Bill Ayers, BACK at Georgia Southern–for academic reasons

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Mary Grabar

Bill Ayers brags in this video (see below) in the student paper that he sits on several dissertation committees at Georgia Southern.  He’s visited dozens of times.

Bill Ayers is questioned about being “disinvited” to give a speech last year.  He blames the “barbarians” with the “pitchforks.”  They objected to this unrepentant bomb-throwing co-founder of the terrorist group, Weatherman, being on campus, and spell the end of “academic freedom” (according to Ayers). It was not “anything I did,” but ”right-wing ideologues,” who “created demons” (Jeremiah Wright among them).  The “essence of a democracy” is that we talk to strangers–even those we disagree with–says Ayers.  Students are cheated when he cannot speak to them, he claims.

But students do not pay everyone speaking fees, about $7,500 for campus visits, as they do for Ayers (according to his agency Evil Twin).

We “should recognize that in a wild, diverse democracy like this,” “I’m in the mainstream,” says Ayers.  As evidence, Ayers claims his positions on wanting “peace in Iraq now” and on gay rights.

This interview is as logical as his “scholarly” writing, which I’ve analyzed in detail in my reports, which can be accessed on my main web page www.marygrabar.com

Watch the video here http://www.stp.georgiasouthern.edu/

Tags: Academia, Bill Ayers, Education, Georgia Southern, terrorism