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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on April 30, 2011, 09:17:12 AM
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 09:52 PM
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Why is Canada Afraid to Let Bill Ayers Speak? Updated at 9:37 AM
Edited on Fri Apr-29-11 10:12 PM by marmar
from AlterNet:
Why is Canada Afraid to Let Bill Ayers Speak?
We got this press release and thought it worth sharing...
The organizers of the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education are asking the Government of Canada to permit Bill Ayers, a prominent American academic, intellectual and critic, to enter Canada and speak in Toronto at their event. Prof. Ayers was previously prevented from entering Canada in 2009. No official reason was given for this refusal.
“ Prof. Ayers is scheduled to deliver a talk on ‘The responsibility of academics to contribute to public debates in the media’ on June 16, 2011. The irony of course is that the Canadian government could well prevent him from exercising that same responsibility,†said Prof. Mark Langer, President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). “This is an issue of academic freedom, not one of a potential ‘threat’ to Canadian security. In the interests of open debate and the democratic exchange of ideas, Prof. Ayers must be allowed to speak.â€
Ayers -- who was until his retirement last year Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago – is a widely respected education reformer and a sought after speaker on the relationship between education, politics, and the media. He was also a founder of the Weather Underground, a radical protest group active in the 1960s and 1970s. His past involvement in the Weather Underground and later participation with Barack Obama on the board of an anti-poverty organization became a controversy during the 2008 Presidential election. ............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/575242/why... /
redwings40 (5 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:14 PM
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3. ya i mean he just bombed federal building.....
Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:18 PM
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5. Extra cheese?
You got it.
:lmao:
redwings40 (5 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:20 PM
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6. did he not bomb federal buildings?
its a simple yes or no question, but seems you still cant answer.
Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:21 PM
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7. Did he?
He was never convicted.
Now that all of his transgressions were brought to light under obama and his stooges, let's see what happens when we get a conservative Atty General.
redwings40 (5 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:22 PM
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8. did he not admit he wished he could have done more?
U4ikLefty (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:26 PM
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10. At least pretend for awhile before shit like this. nt
redwings40 (5 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:27 PM
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11. pretended... really, thats your execuse for him?
Pterodactyl (226 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Apr-30-11 01:19 AM
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15. Maybe Canada is aware of his record: He was a violent jerk.
There is nothing "progressive" about planting bombs. I don't support him at all.
Pizza. The new breakfast food.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-29-11 11:21 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. Did he?
He was never convicted.
ALTERNATE HEADLINE: DU Declares Bush Innocent of All War Crimes, Unconstitutional, Illegal Acts
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One of the guys in the deer camp I belong to got a DWI, and after that, he showed up on a "no-entry" list into Canada. He was on a cruise, and it docked in Vancouver . . . and he was told that he couldn't get off the ship in the port! Heluva way to find out, don't 'cha think?
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One of the guys in the deer camp I belong to got a DWI, and after that, he showed up on a "no-entry" list into Canada. He was on a cruise, and it docked in Vancouver . . . and he was told that he couldn't get off the ship in the port! Heluva way to find out, don't 'cha think?
Correct neighbor...a person local here the same and it was years ago he had his.
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I don't know who this guy is however I'll ask...
Is he someone worth letting up here?
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Can't get into Canada but he's been in and out of the Whitehouse many times. I'd like to :hammer: him.
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ALTERNATE HEADLINE: DU Declares Bush Innocent of All War Crimes, Unconstitutional, Illegal Acts
H5
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I don't know who this guy is however I'll ask...
Is he someone worth letting up here?
If you like people that plant bombs then brag about it, sure.
Otherwise, he's pretty much your typical "radical academic" that doesn't have much, if anything, worthwhile to hear.
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Ayers is a widely respected education reformer and a sought after speaker on the relationship between education, politics, and the media.
Respected?
Jared Loughner's high school followed Ayers' "educational" curriculum; funded by Obama, directed by Klonsky.
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If you like people that plant bombs then brag about it, sure.
Otherwise, he's pretty much your typical "radical academic" that doesn't have much, if anything, worthwhile to hear.
I think he was referring to the mole on DU, not Ayres.
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I don't know who this guy is however I'll ask...
Is he someone worth letting up here?
Maybe in Queerbeque helping the FreeFrench movement he would an asset be? :fuelfire:
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I think he was referring to the mole on DU, not Ayres.
FWIW, compaqxyz is in Canuckistan, it sounds like he really was talking about Ayres.
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FWIW, compaqxyz is in Canuckistan, it sounds like he really was talking about Ayres.
Given that, I do believe that you're correct.
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Redwing never got his pizza, nor was he scrubbed.
scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-29-11 11:35 PM
Response to Reply #6
13. What was the death toll?
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-30-11 09:33 AM
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17. a big fat whopping ZER0. n/t
That's not true, is it? I thought a cop got killed, plus others.
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-30-11 09:33 AM
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17. a big fat whopping ZER0. n/t
The same could be said of the Times Square bomber, or the underwear bomber, or the Fort Dix plotters, or those prize ass-clowns that wanted to blow up an airport in UK. None of them are going to be attending any academic reception fetes for a very, very long time.
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Can't get into Canada but he's been in and out of the Whitehouse many times. I'd like to :hammer: him.
Yeah, I know, right?
Same with Soros and others that hate America. Weird how that happens with a communist community organizer as our "leader". ::) ::)
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Off topic, Canada went hard for the conservatives yesterday. It is the bizarro world when the USA is the most communist/fascist nation in North America.