William Ayers is slated to speak at
Millersville University on 19 March 2009. More whitewashing from the local PBS affiliate, WITF:
Ayers helped lead a radical group responsible for several domestic bombings in the 1960s, but Millersville officials have defended his right to speak about his work more recently in urban education. The lecture is being funded by privately raised dollars.
WITF does mention
bombings, but fails to mention the
murders (minor detail).
Disingenuous
victim blaming from Millersville University:
It is regrettable that those individuals who oppose his visit have focused their criticisms on his infamous past rather than the vastly more important issue of how to close educational achievement gaps between urban students and their non-urban peers.
Uhm...if you don't want uppity people pointing out the terrorist background of your invited speakers, then why don't you invite non-terrorists to speak? Presumably, it is possible to find an expert speaker on the given topic who is not terrorist. More disingenuousness:
Free inquiry and free speech are critical elements of academic freedom, which thoughtful Americans from our founding fathers to U.S. presidents and Supreme Court justices, more than 200 years later, have judged essential to preparing students to be productive citizens.
Everyone is entitled to free speech, except, of course, "regrettable" people who have silly hang-ups about hosting mass murdering terrorists as honored guests on campus. Even more disingenuousness:
In my message to the campus community I emphasized that the opportunity to hear divergent voices is neither a liberal nor conservative political perspective
I suspect that one could count the number of invited conservative speakers on zero fingers. Millersville offers a market place of ideas monopolized by murderous Marxists.

In case anyone wishes to send the Millersville U. president, Dr. Francine McNairy, an email: MU.President@millersville.edu
UPDATE
San Francisco's police officers union accused Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn in a 1970 bombing that killed San Francisco police officer Sgt. Brian McDonnell.