Oct 16 2008
Domestic Terrorist and Murderer has Friends in the Triangle
Thousands of academics, including about a dozen from the Triangle, have signed an online petition in support of Bill Ayers, the 1960s-radical-turned-college professor whose ties to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama were a matter of hot dispute in Wednesday night’s debate.
The petition, which has circulated through university faculties across the nation, says critics of Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, are trying to “intimidate free thinking and stifle critical dialogue.” More than 3,200 have signed the petition.
So which moral equivalency-loving losers actually think that Ayers is a swell dude?
-Lawrence Grossberg, a UNC-Chapel Hill communications studies professor: “He has become one of the leading scholars in the field of education. [People are] excoriating him for things he did 40 years ago and misrepresenting what he has done since, in order to make someone else suffer. That doesn’t seem very American to me.”
-Duke law professor Michael Tigar: “I think that the McCain campaign’s desperate attempt to tag Sen. Obama with Ayers’ conduct, back when Sen. Obama was 8 years old, is a discreditable attempt to divert attention from the serious issues we face”.
And several more professors from “several from other universities across North Carolina”.
Every single one of those professors needs to be fired- NOW. If they aren’t fired, the people in charge of firing them need to be fired. This descpicable monster murdered people and has said -recently- that he isn’t sorry about it. You know we’ve gone off the deep end when a bunch of pinhead academics think that that’s no biggie… as long as Ayers contributes to academic thought. What a crock!
And in case you’ve been living in a cave for the last month, here’s a refresher:
A 1970 pipe bomb in San Francisco attributed to the group killed a police officer and hurt another, and an accidental 1970 explosion in a Greenwich Village basement killed three radicals. In 1981, two police officers and a security guard were killed in the robbery of an armored truck in New York that involved two Weather Underground members.
