“Our military forces are dying every day to fight for our freedom here, and it seems like we’re just slapping the military in the face when we hire a terrorist to teach our youth,” State Rep. Charlie Meier said.
An Illinois state legislator has introduced a bill that would ban convicted terrorists from teaching at taxpayer-funded colleges in Illinois.
State Rep. Charlie Meier says that if sex offenders can’t teach, neither should terrorists. His legislation would prevent anyone convicted of a crime related to terrorism from teaching at state colleges and universities.
The University of Illinois system has hired multiple convicted terrorists – including James Kilgore, a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst. Kilgore was convicted of murder in a 1975 bank robbery that left a woman dead. He spent 30 years in hiding before he was extradited to the U.S., where he spent six years in prison. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hired him after his release.
Bill Ayers also taught within the school system, despite founding the Weather Underground, which claimed responsibility for a series of 1970s bombings. He never apologized and taught in Illinois for 23 years.
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