Bill Ayers, Social Justice, and UW

A recent incedent that has taken place at the University of Wyoming has caused some interesting controversy.  The University of Wyoming's Social Justice Reasearch Center, under Francisco Rios, invited William Ayers to speak at UW.  Bill Ayers was the co-founder of the terrorist group the Weather Underground which "claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including explosions at the Pentagon and U. S. Capitol." (Jackson Hole Daily) After much protest against the former terrorist, UW cancelled the speech and planned on paying the former terrorist $5,000.  But, that was not the end of that for Bill Ayers and his supporters.

Meg Lanker, a student at the University, threatened to sue UW for cancelling.  She claiming the cancellation violated the First Amendment.  The Lawyer hired by Lanker issued a date for a response from the University after which, if they didn't reschedule, he would file a lawsuit against UW.  The University didn't respond and the lawsuit was filed.  A fedral judge ruled that the University of Wyoming would have to allow Ayers to speak because of the First Amendment.  Ayers ended up speaking at UW about social justice and education.

I find it very interesting that this William Ayers was a member of a terrorist group and people at the University of Wyoming wanted to listen to him.  He is a proffesor at the Universtity of Illinois-Chicago who teaches social justice and who has served with  President Obama on the board of a Chicago charity.  According to wikipedia social justice is "based on the concepts of human rights and equality and involves a greater degree of economic egalitarianism through progressive taxation, income redistribution, or even property redistribution". 

From what I see William Ayers is a terrorist who want's redistribution of wealth or in other words a communist economy for America.  This man should not be a proffesor or a speaker to young American college students. However, I think the University of Wyoming should have the right to allow or not to allow whomever they choose to speak to their students.  If the University cancelled the speach, it was probably cancelled for a good reason and should have remained cancelled.