NU president, regents call Ayers invite 'poor judgment'
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By MELISSA LEE / Lincoln Journal Star
University of Nebraska President J.B. Milliken and some members of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents on Thursday called the decision to invite William Ayers to NU’s Lincoln campus next month “poor judgment.”
Ayers, a founder of a radical group that bombed public buildings in protest of the Vietnam War, is scheduled to be a keynote speaker Nov. 15 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Education and Human Sciences’ student research conference. The conference is part of a two-day celebration honoring the college’s 100th anniversary.
Ayers, a distinguished education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was invited to UNL to share his expertise on topics like social justice and urban educational reform, said Marjorie Kostelnik, dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences.
The Woods Fund of Chicago, for which Sen. Barack Obama and William Ayers once served as board members, is a sister organization to the Woods Charitable Fund in Lincoln.
The Woods Charitable Fund began in 1941 and provides grants to such areas as human services, art, culture and education. In 1994, it divided into two organizations -- the original fund in Lincoln and a new one in Chicago -- said Pam Baker, executive director of the Lincoln fund.
The two funds are informally related but have separate boards, assets and projects, Baker said. The Lincoln fund has not worked with either Obama or Ayers on any projects, she said.
But some NU leaders aren’t happy.
“While I believe that the open exchange of ideas and the principles of academic freedom are fundamental to a university, I also believe the decision to have Ayers on a program to celebrate the college’s Centennial represents remarkably poor judgment,” Milliken said in a statement.
“The University of Nebraska in no way condones Ayers’ past terrorist acts, which I consider reprehensible.”
It’s true that embracing academic freedom sometimes means welcoming controversial viewpoints, Regents Chairman Chuck Hassebrook of Lyons said.
“But at the same time, the authority we grant to the faculty to decide what to teach and who to invite comes with a responsibility to use that authority and that freedom with sound judgment,” Hassebrook said. “In this case, I think, that was violated.”
Said Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln: “It was bad judgment to invite someone who has such a despicable history to participate in an event which is supposed to be a celebration. Anybody who thought this wouldn’t come up is probably naive.
“It’s just very unfortunate.”
Ayers’ 9 a.m. address — open to UNL faculty and students only — is called “We Are Each Other’s Keepers: Research to Change the World.”
Kostelnik defended the choice, saying Ayers was selected by a faculty committee in the spring, long before his ties to Sen. Barack Obama became a focus of the presidential campaign.
At the time, Kostelnik said, no faculty member objected to the decision. But since then, she said, the college has made clear to Ayers his remarks must focus entirely on academics.
“We’re not interested in having him speak about his past or any of those things,” she said. “We are interested in his research. ...
“I want to make very clear that we don’t condone his activities of the ‘60s and the ‘70s, but in the 30 or 40 years since then, he’s carved out a different life. And that academic life is of interest to us.”
Decades ago, Ayers was a founder of Weather Underground, the group that claimed responsibility for bombings several government buildings, including the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.
Years later, he and Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, served together on the board of an anti-poverty nonprofit called the Woods Fund of Chicago, a sister organization to Lincoln’s Woods Charitable Fund.
The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has sharply criticized Obama for his ties to Ayers, including during Wednesday’s presidential debate. But Obama has said the ties are extremely limited, noting he was a child when the Weather Underground bombings took place.
Still, Ayers’ planned visit to UNL is sparking protest. Readers flooded JournalStar.com with comments Thursday, and regents said they’d been receiving angry phone calls and e-mails all day.
“That’s just outrageous. That’s a slap in the face to law-abiding Nebraskans,” said UNL chemistry professor Gerard Harbison.
State Auditor Mike Foley said he’s e-mailed Kostelnik to ask for financial details of Ayers’ visit.
“I want to know who’s paying for this. ... I’m deeply concerned that the taxpayers of Nebraska might be paying for a domestic terrorist to speak at our university,” Foley said.
Kostelnik said no state money will be spent on Ayers’ appearance. The small honorarium he will be paid, she said, will come from private funds.
The NU Foundation is not contributing to Ayers’ visit, President Clarey Castner said.
Kostelnik said the student research conference will be small — drawing about 150 people, mostly graduate students and faculty from the College of Education and Human Sciences — and stressed no student or employee is required to attend.
“We didn’t expect him to be such a lightning rod,” she said.
