Mike Adams continues to pile it on Dr. Clifton Snider of Cal State Long Beach. Dr. Snider only makes things worse by adding a haughty disclaimer to his lesson plan.

Notice to my students: someone has published illegally in what purports to be an "article" material from my web site, that is, portions of my assignments. The article, among many misrepresentations, implies I require that you write about certain topics. As you know, you have always had a wide choice of topics to write about in your papers. The same is true for the Argument Paper. I believe in and practice academic freedom.*

If you are like me, you're probably thinking that anyone that puts an asterisk behind the phrase "I believe in and practice academic freedom", probably doesn't really believe in and practice academic freedom. Fortunately, Dr. Snider is good enough to define academic freedom for those of us who are too stupid to understand it:

*According to university policy, passed by the Academic Senate on 28 February 2000, the "primary responsibility [of professors] to their subject is to seek and to state the truth as they see it." As far as academic freedom goes, "the special nature of universities protects professors from being question[ed] about their lectures" (CSULB web site).

Snider continues to aggravate the situation by insisting that nobody can quote lines from his taxpayer funded university web site without his advanced permission:

You are not limited in any way to the topics below. The reason the material from my web site in the "article" is illegal is that the author never obtained, didn't even ask for, my permission to publish copyrighted material. The length of his quoted material in proportion to the web page it comes from takes it out of the category of "fair use." The "article" uses vindictive, rude language, language that is entirely unprofessional and inappropriate in a scholarly article. Furthermore, in a second "article" this person has quoted in full a private e-mail from me to him without my permission. This clearly violates the U.S. Copyright Law. This person's site is an excellent example of an unauthorized web site that has no place in logical discourse.

Apparently Snider believes in Copyright Law as he sees it.