Warner Todd Huston
Bill Ayers killed two policemen and assisted in the bombing of government buildings as a member of the notorious Weather Underground in the 1960s and 70s. Yet the University of North Dakota invited this killer to speak to the students as if he were a pillar of the community.
The extremist leftists in the Students for a Democratic Society organization invited the murderer to appear and the appearance is being promoted by UND’s Department of Educational Foundations and Research and the College of Education and Human Development.
Naturally, UND president Charles E. Kupchella is unconcerned over the invite claiming that the terrorists actions are no issue since they happened 40 years ago. “I do not see how anyone could logically conclude that the University has therefore endorsed the things a speaker is alleged to have done some 40 years ago,” Kupchella said to emails on the issue.
But, as Young Americans for Freedom chapter president Harald Brevik said, Ayers is in no way repentant for his crimes.
Brevik noted that in a 2001 interview with the New York Times, Ayers — looking back on his days as a fugitive — said, “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.” (In one of those weird quirks, the interview was published on Sept. 11, 2001.)
Leave it to the liberals in our universities to sanction the lionizing of a murderer.
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