tim bueler
tim bueler, like many cocksure 17 - year - olds, is strident in expressing his political beliefs .
tim bueler, 17, leads the conservative club at rancho cotate high school in rohnert park. john storey / the chronicle
tim bueler recently received some unusual advice: his principal and a campus police officer suggested that he stay home from his california high school for a few days .
in a telephone interview, tim said he’s been threatened at least three times by hispanic students who call him “white boy” and “racist. ” one boy said he was going to “find someone” to beat up tim .
from the beginning ,
said alton, who played on local softball teams with bueler' s father ,
most of us have defended the right of the club to exist. no one has denied tim bueler' s right to his opinions .
about 15 minutes before the news conference was set to begin, kenyan immigration authorities questioned corsi and his u. s. media liaison, tim bueler. officials said corsi and bueler lacked work permits and the two were escorted into a police vehicle and whisked way .
in two of those instances, tim said two faculty members stood by and did nothing to help him. most recently, tim said, he was confronted by a dozen hispanic boys, who blocked him from walking down the hallway .
tim bueler, 17, leads the conservative club at rancho cotate high school in rohnert park. christina morey, 16, (right) and danyelle fisher, 15, listen during the club. john storey / the chronicle
tim admitted that his zeal sometimes gets the best of him. he apologized for the “muhammad” remark, saying, “i made a mistake, but i’m not racist. ” club adviser bernadette tucker stepped down after tim printed the newsletter without allowing her to edit it first .
earlier, he said he was eating lunch in a classroom when about seven hispanic students surrounded him. worried for tim’s safety, his father, dennis bueler, said he asked for help from a teacher who was also in the room .
tim thought about leaving the school, located in rohnert park about an hour north of san francisco, and then made his decision: no way .
tim said teachers have also joined in the name - calling. one called tim a nazi, while another described the club as “a bunch of bigots. ” in a parody of the newsletter, biology teacher mark alton called on students to “take a stand against the neoconservative wing - nuts who call themselves americans. ”
bueler was particularly pleased by a dec. 30 washington times article detailing his claims of harassment by staff and students .
“they said, ‘it’s in your best interest not to go to school, ’” tim said. “i said, ‘well, why? what have i done wrong? ’”
the focus of the extra security was a lanky, blue - eyed, 17 - year - old high school junior, tim bueler, whose claims of political harassment by
liberal
students and faculty have made him into something of a youth hero among conservative web bloggers and radio talk show hosts across the country .
nonetheless, the school has not silenced bueler, who started the club - - which now claims 50 members - - last fall .
dear tim bueler: i have asked you to delete me from your mailing list. i have pressed the “unsubscribe” button from your mailings, almost all touting lunatic conservatives like jerome corsi and other questionable clients. i have asked you to stop sending me your press releases multiple times, over the course of months–and still, you send them .
two days later, an anonymous teacher drafted a response proposing a
liberal hot line ,
which parodied the tone of bueler' s missive .
mr. alton said he was also disturbed by tim’s article on illegal immigration, which says, “liberals welcome every muhammad, jamul and jose who wishes to leave his third world state and come to america. ”
bueler is delighted by all the attention. in an interview at his family home while his father, dennis, a telephone company technician, looked on proudly, bueler ticked off the dozen or so radio and television talk shows that have featured his case, including those hosted by limbaugh and dr. laura schlessinger .
they feared for his safety because tim, the founder of rancho cotate high school’s new conservative club, said he had received threats from other students after writing an article for the club newsletter calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration .
corsi was detained for about 4 1 / 2 hours before he was expelled. immigration officials said the author did not have a proper permit to work in kenya. but corsi' s publicist, tim bueler, told time that they were assured their visas and passports were in order. corsi said he had been upfront about his intentions when he arrived. according to corsi and bueler, the author was told that the government had misplaced their immigration cards, which visitors fill out upon arrival at the nairobi airport .
dr. corsi can return to kenya anytime ,
said bueler .
they said our passports were o. k. and our visas were o. k. , but they had lost our immigration cards .
things could have stopped there, but backing off, apparently, isn' t in bueler' s nature. so, a week later, he fired off another newsletter .
they paint bueler as a patriotic hero who stood up to howling liberal hypocrites trying to stifle his voice and trod upon the traditional american values he was bravely trying to uphold .
