Columbia University hires former Weather Undergound convict

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

Controlling crime through genetic parsing is a controversial notion, if not also revealing.

Permanently removing Ayers, Dohrn and the rest the WU Gene Pool would have been more inline with eradicating a deadly pathogen than eugenics.

Anwar al-Awlaki was a similar pathogen that was eradicated.

[tonyz]

Boudin, Dohrn, Ayers, leftist terrorists, all.

Tenure at a US university is not out of the question...certainly, a scholar-in-residence position is attainable.

Think of the educational opportunities potentially awaiting leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel after serving their time in the pen - they are pretty well versed in global channels of distribution - Columbia B-School faculty here they come.

Might a contrite Khalid Sheikh Mohammed look forward to an endowed chair in Middle East studies in a decade or so?

Boudin was hired as an adjunct proffessor by Columbia in 2008, so why the sudden outrage? Must be a very slow news day.

Timely reporting!!

The Washington Times April 2, 2013

Kathy Boudin, an ex-Weather Underground radical who spent time in prison for a dramatic armed-car robbery that left two police officers and security guard dead, has a new gig: adjunct professor at Columbia University.

She’s going to be teaching specifically in the university’s School of Social Work, the New York Post reports.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...derground-mem/


The New York Post



"Columbia School of Social Work Associate Dean Marianne Yoshioka hired Boudin as an adjunct in 2008. According to the Post, Yoshioka called the convicted murderer “an excellent teacher who gets incredible evaluations from her students each year"

"Of the hundreds of students Boudin has taught, Yoshioka said, just three have expressed qualms about her criminal background, and only one “switched out” of a class because of those concerns."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...ZxsT7nFZds0HIJ

Originally Posted by ddoering

"served 22 years of a 75 year sentence"

Sounds like she CLEPed the rest. Too bad 75 doesn't really mean 75 because dead certainly meant dead.......

Boudin's sentence was 20 to Life not 75 years.

[Lan]

Robert Redford's Film The Company You Keep coming to a theater new you 4/5/13

From Wikipedia:

The story centers on recent widower and single father, Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground anti-Vietnam War militant wanted for a bank robbery and murder, who hid from the FBI for over thirty years posing as an Albany attorney. He becomes a fugitive when his true identity is exposed by Ben Shepard, an aggressive young reporter. Grant must find his ex-lover, Mimi, the one person who can clear his name, before the FBI catches him. Otherwise, he will lose everything, including his 11-year-old daughter Isabel. While Ben struggles with ethical issues as a journalist, Jim and his old friends from the Weather Underground must live with the consequences of their radical past.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Lan

Robert Redford's Film The Company You Keep coming to a theater new you 4/5/13

From Wikipedia:

The story centers on recent widower and single father, Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground anti-Vietnam War militant wanted for a bank robbery and murder, who hid from the FBI for over thirty years posing as an Albany attorney. He becomes a fugitive when his true identity is exposed by Ben Shepard, an aggressive young reporter. Grant must find his ex-lover, Mimi, the one person who can clear his name, before the FBI catches him. Otherwise, he will lose everything, including his 11-year-old daughter Isabel. While Ben struggles with ethical issues as a journalist, Jim and his old friends from the Weather Underground must live with the consequences of their radical past.

Oh yea! It's cool to be a WU member, now. Or gay. Or a female Green Beret. Or a socialist. And so on...
The Country's going to hell in a handbasket.

[ironyoshi]

Conservative blogger Ace said this about the WU academic mafia today:

There's actually a good talking point for these murderers and bombers there. If they wish to prove the US is ruled by the wealthy aristocracy, and pampers the children of the wealthy and well-connected while ignoring the lower-class victims of their murders, they could cite the most compelling evidence of all: Their own murders, their own forgotten victims, and their own re-entrance into polite society without even the pretense of remorse.

Ayers, Dohrn, and Boudin are all testaments to the power of American privilege.

[mark46th]

While on the run from police, Dohrn married another Weatherman leader, Bill Ayers, with whom she has two children. During the last years of their underground life, Dohrn and Ayers resided in Chicago, where they used the aliases Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee.[23]

In the late 1970s, the Weatherman group split into two factions, the "May 19 Coalition" and the "Prairie Fire Collective", with Dohrn and Ayers in the latter. The Prairie Fire Collective favored coming out of hiding, with members facing the criminal charges against them, while the May 19 Coalition continued in hiding. A decisive factor in Dohrn's coming out of hiding were her concerns about her children.[25]

The couple turned themselves in to authorities in 1980. While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct[26] (see COINTELPRO), Dohrn pled guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, receiving probation.[27]

After refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman Susan Rosenberg in an armed robbery case, she later served less than a year of jail time.[26] Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers became legal guardians of Chesa Boudin, the son of former members of the Weather Underground, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, after the couple were convicted of murder for their roles in a 1981 armored car robbery.[28] Wikipedia

I know it's not the best source but this has all the names of the players in it. If I were a conspiracy enthusiast, I would ask the following question

Obama was a friend of Bill Ayers. Did Obama pull strings to get Boudin paroled? Boudin was a co- leader of the Weather Underground. Obama went to Columbia. Boudin is teaching at Columbia. . Did Obama pull strings to get her hired?

None of it is against the law but it does show who influenced and maybe still is influencing Obama...

[Richard]

Originally Posted by mark46th

If I were a conspiracy enthusiast, I would ask the following question

Obama was a friend of Bill Ayers. Did Obama pull strings to get Boudin paroled? Boudin was a co- leader of the Weathermen Underground. Obama went to Columbia. Boudin is teaching at Columbia. . Did Obama pull strings to get her hired?

None of it is against the law but it does show who influenced and maybe still is influencing Obama...

Come on, Mark.

Did you look at Boudin's family pedigree in NY - to include her brother a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit- and their influential position there? She was paroled in 2003.

And Boudin is herself a Bryn Mawr and Columbia alumnus.

Perhaps she knows where Jimmy Hoffa is buried, too.

Richard

YuuuuuP! An Illinois State Senator (Obama) had great influence over the NY State Parole Board in 2003!

[Sigaba]

So the take away from this thread is that non-SMEs should have a say on how professionals select others to join their ranks based upon what they've read on the internet and the way they think things should be.

What could possibly go wrong with such an approach?

[ironyoshi]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

So the take away from this thread is that non-SMEs should have a say on how professionals select others to join their ranks based upon what they've read on the internet and the way they think things should be.

No one has suggested taking control of hiring and retention at Columbia, only that hiring Boudin is an ethically bankrupt idea only possible because of the forces of legacy and nepotism.

Has she ever publicly disavowed the WU agenda or apologized for her criminal actions?

[Streck-Fu]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

So the take away from this thread is that non-SMEs should have a say on how professionals select others to join their ranks based upon what they've read on the internet and the way they think things should be.

Really, that is the view you formed from reading this? Maybe it takes one that is willing to skew their standards of ethics to consider this a completely above board move.

While the University is completely free to hire whomever they choose, I am able to judge that hire based on publicly available information.

[ddoering]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

So the take away from this thread is that non-SMEs should have a say on how professionals select others to join their ranks based upon what they've read on the internet and the way they think things should be.

No. The take away is that their are a ot of people out there that need to be shot..

Its not pink because it is true.

[PSM]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

So the take away from this thread is that non-SMEs should have a say on how professionals select others to join their ranks based upon what they've read on the internet and the way they think things should be.

If you have intimate knowledge in this situation, please share. Otherwise, your opinion is no more valid than ours. If professors are intent on being called "professionals", then I believe that they can be sued for malpractice. Are you ready for that? I am!

Pat