WIGHTMAN UNLEASHED ON CRITICS OF TSC SHORTCOMINGS

By Juan Montoya
It has gotten to the point where we now expect a knee-jerk reaction to any post we publish dealing with criticism of the Texas Southmost College administration and its board actions.
The posts will be subjected to the fine scrutiny of disbarred lawyer Robert Wightman who wants to have it both ways. He wants to criticize the critics but finds himself in agreement with the content of the criticism. He then berates the objects of his ire with the usual insults of homophobia, idiocy and character defamation. That is just the nature of that beast.
But of course, it's nothing personal. He is merely doing it in a literal way, and not in any real, tangible sense. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Is it, as federal agents told a friend at the trial of a politiquera recently, that he is the only one who believes what he writes? They sure as hell don't, they said.
For anyone who can look past the bluster of this hot air bag, I am not writing to expound on my talents as an economist, a scholar (as he claims he is) or as an armchair academic. I actually have a personal stake in the success of TSC. I not only got my academic start there, but also have a son who is actually attending the school and another who will when he graduates from high school in the next couple of years.
This is not an academic exercise for me and the parents of other students.
If I feel that the efforts of the current administration to gain accreditation have so far failed miserably, I will say it regardless of  who is discomforted by it. If I feel that the dependence on Ebooks by the college and the awarding of a multi-million multi-year contract to Dr. Lily Tercero's former boss and a vendor for Dynamic Solutions amounts to a sweetheart contract that benefits them personally, I will say it.
I challenge this misanthrope (he hates everyone) to produce the "check" he constantly claims that I am paid by this person or the other. It's so easy to hide behind a cyberwall and spew hatred without having to prove anything.
I am constantly amazed when this destructive individual who constantly accuses men of being "misogynist eunuchs" and "vindictive dicks" targets successful women who don't knuckle under to his mercurial intellectual demands. Pct. 1 Cameron County commissioner Sofia Benavides, her daughter JP 2-2 -elect Maria Esther Garcia, BISD trustee Catalina Presas-Garcia, and now, lately, TSC trustee Adela Garza, have all been victims of this demented schizo. But mail-in vote manipulator Norma Hernandez and her daughter Erin Garcia are the salt of the earth.
Garza, in his last post, has been called a "witch."
He rationalizes (if it can be called that) that "Adela is so ignorant she cannot see how Montoya's bizarre, homophobic, defamatory posts and comments cost Luci Longoria, Oscar Garcia, Robert Lopez, and Shirley Bowman the election."
Voters elect their representatives. To think that any one person has so much influence or importance to swing any election for or against any candidate is plainly delusional. Not one person, but thousands of voters cast their ballots for their candidates and we have learned to respect their wishes. They plainly don't believe Wightman when he rails against Benavides, Garcia, Presas-Garcia and Garza.
He can himself run for office like they did and see how far he gets. I can only imagine the reaction from the voters when they hear him start speaking his mind.
After all, it was the federal court in Washington D.C. which labeled someone else's frivolous and irrational lawsuit against the U.S. government "bizarre," wasn't it Robby?
Wightman sued the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, the FBI, its director and the U.S. Attorney General (among others) for not providing him with a special prosecutor who would investigate an imagined conspiracy to entrap him into applying for a credit card offer that he got in the mail.
In their opinion, the federal judges said Wightman's "factual allegations were conclusory and unsupported, representing the type of "bizarre conspiracy theories" and "wholly insubstantial" claims contemplated by the D.C. Circuit and others that had dismissed similar claims.
The court said that even though it recognized that pro-se litigants are "generally entitled to the benefit of less stringent than those applied to attorneys, in fact, Wightman is a disbarred attorney who "is presumed to have a knowledge of the legal system and needed less protections from the court."
The operative word here is "presumed."
So much for the keen legal mind cum economist, theologian, trend setter and arbiter of ethics and morals for the rest of us mere mortals.
As a loyal supporter of the trustees who stood up to the UT System and local adherents to Julieta Garcia's efforts to destroy the people's college, I feel I have the right to state my opinions when I feel that the TSC administrators and board's actions are subpar and deficient to the task at hand.
TSC has lost out on millions of an EDA training grant because it dropped the ball on the application even though TSC board president Kiko Rendon is on the Workforce board. That is a real, tangible loss of opportunities to the residents of the TSC district and its students. What is wrong with demanding effective leadership from this administration? Does this mean that if we do so we will  be subject to the insults and attacks by this weirdo?
If that is the price and those of us who care for TSC and its future (and the education of our children) must pay and also bear the ire and bile of this paid mastiff to do it, so be it.