<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The university should simply admit that of course it employs many people "with a history of terrorism."<div><br></div><div>The hypocritical maunderings of trustees should be dismissed. --CGE</div><div><br><div><div><br></div><div>PS - Most Americans still don't know that the US withdrew its conscript army from Vietnam because they revolted. Or even that the US still managed to kill 4 million people in SE Asia with chemical weapons and more ordnance than used In WWII.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On May 10, 2014, at 8:06 PM, E. Wayne Johnson via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">What Kennedy is saying is that no one who has worked for the US military or served in the federal government should be employed by the university . It is sn interesting idea .<br><br>One fault in it is that not all who participated did so willingly .<br><br>Flippancy aside...another Kennedy is said to have said that those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable .<br><br>Arguably it was violent resistance that brought down the war in Vietnam .<br><br>Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone<br><br>---- C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote ----<br><br>US vets of Obama's thousands of drone killings, SOCOM, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan...?<div><div><br></div><div><i><a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2014-05-09/exclusive-kennedy-says-ui-shouldnt-employ-anyone-history-terrorism.html">http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2014-05-09/exclusive-kennedy-says-ui-shouldnt-employ-anyone-history-terrorism.html</a><br></i><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>"Exclusive: Kennedy says UI shouldn't employ anyone with history of terrorism<br>Fri, 05/09/2014 - 7:00am | Christine Des Garennes<br><br>"CHAMPAIGN — In his first public statement about James Kilgore, University of Illinois Board of Trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy told The News-Gazette on Thursday that violence is no way for people who disagree with the government to conduct themselves in public discourse.<br><br>"That is one of several reasons given by Kennedy as to why Kilgore, a former member of the 1970s radical group Symbionese Liberation Army, should not work at the university.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>"No one wants to stop an ex-felon from having a career, Kennedy said, but a public institution which receives a good portion of its funding from state taxpayers — and where students are learning to become leaders of a multicultural democracy — is no place for someone who was involved with a group that advocated overthrowing the government, targeted police and carried out a robbery that led to a murder..."</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>