Ayers to keynote University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s 100th anniversary celebration
You won’t believe the title of Bill Ayers’ keynote lecture, scheduled next month, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
“We are each other’s keepers.”
UNL prof Gerard Harbison is disgusted:
I’d just like to be the first to express my utter disgust at the actions of my employer, UNL, in inviting this sorry excuse of a human being. Bill Ayers is a man who preached the murder of policemen; but he did not simply preach; he made a practice of planting bombs and murdering his fellow Americans. He then gloated when he got off on a technicality, and on 9/11/2001, in the New York Times, was quoted as saying he wished he’d done more. He has never repented for or repudiated his actions; indeed, his current career seems to be an attempt to continue ‘the struggle’ by other means.
This single act dishonors 100 years of Nebraska teacher education, and soils all of us who work at the university.
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Take these university professors and put them in Iraq with a gun and a canteen.
I’d like to commend Mr. Harbison for his commentary…and also remind him to watch his six. Such (rare, unfortunately) commentary tends to bear negative repercussions in the “erudite” university system of leftists and their sympathizers these days. The most benevolent and tolerant leftists will not suffer such a professor in their midst.
Says the “man” whose disdain for others is expressed through terrorist acts.
Or a Camelbak.
Seriously, this decision to let Ayers make the keynote address will most likely be heralded as “enlightened”.
Heck, even McCain dismisses him as a “washed up terrorist”.
“academic, not political”? You have got to be kidding. When someone uses violence against their own country, for whatever reason, they and anything they say or do for all time can and should be framed as POLITICAL.
This dean knew exactly what she was doing. “We didn’t expect him to be a lightning rod.” Whatever, lady.
I believe Ayers’ words, when leaving the courtroom on that technicality were along the lines of, “Guilty as Hell; Free as a Bird”.
That would be “guilty” of trying to kill a judge and planting bombs, by the way.
Pig.
I think this is tantamount to the book in that twilight zone “To Serve Man”.
He really means he wants to keep other people’s stuff.
I’ve never understood why McCain hasn’t said that if not for a technicality, AYERS AND HIS WIFE WOULD HAVE DONE TIME IN PRISON FOR WHAT THEY DID!
There are people out there that don’t know this.
What is wrong with our Universities these days? Seriously, they are anti American.
Ya think?
Unbelievable
Alarmingly, there are many people out there who think Ayers is a hero.
I wonder if ayers will mention bho in his address?
L
OK John, be good or the brownshirts will come and make you watch Jane Fonda workout tapes until you have been rehabilitated.
Now that the fact of his impending speech is out in a mass public, I seriously doubt it will actually happen. The state of Nebraska is staunchly conservative. There is going to be a huge backlash on UNL to stop the speech.
The Husker Blackshirts will defend that campus from being spoiled by a domestic terrorist!
I’m sure the faculty will welcome him with open arms.
Well, isn’t he the celebrity! This is what? An academic exercise? What can he honestly teach us except another way to die? Gross! Just plain gross! If Obama gets elected, he’ll be invited to the White House. You watch.
If the universities are all nuts in Nebraska, too, we’re doomed.
This is is a disgrace. I have already started composing my letter to the Chancellor and President of UNL. I am not an alum, but I do live in the state and donate money to the college. I know that I am not near the top of the donor list, but if the college loses 50 percent of the “small” donors because of this stunt, it will still be a big hit.
Should we even be talking about this in public? They’re gonna come and get us. ;0)
Harbison is a gutsy fellow. Good luck, sir!
This is as disgusting as inviting Achmedinajad to speak at a University. Both are terrorists – though not convicted, the evidence is enough – and both tend to want to kill Americans.
Way to go UNL – that’s really American of you…am I a terrorist-ist now?
As a UNL alum, I too am disgusted and disappointed in what was once an honorable institution I was proud to have graduated from.
I am contacting the Chancellor, Dr. Harvey Perlman to express my views and explain why I am canceling my annual alumni donation. I encourage all Huskers to do the same.
e-mail: hperman1@unl.edu
phone: 402-472-2116
The joke in Colorado is that the “N” on the Nebraska football team’s helmets stands for “nowledge”. I say it stands for “nincompoops”. Any other suggestions?
RDR, are you certain about that e-mail address? should there be an “l” in it? I want to get it correct. Thanks.
Oh yeah. That previous post – #17 – that wasn’t me. That was … uuuhhhhhh … somebody else. I think. NO! I sure of it. I’m sure. Yeah.
Another Buff fan taking a dig at the UNL football team? See you on 11/28! Can’t wait.
But yes this is an idiotic idea!
What idiot booked him?
