Dallas Jail Guard Fired for Saying 'All Gays Should Be Annihilated'
A Dallas jail guard says his right to free speech was violated when he was fired, after 17 years with the department, for conduct unbecoming an officer and for lying to internal affairs with regard to remarks he made about gays:
"Johnson in October interrupted a private conversation among jail staff and 'interjected his own opinions,' telling them all gays should be annihilated, according to a sheriff's report.
'They made it out to be that I was a bigot. I was fired 'cause I hurt someone else's feelings,' Johnson said Monday. He said that his free speech rights were violated but that he will not appeal.
Johnson said he made his comments to some clerks. The names of the witnesses who filed the complaints were obscured in the sheriff's department report."
As for Johnson's other beliefs?
"In a sworn statement, Johnson denied saying he supported slavery while noting that 'slavery is a fact in the Bible.' Johnson also offered an opinion about the origin of dinosaurs...
...'I believe that all dinosaurs were born of Satanic angel who has sex with woman and the animal kingdom that created ungodly reptilian creatures none of these were on the Ark,' he said in the sworn statement."
Johnson, who is not looking to get his job back, also said in the sworn statement that he believes all gays should be put to death.
...so should fat, ugly balding retards!
Posted by: Marc | Mar 16, 2010 1:50:48 PM
It's frightening that there are people this uneducated living among us.
Posted by: Thad | Mar 16, 2010 2:00:21 PM
Good riddance douche.
Posted by: Tintin Malfoy | Mar 16, 2010 2:06:07 PM
Ah yes, who could forget when god killed all of the half demon-half human but some how reptilian creatures with a giant flood. Especially all of those evil sinner dinosaurs that happened to be aquatic. Cuz you know, nothing kills things that live in water like...water.
I mean, damn! That water killed them so hard it forced the smote corpses to a level of sentiment so deep it looks like they died millions of years before the earth was even created and washed away enough radioactive isotopes to confuse those wicked scientists and their black-magic radiometric dating.
Posted by: JT | Mar 16, 2010 2:06:46 PM
If this douche-bag is so proud of his "free speech" why then did he lie to investigators about what he said!
Posted by: Jake | Mar 16, 2010 2:08:51 PM
It looks a bit like harvey fierstein.
Posted by: TANK | Mar 16, 2010 2:09:04 PM
"I told you she didn't have a dick"
Posted by: this guy | Mar 16, 2010 2:10:11 PM
Don't dismiss this guy's "beliefs" as "fringe" ravings. This is exactly what is currently being "taught" in some hard-core evangelical churches in this country and in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Posted by: jamal49 | Mar 16, 2010 2:11:12 PM
oh yes, advocating annihilation (murder) of an entire group of people is only an opinion... sounds more like a threat.....
It's good to see the positive actions that Dallas PD took to fire someone who has no interest in protecting the law but merely promoting his own ideology...
Posted by: DCStudent | Mar 16, 2010 2:13:21 PM
It is a delicate line to tread to be sure, especially when it comes to faith and belief, but claiming "freedom of speech" in no way excuses one's complete and utter ignorance.
See also Sherri "I'm pretty sure the world is round" Shepherd.
Posted by: latebrosus | Mar 16, 2010 2:16:46 PM
But....he looks so RATIONAL...and WHOLESOME...(insert sarcasm)
Posted by: Geoff | Mar 16, 2010 2:28:21 PM
while on his way to his local Gun Dealer to pick up his "gun of the month"..he stopped by Duncan Doughnuts for his 3 cream filled doughnuts and lrg coffee to go. ..this guy has all the makings of someone you read about/see on the 6 o'clock news - that just "shot up" a Supermarket.
Posted by: Disgusted American | Mar 16, 2010 2:43:56 PM
Who’s the macadamia?
Posted by: Jeff in NC | Mar 16, 2010 2:46:24 PM
Who says the scientists are right?
It's God's will.
Who says that global warming isn't God's plan?
I don't believe there is such a thing as global warming.
- my mother-in-law, who is not an
ignorant woman by any means,
and this is after she accepted
her son's other half, aka, me.
Posted by: Jeff in NC | Mar 16, 2010 2:51:49 PM
@ Jeff in NYC
True.
Maths is an illusion. There is no such thing as history. Education is a myth. And a God that came from a Jewish bible is the one and only.
