Sunday, January 20, 2019

My Open Email To Covington High School

Here is my open letter to Covington High School.  Begin letter

Dear Principal Browe, if there was anything that disgraced your school over the past few days, it is that wretched “apology” that you now have on your website.  You immediately start off by condemning the actions of your students at the March for Life.   To your miniscule credit, you do promise an investigation, but should not your investigation have preceded your apology and your immediate condemnation of your own students? 

I would hope by now that you would have looked at the plethora of videos of that incident.  They clearly show Mr. Phillips and his friends approaching your students.  Then Phillips proceeded to get within inches of your student’s face while chanting loudly and beating his drums.  In other words, Phillips accosted your student; yet you hold your student to blame.  Under the circumstances and given his age, I believe your student showed remarkable restraint.  Your student, Nick Sandmann, who had the drum shoved in his face, has released his statement.  Have you read it?

I’ve no doubt that this “apology” was nothing more than a groveling attempt to cower from politically correct harping by the media.  I regret that your local bishop has decided to join in the braying for the heads of these young boys.  Will you be prepared to issue another apology, this time to the students whom you wronged?  I trust you are aware of the gravity of slander, and that is what you are committing against your students.

Should you be so foolhardy as to expel the boys, I hope that their families avail themselves of all legal recourse and sue your school for the maximum amount possible.  It is your conduct thus far that calls into question your claim to be a Catholic institution.

I hope that by the time you see this email, that you will have reconsidered your actions and the injuries that you have inflicted on your students. 

End of letter  I will advise when I get a response (as if that will happen!)

The young man has released a statement to CNN to give his perspective.  I link to it now.

Tomorrow I will also draft an email to the Covington diocese.  Their site remains down but here is their contact information.



11 comments:

  1. The mortal sin of calumny has been made by everyone associated with this lie. This was a cowardly, deliberate action on the part of those who rushed to judgment to curry servile favor with people who should be roundly condemned for destroying this child's reputation and life.

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  2. God bless you for this action. Everyone is afraid to say the obvious and stand up for what is right. Many are so far gone, they look and they do not see what they are looking at, but the false, hateful narration.

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  3. The videos shown do not excuse the students's behavior. Deplorable. Where are the chaperones? What's with the MAGA hats? New accessory to the school uniform?

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    1. You're probably the same troll who was on the Les Femmes blog. What were the kids supposed to do when Phillips barged through their group while pounding his drum? About the maga hats, what's that got to do with the price of fish? I'll echo my colleague's suggestion that you troll another blog. At this rate you'll run out of blogs to troll!

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    2. You just gotta love how these hateful (and I might add ignorant) comments have no name attached. Throwing out insults to these kids who didn't provoke one single thing, and now are threatened with their lives and then hiding behind a handle "Unknown" says all that we need to know about this poster. Oh and about the MAGA hats: The message is at least positive. The 'Pussy hats' that I've seen some clerics wearing?....not so much.

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  4. Fake news at the expense of unsuspecting (Catholic) kids. What a shame!

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  5. I understand that the Black Hebrew Israelites, or whatever their name is, were hurling hateful remarks at the students for approximately 30 minutes before Phillips showed up with his drum and gang. I doubt this happened by coincidence This was reported on the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program this morning. These students deserve credit for their restraint and manliness in their response to hateful provocation.

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  6. The silence from Archbishop Kurtz is defining.

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  7. I look at this as another opportunity for American Catholics to withhold money from their diocesan bishops. USCCB sent out a tweet throwing the Covington kids under the bus. Since just about every American bishop is a member of USCCB, then no money from me. If every Catholic held back their money, those bishops would be madder than a Vatican II priest who has just been locked out of a questionable bath house.

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  8. #TaxTheChurches and stop sending taxpayer dollars to the Catholic Schools for rapists and abusers. https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/boone-county/burlington/former-covington-catholic-basketball-player-charged-with-rape-sodomy

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    1. How is this relevant to the situation at the Lincoln Memorial? Is this a "guilt by association" attempt? Please clarify.

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