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

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

The university should simply admit that of course it employs many people "with a history of terrorism."

The hypocritical maunderings of trustees should be dismissed.  --CGE


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.


On May 10, 2014, at 8:06 PM, E. Wayne Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> 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 .
> 
> One fault in it is that not all who participated did so willingly .
> 
> Flippancy aside...another Kennedy is said to have said that those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable .
> 
> Arguably it was violent resistance that brought down the war in Vietnam .
> 
> Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone
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> ---- C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote ----
> 
> 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
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> "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.
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> "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.
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> "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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