April 2, 2009
Uninvited Bill Ayers decries 'mob rule'
Bill Ayers still doesn't get it. But after all, why should he? The man who proudly crowed "Guilty as hell, free as a bird," the man proudly photographed stomping on the US flag was rewarded with a professorship in education at a respected government funded school, the University of Illinois in Chicago and received millions in private and government grants to do research in education. His equally guilty wife now teaches law at the equally respected Northwestern University Law School. So when one of his former students, who now teaches at a suburban high school, invited him to speak to his classes but then was forced to cancel because of angry parental and taxpayer protests, Ayers lashed out, at his critics: This cancellation provides terrible lessons for these young people about the limits of freedom and the importance of obedience, and it must be painful for many of them to watch people they admire collapse under pressure," Ayers wrote...(Read Full Post)