The PC thought police are everywhere, even the Naval Academy. Daniel Wise of the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Naval Academy Professor Sanctioned for Criticizing Sexual Assault Policies

A popular U.S. Naval Academy professor says he was unfairly temporarily suspended from teaching after two students complained about his criticism of the school’s sexual assault policies.

Bruce Fleming, an English professor at the academy, was prohibited from entering his classroom or contacting his students on Sept. 16 while the school’s English department conducted an investigation into the complaints, which he claimed were baseless. He was permitted to resume teaching on Sept. 18.

“The investigation was conducted in a way that was meant for due process for both the students and the professor, and when it was completed the decision was made that professor Fleming could return to class on Wednesday,” said Cmdr. John Schofield, academy spokesman.

Fleming said he is still not sure why the investigation was conducted and that no formal charges were ever filed against him.

Vice academic dean Boyd Waite initially presented professor Mark McWilliams, chairman of the English department, with a letter barring Fleming from the classroom and contact with students, Fleming said.

After McWilliams refused to sign the letter, the administration presented him with two options: either initiate an internal investigation of Fleming within the department or allow a “lengthy, nasty” investigation run by the “military side,” Fleming said.

McWilliams chose the first option. Fleming said he thought he was placed on administrative leave.

However, McWilliams suggested to him that he “voluntarily” decided not to teach his courses and agreed to have other English professors fill in for him and conduct a “fishing expedition” by surveying his students for complaints, Fleming said.

Fleming said he does not see it that way. He said he was treated like an “elementary school teacher [who] has been fondling students.”

The academy has an office called SAPRO (Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office) and here’s the key excerpt.

The deans’ decision to then pursue an investigation after the complaints were denied at other offices was “completely unpardonable,” he added.

Additionally, 95 percent of the documents in a case folder provided to McWilliams by Dean Waite pertained to Fleming’s criticism of the academy’s sexual assault prevention policies. Fleming said this suggested, “Criticism of SAPRO itself was a SAPRO violation.”