Boston college bans Bill Ayers
A LEFTIST gets banned for once. Is this unprecedented? I guess Ayers was too much on the nose even for the honchos at Boston College.
“Bill Ayers, known for his involvement in the Weather Underground, an activist group formed in a split from Students for a Democratic Society in 1969 that gained notoriety for its use of violent tactics, as well as for his work as an education theorist, was to speak at Boston College Monday before the event was canceled by the University on Friday. The event had been organized by Americans for Informed Democracy.
“Inviting Bill Ayers to Boston College in no way sanctions his activities in the past, especially regarding the Weather Underground,” Madormo said. “The lecture is merely an opportunity to hear from one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on issues of urban education reform. At a university, we have the responsibility to hear all voices even if we disagree with them. Above all, this is an issue of free speech and allowing the student body to hear a unique and respected academic viewpoint,” he added later in a release.
“We have the responsibility to hear all voices even if we disagree with them”. Great sentiments. I wonder if he said that when lots of his fellow students were protesting the visit of GWB’s Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice? Leftists are great at claiming free speech for themselves while denying it to others.
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Posted by JonJayRay on March 30, 2009 9:28 am
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