Bill Ayers High School Speech on ‘Social Justice’ Canceled

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As we noted a few days ago, former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers was invited to speak to Illinois high school students on the topic of “social justice.”

Today LGF reader “realwest” shared an email he received with some good news on this subject:

Thank you very much for your e-mail regarding Ayers visit to Naperville North High School. I too have been concerned about this event since learning of it last week, and have been working on it since. I want to advise you that this event has been canceled. A formal announcement will follow later today via Talk 203.

Jackie Romberg
District 203 Board of Education

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132 comments
1 [deleted]  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:33:59am
2 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:34:22am

Woo Hoo! Go Realwest!

Good Afternoon Lizards!

3 ParanoidPyro  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:34:45am

Great news, but I'm a bit worried about the fallout that this poor school will recieve for doing the right thing.

4 Randall Gross  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:34:51am

Hurrah!

5 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:34:56am

And this is happening in our secondary school system.

Hurray!

6 wrenchwench  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:35:00am

I guess this is anti-social justice, then.

/

7 jcm  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:35:05am

Censorship!
Fascism!

////////Ayers.

8 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:35:25am

Seriously, though, who in their left mind invited this guy to speak in the first place?

9 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:36:31am

Ayeres has, however, filled his calender for that day with a presentation of
ANRCHY AND BOMB MAKING FROM EVERYDAY HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

//

10 brookly red  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:36:39am

Good.

11 Emerald  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:36:46am

A bit of good news for the day. It's nice that some in the educational system understand what makes an appropriate speaker.

12 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:37:09am

re: #3 ParanoidPyro

Great news, but I'm a bit worried about the fallout that this poor school will recieve for doing the right thing.

FALLOUT? Hell,,,I'm sending then a donation!

13 realwest  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:37:18am

Thanks Charles but it should be noted that I was not the only LGFer who wrote to that Board of Education.
The fact is that you posted a link in which Last Mohican provided e-mail addresses for the Board. The rest of us did what needed to be done.

14 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:37:27am

Now that people are seeing firsthand what Ayers & hgis ilk truly stand for ....

15 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:37:54am

re: #13 realwest

Thanks Charles but it should be noted that I was not the only LGFer who wrote to that Board of Education.
The fact is that you posted a link in which Last Mohican provided e-mail addresses for the Board. The rest of us did what needed to be done.

You, sir, are a complete gentleman.
*smooch* !

16 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:03am

re: #13 realwest

Thanks Charles but it should be noted that I was not the only LGFer who wrote to that Board of Education.
The fact is that you posted a link in which Last Mohican provided e-mail addresses for the Board. The rest of us did what needed to be done.

You still get an ATTABOY and an upding

17 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:13am

hgis - his (wrapped in a sheep's stomach)

18 CharlieBravo  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:14am

Too good to be true! (first thought)

19 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:22am

Somewhere in the community of Naperville is a person with some great life experience, some important historical perspective, some fabulous talent, some stories to tell about actual genuine service to his/her fellow human beings.

I hope they find that person and have that person speak to the students.

20 Randall Gross  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:24am

I won't kiss ya RW, but good work to alll who wrote.

21 Kosh's Shadow  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:30am

And while Boston College canceled his talk there, I heard on the radio (no link) that the organization that invited him will have the talk off-campus.
Probably in some basement coffeehouse with pictures of Marx, Lenin, Castro, Che, Chavez, etc on the wall.

22 realwest  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:35am

re: #14 unreconstructed rebel Uh, what's a "hgis ilk"?
Just kidding - I've made more and worse typos than that!

23 Sharmuta  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:37am

This is wonderful news. I can only hope that other schools will take note and not bother to invite this piece of filth to their schools.

24 itellu3times  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:39am

But how is our yutes going to learn about social justice now?

/

25 varmint  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:53am

he's going to slink back to his million dollar brownstone.


i keep hoping forensics will finally catch up and tie him to the deaths of those two cops. or at least that CSI would do an episode about it.

26 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:38:56am

re: #9 sattv4u2

Ayeres has, however, filled his calender for that day with a presentation of
ANRCHY AND BOMB MAKING FROM EVERYDAY HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

//

His house will likely be the first stop for the former Gitmo detainees once they get their reperations checks and their passports.

