Did Mike Adams step in it?
There seems to be a bit of furor over Mike Adams' article linking a jihadist website to Prof Julio Pino. I read the article yesterday, and decided to hold off blogging it, for several reasons. One was that I didn't see anything on the site connecting it to Pino, and Adams didn't "show his work". The other was that Adams was stirring up outrage against Pino's university for something one of its employees was doing on his own time, in his own space. That's a good-sized brick Prof. Mike is tossing round in his greenhouse, and this being a Case blog, it would be a catapult in mine. Any negative repercussions we could recommend for Pino would rebound to us, in spades.
If "global-war" were treasonous, Pino (if it is in fact his site) could be dealt with criminally, and his academic connection would be irrelevant. I took a brief tour, and while what I found was disgusting, it did not rise to the level of treason ("AID AND comfort"-- if comfort alone were sufficient, 90% of the Democratic Party would meet the firing squad). And disgust is not a reason to abrogate freedom of speech, academically or in larger society.
I'm interested to see how Dr. Mike will handle this. I didn't see anything yet at http://www.dradams.org/ I've seen him as one of the Good Guys, but if you're a Good Guy, you need to be twice as careful with your facts as the Bad Guys are. And it's not clear that's happened here. The school appears to be handling this correctly; apparently Pino has published some opinions in the student paper that were congruent with "global-war", and they let that go (did you really want them censoring the student paper?) That's what I hate about conservatives and liberals: they complain when they're shut out of the debate, but are anxious to shut others out as well.
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