Meet the Newest Member of the Faculty -- The Weather Underground is on her resume. Prison, too.

At Hamilton College... you can take... "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change."... Its teacher is Susan Rosenberg, formerly of the Weather Underground.

...Its self-described revolutionaries, mostly middle-class, dedicated themselves to supporting radical black causes and tearing apart American society in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1970, they blew up a townhouse when a bomb detonated prematurely and killed a few of their troops. Kathy Boudin, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other high-profile members of the group spent the next decade or so running from the police and, some of them, continuing to pursue careers in criminal violence....

So why isn't Susan Rosenberg still in prison? Because in January 2001, Bill Clinton commuted her sentence. The outcry at the time was loud and furious. And no wonder. Just as important: Why is Hamilton College opening its doors to her?....

Hamilton administrators have wrapped themselves in the mantle of free speech. "As long as public safety and the rights of others are not compromised," they stated, "the college does not normally put limits on which voices can be heard and which cannot."

...Hamilton administrators stood high on the pedestal of free speech. But when Brendan McCormick, a Hamilton alumnus and official class representative, sought to alert his classmates to the Rosenberg appointment, the college's development office refused to send out a letter from him, as it normally would. "I pointed out the hypocrisy of sending out a press release claiming that you do not censor speech and then turning around and doing just that," Mr. McCormick later said.

Ah yes: Free speech for me, but not for thee. Hamilton College is set to kick off an ambitious capital campaign today in New York. Mr. McCormick suggests that alumni consider withholding contributions. Call it the right kind of resistance.

We're not so far from Clinton. I can't understand these LIBERAL arts schools hiring these kinds of thugs. It's beyond me. Wouldn't surprise me if our school also did something like that. There are a bunch of alums and students who want to do away with interdisciplinary programs like Women's Studies and Africana Studies, etc. They don't want our school to buy up all the fraternities either, which is their plan. I don't know how I really feel about that but I do know that fraternities have always had problems. It wouldn't be a bad thing to have them under university control for a number of reasons. Underage drinking is only one of them.

"Authorities decided not to prosecute in the Brinks case because they got enough time behind bars for her on the weapons charges."

That opened the door for Clinton. Should have tried her with the Brinks case, too. I don't know how strong their case was against her for that, but that would have meant a murder conviction.

Of course, Clinton could still pardon her, no matter what the conviction.

found at: http://www.aim.org/media_monitor_print/1070_0_2_0/

Clinton and 60 Minutes Help a Terrorist
By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | February 12, 2001

Bill Clinton's last minute pardons included drug traffickers, killers, an accused spy and a terrorist. The latter may be the most interesting because it appears that the popular CBS 60 Minutes program may have played a role in springing her from jail. Last December 14th, 60 Minutes aired a story narrated by Morley Safer on how Susan Rosenberg was linked to a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored car that resulted in the murders of two policemen and a security guard. After she was caught, she proclaimed, "Long live the armed struggle." Rosenberg was a member of the Weather Underground, a Communist terrorist organization. She was sentenced to 58 years in prison, after she and a companion were found with 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, including a machine gun. Authorities decided not to prosecute in the Brinks case because they got enough time behind bars for her on the weapons charges. This is the woman whose sentence has been commuted by Clinton, a president who claimed to be for gun control.

SNIP

"Destructive Generation" by Peter Collier and David Horowitz is a great read on the delusional Left of the 70s. Chapter Two, titled "Doing It" gives a great insight as to how these really messed-up people thought and acted.

If you are a failed Leftist, you still have job security - if not in the newsroom, then at the universities.

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