27 father_of_10  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:39:13am

I guess ayers isn't quite that high on the lecture circuit when his gig are in High Schools! LOL and they send him packing. I seriously wish he would get what he has coming. Not necessarily jail time, though I would certainly like that . . . and he deserves it, but I would like to see him publicly castigated, humiliated, unemployed, broke and then thrown aside and ignored until death . . . preferably alone on a park bench in Nome.

28 [deleted]  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:39:37am
29 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:39:39am

re: #22 realwest

Uh, what's a "hgis ilk"?
Just kidding - I've made more and worse typos than that!

See #17

30 Dianna  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:39:43am

Good.

I felt ill, thinking of Ayers lecturing middle school kids.

31 Wendya  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:40:04am

re: #3 ParanoidPyro

Great news, but I'm a bit worried about the fallout that this poor school will recieve for doing the right thing.

They would receive fallout either way, wouldn't they?

32 Wishing  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:40:05am

re: #21 Kosh's Shadow

And while Boston College canceled his talk there, I heard on the radio (no link) that the organization that invited him will have the talk off-campus.
Probably in some basement coffeehouse with pictures of Marx, Lenin, Castro, Che, Chavez, etc on the wall.

Link in previous thread. =)

33 Macker  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:40:21am

re: #21 Kosh's Shadow

And while Boston College canceled his talk there, I heard on the radio (no link) that the organization that invited him will have the talk off-campus.
Probably in some basement coffeehouse with pictures of Marx, Lenin, Castro, Che, Chavez, etc on the wall.

And not at Starbucks?

34 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:40:28am

re: #21 Kosh's Shadow

And while Boston College canceled his talk there, I heard on the radio (no link) that the organization that invited him will have the talk off-campus.
Probably in some basement coffeehouse with pictures of Marx, Lenin, Castro, Che, Chavez, etc on the wall.

I lived in Boston for the better part of 45 years. I KNOW that coffeehouse(s)!

35 Sharmuta  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:40:31am

This is one way how we combat the evil influence of socialist indoctrination to our kids. We have to keep it up, while not giving in to lunacy, however.

36 rockmanvermont  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:40:58am

Bill,the people of America are realizing you are not an educator,and better stay the hell away from our children.

37 LGoPs  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:41:12am

My comploments to Realwest......

38 Lee Coller  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:41:30am

New can they please fire the idiot who invited him in the first place?

39 JohnAdams  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:41:30am

re: #28 buzzsawmonkey

On the downside, while Ayers may not be addressing the students of one high school on one day, the notions and curricula promulgated by him and by those he has taught at the university level are alive and active at tens, if not hundreds, of high schools every day across the nation.

This is where the left is winning the ground war.

40 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:41:34am

re: #28 buzzsawmonkey

On the downside, while Ayers may not be addressing the students of one high school on one day, the notions and curricula promulgated by him and by those he has taught at the university level are alive and active at tens, if not hundreds, of high schools every day across the nation.

Dude, you just totally harshed my mellow.

41 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:41:47am

re: #35 Sharmuta

This is one way how we combat the evil influence of socialist indoctrination to our kids. We have to keep it up, while not giving in to lunacy, however.

nor drink, nor drugs ...

42 Macker  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:41:56am

Good Job Realwest and all Lizards who helped bring this about!

43 [deleted]  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:42:12am
44 LGoPs  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:42:25am

re: #37 LGoPs

My comploments to Realwest......

Comploments = compliments............

45 Kosh's Shadow  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:42:30am

re: #33 Macker

And not at Starbucks?

Of course not; it is run by Joooos.
(25 or so years ago I was at the Algiers (or Algeria?) coffeehouse in Harvard Square, and couldn't get service. I do look Jewish, so maybe that was it. Haven't been back.)

46 albusteve  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:43:12am

social justice would require Ayres to be jailed...what a resounding elitist hypocrit

47 Ayatollah Ghilmeini  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:43:13am

I thought the event should have gone on as planned except one change: I would have arrested these two piles of slime and hauled them off to face charges for conspiracy, murder and attempted murder relating for the crimes they haven't yet be charged with to date.

Great lesson for the kids too!

48 albusteve  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:43:49am

re: #42 Macker

Good Job Realwest and all Lizards who helped bring this about!

and from me as well....way to go

49 FrogMarch  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:44:07am

Good!

