Academic Cheerleaders for Terrorists

[MrsSmith]

Academic Cheerleaders for Terrorists

By Candace de Russy

Raymond Luc Levasseur served twenty years in federal prison for leading the United Freedom Front, a radical anti-government group notorious for its violent "protests" against U.S. foreign policy in the '70s and '80s. Its members were charged with the murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the attempted murder of a Massachusetts state trooper, several other assaults on law enforcement officers, eight Boston-area bombings, and a series of armed bank robberies. 


In spite or even because of Levasseur's heinous acts, academics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst recently saw fit to include him in its annual Colloquium on Social Change: Radical Democracy and the Moral Economy [whatever that means] on Social Change, an event designed to showcase radicals of '60s vintage. The purpose of this year's colloquium was to "examine how ideas about social justice have shaped American lives with speakers who represent distinctly different radical challenges to American society."

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The push on the part of academics at UMass to elevate Levasseur to the precincts of the ivory tower is by no means unique. The welcoming, and in particular the hiring, of former terrorists and ex-cons there has been the rage for some time. Examples, as catalogued by Marilyn Penn in an article on academe's twisted "privileging" of applicants who are proven malefactors rather than law-abiding citizens, include:

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At root, professors who pay court to terrorists are indulging in a radical, degenerate, and socially debilitating form of moral discourse. They are purveyors of postmodernism, a view according to which the "grand narratives" of former times -- narratives which privilege truth over falsehood, goodness over evil, freedom over tyranny, and normality over deviance -- are deconstructed in favor of a conception according to which radical departures from traditional norms of civilization are valued for their own sake. The more brutal, the more extreme, the more perverted this "acting out," the better. What matters is the gory, ugly theater of it all, in order to deliver a tremendous slap in the faces of normal citizens. A litany of reasons to blame America for the ills of the world provides the constant backdrop for these rabid, counter-cultural rituals.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/academic_cheerleaders_for_terr.html

[Ptarmigan]

Well gees. Almost every terrorist group is/was leftist. ALF, ELF, PETA, Unabomber, PLO, Hamas, Japanese Red Brigade, SLA, Black Panthers, Manson Family, Al-Qaeda, and the list and go and on.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Well gees. Almost every terrorist group is/was leftist. ALF, ELF, PETA, Unabomber, PLO, Hamas, Japanese Red Brigade, SLA, Black Panthers, Manson Family, Al-Qaeda, and the list and go and on.

If it goes on long enough and gets bad enough, it eventually draws a counter-reaction.  Just sayin'.