I like my job. It's a job. But what I see on a daily basis is unconscionable.

I just checked my mailbox this evening. The union newsletter explained how to behave, write, think, speak, etc to accomplish the union's political goals. I've refused to join the union and resist their forcing their views into my life at work but I still receive 'marching orders' from the union via campus mail and e-mail. It took two years to stop their computers from calling my phone and telling me how to vote.

They had the buses, signs and talking points set-up for the ride to Sacramento. In class the student rep asked the students to get on the bus and ride with them to oppose corporate greed and right-wing hate-speach (I wonder, with the half-dozen-or-so corps, LLCs I've founded if I'm one of their enemies).

I'm required to use campus e-mail. Periodically mass e-mails are sent to everyone encouraging them to attend various union or progressive rallies. Propaganda sheets are e-mailed so one may refute the 'right-wing, hate-filled, opponents' that the union support. Political posters and slogans are posted on various instructors doors and windows. At some schools every hallway is filled with dozens of posters and pamplets promoting the world-view of dozens of alternative cultures, life-styles and belief system.

I have NEVER seen a poster stating, as an example, "We hold these views to be self-evident... endowed by their creator..." or "..and to the republic, for which it stands.." or "...tear down this wall!" (Now's the time when someone states that I am a ...... for thinking my comments are a form of demagoguery instead of a man watching his nation losing its soul)

I have never seen a picture of Lincoln, Washington, Patton/MacArthur/Eisenhower, Neil Armstrong, the Seal Team from Pakistan, any American military image. I must have but cannot recall seeing an American flag. The concept that three times in the past 100 years hundreds of thousands of Americans died, millions were traumatized and tens of millions were deeply disrupted to save the world from tyranny is unfathomable. Their worship of Obama, at least initially approached deification.

The only group that can be ridiculed is some subset of white/male/conservative/Christian. They have no knowledge of how this nation actually was created, what were (are?) the values of the people from 1600 to 1800, the people who founded the unique American culture.

It is considered insultive and at some schools will result in counseling to address students as Ladies and Gentlemen. The application to some of the states schools list on the application male/female/other.

15% of the faculty and staff are uncomfortable/disagree/intimidated by the other 85%. They support every minority and 'excluded' group except the one that disagrees when them. When I complain to the administration about the unprofessionalism, much less the illegality of a hostile work environment I was called "mean-spirited" by a Dean.

To answer your question I find no evidence that Brown is opposing this rally and certainly no stepped up police action.

However, Cindy Sheehan will be present.

PS - you may find it noteworthy that as the funding per pupil has increased the quality of education has decreased over the past 50+ years. When 34 students show up for a class that the union has limited to 28 I use to take the additional students. I was ordered to stop because 1.) other instructors could not manage the additional load and I was embarrassing them and 2.) if the administration learned that I carried amost a 25% over-load they would ask why others could not. (BTW, students don't pass my class without learning & I've repeatedly taught classes of 40+ students). So the educators who claim to have the students best interests at heart will stop almost 25% of those wishing to enroll from doing so just to maintain their light work-load and negotiation posture with management.