50 Noam Sayin'  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:44:17am

Nice work, everyone.

51 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:44:18am

re: #47 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

I thought the event should have gone on as planned except one change: I would have arrested these two piles of slime and hauled them off to face charges for conspiracy, murder and attempted murder relating for the crimes they haven't yet be charged with to date.

Great lesson for the kids too!

Obama would immediately pardon them.

52 realwest  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:44:28am

re: #15 redstateredneck
Thanks and a *smooch* back to you too!

53 Kragar  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:44:53am

"Social Justice" = communism and kill whitey

54 JohnAdams  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:44:58am

Shoot, by now I bet Ayers would like to cyber-bomb LGF!

55 Erik The Red  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:45:00am

Well done realwest.

56 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:45:47am

re: #47 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

I thought the event should have gone on as planned except one change: I would have arrested these two piles of slime and hauled them off to face charges for conspiracy, murder and attempted murder relating for the crimes they haven't yet be charged with to date.

Great lesson for the kids too!

better yet, just have the kids throw juice boxes at him as he's up on the stage

great fun for the kids
great entertaimnety value
good excersise for Ayers, bobbing and dodging all those boxes
teaches the kids anarchy!

57 jorline  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:45:52am

"Social Justice" would be putting Bill Ayers' firecracker ass in jail.

58 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:46:19am

If there was real "social justice" Bill Ayers would be residing in a prison cell.

59 albusteve  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:46:30am

re: #54 JohnAdams

Shoot, by now I bet Ayers would like to cyber-bomb LGF!

be nice if he could somehow be invited to a healthy debate here...how could he say no?...he's so virtuous

60 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:46:45am

re: #58 Alouette

If there was real "social justice" Bill Ayers would be residing in a prison cell (self deleted).

FTFY!

61 ParanoidPyro  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:46:47am

re: #31 Wendya

They would receive fallout either way, wouldn't they?

Most likely, but I'm worried about the fallout from pissing of the terrorist mentor of the sitting President.

62 LGoPs  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:46:53am

re: #28 buzzsawmonkey

On the downside, while Ayers may not be addressing the students of one high school on one day, the notions and curricula promulgated by him and by those he has taught at the university level are alive and active at tens, if not hundreds, of high schools every day across the nation.

That is the key point here. Too bad we can't get a journalistic expose of this vile POS and show the American people the kind of poison he's pushing into American kids' heads. Be nice if parents started becoming aware of the fact that rather than prepare kids academically for a competitive chance at a good future by teaching actual subjects competently, the focus is on brainwashing them into becoming good littel socialist foot soldiers.
Anyone with a modicum of common sense should be outraged.

63 Macker  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:47:04am

re: #59 albusteve

Um, didn't you forget your sarc tag?

64 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:47:10am

I see that we have a consensus on the meaning of "social justice."

65 JohnAdams  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:47:16am

Somebody get ahole of Dohrn's speaking schedule. Let's fuck her up too.

66 jorline  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:47:27am

re: #58 Alouette

If there was real "social justice" Bill Ayers would be residing in a prison cell.

lol...see my #57...GMTA!

67 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:47:35am

The two speakers that I remember the best:

Middle school-- they brought in a Shoah survivor.

College-- I went to a talk by the Candy Bomber of Berlin.

Tragically, I don't remember any such speakers in high school. They did take some of us to a "Women in Science" banquet, where they explained to us the workings of an electron microscope. My poor little brain nearly exploded, trying to keep up.

68 Lee Coller  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:47:46am

re: #59 albusteve

be nice if he could somehow be invited to a healthy debate here...how could he say no?...he's so virtuous

I'm not interested in debating terrorists.

69 Erik The Red  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:47:49am

What is scary is that an educator of our children does not know who Bill Ayers is. God help our public schools.

70 albusteve  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:48:02am

re: #63 Macker

Um, didn't you forget your sarc tag?

don't use it

71 Kosh's Shadow  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:48:13am

And Divine justice would be if Ayers were in the right place at the right time when some splodeydope explodes, such that Ayers (and the bomber) are the only ones hurt.
(I'm not calling for anyone to do this, OK?)

