I know there is something called the First Amendment, and I know that part of the college experience is the exposure to a variety of ideas, but at some point common sense needs to be part of the formula. Today's Boston Herald posted an article about the speech domestic terrorist Raymond Luc Levasseur was scheduled to give at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst tomorrow night.
Because Mr. Levasseur was forbidden to travel to Massachusetts by his Parole Officer, Mrs. Levasseur is expected to speak in his place. (One of the comments posted on the article stated, "Scott Brown filed a complaint with the US Parole Commission that the out of state travel violated parole regulations and voila! Brown for US Senate!") Interesting.
According to the Boston Herald:
"Levasseur, 63, served 20 years in federal prison for a string of New York bombings, His radical United Freedom Front was also responsible for the 1976 attack at the Suffolk County courthouse in Boston. Members of the group were convicted of the 1981 murder of New Jersey state trooper Phil Lamonaco."
Who in the world is sponsoring this speech? Why would a group on a college campus bring in as a speaker a man who blew up buildings and murdered people? Why is he on parole? My children have long since graduated from college, but even then, sending them involved serious expense. If this is the kind of speaker the University of Massachusetts is bringing in to talk to the students, the parents should refuse to pay tuition!!
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