Thread: KABC Radio, Morning Show Host Sued By School

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Apr 18, 2007 2:08 pm US/Pacific
KABC Radio, Morning Show Host Sued By School

(CBS) LOS ANGELES Officials from a Los Angeles charter school are suing KABC-AM (790) and "McIntyre in the Morning" host Doug McIntyre for slander, alleging the school was the target of an on-air, racist campaign that led to a bomb scare.

Academia Semillas Del Pueblo and its principal director of operations, Marcos Aguilar, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. They are seeking unspecified general, compensatory and punitive damages.

"McIntyre implemented a premeditated scheme to bring down the school at all costs because the school educated predominately ... Latino-indigenous children in a non-Western European format," according to the lawsuit.

KABC-AM spokesman Steve Sheldon said the station had no comment on the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, McIntyre began criticizing several aspects of the school last May, including its funding, curriculum, demographics, administrators and educational statistics, all in order to increase his show's ratings.

McIntyre exploited a combination of anti-immigration sentiment and the nation's fear of Islamic terrorists to "create a racist fury against Latino school children, teachers, administrators and staff at the school," according to the lawsuit.

McIntyre's remarks included, "Is this a reconquista school?," "This school is ranked the lowest of the low in the LAUSD and in the state of California" and "Aztecs butchered and ate Spanish invaders. I wonder if they're teaching that at ASDP," according to the lawsuit.

McIntyre also said Aguilar's job was to "keep his school, his madrasa school, open so they can train the next generation of Aztec revolutionaries," according to the lawsuit.

The radio host also used "code words" aimed at a target audience to rile up listeners and create a backlash against the school and Aguilar, the lawsuit stated.

As a result, the school received many threats of violence, including a bomb threat that caused an evacuation of the school and is currently under investigation by the FBI, the lawsuit stated.

Meanwhile, a man who allegedly aimed his car at KABC Radio reporter Sandy Wells as he tried to interview parents and others outside the school is awaiting a May 8 pretrial hearing on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and second-degree robbery.

The charges against Ramon Flores, 31, stem from the alleged attack outside the school about 7:30 a.m. last June 1.

The reporter saw a silver sedan speeding straight at him, but he jumped out of the way and was not injured, Los Angeles police Lt. Paul Vernon said previously.

A man then got out of the car and took Wells' audiotape, Vernon said.

Flores could face up to six years in state prison if convicted.

This school shouldn't be allowed in the first place. It doesn't have a thing to do with learning to live in America and being an American! Malkin is weighing in on this:

Reconquista school sues radio host
By Michelle Malkin · April 19, 2007 08:53 PM

Remember that radical La Raza school in Los Angeles? Well, via Lonewacko, here's the LATimes reporting that the school is suing the L.A. talk show host who first exposed the school's reconquista roots:

A year-long feud between a talk radio personality and an L.A. charter school is ending up in an unusual court case.

School administrators filed a lawsuit this week against KABC-AM (790) and Doug McIntyre, alleging the host of "McIntyre in the Morning" targeted the school in a slanderous, racially motivated campaign last summer that resulted in a bomb threat to the school and ongoing security risks.

Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Marcos Aguilar, the El Sereno school's co-director, claim McIntyre "targeted the school for destruction because the children were Latino, the teachers were Latino, the principal director was Latino," according to the suit.

About 92% of the school's 327 students are Latino.

The school was founded in 2002 with the mission of "providing urban children of immigrant families an excellent education founded upon native and maternal languages, cultural values and global realities," with teaching primarily in Spanish.

It became a focus of controversy last year when McIntyre accused the school of pursuing a racist, separatist and dangerously revolutionary agenda. The allegations were looked into by Los Angeles Unified School District officials. They found nothing politically worrisome, but they did have serious concerns about the school's low test scores, which were a secondary focus for McIntyre.

A reminder of the principal's rhetoric:

We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.

This lawsuit should be 1) laughed out of the courts and 2) condemned as a thuggish attempt to intimidate and silence critics.

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Speaking of violence at the school, Chris Kelly notes that the man who allegedly tried to run down KABC reporter Sandy Wells during a report there will have a pretrial hearing next month and could get six years in prison.

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Mecha madrassa gets thumbs up
Aztlan 101
Violence at the Reconquista school
MEChA has a school
Hot Air MEChA school update
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007347.htm

The school was founded in 2002 with the mission of "providing urban children of immigrant families an excellent education founded upon native and maternal languages, cultural values and global realities," with teaching primarily in Spanish.

Try opening a school for all Anglo Saxon children exclusively and see how long it takes for the public officials to come and close it down.

Can anyone find any updated material for us on this story? What happened with Academia Semillas Del Pueblo's lawsuit against Doug McIntyre? What happened with the assault with a deadly weapon charges against Ramon Flores?

W

ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLO, FAILING CHARTER SCHOOL, THREATENS CONSERVATIVE BLOG 'MAYOR SAM' WITH LAWSUIT

BY SIMONE WILSONFRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012

Don't you just love when public-sector pricks try to threaten truthy Internet journalists with baseless "defamation" lawsuits?

Nothing's funnier to us than the image of these guys in their offices, all red-nosed and flustered, shaking their fists and frantically searching Thesaurus.com for bigger and scarier law terms, like, This'll show 'em! Yeah, use "legally actionable"! Oogly boogly!

