PLAGIARIZED: A Justice Primer

A Corruption of Justice Primer

Rachel Miller has discovered that Douglas Wilson & Randy Booth plagiarized significant portions of their book A Justice Primer. Somehow, the word “ironic” doesn’t quite capture this one. Let the wordsmithing begin.

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  3. So if this takes off, how long before Randy Booth gets thrown under the bus for the plagiarized passages ala Steve Wilkins for the Southern Slavery as it Was plagiarism fiasco?

    Having a co-writer makes it so much easier to blame shift.

    1. Booth is toast but he’s in a pickle. The plagiarism obviously DQs him, but he is Wilson’s primary line of defense on the CREC Review Committee. So if he’s DQed, he loses his chair. And if he loses his chair, then the CREC needs to replace him. But the CREC constitution does not contemplate losing a PM and a PM pro tempore, so they have no process for this. Further, if Booth goes, then the CREC should ask itself if he tainted his committee (he did).

      So if anyone in the CREC is reading this, this is your chance to seize control of the kangaroo committee. Booth should call an ad hoc meeting of the broader assembly, to elect a new PM pro tempore. The broader assembly should use this meeting to vote Wilson out of office (need a 75% majority), which would mean a vote for a new PM and a new PM pro tempore.

      The CREC constitution confers authority on the broader assembly to appoint ad hoc committee. So the broader assembly should dissolve Booth’s committee and appoint a new one — one fronted by Boz T because the CREC constitution does not preclude the broader assembly from appointing a committee of non-CRECers.

      If the CREC wants justice, they can do it now.

  4. It couldn’t happen to a nice pair – Doug and Randy and of course the new owners of Canon Press, Nate Wilson and Aaron Rench. Maybe owning Canon Press isn’t all it was cracked up to be – or maybe the mistake lies in trusting Daddy Wilson – lots of folks have had that bitter experience to their sorrow.
    This is an old story – inviting sycophantic word thieves (hello Steve “League of the Racist South” Wilkins) and another good ol’ Southern boy like Aw Shucks Randy Booth is more than a mistake – it reveals to all the world the kind of pals Doug has and uses. As much as I cringe when I hear cliches like birds of a feather flock together in this case it certainly is apt.
    Also, kudos to Rachel Miller for a brilliant essay and super images of the misdeeds of the pastors.

  5. I am shocked at the level of plagiarism here. Not so much that they plagiarized so often and extravagantly, but that they didn’t even try to cover their tracks. How hard would it be to paraphrase? That would at least have given them some ability to cover and obfuscate. Truly amazing, and indicative of one or all of the following: (1) arrogance; (2) severe self-deception, the kind that lies so much it believes itself; and/or (3) the authors’ belief that their fans are morons.

    And wasn’t this book just a compilation of Wilson’s blog posts over the last several years? If so, he’ll have a hard time blaming Booth. My guess is that he’ll blame several unidentifiable NSA students (he won’t be able to remember who they were, it was so long ago and there were so many) who researched and co-wrote the blog entries for him.

  6. I used to be impressed with the volume of Wilson’s writing output. I guess now I know how he does it.

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