Bomber Bill Ayers’ College Tour

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Front Page Magazine:

Bill Ayers has a new book coming out and is doing the lecture circuit on college campuses. He was invited to speak on “Democracy and Education: Teaching for Liberation” at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois, on September 26, and on Tuesday, October 1, he will be speaking at Gettysburg College on “Queering Education.”

 

Some people remember Ayers’s real past and are objecting. ECC alumni Robert and Barbara Haase, in a letter to the editor, wrote: “William Ayers’ viewpoint should not be included in the ‘variety of viewpoints’ in the marketplace of ideas you propose to expose. . . .”

 

 

They said that he deserved jail time for setting bombs at a time when their “friends and relatives in Vietnam [were] defending Ayers’ right to express his views without fear. Some of them never made it home. They were not there to defend anyone’s right to commit acts of terrorism.”

 

They are quoting an administrator who used the old saw of “variety of viewpoints” to justify inviting Ayers.