Democrats Dismissed From Class


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Updated: 3/10/2009 10:15 pm Published: 3/08/2009 9:03 pm


Tulsa, OK-- Daniel Reddy and his 13-year-old son, Lane went in for a hunters safety class Tuesday night at South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow. What they walked out with, was a lesson they didn't expect to be learning from their volunteer instructor.

"His question to the class was 'Who here voted for the man in office?' He was referring to our current President," said Reddy.

Reddy then raised his hand -- that he voted for President Barack Obama.

He couldn't believe what he heard next.

"He said 'You may be dismissed,' he said. 

Reddy says that's just what he and his son did-- they left the class.

"He mentioned to the class that he will not teach a liberal. The party in power is the next thing to the Anti-Christ."

The instructor, who wished to remain anonymous, doesn't deny it happened.

"It just struck me, the hypocrisy that people have to vote against hunting and shooting," he said.

An advocate for gun rights, he says he wanted to make a point.

"Everybody's worried about a worst-case scenario that we would have to get guns to defend ourselves against people who would run amok."

How he went about making this point, he says, was wrong.

"It later settled on me that I was kind of shocked that I'd done that."

Lane says from all this, he's learned a very important lesson.

"I learned never to listen to when people when they say you should believe what they believe," said Lane Dunkley. "You might accidentally release Pandora's Box."

The instructor says he'll no longer be volunteering with the wildlife department.

Reddy says the department offered to conduct a private class at the family's home.


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Conajw - 3/13/2009 9:39 AM
I believe this instructor made a mistake. I also believe that respondents like Newtler need some mental health. This individual is a worse case hate monger that gives the Democratic Party a really bad name. He reminds me of some Democrats who want to eliminate free speech and yet use this type of language in their speech.Get help Newtler you really need it before you buy a gun and go out and kill innocent people. You have too much Hate in you.

naniellen - 3/13/2009 4:48 AM
GOOD LORD,someone needs to READ UP on Mr. Websters BOOK!! And a COLD WATER FIRE HOSE for some of these GUYS HERE!!!A healthy DEBATE is good for the GRAY MATTER, but someof you folks FORGOT to put your BRAIN IN GEAR before you opened your MOUTH!!?? The Volenteer Hunter/Teacher apparently is mentally challenged & a RAVING EGOTIST...Most men that substitute a GUN for their manhood act as he does!!! If you wish to teach gun safty, FINE... If you want to make a STATEMENT POLITICALLY, STAY AWAY FROM GUNS!!! You donot have enuff $$$$ to go head to head with the NRA!!! BESIDES, get yer act together before you start throwing your weight around a GUN SAFTY CLASS!!!Buckshot inna rearend MAY be harmful to your GOOD HEALTH !!! YALL HAVE A GREAT DAY YAHEER !!

OKACO - 3/11/2009 7:23 PM
Okay, I've got to take issue with some of you on both sides. kool1 and lotzahair: Sure, the instructor has the right to free speech, and he was under no obligation to teach. BUT, the ODWC is under no obligation to LET him teach. Furthermore, the Hunter Safety course is REQUIRED for anyone born after 1974 that wants a hunting license in OK. So he had no right to kick them out of class, as long as they were not causing a disturbance. Now, usdryone: Although I agree he was wrong, I wouldn't call it "hate", and CERTAINLY not "bigotry". Quit thinking all criticism of Obama is racist. And Newtler, Newtler, Newtler...you sure like to throw around the words "fascist" and "Nazi". Look them up sometime; you obviously don't know what they mean. Fascism is a form of Socialism, which is more accurately associated with liberal Democrats. Calling names that you don't understand just makes you look foolish.

jd4fox23 - 3/9/2009 2:14 PM
Do you think this is freedom of speech, or is it just plain discrimination? Join in on our forums for further discussion here: http://community.fox23.com/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=3721872#3721872

StoopsTroop - 3/9/2009 1:56 PM
WOW,Hard to believe. As a real Sportsman and Outdoors man, I believe it's our Jobs as Hunters to teach Kids to enjoy the Outdoors just as we did, Not run them off because of some Political bull. Sounds like the Instructor fits right in with the Politicians. The Government will Never take away our Guns. That is as long as we teach our Children to use them Safely and Responsibly!!!! Classy

ecmo111 - 3/9/2009 12:36 PM
usa today just had an article in todays paper about the decrease in religiousity. now i can see why. somewhere this man goes to meet with all his friends or flock and they agree with all he said and probably much worse things. all in the name of god. he is the same as a fundalistic muslim shouting death to america. just as ignorant. go back to the 4th century you moron.

JWSuffridge - 3/9/2009 12:07 PM
Wow Newtler! That was really tolerant and open-minded... the grammar was awesome too.

Newtler - 3/9/2009 12:03 PM
Good Old Reich Wing OKIE Fascist Republicans at their Finest. I'd like to THANK this Fascist and the Insane Clown Posse that defends him. In one failed swoop he has proven his ilk to be Anti-American Fascist and Guaranteed this kid will grow up to be a Democrat. It's obvious the kid gets it(Unlike the GOOBER) he said he's learned not to trust people who tell him to think like they do.(Smart Thinking Kid. Something the Con Reich will never do.) If it wasn't so Sad it would be Comical. The GOP reminds me of the character Golam from the Lord of the Rings. Like him they have become so Consumed with their "GREED & HATE" that it has transformed them into a hideous monster unfit to see the light of day. To prove my point, Why Did This COWARD Hide His Face??? If he's such a hero why is he hiding? I truly hope Obama closes the Gulag at Gitmo and turns it into a Concentration Camp for Right Wing Fascist. Serve them Oxycontin Kool-Aid Five Times a Day and pipe in live HATE Radio from their Messiah Limbaugh. After all the Bush & Cheney Regime has declared the President can "Suspend the Constitution as he sees Fit" when hunting for Terrorist. And that Heroin Addict Limbaugh and this Goober Stick Fascist are far Greater Terrorist than Osama Bin Forgotten ever thought about being. As for the "Poor Little Children" that are mistreated by the Big Bad Liberals, PROVE IT!!! List the School, Teacher/Principle/Professor, City and State where it Happened. I say it's just more Limbaughotomy Propaganda and made up LIES. Anything to justify this Nazi's Action. Who Knows maybe I'll get lucky and it'll be the same school where "Lil' Tommy Coburn has to play Hall Monitor because of the Militant Lezzies in the Little Girls Room? I'd still like to know where that one is too. Or is it more lies from the Fascist? However I do remember Cindy Blackbear being suspended from Union Schools in the late '90's for being a Wiccan and putting a Spell on the Teacher. Did the Teacher turn into a T

mem2553 - 3/9/2009 12:03 PM
Was it a Liberal or Democrat? The words do not mean the same thing regardless of the propaganda being shellacked into the minds of America's youth in our schools. Our children are being indoctrinated by our schools! One misguided college professor at a Tulsa school openly supports her parties candidate while dismissing students with other opinions as ignorant of the facts of life. I let her know of her inaccuracies and found myself transferred into another class. For the record the term "LIBERAL" being tagged to Democrats and the Democratic Party is nothing more than republican based propaganda and its original intent was party polarization!

philc - 3/9/2009 9:09 AM
it was a hunter's safety course.... that is what the subject should have stayed on... he had no right telling anyone how they should think or vote... it was no one's business how they voted... maybe the state should think about not issuing a hunting license to this instructor, after all I don't think I want someone of his nature able to carry a firearm
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