UNL, shameful!
So, has any university invited Eric Rudolph as a speaker?
Hm, I thought not.
Nazis?
I’m a UNL Law School alum. If UNL doesn’t cancel Ayers’ appearance, I’ll tell them the same thing I told my undergraduate alma mater, Iowa State, in the 70’s when they invited Jane Fonda to speak: “If you do this you will never get another nickel from me again.” ISU went ahead with Hanoi Jane, and it has cost them a bundle over the last three decades. Thousands of other Alums took the same pledge and kept their word. I still expect to live long enough to sting UNL if they give Ayers a podium. I’m with Gerry Harbison.
Go Big Red should refer only to the school colors, not its political philosophy.
Nattering nabobs of negativism?
I would expect University of Texas to book him as well. They have a troll named Robert Jensen that is one of their tenured journalism profs, think Ward Churchill.
Here’s something from his wiki profile “He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic policies.”
The Houston Comical loves to publish his screeds.
The only way “that one” and his ilk will be my keeper is if they lock me up first, which probably is not beyond the realm of possibility.
I hope he kept his old girlfriend’s thumb – I believe that’s what they found after the nail bomb went off.
AlohaGuy said:
“I hope he kept his old girlfriend’s thumb – yes, & I am sure he has a special place for it…
The universities in this country are just breeding grounds for leftist, terrorist slime.
Disgusting.
“We Are Each Other’s Keepers: Research to Change the World,”
Would it be wrong to hope he gets hit by a bus?
Et tu, Nebraska? I wish I was an alum of UNL (I went to the University at Kearney, NE) so I could not send them another dime.
Charles Manson must of had a previous engagement. like maybe getting another swaztica tattoo.
only difference between the two is one of them is walking our streets.
What possible purpose could be served in bringing this varmint, Ayers to speak before yet more impressionable young people. Isn’t it enough that he is inflicted upon a captive audience of students in Illinois?
What’s more, if Ayers’ notorious past was just the result of misspent youth and poor decision making, like “O” and the libs want us to believe, then why is he still playing off it as though it were some glorious achievement?
Don’t fall for it, America: Obama is untrustworthy!
What a Bomb
and Obama’s favorite…
We are our brothers keepers.
Is it a coincidence that there so similar…and is it a coincidence that both disregard them?
I bet Terry Nichols and Tim McVeigh (in Hell) are just kicking themselves. If only they had bombed the Pentagon or RNC headquarters… they’d be university professors.
I resigned as a member of my state chapter and national chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association over the University’s allowance of aberrant sexual deviancy being displayed as a festival a few years back. But it pales in comparison to this. Huskers, show your mettle and punish the faculty.
DBNinKY said:
What possible purpose could be served in bringing this varmint, Ayers to speak before yet more impressionable young people.
Well, I would think that it would be an honor for a school to have our next Secratery of Education speak there…
be afraid, be very afraid.
It sort of makes you wonder who the other hallowed halls of education are going to bring in this spring for a grad speech.
Lets just say if I hear U of Memphis bring someone like this (also includes Jessie or Al), I won’t contribute anything as an Alumni. I am already struggling to want to donate because of the seperate but equal clubs on campus that my student fees are going to pay for and that whites are encouraged not to be a part of.
GSP
“We are each other’s keepers — except if you’re a pig cop or a baby-killer –in which case we will shoot you or blow you up”.
Let’s see if a crowd of journalists follows Ayers around and questions him the way they are Joe the Plumber.
It should be. “We are each others bomber.”
The lunatics are running the asylum.
I hope Professor Harbison is tenured.
Isn’t it funny how libs shout “baby killer” at military personnel as an insult? Coming from people who delight in killing babies in peacetime and fight tooth and nail to maintain the ability to do so, that’s rich.
I don’t know when the celebration is, but I suspect it is planned for a date after which Ayers will be head of the department of education for Obama, if elected, and then in the eyes of the most liberal folks, it will be an appropriate and timely choice.
Anyway, this all was not started in Ayers’ living room as Obama denies … it was Ayers’ home office.
I know where I would like to keep a few hundred thousand of the Bill Ayres and such. But those people are most certainly not my brother–
Well there was:
Cain and Able
Ismael and Issac
Essau and Jacob
Joesph had a brother problem
Fratricide, Fratricide, Fratricide Rocks!-to the tune of Jingle Bells
Don’t Feed The Trolls-ignore them.
—
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
God Bless America except for the blue states.
