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Just sent the following:

Mr. Keohane -

Call me old-fashioned, Mr. Keohane..........call me a throwback; a dinosaur.

Still, when I see that a vaunted (and local) university of (usually) impeccable academic repute decides to welcome a speaker who is billed, on your own University Web site, thusly:

"Laura Whitehorn is a revolutionary anti-imperialist who spent over 14 years in federal prison as a political prisoner. An out lesbian, she initiated and worked in HIV peer education and support projects in each of the three federal prisons in which she did time. Since her release, she's worked with POZ Magazine, a national monthly for the communities affected by HIV. She is now writing about HCV/HIV co-infection in the prisons. She has also researched the many cases in the U.S. of HIV positive people locked up for supposed 'crimes of transmission.' She is also involved in work toward the release of all the remaining political prisoners in U.S. prisons, and she lives in Manhattan with her lover, the writer Susie Day."

....then I just figure that here's another drooling liberal university nimrod, under your university "radar", inviting a gay, HIV-infected, ultra-radical feminist Communist to speak to young, malleable minds as if it's perfectly normal. I have come to expect as much from most in academia in this day and age. Yet, just in case you didn't know,

"Planting a bomb in the U.S. Capitol Building in 1983 was the culmination of a lifetime of radical protest for Laura Whitehorn, and 14 years in federal penitentiary have only solidified her stance as a committed American revolutionary. . . . More than simply a life and times story, OUT: The Making of a Revolutionary is a powerful indictment against the incarceration system, where still today over 100 political prisoners remain imprisoned for speaking out against the U.S. Government."

.....it seems that our gay, ultra-radical feminist Communist is actually a gay, HIV-infected, ultra-radical feminist, Communist, terrorist bomber. I'm sure you just couldn't be more proud that your fine institution of higher learning that happens to charge near $40K per year can tell all of your students' parents that they're paying such confiscatory rates for their children to have their minds opened and their views properly shaped by a terrorist.

Hope you have a crew ready to clean up the slime after this person's appearance.................and shame on you for ever, EVER allowing such garbage to even walk onto your campus.

I'd take this to the News & Observer, Mr. Keohane, but they'd merely applaud your "open-mindedness".

Sign me, "Disgusted and Glad That My College-Aged Children Attend NC State",

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Raleigh, NC