a good deal of the verbal pyrotechnics have come from bueler' s hero, ultra - conservative radio personality michael savage, as well as internet pundits and the right - leaning washington times .
as a result of the national attention, carter, a 51 - year - old boston native, said he has received
thousands
of e - mails, including some that have compared him to osama bin laden and other villains. most of the criticism centers on carter' s suggestion in december that bueler go home for a several - day
cooling - off period
after some students confronted bueler, calling him a
nazi
and inviting him outside for a fight. bueler declined the offer to leave, a stand that has won him praise in conservative circles .
since the beginning of january, bueler has been escorted by an adult school official to and from every class and to his father' s car at the end of the day. the precaution was ordered by the school district superintendent after several confrontations between bueler and fellow members of the school conservative club, and other students who object to what they claim are
racist
writings in the club' s political tracts .
all of which is a bunch of ideological baloney swathed in righteous propaganda, according to mark alton, the rancho cotate athletic director and science teacher who co - wrote the faculty letter protesting bueler' s comments .
just before the final bell at rancho cotate high school on a recent afternoon, a campus supervisor reported to principal mitchell carter on his walkie - talkie :
i' m in position. subject in view .
the focus of the extra security was a lanky, blue - eyed, 17 - year - old high school junior, tim bueler, whose claims of political harassment by
liberal
students and faculty have made him into something of a youth hero among conservative web bloggers and radio talk show hosts across the country .
“they said, ‘you’re a racist, ’ and i said, ‘are you guys going to let me through? ’” tim said. “so i ducked into a classroom and told the teacher what was happening, and said, ‘can you help me? ’ and she said, ‘no. get out of here. ’”
after bueler' s anti - immigrant newsletter came out, school staff suggested to him that he stay home for a few days as
a cooling - off period ,
according to a fact sheet provided by the district .
“the teacher told him, ‘when you say things like that, you’ve got to expect that things like this are going to happen. why don’t you go out the back door? ’” mr. bueler said in recounting the incident .
mr. bueler said he’s ready to bring in lawyers if the school cannot protect his son. “the police don’t think they were real threats, but i disagree. he shouldn’t have to be threatened every day, ” the father said .
for his part, carter, the principal, isn' t responding to questions and is referring calls to district superintendent michael watenpaugh, who has criticized bueler for distributing inflammatory material without first getting permission from a student adviser, as is school policy .
the fact that bueler cannot walk around campus without an escort isn' t something the first amendment can do anything about, said uc berkeley constitutional law professor jesse choper. what' s significant, he said, is that the school district provided that security .
for his part, bueler seems comfortable in the magnifying glare of the media spotlight. he sat at home recently contemplating interview requests from at least four national television talk shows and a scheduled appearance feb. 7 as the featured speaker at the conservative eagle forum' s annual convention .
it all started on dec. 3, when bueler posted a flyer announcing a new
conservative hot line
for the 1, 800 students at his high school. it encouraged students to call the hot line to report
un - american comments expressed by your liberal teachers .
remember the movie' rebel without a cause' ?
asked savage, the radio host whose book ,
savage nation ,
bueler borrowed liberally from in outlining his club' s philosophy .
this kid represents rebels with a cause. he represents the new counterculture .
on dec. 12 bueler inflamed matters by distributing a conservative club newsletter in which he wrote that
liberals welcome every muhammad, jamul and jose who wishes to leave his third world state and come to america - - mostly illegally - - to rip off our health - care system, balkanize our language and destroy our political system .
according to a timeline issued by the cotati - rohnert park city school district, the controversy started dec. 3 when the conservative club, which bueler organized last fall, posted an inflammatory flier at the high school announcing the creation of a
conservative hotline ,
where students could report examples of
un - american
comments by their teachers .
latino students were furious, and 40 school employees and teachers, including principal mitchell carter, signed a letter protesting the inflammatory rhetoric. bueler claimed he was threatened, called
nazi
and other epithets, even by teachers, who he said refused to protect him from angry mobs of classmates. he soon was being escorted to and from class by school security officers .
this school district chose to honor his free speech and sought to protect him from threats. that' s commendable ,
choper said .
it is not totally clear that (bueler) had an enforceable constitutional right to go as far as he did, such as calling the teachers names like that. by no means am i saying that they could have stopped him, but they responded in a responsible fashion .
kenya detains author promoting anti - obama book kenyan authorities have deported jerome corsi, the author of the obama nation: leftists politics and the cult of personality. immigration officials said he didn' t have a work permit. corsi was detained at his hotel and ordered to leave the country .
