William Ayers to speak at Boston College

[KathleenElsie]

As for Kent State one of the four young people that died there lived on the road next to my mothers house. Allison Krouse was a tragedy as were the three others that died that day. Throwing rocks and other objects at young poorly trained National Guard members was not a very smart thing to do at the time and still is not a good thing. Untrained youth on both sides led to this tragedy. William Ayres was one of the many “activists” that were an inspiration to the college students rebellion in the late 60’s and early 70’s.

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

Beau Ouiville Lets talk about what this Professor that teaches our youth not about you political opinions those of us that post her know them well.

OK, Ayers said that he wishes he had done more to protest the US involvement in Vietnam. Is there a problem with that? As to the words of an FBI informant, consider the source. Remember the state of the FBI in the late sixties. You would credit a source which mis-spells Ayers’ name?

You said let’s talk about Ayers’ speech, but he doesn’t appear to be giving a political lecture. So why are folks bringing up what happened in 1970?

This thread is about Mr. Ayres. OK.

Then why were folks bringing up the president?

 

[rpp]

Your statement is ridiculous and insulting.

This started with the William Ayers speaking engagement at B.C. You brought up an absurd straw man in the guise of Osama bin Laden, not I.

I think you are overtired from your recent family obligations and need to take a rest.

I believe your assessment of me was correct. You have my sincere apologies.

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

Ayers stated on the noted quote:

“Never said it. Never thought it. And again, Larry Grathwohl, I don’t know him today, but certainly the FBI was an organization built on lies.”

 

[maggiemay2u]

Beau Ouiville Lets talk about what this Professor that teaches our youth not about you political opinions those of us that post her know them well. This thread is about Mr. Ayres. OK.

I sure do not want this kind of person teaching they youth that will run this country.

I’ve come to the conclusion those in the tank for Obama really can’t help themselves. I really do believe the unfettered defense of their guy extends to any who surrounds or has had in their circle “The One”. No matter how indefensible or despicable the individual, he can’t be all bad, because he found favor with “The One”. It’s pathological.

The fact that Ayers has not disputed Grathwohl’s account that Bill didn’t have a problem with the termination of 25 million human beings in the past, and the fact he has recently stated he didn’t think he did anything wrong, is all the proof I need to reason he is a half step away from dragging out his copy of the Anarchists Cookbook and shares the poison in his mind with our children.

As for our “progressive” friends at BC. St Ignatius, in setting out as a missionary said it best, “First, we must convert the priests.”

 

[maggiemay2u]

Beau Ouiville Lets talk about what this Professor that teaches our youth not about you political opinions those of us that post her know them well. This thread is about Mr. Ayres. OK.

I sure do not this kind of person teaching they youth that will run this country.

I’ve come to the conclusion those in the tank for Obama really can’t help themselves. I really do believe the unfettered defense of their guy extends to any who surrounds or has had in their circle “The One”. No matter how indefensible or despicable the individual, he can’t be all bad, because he found favor with “The One”. It’s pathological.

Whether Ayers has now or has not disputed Grathwohl’s account that Bill didn’t have a problem with the termination of 25 million human beings in the past is irrelevant to me, kind of like crazy Bernadine and Sharon Tate. The fact he has recently stated he didn’t think they did anything wrong, is all the proof I need to reason he is a half step away from dragging out his copy of the Anarchists Cookbook and shares the poison in his mind with our children.

As for our “progressive” friends at BC. St Ignatius, in setting out as a missionary said it best, “First, we must convert the priests.”

 

[Darryl1958]

I’ve come to the conclusion those in the tank for Obama really can’t help themselves. I really do believe the unfettered defense of their guy extends to any who surrounds or has had in their circle “The One”. No matter how indefensible or despicable the individual, he can’t be all bad, because he found favor with “The One”. It’s pathological.

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

I’ve come to the conclusion those in the tank for Obama really can’t help themselves.

Well, that’s off the topic, isn’t it? And kind of nicely ad hominem, which is contrary to forum rules.

The fact he has recently stated he didn’t think they did anything wrong, is all the proof I need to reason he is a half step away from dragging out his copy of the Anarchists Cookbook and shares the poison in his mind with our children.

I don’t know if he speaks politics with college students in education classes and I doubt if you know, either. So whether or not he apologizes for his past is really irrelevant to a speech on an entirely different topic today.

 

[maggiemay2u]

maggiemay2u;5003935:

The left knows how to close ranks around anyone, be it unrepentant terrorists like Bill Ayers, or unprincipled capitalist parasites like George Soros.
It is easy to do if one is willing to sacrifice principles for power.
He is an unrepentant terrorist, yes.
Very good point. It is difficult for a Catholic to criticize a priest, knowing as we do that the priest is the actuality of the High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek, Jesus, during the Mass. yet we are not called to criticize.
When Jesus falls under the weight of the cross, there should never be any reluctance on our part to bear the load with him.
The teaching of the Catholic Church is a heavy load indeed.

The only folks who welcome this terrorist as a speaker or minimize the horror he wanted to thrust on the nation, have, IMHO, already drank the Kool aid.

They need prayers as does the AARP Anarchist.

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

The only folks who welcome this terrorist as a speaker or minimize the horror he wanted to thrust on the nation, have, IMHO, already drank the Kool aid.

