[Peace-discuss] UI won't employ "anyone with history of terrorism"

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

US vets of Obama's thousands of drone killings, SOCOM, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan...?

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2014-05-09/exclusive-kennedy-says-ui-shouldnt-employ-anyone-history-terrorism.html

"Exclusive: Kennedy says UI shouldn't employ anyone with history of terrorism
Fri, 05/09/2014 - 7:00am | Christine Des Garennes

"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.

"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.

"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..."


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