the american author of a controversial book about democratic presidential nominee barack obama was reportedly on his way out of kenya on tuesday night .
jerome corsi had planned to make public statements in kenya that were unflattering to both obama and kenya' s prime minister. he had scheduled a news conference tuesday morning at a fancy nairobi hotel for the kenyan launch of his book, the obama nation: leftist politics and the cult of personality. it was the same hotel where obama held his own news conference during a triumphant visit to kenya in 2006. obama' s father was kenyan, and he still has relatives in the country .
a news release about corsi' s event sent out to local and international media said that the author would expose
details of deep secret ties between obama and a section of kenyan government leaders... and [ a ] subsequent plot to be executed in kenya should... obama win the american presidency .
a second page listing corsi' s talking points never quite explained what plot might be afoot. it did, however, frequently mention kenyan prime minister raila odinga, who is an ethnic luo, as was obama' s father .
corsi had apparently planned to talk about odinga' s ties to kenyan muslims and his conduct during kenya' s ethnic troubles earlier this year, which left more than 1, 000 kenyans dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. the violence followed a contentious presidential election in kenya that pitted many luos against a number of ethnic kikuyus .
corsi' s press relations representative in kenya says pro - luo forces pushed corsi out .
jerome corsi has jousted lucratively with barack obama, tackling the presidential candidate' s reputation with a best - selling if factually challenged book that accuses the senator of, among other things, ties to militant islam. but corsi may have gone a little too far into enemy territory when he flew into kenya, the birthplace of obama' s father. kenyan immigration officials deported corsi, they said, over problems with his visa. they made their move before corsi was scheduled to give a press conference at which he promised to expose secret ties between obama and kenyan leaders, as well as a mysterious plot that would be launched should the democratic nominee win the u. s. election .
corsi, author of the obama nation: leftist politics and the cult of personality, was in kenya writing dispatches for the website worldnetdaily at the invitation of christian missionaries who fear the rise of islam in kenya. according to worldnetdaily, he wanted to answer
lingering questions
about obama' s ties to prime minister raila odinga .
apart from planning to debut his book in kenya (so far it is unavailable in bookstores here) and provide details about obama' s alleged ties to odinga, corsi had said that his press conference would
expose details of deep secret ties between the u. s. democratic presidential candidate barack obama and a section of kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in kenya should senator obama win the american presidency .
corsi claims that obama has strong ties to odinga, whom the author says fomented kenya' s postelection violence last january in a bid to secure the presidency after the results declared incumbent president mwai kibaki the winner. in fact, independent observers disputed kibaki' s victory, and a commission looking into the vote recently determined that kenya would never know if odinga or kibaki truly won. in his writings, corsi has sought to link the luos  the tribe of odinga, as well as obama' s ancestors  with muslims and to pit both of them against kikuyus, the tribe of kibaki .
the whole world became very concerned about the violence in kenya and wanted a negotiated settlement, because they realized the outcome was not what kenyans voted for ,
says odinga adviser salim lone, commenting on corsi' s alleged obama - odinga - islamist nexus .
raila became prime minister because of the view that the unrest would continue. islam had nothing to do with it, and in any event, the violence in muslim areas was minimal as compared to the others. it has absolutely no basis in fact .
corsi also claims that obama was in close contact with odinga, advising the kenyan politician on strategy after the results were announced. lone claims he was there the one time obama called odinga, and says it wasn' t to talk campaign strategy but rather to demand that the violence end and that odinga and kibaki come to a peaceful solution to the crisis .
the obama campaign had no comment on corsi' s deportation. it has denounced his book in a 41 - page rebuttal. if anything, corsi seems to have seriously underestimated the broad kenyan support for obama, whose father was a kenyan and who has several half - siblings here. while there is animosity between luos and kikuyus  and the tribes were responsible for much of the postelection violence  obama is immensely popular across ethnic lines in kenya. ever since odinga became prime minister in a power - sharing agreement with kibaki, his own approval ratings have soared .
in a news story on tuesday announcing corsi' s press conference, the standard newspaper said the american author' s media invitation
makes no secret of the intention to hurl dirt at obama and undermine his campaign from his ancestral home .
among the scrum of reporters waiting for corsi outside kenya' s immigration office on tuesday, one local kenyan television correspondent was wearing an
obama' 08
t shirt .