If you're of the same taste, you'll really get a kick out of this one:

Academia Semillas del Pueblo, the insanely underperforming charter school in El Sereno that insists on teaching children Nahuatl -- a language spoken by under 2 million people in Mexico* -- is threatening to sue the rightbloggers at Mayor Sam for talking smack.

(*If only school officials were so insistant on teaching the kids English; only 30 percent test as "proficient." And they're even worse at math.)

Naturally, the school became somewhat of a pet target for white conservative media a few years ago. Led by KABC radio personality Doug McIntyre, critics accused the school of having a "radical reconquista agenda" and grooming its elementary-age kids for "the reclamation of the American southwest for the Mexican people."

So school officials cried "racist!" and slapped McIntyre with a lawsuit.

Of course, if they'd hired a real lawyer instead of some dud within their nepotistic city circle, they might have known that you can't just sue someone for not liking you.

According to documents posted on Mayor Sam, a judge soon trashed the suit and declared it a SLAPP (a "strategic lawsuit against public participation"). Academia Semillas was ordered to compensate McIntyre and the station for all their legal fees -- over $190,000 in taxpayer dollars.

Yet on June 6, like a retarded newborn hamster, the school served Mayor Sam with a nearly identical "cease and desist" letter for alleged "false and damaging statements."

And for a much lesser offense: Mayor Sam has recently been pointing out the very indisputable truths that Academia Semillas director Marcos Aguilar plays buddy/campaign contributor to City Councilman Jose Huizar, and that the school's cafeteria has been experiencing some suspicious financial woes.

(Word has it the Times is digging into the woe-pile, as well, so Academia Semillas might have bigger problems than a feisty blogspot in its future.)

The letter to Mayor Sam, written by legal counsel Salomon Zavala, demands that an extensive list of blog posts be taken down. Or else, writes, Zavala...

"... if you do not comply with these demands to stop your wrongful conduct on or before June 12, 2012, Semillas intends to file a civil suit against you for damages and will seek an award of its attorney fees and litigation expenses. Please govern yourself accordingly."
Oogly boogly.

Scott Johnson, the Mayor Sam blogger who covers Academia Semillas (and who most certainly does not intend to remove his coverage), says he hasn't heard from the school or its lawyer in the last few days, despite the June 12 deadline.

Another rightblogger over at City Watch says Zavala, the school's attorney, has equally strong ties to the reconquista movement:

"Nearly a decade ago, Zavala himself was on the board of the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, a Latino-progressive legal review, while a law student at Boalt. As general counsel for Semillas Sociedad Civil, he lends counsel to the Academia, long thought by local conservatives to be far more than a place where difference is celebrated; rather it is seen by many conservatives as a place where Anglo American values and traditions are even actively called into question."

For more on the niche charter school's abysmal academic record and LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy's fruitless attempts to shut it down, see LA Weekly print story "Academia Semillas, a Failing School, Escapes Closure."

http://www.laweekly.com/news/academi...awsuit-2385770

According to documents posted on Mayor Sam, a judge soon trashed the suit and declared it a SLAPP (a "strategic lawsuit against public participation"). Academia Semillas was ordered to compensate McIntyre and the station for all their legal fees -- over $190,000 in taxpayer dollars.

Excellent news! Thank you.

W

You're welcome W. Not finding anything re Ramon Flores. Somewhat common name and there is a hot shot baseball player with that name. Tried other combos of words but no luck. Perhaps someone else can have better luck.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Can anyone find any updated material for us on this story? What happened with Academia Semillas Del Pueblo's lawsuit against Doug McIntyre? What happened with the assault with a deadly weapon charges against Ramon Flores?

W

Thursday, September 21, 2006



Arrest Made in Assault on Radio Reporter

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives arrested Ramon Flores, 31, in Boyle Heights during a traffic stop this morning around 8:15 AM. Flores has been identified as the man who assaulted and robbed a local radio reporter on June 1, 2006, near a charter school in El Sereno.

"Detectives got a break this week when they re-canvassed the area where the assault occurred," said LAPD spokesman Lieutenant Paul Vernon. "They noticed a car fitting the description of the one used in the assault and traced it to the owner."

The arrest ended a three-month investigation into the assault and robbery of KABC radio reporter Sandy Wells. Detectives searched Flores' home in the 1000 block of Fresno Street in connection with the search and arrest warrants. They were looking for evidence that might further connect Flores to the incident. Detectives impounded Flores' silver Dodge Magnum at the scene of his arrest near Boyle and Eighth Streets. The car matched the description Wells provided to police at the time of the assault.

Around 7:30 AM on June 1, 2006, Wells had just finished trying to interview parents, students, and administrators at the Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School. Wells was across the street from the school, in the 4700 block of Huntington Drive, when he noticed a silver sedan speeding toward him. The car jumped the curbed onto the sidewalk. Wells jumped out of the way to keep from being hit. An Hispanic man got out of the car and confronted Wells, trying to take his recording equipment.

Wells was able to fend off the assailant, who made off with the audio tape from Wells' recorder.

"Wells got a pretty good look at the man," Vernon said. "Once the detectives had a possible suspect, they presented a picture array to Wells, who picked out Flores from among five similar-looking men."

Flores was booked on a charge of Assault With a Deadly Weapon, likely to cause great bodily harm. He will also face an additional charge of Robbery. His bail was set at $80,000.

http://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/news_view/33406

Good find JohnDoe2, our news finder extraordinaire.

I can't figure out why we are working on NEWS from 2007.