72 Raven1  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:48:14am

Area law enforcement are organizing to protest ANY message from the Ayer head. His followers murdered an Allston police officer during a bank robbery. The murdered officers name name was Schroeder and I think he he left nine children under the age of seventeen to grow up without their father. Leftist family values in action.

[Link: www.michaelgraham.com...]

73 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:48:37am

re: #69 Erik The Red

What is scary is that an educator of our children does not know who Bill Ayers is. God help our public schools.

Or, what is perhaps even scarier, is that they did know and invited him anyway.

74 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:49:11am

I just spent $150 on wine for Passover. Yes, I know Maneshevitz would have been a lot cheaper, but I want my family to enjoy the holiday.

75 JohnAdams  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:49:27am

re: #71 Kosh's Shadow

Thought police!

76 Silhouette  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:49:39am

re: #33 Macker

And not at Starbucks?

That's where the anarchists go to debrief.

77 albusteve  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:05am

re: #73 Ford_Prefect

Or, what is perhaps even scarier, is that they did know and invited him anyway.

of course they knew...what he did then is what makes him famous now...heads should roll

78 [deleted]  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:07am
79 FrogMarch  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:10am

Only in America can a former domestic terrorist be invited to give a talk.

hope and change.

Glad the school officials came to their senses.

80 Kosh's Shadow  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:15am

re: #74 Alouette

I just spent $150 on wine for Passover. Yes, I know Maneshevitz would have been a lot cheaper, but I want my family to enjoy the holiday.

No need to make them sick over the holidays, either.

81 Erik The Red  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:35am

re: #73 Ford_Prefect

Or, what is perhaps even scarier, is that they did know and invited him anyway.

Fuck, now that is scary. Nightmare material.

82 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:40am

re: #74 Alouette

I just spent $150 on wine for Passover. Yes, I know Maneshevitz would have been a lot cheaper, but I want my family to enjoy the holiday.

What kind of wine? How many bottles did you get for 150 bucks?

83 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:40am

re: #74 Alouette

I just spent $150 on wine for Passover. Yes, I know Maneshevitz would have been a lot cheaper, but I want my family to enjoy the holiday.

I'll take that amount in grey Goose Vodka, and I'll REALLY enjoy it!

84 lawhawk  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:50:44am

re: #74 Alouette

I just spent $150 on wine for Passover. Yes, I know Maneshevitz would have been a lot cheaper, but I want my family to enjoy the holiday.

I spent $80 on 4 bottles. I know exactly what you mean. I just wish more Passover wine wasn't meshuval, which kills the flavors because you're essentially cooking the wine before bottling.

85 JohnAdams  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:51:02am

re: #72 Raven1

Area law enforcement are organizing to protest ANY message from the Ayer head. His followers murdered an Allston police officer during a bank robbery. The murdered officers name name was Schroeder and I think he he left nine children under the age of seventeen to grow up without their father. Leftist family values in action.

[Link: www.michaelgraham.com...]

/We may lose some innocents in the cause of the Revolution.

86 Lee Coller  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:51:12am

re: #79 FrogMarch

Only in America can a former

87 Anna D  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:51:20am

Good. It's high time to make Ayers and his ilk pariahs and shun them whenever we can. Maybe if he repents for his terrorist acts, admits he was an idiot in the 60's, and begs forgiveness, then we can can consider forgiving him. But in the meantime, make him an outcast. Don't let his Marxist drivel contaminate any more young minds than it already has.

88 [deleted]  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:51:29am
89 nyc redneck  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:51:32am

ayers is a criminal.
a terrorist who got off on a technicality. he should be in prison,
NOT left to work his treachery around young people.
i am so glad he got banned from this high school.
his reputation should precede him where ever he goes.
and he should be stopped, mocked and shunned.

thanks for sharing the e-mail {real}.

90 albusteve  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:51:47am

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

Any time a word like "justice" is modified--as in "social justice"--it is intended to look like an intensifier, but is actually an example of gutting the thing being modified. "Social justice," "economic democracy," "hate speech"--all catchphrases of this sort are nothing more than a way to try and conceal that somebody is trying to put a thumb on the scale in order to advance their own agenda at the expense of the larger society.

HUMAN RIGHTS!

91 realwest  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:52:11am

re: #54 JohnAdams
Uh, oh.
/

92 Lee Coller  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:52:20am

re: #79 FrogMarch

Only in America can a former domestic terrorist be invited to give a talk.

hope and change.