corsi had also planned to deliver a $ 1, 000 check to obama' s half - brother george, who lives in a slum in nairobi. one republican ad has accused obama of abandoning his brother, who was recently reported in italian vanity fair to be living on a dollar a month. but george obama has repeatedly denied that he said any such thing or that he feels abandoned by obama. george obama is currently in school studying to be an auto mechanic and says he has plenty to eat .
the inclusion of the' philanthropic' [ tour ] in corsi' s programme is seen in bad taste and an extension of the campaign to undermine obama' s bid to become the first black american president ,
the standard said. in an interview with time last week, obama' s half - sister auma called corsi' s book
blatant lies .
it' s reached a point where people will write what they write and people will assume what they want to assume and interpret things the way they want to interpret them, and you can' t chase everybody ,
auma obama said .
otherwise you stop living your own life .
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the 17 - year - old junior says that stance inspired threats from which teachers have refused to protect him. some faculty members even started a public campaign against his group, which seeks to promote “the pillars of the bible, patriotism and conservative beliefs as balance to the mostly liberal viewpoints of teachers, ” according to its newsletter, “the conservative agenda. ”
the club has invited students to call its “liberal assault hot line” to report whether they’ve been “verbally assaulted for being conservative. ”
with about 50 members, the club has hosted speakers from the eagle forum and national rifle association .
forty school staff members signed a letter to the santa rosa press democrat calling on the conservative club to back up its accusations that students are being indoctrinated .
“they’ve made all these sweeping statements about liberal teachers warping the curriculum, but as a science teacher, i’d like to see some evidence, ” said mr. alton, who co - authored the letter .
“no one at the high school opposes the formation of the conservative club, ” mr. alton said. “what bothers me is the extreme views that border on racism or homophobia, the negative tone, and the hot line that calls teachers ‘traitors. ’”
rancho cotate principal mitchell carter and district officials did not return several phone calls .
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that was the spark that launched his conservative club at rancho cotate high school in the sonoma county town of rohnert park and ignited two months of rhetorical ugliness on campus. it also put him on the conservative talk show circuit, including an appearance thursday on fox television' s
the o' reilly factor .
let' s take a stand against the liberal traitors who call themselves teachers ,
the flyer urged .
let' s take a stand against the neo - conservative wing - nuts who call themselves americans ,
the flyer declared .
liberals ,
it pronounced ,
welcome every muhammad, jamul and jose who wishes to leave his third world state and come to america - - mostly illegally - - to rip off our health care system, balkanize our language and destroy our political system .
district officials have acknowledged, however, that the school faculty and the principal made some
missteps
that may have helped inflame matters .
watenpaugh said carter and others officials were wrong for suggesting the
cooling - off period .
for example, 15 police officers swarmed onto campus to quell disturbances following the conservative club' s jan. 16 meeting .
and the lanky junior appears to be enjoying, if not reveling in, his role at the center of an ideological free - for - all. he has become a hot commodity on conservative talk radio shows, where he has not been shy about expressing his support for god, guns and country and his contempt for liberals. several nationally syndicated television shows have called for interviews, including, he says ,
good morning america .
school officials have gotten thousands of e - mails from people across the country who, they say, were whipped up into a righteous frenzy by a stream of rhetoric .
certain outside conservative groups are using this to further their own political agenda, which is to attack the public education system ,
alton said .
the real issue, he said, is not free speech but how to maintain peace on a school campus by having rational discourse .
those statements about illegal immigration and students of color and his attack on liberal teachers as traitors offend people, and many of us think they are inappropriate ,
alton said .
he has a right to his opinions, and nobody wants to deny him his rights, but there are certain things that are inappropriate on a school campus. when hateful, intolerant discourse is being used, it is our responsibility to respond .
' good morning america' is a little shaky ,
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they' re real liberal .
you' ve always been a douche. i remember covering you when you were a high - schooler playing the pip for the california coalition for immigration reform' s geriatrics and stating you wanted to kill muslims for a living by joining the armed foces. but you' re not a kid anymore, son; you' re legally an adult, and adults have certain responsibilities .