They need prayers as does the AARP Anarchist.

Then why did you need to mention the president as to Ayers? You mentioned Sharon Tate? Didn’t the Manson family kill her? What’s her part in all this?

 

[maggiemay2u]

The left knows how to close ranks around anyone, be it unrepentant terrorists like Bill Ayers, or unprincipled capitalist parasites like George Soros.

It is easy to do if one is willing to sacrifice principles for power.

He is an unrepentant terrorist, yes.

Very good point. It is difficult for a Catholic to criticize a priest, knowing as we do that the priest is the actuality of the High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek, Jesus, during the Mass. yet we are not called to criticize.
When Jesus falls under the weight of the cross, there should never be any reluctance on our part to bear the load with him.
The teaching of the Catholic Church is a heavy load indeed.

The only folks who welcome this terrorist as a speaker or minimize the horror he wanted to thrust on the nation, have, IMHO, already drank the Kool aid.

They need prayers as does the AARP Anarchist.

 

[Domer1997]

I heard this on the Mark Levin show. A student called and said Ayers(Weatherground radical - friend of Obama) was invited by a college group but there would be some that would picket the event.

Also he said that crucifixes was put in classrooms but professors complained and had them removed.

I was told by a current Boston College student that the crucifixes were not removed from the classrooms. They are still there.

 

[dixieagle]

Off Topic but I will ask:
Would you say it would be a good thing (forget the status of POTUS) to have asked the most anti-life person to speak at any Catholic University and to give a coveted honor to that person? Also Jesus told the repentant thief he would be with him in Heaven that day. I do not remember (correct me if I am wrong here) Jesus telling the unrepentant person on the other cross the same thing.

Back on topic:

I was in the Air Force when the Weathermen were active and people died for their “cause”. The man to give the speech has acknowledged publicly that they would be willing to “eliminate” 25 million people that disagreed with them. Guess that those the support mass murder and just do not get their personal hands dirty with the blood are ok to give honors to.

Just to clarify; Ayers was scheduled to give a talk related to education reform (he is a professor) NOT to receive any honors, which would be abhorrent, as is Obama receivng an honorary degree, imho. Although I haven’t been to the B.C. website today, as of yesterday, it appeared that the invitation was rescinded.

 

[dixieagle]

I believe your assessment of me was correct. You have my sincere apologies.

Indeed accepted. You are a good and caring person, as is clear from your current travails.

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

"A day after Boston College administrators canceled a lecture scheduled for tomorrow by William Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former member of the Weather Underground Organization, student organizers behind the event were making plans to hold the talk off campus instead…

Ayers said he plans to discuss urban education, the focus of his academic work, at his appearance tomorrow."

boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/29/bc_students_move_ayers_event?mode=PF

 

[KathleenElsie]

"A day after Boston College administrators canceled a lecture scheduled for tomorrow by William Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former member of the Weather Underground Organization, student organizers behind the event were making plans to hold the talk off campus instead…

Ayers said he plans to discuss urban education, the focus of his academic work, at his appearance tomorrow."

boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/29/bc_students_move_ayers_event?mode=PF

Off campus everyone has the right to free speech as long as it does not promote violence against others.

 

[maggiemay2u]

Off campus everyone has the right to free speech as long as it does not promote violence against others.

Off campus is precisely where Mr Ayers belongs.

 

[andy120]

I’m a student at Boston College.

Fr. Leahy and the administration canceled the event this weekend! Ayers will not be on BC’s campus tomorrow!

Academic freedom should be encouraged. But that doesn’t mean having a terrorist on campus.

As a side note, I can confirm that the crucifixes and icons have NOT been removed from the classroom, even with protests from certain professors.

 

[maggiemay2u]

I’m a student at Boston College.

Fr. Leahy and the administration canceled the event this weekend! Ayers will not be on BC’s campus tomorrow!

Academic freedom should be encouraged. But that doesn’t mean having a terrorist on campus.

As a side note, I can confirm that the crucifixes and icons have NOT been removed from the classroom, even with protests from certain professors.

Mr Ayers is the most dangerous of terrorists, one who has seemingly assimilated into society while retaining his agenda of totalitarianism. The fact that he is allowed to infect unguarded minds in a state funded school is troubling. Academic freedom, to be really free, needs to examine and seriously present more than a single, stilted view.

Since the SJ’s have taken this step in the right direction, I will be able to report to my Jesuit friend out here my prayers for their conversion may have started working. The crucifixes remind us of not only Christ’s sacrifice, but of the slings and arrows we are blessed to bear in Christ’s name–glad they’re there.

 

[jen_fla]

I’m a student at Boston College.

Fr. Leahy and the administration canceled the event this weekend! Ayers will not be on BC’s campus tomorrow!

Academic freedom should be encouraged. But that doesn’t mean having a terrorist on campus.

As a side note, I can confirm that the crucifixes and icons have NOT been removed from the classroom, even with protests from certain professors.

that is good news, indeed!

i still can’t wrap my mind around the dolt mentality of the protesters. wouldn’t that be like me going into a thai restaurant and asking the owners to remove a statue of buddha?

ger-doi, they are on a Catholic campus!