Wolfstrike
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On September 23, 2010 William Ayers was unanimously denied emeritus status by the University of Illinois, after a speech by the university's board chair Christopher G. Kennedy (son of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy), containing the quote "I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy."[50] He added, "There is nothing more antithetical to the hopes for a university that is lively and yet civil...than to permanently seal off debate with one's opponents by killing them".[51] Kennedy referred to a 1974 book Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, written by Ayers and other Weather Underground members, which includes a dedication to a list of over 200 revolutionary figures, musicians and others, including Sirhan Sirhan, who is currently serving a life sentence for Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968.[52] Ayers said he has never dedicated any book, including Prairie Fire, the book in question, to assassin
this is significant because it shows ...
1) Bill Ayers thought Sirhan Sirhan was some kind of left-wing political warrior, instead of how the government portrayed him, as a lone nut.
2) Bill Ayers believed the Kennedys were enemies of their left-wing Communist beliefs.
...but everyone will let Bill Ayers deny it and walk away.
Bill Ayers the terrorist is in jail?
no no no, our corrupt society made him a college professor
this is significant because it shows ...
1) Bill Ayers thought Sirhan Sirhan was some kind of left-wing political warrior, instead of how the government portrayed him, as a lone nut.
2) Bill Ayers believed the Kennedys were enemies of their left-wing Communist beliefs.
...but everyone will let Bill Ayers deny it and walk away.
Bill Ayers the terrorist is in jail?
no no no, our corrupt society made him a college professor