p l a · g i a · r y

pla · gia · ry (plā´jə-rē) noun
plural, pla · gia · ries

1.  Plagiarism.
2.  Archaic. One who plagiarizes.
[Latin plagiārius, kidnapper, plagiarist, from plagium, kidnapping, from plaga, net.]

Pete Rose didn’t bet on baseball. Bill Clinton didn’t have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinski. And Doug Wilson didn’t commit plagiarism. But My Prison Without Bars put the lie to Pete Rose. Presidential DNA on Monica’s blue dress put the lie to Bill Clinton. And the thumbnails below put the lie to Douglas Wilson.

As noted on the front page, Douglas Wilson and his pet goons uploaded hatesplotch.net to the worldwide web in response the local community’s outrage at his book Southern Slavery, As It Was. Once again, instead of obeying the Lord Jesus Christ who said, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” Wilson deliberately provoked an already incensed population by subjecting it to his trademark ridicule, which of course became the cause of action for dougsplotch.

But while Wilson mocked his critics (those to whom he has supposedly been called to preach the gospel) for pooh-poohing his “put-put scholarship,” God was not mocked. Indeed, the Lord prepared for Wilson a harvest of splotch that no mortal could have dreamt, but one that only Wilson could blow off.

It turned out that Douglas Wilson plagiarized massive sections of Southern Slavery, As It Was from a scholarly work entitled Time on the Cross. In other words, Douglas Wilson “covenantally partook” from Time on the Cross without telling anybody.

How ironic that the word “plagiarize” comes from the Latin “kidnapper” (originally “slave stealer”) and that Wilson plagiarized portions of a book he wrote to defend the fruits of manstealing. But once again no one held Wilson accountable for his theft. The Kirk elders gave it a blind eye, which required no effort, as did the president of New St. Andrews College, Dr. Roy Atwood, which took even less effort.

But if you think about it, President Atwood owed his senior felon of theology a big one. After all, who covered Roy’s bacon when you know who ran up thousands of dollars in gambling debts in his garage casino? Nevertheless, when President Roy Atwood “sought to studiously ignore” Wilson’s literary theft, he created another embarrassing irony for New Saint Andrews College.

A few years ago Wilson wrote a hit job in C/A where he used plagiarism as an excuse to nail MLK and the academic establishment, pretending that his fingers never lifted from another man’s work. But voila, given all his gyrating and showboating, we see that in the end he would not be judged by the content of his character or by the works of his hands. Douglas Wilson, call George Orwell:

If you want to read an indictment of American academia, as if you needed one, then I recommend Plagiarism and the Culture War. In it, Theodore Pappas documents the wholesale plagiarism committed by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his doctoral work, not to mention the varied and wondrous contortions of the academic establishment as they sought to studiously ignore this indisputable fact. Of course, this particular instance is not the sum and substance of modern academic corruption, but it does provide a wonderful example of how it all works. If you are in any doubt about how advanced our public corruption is, just write a letter to your local paper on how MLK was a plagiarist, and see what happens. Suddenly, mirabile dictu, people like you who believe that a man should be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin will be branded . . . racists. George Orwell, call your office. (C/A, 11-1)