While she was laying on the IHOP beatdown, apparently she was yelling the whole time “Do you know who I am” and “I went to HARVARD”!!!
I just read in the paper that she claims she doesn’t remember shooting anyone.
If she’s telling the truth, and she gets random psychotic blackouts… :eek: That’s scarier to me than someone who shoots up the place because she’s a loser with a grudge.
The first “it wasn’t an accident” report from Braintree quoted an officer at the time as saying that she was in the process of being booked when Chief Polio called and said to release her to her mother. This certainly suggests that Mom (a member of the Braintree Personnel Board) called in a favor to the chief of police. I think it at least warrants investigation.
The Times today also said that the State Police were not informed of the standoff at the used car lot. The fix sure looks in to me.
In all seriousness, what other standard would you propose? Bear in mind that situations like refusing to teach or plagiarism are also subject to revocation.
Upon reading an article about the husband’s interview, it appears to me that he was as impressed with her intelligence and “Harvard degree!” as she was.
Thats all you ivory tower folks can come up with?
In all seriousness.
So what’s wrong with the tenure system that protections need to be loosened? You can’t point to Bishop, because she didn’t receive tenure. The security of tenure attracts scholars to the field, which is important in the sciences, since industry can pay substantially better than academia.
I would honestly suggest that you might want to remove your rose colored glasses… I’ve been in law enforcement since 1994 and note that I started in CHICAGO… a city where a phone call to the right irish pol might get you a seat on a space shuttle. The original investigators on the scene would write the initial report on the shooting… in a town like Braintree in all likelyhood the State police would handle because small towns like Braintree usually farm out serious crimes. In GA for example the GBI would be taking the lead… such as the shooting of Police LT recently.
If the state Police never got this case… and the initial investigation then its highly likely that the district attorney never got the information as well. Even if it were a situation where it clearly were say two boys playing with a gun… it still would go up the chain and be noted. Seeing today’s NYT article indicates that something outside of protocol seems to have occurred in her brother’s shooting…
Bingo… From the NYT
Police officers began to question Amy, but her mother arrived and told her not to answer any more questions. Paul Frazier, the current police chief of Braintree, said that Amy Bishop’s release “did not sit well with these officers,” and that the lieutenant in charge of booking that night told him a higher-up had given instructions to stop the booking process.
In an interview Wednesday, the area’s current prosecutor, William R. Keating, district attorney of Norfolk County, was highly critical of the handling of the shooting 24 years ago, particularly because it appears that Amy Bishop’s actions after her brother’s shooting — demanding a car at gunpoint and refusing an officer’s orders to drop the gun — were not conveyed to state authorities who investigated the case.
“It’s not a minor thing that would be omitted,” Mr. Keating said.
Mr. Keating said Amy Bishop could have been charged with weapons and assault felonies, which would probably have prompted a psychiatric evaluation. Had such a charge, or any of the others that followed, been on her record, it could have changed the course of Dr. Bishop’s career, and the fate of those who died in Huntsville.
Instead, the investigation was stopped.
Did someone intervene to save Amy Bishop from prosecution? Her mother served on the town committee, an elected legislative panel of 240 members that set the town’s spending. Or was Amy’s release merely a town’s way of caring for its own, the way small towns do?
That night, after the gory mess in the kitchen had been cleaned up by helpful neighbors, one of the investigating officers, Billy Finn, stopped by to see if the family needed food.
“You cannot imagine how kind the Braintree police were to us,” Judy Bishop told The Braintree Forum and Observer a week later.
Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has ordered the State Police to review its role in the case, and the district attorney is also conducting an inquiry
Yeah. real kind Officers… three people are dead… and three others are wounded because the Police failed to do their jobs… Their needs to be an open inquiry… PUBLIC into this… and those found to have participated in the conspiracy need to be charged and fully prosecuted.
Clearly this is a problem with tenure, because there are no assholes working in jobs where there is no tenure.
I don’t see any tenured professors starving in my area of the country. I would go so far as to say just the opposite when you consider the educational perks their kids get.
This is not as frequent as he leads you to believe I think. I’ve known only one professor to do this, and from what I understand, the decline was quite gradual. He is still a very dedicated teacher, but his research has been defunct for fifteen years. He isn’t an asshole, he just quit research.
Why should they be starving? I don’t get how this is in any way critical of tenure.
Tenure serves an extremely important function. Professors are capable of taking up controversial positions without fear of losing their jobs. One common criticism of climate change is that deniers claim that professors have to believe in climate change in order to get grant money. Even if their research grants were to drop to nothing, they would still get paid there salary. It is specifically because of tenure that they don’t have any real reason not to look at the climate change problem from an independent point of view.
I know professors that I consider to be pretty average. I know professors that publish what I consider to be complete garbage just to publish. I know professors that I consider to be nearly as insane as Bishop. In no case would removing their tenure make the school system better.
It gets weirder and weirder.
New York Times article about a “herpes bomb” she might have planted in the biology department.
Slate Explainer column about why a herpes bomb probably wouldn’t do much.
People who worked with her say they “always had a feeling she was about to explode”.
Huh, I thought that was going to be another story about Paris Hilton.
Just saw on net that documents released from U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about the 1993 mail bombing attempt of Rosenberg:
Her husband, James Anderson, told a witness, ‘he wanted to get back at Rosenberg by shooting, bombing, stabbing or strangling him’ for the poor job evaluation given to her.
(Hope this is not too much of a zombie)
This just in: Ann Bishop charged in the 1986 murder of her brother.
The channel that brings you Toddlers and Tiaras, 19 Kids and Counting and I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant is showing a documentary on Sunday night featuring the UAH shooting. It’s called Killer on Campus. We’re promised a reenactment.
It airs right before an episode of Strange Sex. (“Balloons terrified Chris. But what was once his worst nightmare became his greatest pleasure.”)
Oh great. That’s just what we need. :rolleyes: