Ayers: Canceled School Lecture Teaches ‘Terrible Lessons’
April 1, 2009 by admin
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Controversial author Bill Ayers says separate decisions by school officials and a bookshop owner to cancel his scheduled appearances next week in Naperville are “absurd” and “outrageous.”
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“This cancellation provides terrible lessons for these young people about the limits of freedom and the importance of obedience, and it must be painful for many of them to watch people they admire collapse under pressure,” Ayers wrote Tuesday in an e-mail. “It has all the hallmarks of suppression of speech: incitement of fear, intimidation of well-meaning folks, mob rule.”
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Or maybe they just don’t want a terrorist speaking at their stores and spreading his misguided views. It is interesting that he thinks he should have the freedom to speak, but they shouldn’t have the freedom to decide who they want to speak in their place of business.