David Horowitz's first charges against me were that I am a homosexual who pushes for gay rights, sexually harasses students in doing so and that I treat Christian students unfairly. When I heard that those charges were brought by two students (the President of the College Republicans at URI and his vice president) to the chair of my department, it was I and not the students who demanded a full investigation by the Affirmative Action Officer at the University and, of course I was vindicated.

Failing at these charges, now Horowitz moves to my credentials and as he has done with a number of the 101 Most Dangerous, he charges that we are not qualified to teach those subjects we have been assigned by the University to teach.

Remember we are talking about a man who made up a department at Wellesley College and then attacked it because it was "too liberal," at the beginning of his career as a rightwing operative.

His most recent accusations against professors in Colorado, Pennsylvania, California, and Illinois among many others have all proven to be lies or misrepresentations, but I am sure you've done your homework for this article and I don't need to tell you that. What he has done to these victims, he has also done to me: lied, misrepresented, and distorted by classroom activities, my academic record, and my professional standing at the University of Rhode Island. And why? He has done so because I support full rights for all GLBT people, I advocate a Marxist political/economic perspective as a way to end many of the country's many problems, and because I see the Iraq War as nothing more than an opportunity to expand American corporate culture at the expense of the lives of America's young and their Iraqi equals.

What Horowitz is pushing in his attack on me and other professors is that Universities aren't ideologically standing with him and the rightwing conservatives he represents and those conservatives who are financially supporting him to do their "dirty work."

Professors are judged each and every year or every other year at the higher ranks by peers, deans, the provost and finally the president of the University in a very rigorous review system to insure the quality and quantity of their output. As an academic professional my record stands for itself in that rigorous review system and I have consistently been promoted and reached the apex of the professorship with a promotion last July to Full Professor III.

Among my accomplishments in academic life are three degrees, a certificate in advanced graduate studies from one of Europe's most prestigious Universities (where I spent a year and several months studying film theory and film history with one of the world's most prominent names in cinema studies) and yet an additional 3 years attending Ph.D. seminars at the same University on a monthly basis, a life membership in the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society for academic excellence, nearly 600 thousand dollars in grants from the

U.S. government, private foundations, and the University (and all those were highly competitive) along with the publication of 3 monographs, chapters in books, published articles, three merit raises from the University (based on my academic record in scholarship, professional service, and service to the community), and a term as a grant reviewer of the U.S. Department of Education's highly competitive Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education indicate that Mr. Horowitz has either not don't his homework when it comes to my record or deliberately has overlooked and lied about most of my many accomplishments that clearly indicate my ability and qualifications for University service. He's done it before to many others who have dared to disagree with him and no doubt he will do it again, and again, and again, because he is highly paid to do so by the most conservative foundations in the country, all of whom support the rightwing agenda Mr. Horowitz champions for money.

What Horowitz has said about me that is correct is that I am an out and proud queer who wants to see the U.S. economy based on Marxist principles and an end to that shameless imperialist war in Iraq.

Everything else David Horowitz has said about me is a not so creative mix of fiction, lies, and distortions. He is a man without ethics, morality, and is the Master of the Big Lie.