And here is the letter I sent them on Monday.
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Since kicking me out of school almost four years ago, the U
of W has been trying to paint me as a dangerous psychopath, accusing me of
death threats, home invasions, horrifying verbal assaults, email harassment
and more. Theoretically, I should have had a chance to respond to those
accusations when I was charged with non-academic misconduct; but the way the
University’s “star chamber” is set up, you’re not allowed to call witnesses or
cross-examine your accusers. Fortunately for me, the University was stupid
enough to follow up by filing criminal charges against me, where I got to call
witnesses. At my trial, I was able to show that all the slanders against me
were false, and not only false but deliberately calculated to harm me:
1. The “death
threat” was a perfectly innocent hand gesture I made in a private conversation
with a friend, which registrar Colin Russell and Professor Don Metz seized on
as an opportunity to expel me from the Teacher Certification program. The proof
that they knew the gesture was innocent was that when they reported it as a
“throat slashing gesture”, neither of them disclosed that they had only seen
the gesture from the rear, so neither of them saw my facial expression. They each
deliberately reported it in ambiguous terms so that everyone thought that the
“throat-slash” was aimed at one of them.
2. A key pillar
of the Non-Academic Misconduct charges against me was a breathless report submitted
by one Professor Cantor concerning a horrifying verbal assault against a
classroom guest, an ASL interpreter. At my criminal trial, she admitted that
she actually saw nothing wrong with my behavior in class, calling it “polite
and respectful”; and that she was only reporting how my question was “perceived” by one of
the students. This deliberate omission
shows that she carefully crafted her letter (at the Associate Dean’s request,
by the way!) to cause me the maximum possible harm.
3. Professor
Metz claimed that after I was expelled, I subjected him to a campaign of email
harassment that lasted almost a year. He even went to court to try to get a
restraining order against me. (which he didn’t get). At my criminal trial, the Judge said simply that
the emails were not harassment.
4. Professor
Bush and Professor Metz both lied when they reported to the University that I
tried to break into Professor Bush’s home; and they lied again when they denied
under oath having said any such thing. The second lie fell apart when emails
surfaced showing that they had said exactly what I claimed they said. And the
fact that they tried to deny having said it proves that it was a lie: why would
they deny having said it if it actually
happened? The truth is that I went to Professor Bush’s home to serve legal
papers on him, and phoned ahead to tell
him I was coming. When I rang the doorbell, he sent his wife to answer (so
I couldn’t serve him!) and when she slammed the door on me (without warning!),
I simply turned and walked away. That’s when Professor Bush called the police
to report the “home invasion” and all hell broke loose. The University
compounded the lie by spreading it everywhere, while omitting the crucial
detail that I went to Bush’s home to
serve legal papers. They deliberately left that out to make it look like I
went there simply to harass Professor Bush and his wife.
In short, the accusations against me have been nothing but
lies from the very beginning. If anyone reading this can name one single thing I ever did that would have justified them
kicking me out of university, I urge them to come forward disclose it, so I can
defend myself…the way I was never allowed to defend my self in the University’s
disciplinary proceedings, or so far in the Court of Queen’s Bench.