In a statement, Chancellor Harvey Perlman also defended Ayers’ selection, noting UNL, like any university, makes an effort to host speakers of a variety of political opinions.
“In this instance, it is unfortunate that a lecture directed toward an academic subject has become implicated in a political campaign,” Perlman’s statement read. “However, Professor Ayers is clearly regarded as a national expert in his field and can contribute to the understanding of this topic for our faculty and students.
“Nothing in his presence suggests that the university supports his personal or political philosophy or condones any of his former conduct.”
Ayers is on sabbatical this academic year from the University of Illinois at Chicago to pursue research, said Mark Rosati, associate chancellor in the Office of Public Affairs.
Ayers hasn’t given many talks on college campuses this year, Rosati said, although he did speak at the University of North Dakota in April over protests from conservative student groups.
At NU, Wilson, for one, fears Ayers’ invite may sour what was meant to be a celebratory weekend.
“His presence will overwhelm the event. The whole story’s going to be about Bill Ayers,” Wilson said. “It’s created a real furor, to the detriment of the University of Nebraska.”
Reach Melissa Lee at 473-2682 or mlee@journalstar.com.
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This single act dishonors 100 years of Nebraska teacher education, and soils all of us who work at the university. "
Secondly - this mans re-emergence in Chicago Society is an amazing story if nothing else, including being given an award in 1997 from the city of Chicago (I think it was citizen of the year award) for his work in education. If it wasn't for the political turmoil of the desperate GOP and the continuous rantings of Hannity, most of you wouldn't even know about him. It's just a continual over-reaction for the sake of politics at this point. I'm not defending him in anyway, but at some point it should not be such a big deal to incite the reaction it is getting. UNL could be doing it just to prove the point that politics is NOT going to dictate their decision about speakers. It might be just for the enjoyment of watching the reaction, I'm not sure. At this point, he has qualfications in the area of teaching and education, and of course the infamy of his past, which actually could make it quite interesting. My advice, take a deep breath and chill. "
Letting a known TERRORIST speak and have a forum to preach waht he believes is truth ? In 2003 he stated that he wished he and his group had blown up more places and people. Is that waht we need for our University? To have this connection with a radical? I say to all ALUMS NO MORE $$$$$$$$$$$$ if he speaks. "
He may have done terrible things 40 years ago, but that doesn't mean that he hasn't contributed to educational research. I respect those running CEHS and I am certain that they wouldn't have asked him to speak becaues they condone in any way what he has done in the past.
And about UNL being liberal - that is a good thin. Growing up in a conservative state it is good for students to be exposed to other ways of thinking. I think it makes for a well balanced person to see multiple sides of the issues. "
Now can we shut up about this? "
This also reminds me of how the U.S. and other countries treated Yasser Arafat after he renounced terrorism and moved to politics. Things might be a lot less violent between Israel and Pakistan if we had accepted that he was not a terrorist anymore.
And the anti-affirmative action bill has nothing to do with this issue, so why is it being mentioned? "
Why aren't you brining OJ Simpson to speak?!!! "
If his name hadn't become recently popular again, how many would have even noticed that he was speaking at this event? How many would've remembered his past and made the connection? A lot of people under 50 probably don't even know who this guy is.
I bet many would have let this event slip by without notice had Ayers not been in the news lately. "
Why are you all being so close-minded? He's not coming here to recruit the poor, impressionable UNL students to become domestic terrorists. Here's an educated man that has made mistakes in his past, but now has the opportunity to share those experiences with the youth of today.
Are you proud of every moment of your past? Have you ever made a mistake? I hope none of you are Christians that are posting those comments. Something about forgiveness comes to mind....weird.... "
This is small potatoes compared to the Rumsfeld's relationship with Sadaam Hussein, and Reagan funneling money to bin Laden and the Taliban.
Wouldn't you say? "
Really, I’m outraged too. How low will UNL go? Who will next visit this well known stew of liberalism? That provocateur David Gergen? The radical Clarence Thomas? Mikhail Gorbachev, the unreconstructed communist? Oh, when will Rush Limbaugh stop stalking the sidelines at Husker games?
