Posted on 10/30/2008 9:28:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DENVER -- More than 3,200 supporters -- including former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill -- have signed a petition protesting what they call the "demonization of Professor William Ayers."
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's ties to Ayers have been questioned during the presidential campaign by critics who call the professor a "domestic terrorist." Obama's Republican opponent, John McCain, conducted a robo-phone call campaign in Colorado and several other states, calling into question Obama's connection with Ayers.
The phone call campaign against Ayers began at the same time McCain told voters he wasn't concerned with "some washed up terrorist," during the last presidential debate.
The petition, circulated online, asserts that Ayers' violent actions as the co-founder of the Weather Underground were just "history." The petition calls Ayers a well-respected, nationally-known figure in the education world. It also said that critics who call Ayers an "unrepentant terrorist" and "lunatic leftist" are "part of a pattern of 'exposes' and assaults designed to intimidate free thinking and stifle critical dialogue."
Click here to read the petition.
Ward Churchill made national headlines when he called the victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns" and compared them to Nazis in an essay. He was eventually fired from his job in Boulder for research misconduct and work with the Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars.
The petition is signed by a number of professors from the University of Colorado, Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado.
Bill Ayers holds the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Correction: I find it ludricrous, not humorous.
Nothing about those animals is humorous.
Ayres thinks that we should kill government employees if those employees are working against the interest of the people.
With this in mind, shouldn’t we kill these professors?
I don’t really advocate killing people - I’m just pointing out that when liberals say things, they’re not talking about themselves...
There are many names that have been written in twice and even three times, and loads of fake names -- serial killers, Khmer Rouge, communists, figures in the occult, Weathermen, terrorists, victims of the Weathermen, etc. The petition is a joke.
You don’t mean to tell me Ward Churchill supports Ayers????
Wait while I get my surprised face out.
Why are these tenured people teaching our young people.
Ass.Press is a joke.
3,200 people who should never be allowed near impressionable minds. They are no better than Ayers to support him. With educators like this, it explains why America falls behind in education.
An absolute liberal trusim. The First Amendment applies to liberal viewpoints only. Tolerance is encouraged, but disagreeing with liberal lifestyles will not be tolerated. Liberalism is a walking talking living breathing double standard.
These pro-Ayers zealots just made Colorado U look like a hot bed of murderers and terrorists. Maybe it is...
I still have original newspaper clippings of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. I was that upset by his murder. I was in grade school, then. A child. In posts pasts, I have written that we are yet fighting a battle which goes back all the way to the days of Sirhan Sirhan. And, we are.
Yes we are.
Then you are aware that Yasser Arafat tried to free Sirhan.
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