blogosphere since last summer.

So much for the First Amendment or free speech if you insult and attack Cory Heidelberger. But Cory condones Larry Kurtz's attacks by linking to what Larry kurtz said about Andrew Shiers in his "profile":

Julie Gross (NE) or Al Johnson reads like a paranoid schizophrenic, a misogynist, a lecher, a white supremacist, an earth hater, a christofascist, and a bitter, angry ass. It wouldn't surprise me that child pornography would be found on his computer. That he is an instructor at a public university is an embarrassment to the people of South Dakota.

Unless Larry Kurtz can prove that Andrew Shiers has child pornography on his computer, there could be a huge problem here.

It is hard to find one more obsessively insulting than Larry Kurtz. But since he is a fellow liberal New Age Theocrat, Cory lets him blog away. Seems like Cory first determines if you are a liberal or a conservative. Then  based on what he comes up with, either you can do whatever the heck you want (regardless of ethics, morals, laws, or principles), or you can "buzz off". But that should be expected from a totalitarian teacher whose goal seems to be removing from the face of the earth anyone who insists on being a patriotic American or a true follower of Jesus Christ.

Comments

[larry kurtz]

Sweet post, Steve: pax vobiscum.

[Julie Gross (NE)]

It's so amazing how one can rant and speculate about all these other folks who have been "obsessively insulting and attacking me, Matt Varilek, and others",

but never once consider or even acknowledge the hate, bigotry, homophobia, sexism, conspiratorial paranoia, and vitriol that forms the basis of his own blog and columns.

There's something wrong in that insular unreality.

Granted, I've occasionally been a bit over the top, but always in an effort to reveal the absurdity of those posts to which I respond. Mea culpa if I'm not dealing with readers who can recognize that tactic--but when readers live, work, and blog in a dark cave of like-minded trolls, I probably shouldn't expect any degree of higher thinking.

Good job exposing more liberal hypocrisy, Sibs.

[Julie Gross (NE)]

Here's an example of meeting absurdity with the absurd--KKKory of course focuses on the over-the-top satirical portrait of the Democrat (as libel) but never mentions the satirical protrait of Verlilek's Republican opponent, and S. Dakotans in general--ALL in an effort to mock Kory's moronic suggestion that a polical ad from last year insulted S. Dakotans, but S. Dakotans apaprently did not realize it until Kory pointed it out. Of course, Kory never answered the question posed of him: most likely since my expose rendered his comment fully neutered.

KKOry:
"The ad was an insult to bright young South Dakotans who labor under the mistaken notion that South Dakota will respect and admire them for seeking great educational opportunities, traveling the world, and becoming experts on global issues. ”

Me:
Brilliant analysis of that ad. And since you were able to discern all of that with your limited abilities, what wasn’t Matty Verliek able to do the same thing?

Why wasn’t Matty–the world-traveller, foreign educated, global expert–able to look at the xenophobic & backwards folks in SD as you did and figure out for himself that he had little chance against that ditzy Noem? Really, if caheidi can figure it out, why did Matty waste thousands of dollars and endless hours trying to convince those inbred S. Dakoatans to vote for the bright young South Dakotan with world experience and a global expert?

Either you’re right heildi that S. Dakotans resent intelligence and worldiness [sic: "worldliness"] , or Matty was a dimwitted drunkard who thought his vagabond resume could fool S. Dakotans. Which is it?