If we all withhold our contributions, we won’t have to listen to these scoundrels and we’ll be assured others are protected from them. Better to do this than to let people decide for themselves. Isn’t that right “Clarence” and “I can’t believe this”? "
We're not talking a little juvenile wild streak here. We're taking about the bombing of the Pentagon, the Capitol building, the NYC police headquarters, a judge's home, and the killing of policemen and soldiers. Diana Oughton, Ayers' girlfriend, was blown up, with two others, building a bomb for him. The bomb was a nail bomb. Nail bombs are designed to kill and maim people, not destroy property. According to Cathy Wilkerson, another member of the group, it was to be planted at a dance for soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Hundreds of young American men and women, the men mostly draftees, would have been killed had it gone as planned.
I may be an 'outspoken conservative', but I'd hope all of us, left and right, could be outspoken about this. "
I always find it funny when people who blow up government buildings get government jobs.
Here's a recount of the great "freedom fighter" Bill Ayres activities:
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0430jm.html "
Not a threat. A promise. "
If this is about giving voice to liberals and conservatives: where's the conservative at this event? I graduated from UNL's Teacher's College, back when that's what they called it and I won't send money to them either for more reasons than this. "
And now the university that MY tax dollars supports thinks this nut should speak here?
What is this world coming to? "
Will Mr. Ayers be standing on our flag while he speaks? UNL should rethink this invite. "
There is another reason: my beliefs aren’t important to your children. At this age in college, they are learning to be free – in thinking and from you. How can I help them become critical thinkers if I’m trying to force strong personal beliefs?
There is no liberal menace on campus, Linda. I should know because I’m open minded and I’m there a lot more than you are. Give UNL a chance because it’s a good school. Give your kid some credit because he has a brain. "
What a country!!! I'm guilty as hell yet I walk free. Why would someone even consider inviting him to UNL? Please reconsider. "
No, I'm not perfect, but I also haven't unleashed violence upon my country, unlike Mr. William Ayers. "
I am certain that a more informative, creative, and academic individual
exists somewhere out there in America'a universities. "
Is she dreaming or what? Don't you know who this guy is? Unbelievable. "
UNL teacher. Don't tell me their isn't radical indoctrination going on at UNL. My nephew's first assignment this year was to read an Angela Davis book. Another criminal. So don't tell me it isn't liberal, or leftist. Ayers is an admitted communist and unrepentant. He bragged about getting away with his atrocities. "
out of this great country, HE and his evil spreadeers are not welcome.
I will be there to protest.
UNL SHAME ON YOU "
Mr. Ayers is coming to campus without tax payer funds and for the sole purpose of educating students at the university who will, in turn, educate our children. Obviously the timing couldn't be worse and, perhaps in light of that fact, Mr. Ayers visit should be pushed back to the spring when all of the talk radio hosts some of you get your opinions from will be bemoaning the horrors of the Obama administration. Then we can all go back to not caring about the despicable and regrettable things Mr. Ayers did 40 years ago in protest of yet another awful war continued far past its expiration date by Republicans. "
As far as him being a distinguished college prof, he is, at another liberal college. He still wants to teach how to be a radical.
While it's true he wasn't convicted because of a technicality, by his own admission he bombed our buildings, just the way McVry did, just the way the terrorists did. "
they were not hippies, they were and are crazy, murderous america hating leftists. that's why they fit into academe so well. "
What a slap in the face it is for our teaching profession, our children and grandchildren to be host in Nebraska for such an individual. "
"I still support the football team"
that is awesome, the football team doesn't need your support, students do
shows what comes first in this town - football or education "
After a bit of research (as I knew very little of Ayers), I find no reference of Ayers being a murderer. Except for three comrades who were killed when one of the Weathermen group's own devices accidentally exploded in a New York City townhouse in 1970, no one was injured by one of their bombs. Ayers was indicted in 1970 for inciting a riot and conspiracy to bomb government buildings, but the charges were dropped (the ‘technicality’ to which Gerald Harbison refers) due to procedural misconduct, including illegal surveillance.
If anyone is interested in information other than the GOP smear campaign against Obama, here is an article originally published in the Chicago Tribune on September 16, 2001.
http://www.exploreli.com/entertainment/localguide/events/chi-ayers-5,0,7031241.story?page=1 "
You can't simply skirt the issue by saying "We're interested in his research, not the past or any of those things".
Besides his terrorist bacground, which he does not remorse over, this kind of fruit is singlehandley destroying the educational system in america with thier progressive agenda.
