Posted on 06/15/2011 5:04:46 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
OTTAWA -- American academic and former militant radical Bill Ayers won't be allowed to enter Canada, according to an association of university faculty who had asked him to speak at an upcoming conference. Ayers was scheduled to speak at a conference on higher education and to the media in Toronto on June 16, but the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations said Wednesday Ayers won't be allowed to enter Canada.
"Ontario's university professors and academic librarians are appalled that Canada's borders are becoming a barrier to the free exchange of ideas," stated Mark Langer, president of the faculty association. "Bill Ayers is a respected academic, and in no way a threat to the peace and security of Canada. There is no reason why he should be kept out."
Ayers gained notoriety in the 1960s and 70s as a founding member of the radical militant protest group Weather Underground. In 2009, Ayers was detained by the Canada Border Services Agency and denied entry into Canada.
"In the past, we have admitted Martha Stewart, a convicted felon. Just a few weeks ago, we also let in Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician currently being prosecuted for violations of his country's hate speech laws," Langer said in a news statement Wednesday. "Based on this record, one wonders if Ayers is being kept out of Canada for purely political reasons, something that is unacceptable in a free and democratic society."
A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews wouldn't confirm whether Ayers had been told to stay away, but did say it's up to the individual traveler to make sure they comply with the law.
"The Canada Border Services Agency is operationally responsible for enforcing applicable Canadian law, including the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)," wrote Chris McCluskey in an email. "It is up to the individual traveler to satisfy the CBSA officer that he or she is admissible to Canada under IRPA."
Some Canadians are retrieving their brains....
They should also ban HIS book, Dreams of My Father.
Wilders and Martha Stewart did not commit violent crimes.
I know Ayers wasn’t convicted, but we know he and his group did commit bombings.
He should be banned from the USA today
Now THAT is funny!
Wow. I’m impressed. Thanks Canada but why don’t you guys take him, put him on trial, and lock his sorry butt away? Please.
Seeing as how our chicknsh*t government has let him go free to spew his hatred all over. We ordinary citizens would sure appreciate it. What do you say?
Oh well at least you guys are smart enough to turn him away.
Now that's what I'd call an exchange of ideas!
Did he really compare a domestic terrorist to Maetha Stewart? Not really a fan of Martha, but seriously. What has she blown up lately?
Martha Stewart hasn't promoted the overthrow of an allied Government, nor has she killed anyone in terrorist attacks.
Also, she makes really good crab-cakes.
The hunt for traitors begins, release the hounds.
Her crab cakes are da bomb!
Ayers has the last laugh. He can get into the White House
Canada - DWI or DUI -Driving Convictions
Snip: Routine screening upon entry into Canada includes the question, “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?” If you have been convicted of impaired driving - even if no collision was involved - you may be denied entrance. Even with no other criminal violations. Think carefully. Don't lie about any convictions, regardless of how 'trivial'. This is especially true if you're entering from the U.S. Increased cooperation between Canada and U.S., as part of post-911 security measures, means that the border agent could already have access to criminal records. Lying/forgetting about a conviction could get you barred from entry into Canada for many years.
What about burning all the textbooks he influenced with his sick, twisted mind....brainwashing our school kids into his moral relativism and communism garbage.
Bill Ayers’ work needs to be cleansed from the classroom....so disgusting that his mind could affect the way our children think.
Worldview is everything—affects all actions and values. Ideas are so important, we need to control the ideas that go into your children’s minds—NOT LET THE MARXIST”S DO IT!!!.
For the last 50 years are text books have been only allowing Marxist garbage into the heads of our children. Buckley wrote about it in 51—God and Man at Yale. He noticed the brainwashing in the texts in 1951, for crying out loud. NOTHING WAS DONE. and we hired Angela Davis and a ton of commies to write curricula in the 70’s and the marxist foundations glorified the works of Ginsberg and Burroughs....people who bragged about having sex with boys.....These minds are the ones glorified in Universities today.....DISGUSTING.
We got to control curricula to get the country back from these obamabots.
All known terrorist are banned from entering Canada...he is a known terrorist...
I find it amazing too to see how conservative Canada is trending.
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