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October 6, 2008
Blast From the Past
Posted by Dave Blount at October 6, 2008 9:02 AM
Here's a news item from 1997 that's still relevant. When Bill Ayers realized that he could do more damage to America by subverting our educational system than by bombing buildings like the Pentagon and the Capitol, he worked his way up in academia's education establishment. Due to his having become a child-focused kind of leftist radical, it's unsurprising that protecting teenage criminals from the legal repercussions of their behavior is a cause dear to his heart.
Of course, the University of Chicago Chronicle never would have published this had they known AP would regard it as racist:
William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says "We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn't suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?"
Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop. […] Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system […]
Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.
"Students and faculty explore these issues in the classroom, but it is an internal conversation," Obama said. "We know that issues like juvenile justice impact the city of Chicago, this nation and — directly or indirectly — this campus. This panel gives students a chance to hear about the juvenile justice system not only on a theoretical level, but from the people who have experienced it."
Ayers has particular experience in beating the justice system, having walked away after committing numerous terrorist acts against his own country with the words, "guilty as sin, free as a bird." If Ayers had been put in jail where he belongs, he wouldn't have been able to launch Barack Obama's political career, and America wouldn't be staring into an abyss.
On a tip from J.