"We didnt expect him to be such as lightning rod" is pure ignorance, and ripe for the taking by national media pundits at a time they are already lampooning us with the God Suit and the Child Abandonment issue. "
Hey Ne Grad student: Two things. Learn how to spell. As for what he did 40 years ago, seven years ago he said he wishes he did more. Now go apply for a job at the DN, I'm sure they would love to have you. "
For those of you wanting to withhold funding - remember what your UNL education has done for you. I know my opportunities are greater because I attended UNL and I am not going to soon forget it. As soon as I start making real moolah I plan to help the university, even if I don't like every single decision they make. It is a university, and supposed to be an open minded place. The students are not mindless idiots who cannot listen to a past domestic terrorist without themselves becoming one. Seriously. "
That's ALL anyone needs to know.
Do the research. "
Another Harvey blunder "
Would we accept Osama bin Laden to speak at the University of Nebraska Medical Center if he discovered a cure for cancer? "
I wonder if Ayers was the first choice and if not, who was ahead of Ayers on the list? If Ayres was busy, who else was on the list of potential invitees?
This will continue until we stand up to the university and no longer send our money or or kids to this liberal school. I am a grad of UNL of old, but rest assured, my daughter will not attend UNL or any other campus in the university system. "
" I am an Obama supporter but Ayers should never been given a platform to speak ANYWHERE. I am appalled that UNL has asked him here. ""
Just so I understand. It's wrong for a University to promote learning? I mean, how many of us turn on A&E to learn about Manson or the "Iceman"? 2 how many students from the University of Illinois are now all radicals from listening to Ayers teach? and finally, 150 votes (assuming Ayers audiance vote radically Democratic) won't matter when all said and done. "
You say "He's a changed man."
What if he was a child molester 30/40 years ago?
Would you now let him be alone or around with your children or grandchildren?
You seem to forget the fact that he is unrepentant to this very day.
Why not have someone who GRaduated with Honors and went and accomplished great things from this University instead of letting a known terrorist into out midst and to speak to our students? "
I'm a Chicago journalist, and here's an excerpt from a colum I wrote on him in 2001, a few days before 9/11. It might help Lincoln readers take his measure. It begins with histelling me his reaction to a documentary he'd recently watched on the Weathermen:
"'I was embarrassed by the arrogance, the solipsism, the absolute certainty that we and we alone knew the way. The rigidity and the narcissism.' What Ayers is describing has a lot to do with why the Weathermen were widely thought, even on the left, to be nuts. Egoism blinded them to the fact that the masses they hoped to sway--and I include myself in these masses--they repelled.
"And for that, Ayers tells me, he is sorry. 'I gave up something precious--my own individual mind and heart. The distinction I'm making is that I don't think we should apologize for our extremism. I should apologize for a lot of other things.'
"He asks me to remember. 'There are two things you can say about the late 60s. We were confronted with a hellish reality--two hellish realities. One was the murder of black revolutionaries. COINTELPRO was not something imagined. The targeting of black messiahs [such as Chicago's Black Panther leader Fred Hampton] was happening in our faces. It's very hard to understand what we did without the context of that murderous assault going on in front of us. And secondly, the Vietnam War. The largest antiwar movement of the century, internationally, was underway, and yet we couldn't stop the war.
"'Different people made different choices. Some went into factories to organize the industrial working class. Some people retreated to communes. Some people joined the Democratic Party to reform it. And we organized a military assault on the war. I'm not arguing in the book [a memoir he'd just written] we were right. I'm trying to explain what we were thinking. I'm not sure we were right.'"
After 9/11 I talked to him again. Shortly before the Weathermen collapsed, a bomb being made by three other people in a New York town house exploded and all three were killed. (Ayers wasn't there.)
I wrote:
"Aside from scale, I ask Ayers, was the bomb that by chance or God's grace killed no one but its makers morally identical to the civilian airliners bursting into buildings in New York and Washington?
"'Absolutely,' says Ayers. 'A victim is a victim. We crossed the line, and we came back.'"
