Only in the USA can a convicted terrorist become a tenured professor
I just happen to have Mao’s Little Red Book. I bought it in China in 1972. The book I have is in English and was printed in the People’s Republic of China.I was just thumbing throgh it and found a statement which I think should be taken to heart by the conservatives...here is what the book says:
“ Complancency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. Our attitude towards ourselves should be ‘ to be insatiale in learning’ and ‘towards others in teaching’ “
Taken from the Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War ( Oct 1938) Selecte works Vol II p 210
Seems to me the true and real conservatives should start to teach and the rest should study..and in essence know thy enemy.
Some 'sobered up' the morning after the sick sixties & flew right; some were too wasted, brain-damaged & went the welfare /handout route; but too many simply put on a suit or a dress and took their MBAs & went after the money with the usual covert hunger of many Commies. And a lot of them became--professors, teachers, raising their kids with the same ideology: Now the chickens have come home to roost. Ayers isn't a rarity, he's all too common.
I'm not at all adverse to teaching and discussing other ideas no matter how radical so long as there is balance in the discussion, and radical ideas aren't promoted as the right and proper thing to do especially if they involve destroying people or property. What I'm seeing now on the internet and in our educational institutions that anybody who clings to old ideas is either maligned in many different ugly ways, made to feel backward, and intimidated into silence. That is not the American way, although I know it has been abused in the past; i.e., the Salem business. It was horrible, but they put the clamps on it themselves when it got too far out of hand which I think is pretty progressive for those times. Would that some of the others take the lead in policing themselves.
By his supporters' logic, I can go out there and start blowing things up, just not get caught. I can foment revolution because that is free expression. That's the message I'm getting. Sorry, it's sedition and treasonous, and I want no part of any of it.
I have a copy of the book now. It's all there. Talked to two friends today and they don't see what's such a big deal about it. It makes me feel so sad.
I'm not saying he should be taken out and shot or stoned or anything like that, but I don't understand any school that would hire somebody with a background like that. Many teachers have challenged my thinking that didn't try to blow up things in our country.
I think many of those others in the book went into education, community outreach, human rights, not necessarily bad things in and of themselves, one founded Kwanzaa, another I wrote about on another thread, they seem to be involved in one manner or another in shaping minds, bringing about change in consciousness and diviseness. What do I care about Kwanzaa? I know little about it; it's some kind of new religion, maybe it gives certain people a sense of identity, and they have a right to do it so long as they don't hurt their fellow citizens in so doing.
One person challenged me it's good we can have people from different backgrounds in a room and all agree we wouldn't do a certain thing. What about redemption?
But he's not sorry, thinks they didn't do enough, where is it for me to forgive anybody or do I not get it? Perhaps someone who has hurt me personally. Plus I like to feel that they are truly remorseful.
I have hurt people in my life and when I became aware of it, I felt guilt and sorrow and made an effort to apologize. I can't remember but one person in my life, except one daughter, who has expressed remorse for the pain she caused me. There are so many out there who have wronged me. Not one ever could say the simple words, "I'm sorry."
Quoth Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on September 15, 2008 on the Huffington Post in criticism of Governor Sarah Palin:
Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”
Yet the same Robert F Kennedy, to my knowledge, hasn’t said boo about Bill Ayers’ dedication of his book “Prairie Fire” to Sirhan Sirhan (and has publically called Sirhan a hero) .... the man who actually shot and killed his father!
Unbelievable!