“We’re not interested in having him speak about his past or any of those things,” she said. “We are interested in his research…
… into how to construct a bomb
… into where to place a bomb for maximum effect
… into locations of Federal buildings
gunslingerpatriot re:
Lets just say if I hear U of Memphis bring someone like this (also includes Jessie or Al), I won’t contribute anything as an Alumni.
I am completely against contributing anything to anyone as alumni. Heck, I worked hard to pay them for my education and they gave me what? These are business run for profit, let them earn it! Contributing only encourages the idea of entitlement. IMHO
Who’s next? Charles Manson?
#41, you just put a funny thought in my head. Could you just see one of Obama’s thug-thizzlin supporters showing up and yelling, “You da bomb, man, you da bomb!”
Maybe his speech will “bomb”
First of all, kudos to Professor Harbison for properly exercising his first amendment rights. Well done, Sir.
Now it’s up to the people who pay the bills to do the same. The people of Nebraska – the taxpayers – should be outraged. They should verbally pillory the leadership at the school.
The parents who are paying to send their kids there, or the students who are paying their own ways, should first protest and secondly take a long hard look at other UN’s that they might be able to go to, outside of Lincoln.
Lastly the alumni should completely stop donations if this proceeds. Cold.
I thought that only Ivy League colleges would venerate Ayers and invite him to the campus. The highest acclaim at Ivy League colleges and Brandeis usually goes to Ahmedinejad and Jimmy Carter. Now that I know that even at The University of Nebraska sleazebags like Ayers are honored guests, then I am extra happy to see the Cornhuskers get whupped by Texas Tech and other smaller colleges. The University of Nebraska has not fielded a decent football team in years and usually gets physically beaten up by the Sooners. I was starting to feel sorry for the Huskers. True, they have horrible coaches like Callahan but I didn’t enjoy watching their weekly humiliations. Now I do and I can’t wait to see the Huskers get their butts kicked on Saturday.
Can we get the name, email address AND direct phone # to the head of this “prestigious” university?
The University of Nebraska – Lincoln (College of Law) was in the news for another reason a few weeks ago:
Nebraska is one of 2 states (the other being Colorado) who will be able to vote to ban affirmative action on Election Day.
Here’s hoping…
Marc
get your facts straight. Callahan is gone, we now have Bo Pelini as the head coach. We did not get “whupped” by TT, we lost by 6 in OT, and will win this Saturday.
That being said, UNL is already hearing from the public, and I would not be surprised if this piece of trash is replaced for the keynote speech becasue of the pressure. We can only hope.
Think they will have a “Bomb” threat?
If the university has a conservative club or College Republicans chapter on campus they should make cardboard pipe-bomb hats to wear to the event, and stand with their backs to the speaker.
And a picture of the dead girlfriend on the back.
I think Ayers would be much more vilified if they had taken a different tactic with him. The bombing doesn’t seem to resonate and simply stating that they served on a board together is too nebulous. The only thing that comes to mind is a bunch of people at a table. I would paint and really use descriptive language to show…
1. on this board the two of them had to decide what educational programs they would implement.
2. this means they would have to have pretty thorough discussions about what kids need, why this class and not that etc.–THAT’S A PRETTY HEAVY DUTY SHARING OF IDEALS AND IDEAS (to me anyway).
3. they chose really bizarre classes and passed over ones like mathematics. Ayers believes in indoctrination of kids and their parents.
4. after $150M pi$$ed in the wind childrens’ minds were not improved and Chicago has an abysmal graduation rate.
5. is this really the man you want to entrust with government run education? who can’t use a boatload of money effectively in just ONE city. who doesn’t think it is important to teach kids math ??
hit em with the kiddy-poos and education. that’s the language libs like to hear.
This is not news to be looked at with a ‘there they go again’ attitude; this is a horrific act, and horrific thoughts being propagated by an institution that is supposed to advance and support the society in which it exists. Institutions such as this must be stood up to and told that there are boundaries which are (or should be) self-evident, that every loathsome creature need not be given a taxpayer-supported podium. Professor Harbison, thank you.
Well, I guess we can cross off UN from the college possibility list.
Because he’s a senator (a gentleman) not a judge or jury…
plus, similar to how Ward Churchhill is an indian, Ayers must be a latino. McCain doesnt have a problem with latinos doing illegal things in the United States.
Hate to break it to you, but if you didnt beat TT by at least 21 points, then you got “whupped”. Perspective mate… dont get lost in the ego of a bygone era. Still rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers too?
Tom Becka, an Omaha talk show host is discussing Ayers now. He said the subject has attracted more phone calls than any other he has discussed.
He said, “when you call the university to complain,be nice.She is just doing her job.” The discussion sounds like a repeat of the sixties.
