Academic Cheerleaders for Terrorists

Professors with favorable regard for terrorists and a somnolent disconnect from their victims have shown themselves impervious to shame

Raymond Luc Levasseur served twenty years in federal prison for leading the United Freedom Front, a radical anti-government group notorious for its violent "protests" against U.S. foreign policy in the '70s and '80s.

Its members were charged with the murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the attempted murder of a Massachusetts state trooper, several other assaults on law enforcement officers, eight Boston-area bombings, and a series of armed bank robberies.

In spite or even because of Levasseur's heinous acts, academics at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst recently saw fit to include him in its annual Colloquium on Social Change: Radical Democracy and the Moral Economy [whatever that means] on Social Change, an event designed to showcase radicals of '60s vintage. The purpose of this year's colloquium was to "examine how ideas about social justice have shaped American lives with speakers who represent distinctly different radical challenges to American society."

Never mind that Levasseur's notions of social justice cut short the life of state trooper Philip Lamonaco, caused many others great suffering, and visited destruction on various military reserve and recruiting centers... [snip]

Something is horribly wrong in higher education, as the public increasingly grasps. Consider the reaction of Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, for example, to the honoring of Levasseur at UMass:

This notorious killer ... is a guest of the university's faculty to talk to students ... Is that the lesson these so-called teachers want to send? ... Glorifying terrorism and equating it with social change is wrong. The University of Massachusetts should be ashamed of its faculty, which has turned this colloquium into a sick joke. Who will speak at this event next year -- Terry Nichols and Zacarias Moussaoui?"

But professors with favorable regard for terrorists and a somnolent disconnect from their victims have shown themselves impervious to shame. Citizens will have to unite in finding ways to prevent these "teachers" from emboldening those who would do us harm and inviting them to infiltrate our campuses...


[Or for those of you my age:

Point: parents: do you know what your children are being 'taught' in school?]




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