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teen claims political harassment after clashes with fellow students over what they call racist writings .
rohnert park, calif. — just before the final bell at rancho cotate high school on a recent afternoon, a campus supervisor reported to principal mitchell carter on his walkie - talkie :
i' m in position. subject in view .
the resulting free speech divide has ruffled feathers and formed fault lines in the 1, 900 - pupil, predominantly white, middle - class school nicknamed by students
the ranch .
let' s take a stand against the liberal traitors who call themselves teachers ,
proclaimed the flier, which had not been approved by the club' s faculty advisor as required under school rules .
in response, an anonymous faculty member proposed a
liberal hotline
to counter the conservative club .
have you heard any un - american comments expressed by your reactionary students lately ?
the flier asked, parodying the original .
let' s take a stand against the neo - conservative wing - nuts who call themselves americans .
the liberal flier concluded :
p. s. flush rush ,
referring to right - wing talk show host rush limbaugh .
the statement was borrowed directly from the sayings and writings of nationally syndicated san francisco radio host michael savage, whom buehler credits for inspiration .
the club' s motto ,
protecting our borders, language and culture ,
is also a savage slogan .
the resulting political turmoil - - which angered some of the school' s latino students and provoked a letter of protest from 40 school officials, including the nurse and principal carter - - has tested the 1st amendment tethers of this bedroom community about one hour' s drive north of san francisco .
the school district' s beleaguered superintendent, michael watenpaugh, has accused the conservative club and the high school staff of
missteps
since the issue erupted. high school administrators and faculty contend that they have been unfairly targeted .
outside conservative groups are using this as an opportunity to advance their agenda and to criticize public education ,
said rancho cotate athletic director mark alton, who also teaches science courses .
lost in the shuffle, said alton and others, is that the conservative club was allowed in the first place, joining the ranks of other more typical student groups such as the model u. n. club, christian club, save (environmental) club, stop hate club and the gay / straight alliance .
seeking to counter mass demonstrations by immigrant rights groups, organizers of the minuteman project plan to launch a nationwide caravan in los angeles today that will focus, in large part, on the jobs they contend are lost to illegal immigrants. in particular, the group hopes to highlight the concern over job losses in the african american community .
the minuteman project, the self - proclaimed citizen border patrol that has emerged as a vocal opponent of illegal immigration, arrived in the heart of south los angeles on wednesday hoping to recruit blacks to their cause. but instead, they were met by protesters - - most of them african american - - who compared the group to the ku klux klan and urged them to take their campaign elsewhere. the event, billed as the minuteman project' s launch of a cross - country caravan to washington, d. c .
prosecutors say the snatching of a police officer' s flashlight during a melee at a protest against minuteman project founder and congressional candidate jim gilchrist constitutes petty theft. but to the accused and her lawyer, it' s police and prosecutors who are being petty. theresa dang, 26, of westminster is charged with stealing the $ 100 flashlight during a may 25 protest rally outside the garden grove women' s civic club, where gilchrist was speaking.
tim bueler ( born 1987 ) is a media and political consultant and is currently serving as the director of media relations for the minuteman project , an immigration reform advocacy group . radio station klav in las vegas , briefly aired “ tim bueler ’s conservative report ” . bueler spoke about current issues and offered advice to callers . bueler traveled to kenya with his media client , jerome corsi , to launch corsi 's book " the obama nation " which alleges secret ties between barack obama and kenyan leaders . bueler and corsi were detained on october 7 , 2008 , by kenyan immigration officials and police just before the commencement of a press conference . they were eventually deported . 
tim bueler (born 1987) is a media and political consultant and is currently serving as the director of media relations for the minuteman project, an immigration reform advocacy group. radio station klav in las vegas, briefly aired “ tim bueler ’s conservative report ”. bueler spoke about current issues and offered advice to callers. bueler traveled to kenya with his media client, jerome corsi, to launch corsi's book " the obama nation " which alleges secret ties between barack obama and kenyan leaders. bueler and corsi were detained on october 7, 2008, by kenyan immigration officials and police just before the commencement of a press conference. they were eventually deported.
tim bueler (born 1987) is a media and political consultant and is currently serving as the director of media relations for the minuteman project, an immigration reform advocacy group. radio station klav in las vegas, briefly aired “ tim bueler ’s conservative report ”. bueler spoke about current issues and offered advice to callers. bueler traveled to kenya with his media client, jerome corsi, to launch corsi's book " the obama nation " which alleges secret ties between barack obama and kenyan leaders. bueler and corsi were detained on october 7, 2008, by kenyan immigration officials and police just before the commencement of a press conference. they were eventually deported.