Canada kicks Ayers out: You're not welcome here

[formerlurker]

William Ayers turned back at Canadian border
 
Jan 19, 2009 11:22 AM

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.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/573462

  to Canada. 

[Flame]

Wow!  Canada did something right!! 

[Mr Mannn]

In Mr Mannn's perfect world, Ayers would have landed in Chicago all dejected, and be denied entrance to the US by customs officials here!

[Chris_]

"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."

Hey dickweed, you are a terrorist. It is like the old (which fits perfectly here) joke:

Guy to attractive woman: Will you have sex with me for a million dollars?
Woman: Sure!
Guy: How about 20 dollars?
Woman: What? How dare you!
Guy: Well, we know what you are -- we're just haggling over price.

To think Canada is smarter that the USA -- in its leader and now in its immigration policies.

[Airwolf]

They should have let him depart the plane-----------at 20,000 ft.

[Wretched Excess]

ayers isn't a story.  the President associates with the guy, so he must be okay.  nothing to see here.  move along. 

[franksolich]

Late last year, the University of Nebraska invited Ayers, and then within a day and a half, had to disinvite him.

Some made a big stink about it; this "academic non-freedom" stuff.

The University of Nebraska insisted he had been invited because of his expertise on early-childhood education.

Yeah, right.

There's probably hundreds of Ph.D.s remarkable in their expertise on early-childhood education, scattered all over the country, from the Southeastern Conference to the Pacific-10.  It just seems very odd they didn't invite one of them.

[Eupher]

Frank, as you know, there is no such thing as bad press.

The bigger the scumbag, the larger the gathering to hear said scumbag talk.

Substance isn't nearly as important as exposure.

[Wretched Excess]

Frank, as you know, there is no such thing as bad press.

The bigger the scumbag, the larger the gathering to hear said scumbag talk.

Substance isn't nearly as important as exposure.

yep.  as the old saying goes, "you can write whatever you want to about me as long as you spell my name right".