Posted on 01/19/2009 3:11:35 PM PST by fiodora
An American education professor, one of the founders of a radical 1960s group known as the Weather Underground, which was responsible for a number of bombings in the United States in the early 1970s, was turned back at the Canadian border last night.
Dr. William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago and a leader in educational reform, was scheduled to speak at the Centre for Urban Schooling at University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. But that appearance has now been temporarily cancelled.
"I don't know why I was turned back," Ayers said in an interview this morning from Chicago. "I got off the plane like everyone else and I was asked to come over to the other side. The border guards reviewed some stuff and said I wasn't going to be allowed into Canada. To me it seems quite bureaucratic and not at all interesting ... If it were me I would have let me in. I couldn't possibly be a threat to Canada."
Ayers made headlines this summer after Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggested that then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hung around with domestic terrorists like Ayers. The professor had hosted a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama in 1995, during his run for the state Senate. They also worked together on Chicago school reform and served on a charity board together.
Ayers first rose to notoriety in the early 1970s with the Weather Underground. The group claimed responsibility for bombings at the U.S. Capitol, a Pentagon restroom and New York City police headquarters. In 1970, a townhouse in New York the group was using to build a bomb blew up.
Nowadays, Ayers is known more for his work in educational reform. He has written or edited more than a dozen books — including his 2001 memoir Fugitive Days — and travels around the world giving lectures on education.
Jeffrey Kugler, executive director of the Centre for Urban Schooling, is deeply disappointed in the turn of events. For him it's a question of academic freedom. "It's kind of ironic the day before Barack Obama is going to become president this is what the Canadian border security has done," said Kugler. "It seems ridiculous that one university can't have a professor from another university to come and give a lecture on an important educational topic."
Kugler waited for five hours at the Toronto Island airport for Ayers. He was with a lawyer, but the border guard refused to allow Ayers to see the lawyer.
"The entire four or five hours he was not allowed to have representation at all. To me this is an issue of academic freedom. He could not be a threat to anyone ever. Anyone who knows anything about this man – he's a distinguished scholar at the University of Illinois and he has been involved in education reform over the past 15 years. To imagine in any way he was a threat to Canada is really absurd."
That’s right! “An honest mistake...”
“The entire four or five hours he was not allowed to have representation at all. To me this is an issue of academic freedom. He could not be a threat to anyone ever. Anyone who knows anything about this man – he’s a distinguished scholar at the University of Illinois and he has been involved in education reform over the past 15 years. To imagine in any way he was a threat to Canada is really absurd.”
You don’t suppose it was because he was a terrorist, do you?
These leftist “educators”, like the pagan academies aka socialist government schools themselves, are a threat to faith, life, liberty, freedom, property etc.
The fact that Ayers is involved, recognized or accepted in any way in the world of education should be a huge red flag to any parent sending their child to be brainwashed 8 hrs/day in the local indoctrination facilities.
It was a small bright spot in my day too. Although I wish we would not have let him back in. He could have lived out the rest of his life at the Toronto airport like in that Tom Hanks movie, condemned to eat airport food and shower in public johns. That would have been a payback!
1. Does anyone really believe Obama when he says that?
2. Ayers and Obama in New York: Isn't it more reasonable to believe that Ayers and Obama first met in New York when they obviously were in New York at the same time, and especially when there is strong evidence that Ayers and Obama had at least one friend in common in New York, a famous Columbia professor?
3. So, is Obama lying about his relationship with Ayers, especially when Obama publicly claims over and over that Ayers is just a guy who happens to live in the same Chicago neighborhood as Obama?
4. So, if Obama is lying about his first meeting and his relationship with terrorist Ayers, what else is this liar and fraud Obama lying about?
5.For instance, is Obama lying about where he was born and about the name of the hospital where he was born?
6. So, could someone please explain to me how this liar and fraud Obama became President of the United States today on Jan. 20, 2009?
7. AYERS ALERT: How long do you think it will be before terrorist Ayers sneaks into the White House to get a grand tour of the White House by his old friend Obama? A few weeks? A few months?
8. REV. WRIGHT ALERT: And how long do you think it will be before REV. WRIGHT also sneaks into the White House to see his old friend Obama? A few weeks? A few months?
“william ayers turned back at canadian border”
better would have been, “william ayers taken into custody at canadian border”
IMHO
Maybe not, but you're a threat to America.
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