There's your terrorist. If UNL wants all its guest lecturers morally simple and tidy, it should consider some other line of work than higher education. "
Signed an AMERICAN Veteran 70-71
And father of two alumnus "
The difference between Ayers and McVeigh...oh about 168 innocent lives. "
You folks threatening to revoke contributions to the University just for one speech aught to be ashamed of yourselves. "
Fellow Nebraskan's stop the name calling, become fully informed about Bill Ayers as he is today and make certain you are above reproach before casting stones! "
As awful as some of the things he did were, there is some value to what he has to say now. We can learn from it. "
The use of 'liberal' as an epithet directed at the institution and the faculty dishonors the great work that is being carried on at UNL, much to the benefit of every citizen of the state of Nebraska. It also evidences a kind of historical amnesia that ignores the great social accomplishments that liberal thought and action helped to achieve, not least voting rights for women, Social Security, and the landmark achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. Worse, it bespeaks a culture of small-mindedness and an intolerance of the kinds of inquiry and dialogue that should be the foundation of a civil society. "
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122402888900234543.html "
Educate yourself before you condemn!
What do you know of this man?
If it is only what you have heard in the McCain smear machine, look deeper than the current headlines.
Do a some research, and then decide. "
I believe the students at UNL are intelligent enough to take from him what they will about social justice and urban educational reform. I don't believe Ayers will be coming here to give advice to students on the best way to...(If I type the rest will I be considered a terrorist?) bomb the school or something. I'm just saying don't be so quick to judge, perhaps if this guy is still breathing 'free' air then maybe your god has larger plans for him than we know. "
I hope UNL doesn't cave into the neo-con complaining just as they shouldn't when the left wing complains. I will continue to donate to UNL because I have too much pride for my University even if I disagree with some of it's actions. "
This unrepentent domestic terrorist should not be allowed to open his mouth anywhere on American soil, let alone at our own University. This has nothing to do with and ties he may have to Obama, it has to do with what is RIGHT. University leaders: as a taxpayer in the Great State of Nebraska, YOU are my employees. You are all FIRED, effective immediatly.
And if you want to know what the true cost of ending the Vietnam ware early was, ask someone who was born and raised there. It may have made the left feel good, but it created much hardship and human suffering to this day after the sout was overrun by the north. That's the story the media won't tell you. "
By the way, if Ayers is such a terrorist, why was he not prosecuted and jailed for life? Would everyone just settle down, please. Try learning more about Ayers and why he did what he did. Try reading up on what he has to say now. You might might learn something. "
influential college age students. UNL will regret this for a long
time.Donations will decrease greatly and my family will be one of them.
Ayers should be in prison and instead we are paying him to talk to our
top 100 University.VERY POOR JUDGEMENT. "
Wow! Incredible that Mr. Perlman can say this. Mr. Ayers founded a group that bombed public buildings, and Mr. Perlman thinks that UNL can bring Mr. Ayers in to speak and ignore Mr. Ayer's history? Would he say the same thing of bin Laden, if bin Laden were an academic now? Truly, this presentation ought to be cancelled immediately.
It doesn't matter whether this speaker was invited before he became tied to a Presidential candidate. Inviting this gentleman was an absolutely inappropriate decision at any time. "
When a domestic terrorist "sticks it to the government", some in academia secretly view him as a hero. No, they can't outwardly support him, but in their minds and hearts they feel some satisfaction. Yes, I can see you all smirking professors. Rightly, we should all be appalled by such actions. "
Terrorists need a chance to speak, too. Don't they have First Amendment rights, too?
I would be interested to hear what Osama Bin Laden, Timothy McVey, Muhammed Atta and Ted Kozinski had to say.
If we can't have Ayers, bring in Hugo Chavez.
Ayers said he didn't go far enough...what is far enough? "
We shouldn't force our views on these teachers. They will be teaching our children.
This is what our University stands for!!!! "
And for those of you who think that UNL is a bastion of the left-wing, perhaps a trip to California Universities would open your eyes a bit. There aren't too many more conservative campuses at major universities than exist in Lincoln. "
First off, to clarify, William Ayers DID set bombs, but his bombs never killed anyone. They were set up intentionally not to kill or injure anyone, but to serve as a symbol of protest instead, such as the bombing at The Pentagon.
Second, McCain keeps talking about the comments William Ayers made on 9/11 about not having bombed enough. Again people, this is where you need to do your research. He actually made the comments before 9/11, but that happened to be the day that his comments were published. They were published in the NYTimes the morning of 9/11 before the attack on the twin towers. This is just a desperate reach for the McCain ticket, and it's pathetic once you learn the facts about what really happened. (I hope you all were watching Letterman last night, because McCain squirmed pretty bad when Dave called him out on that particular subject. He didn't answer it very well.)
