<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Corey Robin indirectly raises the question of whether Thomas Jefferson could maintain employment at the University of Illinois, given his penchant for "incendiary or extreme rhetoric." Also, for those of you who are Jewish and sign petitions, he links to a UIUC Jewish petition against the firing; "alumni" is one of the welcomed categories of signatories. </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://coreyrobin.com/2014/09/03/more-votes-of-no-confidence-a-weird-ad-and-a-declaration-of-a-non-emergency/">http://coreyrobin.com/2014/09/03/more-votes-of-no-confidence-a-weird-ad-and-a-declaration-of-a-non-emergency/</a></div>
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New Rules: no incendiary or extreme rhetoric. <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(243,104,109);background:transparent">Like this</a>:</p>
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<span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Co<span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">asts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#7a7a7a" face="Georgia, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">(The author of those words, by the way, </span></font><a href="http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/shorthistory/" style="color:rgb(243,104,109);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">founded a university</a><font color="#7a7a7a" face="Georgia, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">. And one of the</span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Witherspoon" style="color:rgb(243,104,109);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">signatories to those words was the president of a university</a><font color="#7a7a7a" face="Georgia, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">. Autres temps.)<br>
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Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span><br>
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