Glad the school officials came to their senses.

PIMF: Let's try that again. Fixed.

93 sattv4u2  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:52:24am

re: #90 albusteve

HUMAN RIGHTS!

I'd give Ayers Human Rights ,,,,,, along with a few lefts !

94 JohnAdams  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:53:48am

re: #92 Lee Coller

PIMF: Let's try that again. Fixed.

That's pretty much a lifetime position.

95 albusteve  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:54:06am

re: #93 sattv4u2

I'd give Ayers Human Rights ,,,,,, along with a few lefts !

good one...and don't forget the final haymaker

96 Silhouette  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:55:07am

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

Any time a word like "justice" is modified--as in "social justice"--it is intended to look like an intensifier, but is actually an example of gutting the thing being modified. "Social justice," "economic democracy," "hate speech"--all catchphrases of this sort are nothing more than a way to try and conceal that somebody is trying to put a thumb on the scale in order to advance their own agenda at the expense of the larger society.

Their idea of "justice" is everyone crossing the finish line at the same time. And that always means punishing the fast and giving the slow advantages.

For sane people, justice means everyone starts the race on the same line, runs the same distance, and has the same amount of time.

Equal outcome /= equal opportunity

97 [deleted]  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:55:36am
98 Claire  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:55:52am

This is good news! Karma in action.

99 [deleted]  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:56:46am
100 Ward Cleaver  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:56:49am

YAY!

101 Macker  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:56:57am

re: #89 nyc redneck

ayers is a criminal.
a terrorist who got off on a technicality. he should be in prison,
NOT left to work his treachery around young people.
i am so glad he got banned from this high school.
his reputation should precede him where ever he goes.
and he should be stopped, mocked and shunned.

thanks for sharing the e-mail {real}.

Since Ayers' activities occurred 40+ years ago, he should not be in prison.
He should be DEAD.

102 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 10:58:31am

Woot! This is great news.

103 Anna D  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:03:50am

By the way, does anyone know if Ayers and his equally wretched wife have children? In the 60's, they urged college students to kill their parents. I'm just wondering if they have any progeny of their own? It would make sense for them not to, under the circumstances. Why spawn someone who might listen to what you say and, well, never mind....
Just kidding...

104 rumcrook  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:07:02am

when common sense wins the day Im not sure I know how to handle it anymore... .....its so rare.

105 Jed 1899  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:09:57am

A ray of sunshine in the darkening sky.
Maybe someone can tell me why.
Why does Obama hang with such a vacuous guy?
He's a Socialist I say.
He's dictating the Socialist way.
Send me more ray's.

106 Canoe Train  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:33:30am

re: #103 Anna D

Yes, they have children.

107 hurricane567  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:33:36am

I got a reply to my e-mail as well, they had this to say re: Dr Ayers

...a well-regarded, award-winning teacher who encourages students to think for themselves.

And if you don't agree with him, he will blow you up with a pipe bomb. I didn't tell them that, of course, i responded with a TYVM and a suggestion they read Prairie Fire...

108 jimc  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:45:19am

Good to know that Obama's election didn't excuse Ayers in any way....surprised, but good to know...

109 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:47:07am

REALWEST---using your time to do great things, and sending intelligent emails that get results!

yay, realwest!

110 Joan Not of Arc  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:55:48am

I see no reason why we should give Ayers or Galloway a platform on which to speak. This is a far cry from letting them speak their minds. They are welcome to declare their love for terrorism/terrorists. We just shouldn't be encouraging them.
Just my thoughts.

111 rawmuse  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:57:06am

All right! Every now and then the good guys win.

112 Gearhead  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 11:58:50am

Good work RW! Infinite karma points for you!

(watch out, though - if Obama notices, he may ask for your resignation)

113 mattm  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:04:59pm

re: #58 Alouette

If there was real "social justice" Bill Ayers would be residing in a prison cell.

Too nice. I'm thinking mosquito infested swamp.

114 Strike Hornet  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:05:28pm

Mayor Daley's Goon Squad should be arriving at the school in black SUV's any moment now to "set things right" with that school board...

115 kansas  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:13:42pm

OT
Holy shit, Obama and Geithner have crashed the market again. Course I guess we shouldn't worry.

