Posted on 05/11/2014 7:31:04 AM PDT by rktman
In Illinois, the two largest taxpayer-funded universities have now boasted bona fide American terrorists on their faculties.
The University of Illinois at Chicago, a dismal and endless slab of concrete that is easily one of the ugliest campuses in America, was the well-known professional home of unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers from 1987 until his retirement in 2010.
Until just recently, the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, the semi-prestigious flagship school of the states college system, employed James Kilgore, an adjunct instructor of global studies and urban planning, a felon and a former member of the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
“So go ahead and commit a crime, expropriate a bank. Just make sure you leave an incoherent manifesto at the scene, claiming that youre shooting your guns and filling your pockets with loot for the people. When caught, you wont be a convicted murderer, but a political prisoner. And when released, you can be a college professor.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/10/how-1960s-radicals-ended-up-teaching-your-kids.html
(paraphrasing here) ... a bunch of tenured University of Illinois professors, blaming political pressure and sensationalist media coverage, say the plight of the bank robber and second-degree murder felon is a threat to academic freedom. They have formed “Friends of James Kilgore,” to promote the terrorists rehiring...
Yeah, terrorists have lots of friends in high places at the Brain Factory.
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