Ayers’ wife did serve time, I think. She was in jail for seven months for refusing to testify before a grand jury debating charges for a killing of police and a Brinks guard.
What? They couldn’t get Osama Bin Laden? Ayers is a second-rate liberal and a low-rent terrorist. I bet Columbia U could have gotten a better terrorist for their celebration.
Since we keep killing terrorist leaders in Iraq, I suppose there is something of a shortage of those guys for speaking engagements here in the US. Yet another devastating impact of the Bush Doctrine (version 2).
The Huskers have been selling out home games since Christ was a Corporal. If UNL insists on having a terrorist and a traitor speak at UNL, maybe a boycott of the next home game is in order. This would send a message to the Chancellor. We Cornhuskers have to stand on principle. Go Big Red! Semper Fi!
I’m from Nebraska (not Lincoln though) and I’m saddened and ashamed of this event. Where I’m from I would say 95% of the people here would invite obama in their house and offer him coffee and treat him decent but they would never never vote for him, thats just the way we are here. I was shocked that this scumbag is actually lecturing in my state. Hopefully with some help Gerard Harbison will be able to stop this. There was a time I had very much respect for UNL because in my little town of pop. 360 a man became a nationally known heart surgen after graduating from UNL. Come on UNL….pull your heads out and stand with Mr. Harbison and tell this idiot to stay out of our state.
Alumni should stop giving money and refuse to attend the event. People who live in Nebraska should complain to the state legislature and get funding cut.
It’s the only way to stop these jokers.
Do not believe this!
Is this really the Nebraska I grew up in?
It truly is not the Nebraska I knew.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
-Archimedes
Give me a sniper rifle and a good firing position, and I shall move Bill Ayers’ gray matter.
-Lee Harvey Cornhusker
Well I’m for any football team that plays against the
holershuskersThey also say the O on Obama’s logo stands for “honor.”
Obama will be in the Socialist Republic of St Louis on Saturday,
speaking to his minions under the Arch.
I’m thinking of carrying a sign that reads:
AYERS
PUTTING
DA BOMB
IN OBAMA
SINCE
1968
Bad idea????
Blue, got my back???
..and I never would have thought those wonderful down home folks in Nebraska would stoop to such a low. I hope the people there, the vast majority of whom very likely don’t go for this kind of radicalism, will rise up and complain loudly!
September 11, 2009
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be my guess. I mean, if you are going to go un-American and completely tasteless, go all the way. The title will be:
We all need new buildings.
P.S. From WIKI:
Good lord, he is a democrat.
…and WIKI left off that he was a leader in the 444 kidnapped Americans Jimmah Carter did nothing about. HMMM, it is all starting to make sense now.
Sorry OT but too good to pass up.
Ayers has been soiling for years, it’s just some people choose to be soiled by him while others are forced to be.
Typical leftist indoctrination center.
Having Ayers speak anywhere is bad enough; having him employed by any university is worse.
Ayers wife is also a radical involved in his activities back in the 1960s. I can’t remember her name but she went to law school but was rejected for membership in the Illinois Bar and can’t practice law. So at least there is some justice in this world. Ayers should still be in the brig except that a liberal judge (the type Barack Obama would appoint) set him free on some hypertechnicalities.
Blue, put the hockey game down and come back!!!
Bill Ayers’ ideology is mainstream in the Education Industry. Heck, he’s one of their leading lights. And has been for decades. Do you wonder why so many of your co-workers are voting for Obama? Or believe Al Gore is the savior? The left realized long ago that children and teens are impressionable and available for indoctrination from 8AM to 4PM daily.
Is anyone reading this sending his or her kids to public school and then straight on to college? This is like sending your children to Castro’s Cuba for an education. Please consider homeschool or a non-leftist private school. And it might be best for the kids to get some kind of real life training or experience before heading off into the swamp of social indoctrination that comprises so much of higher education.
I just found this video link at a PUMA blog. It’s entertaining and has very good background re. Obama’s far left leanings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu3CdSZRKu0
Believe me, this won’t go over well with rank and file Nebraskans.
Rob Roy:
I have one question for you: How Dare You? You don’t really believe that our troops are over there deliberately killing innocents, yet you imply that they are worse than a man who did deliberately target unarmed civilians for violence and murder. There is no moral equivalence.
And before you cite some isolated incident, any soldier who DOES cold-bloodedly kill an “innocent” is punished, as he/she rightly should be.
Since you call our troops terrorists and admire a REAL terrorist, perhaps you should change your name to Rob Roy O’Donnell.
I am so sick of military haters.
That is correct. Strange how Ayers still insists “nobody was hurt” in his merry band of anarchists attacks, innit?