I'm not defending what William Ayers did in the past. But please do your own research no matter who you support in the election. When you learn the real story, William Ayers doesn't sound nearly as bad as how McCain/Palin are trying to make him sound. "
The fear and anti-intellectualism exhibited in these comments is more frightening than having Ayers speak on campus. "
Most of us hear aren't talking about restricting free speech here. We're talking about restricting BOMBS! I love it when people try to blame criminal behavior on outside influences. "
Time for some outrage from the people to show the university that they have gone too far this time. "
BOYCOTT NEB FOOTBALL "
What an embarrassment for a College of Education alum like me. Never again will I donate one red cent to the University if this man is allowed to change. Does Ms. Kostelnik have a clue???????? "
And that's an Ayers or Nay question! "
He hasn't apologized, has not repudiated his acts, and remains proud of what he did. The fact that the University of Illinois employs him says a lot about that school. The fact that UNL receives a good portion of state funding gives EVERY Nebraskan a say in this issue. "
The article states that his research in the educational field of the past 30 years is what the committee found interesting. Do they also find interesting the knowledge that the man's theories are based on taking our educational system & replacing it with one that is based in soclialism? The man has stated prior that he admires the educational system brought about by Chavez! "
In what world, is it acceptable that someone who believed and believes that planting bombs to kill American citizens who disagreed with his radical views should be allowed anywhere near our children or directing the education of our young people?
What worthwhile guidance could this cretin provide to young minds, certainly not the ability to advocate ideas, reasonable debate or accommadation for differing views?
A serious study of the education system must begin with the banishment of such people in favor of people interested in science, math, finance, and reading, not furtherment of some "marxist" revolution. "
My husband and I were born and raised in Nebraska (Hebron and Lincoln). I worked in the Financial Aids Office of UNL and my husband received his Masters and Ph.D. in Education from UNL. We have always been very proud of our roots and supported the state and university.
After September 11, 2001, we are very aware of our surroundings and those who move among us. Some of us have refused to fly...crippled with fear because of radicals. Here our own home state and college will now have a radical extremist who refuses to apologize to those whose lives he has impacted in the most horrific way - let alone to the American people.
In our society we forgive and give people a second chance - but that comes with an expression of remorse for the wrong doing. Forgiveness is difficult to express for someone who commits murder, but when we are forced to have that person put in a position of receiving accolades it is positively rubbing our faces in the ashes of their bombs' destruction. "
What is scary to me is how a journalist who interviewed Ayers and who made some of his famous quotes public can come on this site and EXPLAIN to Nebraskans the context of Ayers statement, and everyone commenting after his statements IGNORE HIM!!! Do you people have any idea what you look like? My first guess is that none of you can READ. My second guess is that you read these blogs like you read the bible...only seeing what you want to see. "
If UNL wants him to exercise his free speech, then watch as thousands of donors exercise their freedom to quit donating to this University. I have never donated before, but had planned to do so when the money was available. Not so if this terrorist speaks here. I will never donate until everyone responsible for him being here is no longer at the University.
God Bless America and the lives of those lost by this man's actions. "
Oh and for those of you that think this is such a bad thing, grow up its free speech at a public institution and he has his views as a Researcher so let him talk to those students that want to listen and they can make their own choices. "
Enjoy your day! "
Even as it now appears cancelled, I think the people at UNL teachers College responsible for this should be researched and severely reprimanded for very poor judgement. Possibly even lose thier jobs.
Just as the liberals like to scream about freedom of speech and open information for all, I would like to see the names of all those responsible for this listed in public, so that everyone can know who they are. After all, it's our right to know who's behind all this. "
Looks like we will soon be using this in Nebraska - der Governor is acting as the thought police for a University of higher learning? Who is afraid of thoughts ---- HELP US! "
He has also used the Annenberg Foundation money to fund schools teaching terrorism. Check what papers have been released from the University so far to see where all that $150 million that he and Obama disbursed went. School after school to teach radical protest and terrorism to the young. That is his research. Is that what you want your future teachers to learn? Wouldn't it be better if they actually learned their subject matter rather than their politics at college?
Whether he got off lightly or not the man is filth. He attempted to kill people en masse. He set bombs to destroy buildings. His followers were blown up while building bombs to kill young servicemen and their dates at a dance. Does that not mean anything to you at all? Are you bought that cheaply that you can forget all this on the technicality that his attempts were unsuccessful? You should be ashamed of yourselves as should Obama for supporting him. "