Money Talks

A Political Associate brought to my attention a court case, reported in the journal for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). I believe it is significant, because it is illustrative of how the federal government is spending your taxpayer money in conversion of the US to a Marxist society and economy. It involves a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW).
Dr. Michael Adams began his career at UNCW in 1993 as an outspoken atheist and liberal. During this period, he was widely praised in the university for his teaching and scholarship and achieved tenure in 1998 without any controversy.
In 2000, Dr. Adams began a conversion to conservatism. He began writing a column for Townhall.com that was often sharply critical of leftist excesses in universities nationwide, as well as in his own university.
In 2006, after compiling an impressive record of scholarship and accumulating multiple outside teaching awards and honors, Dr. Adams submitted an application for promotion to full professor. University officials, however, denied his promotion in a process where they applied a made-up promotion standard that contradicted the faculty handbook, passed along false information about his academic record, deceptively edited documents to influence the faculty vote, explicitly discussed his constitutionally protected viewpoint, and allowed a faculty member with an obvious and outrageous conflict of interest to cast a vote against him.
Dr. Adam sued the University and the case evolved into a jury trial. The jury unanimously found that UNCW retaliated unfairly against Dr. Adams, and the trial court awarded Dr. Adams a promotion to full professor, back pay, and attorneys’ fees. The case finally ended in a settlement agreement where UNCW agreed to drop its appeal, promote Dr. Adams to full professor, increase his salary to the appropriate rate, award him back pay, protect him from future retaliation, and award a substantial attorneys’ fee.
While many of us conservatives applaud the outcome of this controversy, the real question is why UNCW had an original liberal philosophy and later persecuted a conservative. This is especially significant, when we normally consider universities to be the basis of academic freedom.
The answer lies in the Obama Administration's political philosophy and in money.
The University of North Carolina Wilmington obtains 52% of its income from "funding provided by taxpayers". That money comes from the collection of state and federal taxes from individuals and corporations. The portion supplied by the federal government is passed along through the Department of Education. It also does not include government funding through student aid. In other words, the operation of the university depends primarily on funding from taxpayers passed along to the University through state and federal government. It is also well-known in any society that the person or organization supplying the money calls the shots. In this case, the "shots" are called by the federal government in the form of Marxist requirements. The federal government is supposed to be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but the people apparently pay no attention, and the federal government proceeds with its Marxist policies unimpeded. In only a very few cases do we have some semblance of equality as determined in Dr. Michael Adams court case against UNCW.