116 wiffersnapper  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:15:59pm

Glad that's over with

117 Strike Hornet  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:18:49pm

I'm sure there are dozens of Chicago Area High Schools just dying to have this murdering, America-hating POS indoctrinate their students...

118 Bob Dillon  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:25:33pm

Congrats RW ... and thanks for making your template available to all.

119 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 1:48:56pm

re: #67 EmmmieG

The two speakers that I remember the best:

Middle school-- they brought in a Shoah survivor.

College-- I went to a talk by the Candy Bomber of Berlin.

Tragically, I don't remember any such speakers in high school. They did take some of us to a "Women in Science" banquet, where they explained to us the workings of an electron microscope. My poor little brain nearly exploded, trying to keep up.

In grad school, I got to hear a talk by one of the men who was involved in project of evacuating Denmark's Jews to Sweden during the war.

That was an incredible honor.

120 quickjustice  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 3:02:17pm

As I said on another thread, Ayers is far more dangerous as a radical, respected professor of education than he ever was as a domestic terrorist.

Here's why: [Link: www.city-journal.org...]

121 abolitionist  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 3:18:06pm

re: #103 Anna D

By the way, does anyone know if Ayers and his equally wretched wife have children? In the 60's, they urged college students to kill their parents. I'm just wondering if they have any progeny of their own? It would make sense for them not to, under the circumstances. Why spawn someone who might listen to what you say and, well, never mind....
Just kidding...

Chesa Boudin (youngest of 3) was adopted by Ayers and Dohrn soon after his parents, Kathy Boudine and David Gilbert, were arrested for their part in a Brinks heist in 1981 in NY that left a guard and 2 policemen dead.

This was shortly after Ayers & Dohrn abandoned their Underground lifestyle. They already had 2 todlers at the time.

Much more info here: AMBUSH: THE BRINKS ROBBERY OF 1981 - part1 of 16. It starts with the NY townhouse explosion of 06 March 1970.

Chesa Boudin here (center), translates for Ayers as he talks about education etc in Venezuela.

122 Wilderstad  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 3:22:30pm

Now, if we could get him and his wife marginalized, ridiculed and mocked so they feel the need to disappear for good. Respected teacher? I wonder who respects tools like them.

123 kynna  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 3:28:30pm

So will those who invited this scumbag to speak to children be called on the carpet for it? Doubtful.

Good news, anyway. I'll take it. ;p

124 hous bin pharteen  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 3:42:59pm

Since Bill "the madman" Ayers wants "social Justice", did he car bomb the cafeteria at the high school yet?

125 hous bin pharteen  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 3:44:15pm

re: #123 kynna

Bill Ayers wants to carpet bomb the playground?

126 Bob Dillon  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 4:43:01pm

Here is what they sent to me.

Thank you for writing.

Such a controversial issue involves a problem about which different individuals and groups urge conflicting courses of action. It is an issue for which society has not found a solution that can be universally or almost universally accepted. It is an issue of sufficient significance that each of the proposed ways of dealing with it is objectionable to some sector of the citizenry and arouses protest.

The following message from our Superintendent, Dr. Alan Leis, was sent via email to our community through Talk 203 and is also posted on our District 203 website.

“The appearance by Dr. Bill Ayers at Naperville North High School next week has been canceled.

On Friday, it was announced through a Talk203 email that we were reviewing the decision to invite him and that we were also exploring the possibility of moving the appearance to another venue. Initially, many people were upset about his appearance in a school building, even though it was to have been with a select group of students with required parental permission. Several people offered worthy suggestions about how to make the event more meaningful by concurrently inviting someone that would provide an equally strong opposing viewpoint.

Over the weekend, however, it became clear that this issue was not really about where Dr. Ayers was speaking, but that he was speaking at all. Each day, the level of emotion and outrage has seemed to increase, along with the number of emails and phone calls received. What was most unfortunate was that a few directed their anger toward an outstanding high school and at a well-regarded, award-winning teacher who encourages students to think for themselves.

While parents and others have written urging us to continue with the event because they want students exposed to diverse viewpoints, Dr. Ayers’ appearance has clearly become a “lightning rod,” both inside and outside the District 203 community, because of his past actions. It is clear that any value to our students would be lost in such a highly-charged atmosphere, and that any debate of issues or viewpoints would be overshadowed by media coverage and anger over the event itself.”