Believe in the bible, but have no proof. Believe in Science but have proof.
Posted by: Rowan | Mar 16, 2010 3:07:47 PM
"Maths is an illusion."
LOL! ha ha haha...actually, some pretty smart people believe that's true. Check out Hartry Field's "science without numbers".
Hey, thanks for that bit about the lazy spree killer. "Mebbe tomorrow...*pant* *pant*...too many donuts...need a nap...is that a cheese danish?" Now let's see if I can make it work.
Posted by: TANK | Mar 16, 2010 3:12:50 PM
@TANK
Is that like engineering without numbers? Or adding without numbers? Wow wee!!
Posted by: Rowan | Mar 16, 2010 3:22:57 PM
If we think that THIS miscreant product of the Texas school system is a problem, imagine when the next batch of kids graduated, after the Texas board of education voted to infuse history with Conservative ideology and creationism! Yep, they VOTED THEMSELVES THE RIGHT TO DO THAT... rewriting history to promote their right-wing-nut fucked up ideaology... fuck these morons! I am ashamed that Texas is even part of the USA! I am not a believer in succession, but in Texas' case, part of me is beginning to reconsider that stance...
Posted by: CKNJ | Mar 16, 2010 3:25:41 PM
"Is that like engineering without numbers? Or adding without numbers? Wow wee!!"
It was a response to Dr. Quine's thesis that numbers exist like plants and paint, only as abstracta (not in spacetime). Dr. Quine's argument was for the indispensibility of numbers in science (our best understanding of reality), and that if numbers don't exist, science doesn't make sense...and neither do the posits of scientific theories (nothing exists if numbers don't). Hartry believed that this is a counterexample to naturalism/physicalism. Field endorsed a form of fictionalism with regard to numbers...that they don't exist, and that the indispensibility argument of Quine's is false, as science can carry on without them (well, not theoretical physics, anyway...and not general relativity and QM, as far as I'm concerned). So, literally...every time you do arithmetic (not really math), the results are false, for the things you're, say, dividing don't exist.
Posted by: TANK | Mar 16, 2010 3:32:48 PM
I think you mean "secession" cknj. There's a worse possibility: I think I remember correctly that the treaty annexing the sovereign Texas Republic to the United States allows the creation of an additional 3 or 4 states within that territory. So the wonders and wits of the place could gather another 6 or 8 senators to export to Washington. On second thought, would that really be worse than what's there now?
Posted by: gregorybrown | Mar 16, 2010 3:38:38 PM
Unfortunately, I went to an elementary school in Texas where creationism was taught, which includes the belief that man and dinosaur lived simultaneously (otherwise, the earth would be WAY too old because, which is NOT what the Bible says - makes sense, right?). I was taken excavating where they supposedly found a human footprint in the same sedimentary layer as a dinosaur's. Years later, it was discovered fraudulent.
All this to say, this guy probably was educated his whole life to believe this bullshit. And now, in his very state, the Texas Board of Education, which influences text books nationwide, are now pushing creationism to be taught alongside evolution and to emphasize the fact that evolution is a "theory." They also demoted Thomas Jefferson. What a shock. (link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schneider/an-open-letter-to-the-tex_b_497695.html)
So expect more of these types in the generations to come.
Posted by: PM | Mar 16, 2010 3:43:53 PM
love the story about where Dino came from --- think how lucky you to NOT be as stupid as this man is
Posted by: Walter | Mar 16, 2010 4:12:22 PM
PM,
Just curious, what kind of school did you go to? I went to (public) elementary school in Texas too, and they would never have gotten away with teaching Creationism.
Posted by: rafi | Mar 16, 2010 4:55:44 PM
Now multiply that crazy dude by a few million others with the exact same views and that is why America cannot (and will not ever) truly move forward.
Posted by: RussellJ | Mar 16, 2010 5:19:37 PM
And is there any question why with this type of person enforcing the law, the raid of the Rainbow lounge on the annv. of Stonewall happened? The only question I would like answered is in his 17 years on the force, how many ppl he "perceived" as non believers had "accidents" while in his custody? It seems Virginia is not the only H8 state in the union. Be afraid everyone, because this one has taught his own children this murderous viewpoint.
@RussellJ U hit the nail right on the head with that comment.
Posted by: Skooter McGoo | Mar 16, 2010 5:33:43 PM