Ross Truemper. Principal
Naperville North High School

127 Lee Coller  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 4:47:17pm

re: #126 Bobibutu

While parents and others have written urging us to continue with the event because they want students exposed to diverse viewpoints, Dr. Ayers’ appearance has clearly become a “lightning rod,” both inside and outside the District 203 community, because of his past actions. It is clear that any value to our students would be lost in such a highly-charged atmosphere, and that any debate of issues or viewpoints would be overshadowed by media coverage and anger over the event itself.”

I like that diverse viewpoints, who next, OBL? How about debating the pros and cons of suicide bombing?

Give me a break. I swear, higher education can lead to brain damage.

128 Higgs Boson  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 6:36:22pm

Did someone phone in a bomb threat ?

129 panamahat  Mon, Mar 30, 2009 9:02:57pm

Ms. Romberg sent me the same letter and I was pleased to get it.

But take a look at this Orwellian piece of trash from the Principal of the High School, Ross Truemper.


Thank you for writing.

Such a controversial issue involves a problem about which different individuals and groups urge conflicting courses of action. It is an issue for which society has not found a solution that can be universally or almost universally accepted. It is an issue of sufficient significance that each of the proposed ways of dealing with it is objectionable to some sector of the citizenry and arouses protest.

The following message from our Superintendent, Dr. Alan Leis, was sent via email to our community through Talk 203 and is also posted on our District 203 website.

“The appearance by Dr. Bill Ayers at Naperville North High School next week has been canceled.

On Friday, it was announced through a Talk203 email that we were reviewing the decision to invite him and that we were also exploring the possibility of moving the appearance to another venue. Initially, many people were upset about his appearance in a school building, even though it was to have been with a select group of students with required parental permission. Several people offered worthy suggestions about how to make the event more meaningful by concurrently inviting someone that would provide an equally strong opposing viewpoint.

Over the weekend, however, it became clear that this issue was not really about where Dr. Ayers was speaking, but that he was speaking at all. Each day, the level of emotion and outrage has seemed to increase, along with the number of emails and phone calls received. What was most unfortunate was that a few directed their anger toward an outstanding high school and at a well-regarded, award-winning teacher who encourages students to think for themselves.

While parents and others have written urging us to continue with the event because they want students exposed to diverse viewpoints, Dr. Ayers’ appearance has clearly become a “lightning rod,” both inside and outside the District 203 community, because of his past actions. It is clear that any value to our students would be lost in such a highly-charged atmosphere, and that any debate of issues or viewpoints would be overshadowed by media coverage and anger over the event itself.”

Ross Truemper. Principal
Naperville North High School


--------------------------------
Here's my original letter to him.

To: Ross Truemper
Subject: Bill Ayers

Dear Mr. Truemper:

I am writing to let you know what a serious mistake I believe you are making by inviting a self-confessed terrorist to address impressionable students.

I don't know how old you are but I well remember being a college student during the days when Bill Ayers was one of the outspoken leaders of domestic anarchy and violence. For anyone to say that he represents "social justice" is Orwellian.

This invitation is a blot on the Naperville School District and, if not rescinded, will haunt everyone associated with it.

I hope you will have the courage to lead your school out of this bad decision.

Yours truly,

130 Pupdawg  Tue, Mar 31, 2009 6:11:33am

...speaking of justice, that's a rare and most welcome glimpse of it.

131 NelsFree  Tue, Mar 31, 2009 6:58:12am

re: #126 Bobibutu

I received the same email. Here is what I wrote back:

Thank you for your thoughtful and courteous reply. I am glad that Bill Ayers will not be allowed to influence the impressionable youth at your school. This Country of ours, the Best Country on Earth, is not helped by people like him.
You also mentioned Diversity in your email. May I ask you to consider: what is the opposite of Diversity? Could you come up with an antonym for Diversity?
I can. The opposite of Diversity is Assimilation. Think about it.

132 BethesdaDog  Thu, Apr 2, 2009 1:18:21am

Although I don't live there I sent an email to each school board member with that old picture of Ayers' mug shot, then the pictures of the two officers killed in New York, and then a third picture of the ambulance outside the armored car that was attacked, killing the driver.

I think they got the message.


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