Canada refuses to admit noted terrorist/friend of president
posted at 3:30 pm on January 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
No word on why. I wonder if his membership in a violent terrorist group had something to do with it.
“I don’t know why I was turned back,” Ayers said in an interview this morning from Chicago. “I got off the plane like everyone else and I was asked to come over to the other side. The border guards reviewed some stuff and said I wasn’t going to be allowed into Canada. To me it seems quite bureaucratic and not at all interesting … If it were me I would have let me in. I couldn’t possibly be a threat to Canada.”…
[Jeffrey Kugler, executive director of the Centre for Urban Schooling,] waited for five hours at the Toronto Island airport for Ayers. He was with a lawyer, but the border guard refused to allow Ayers to see the lawyer.
“The entire four or five hours he was not allowed to have representation at all. To me this is an issue of academic freedom. He could not be a threat to anyone ever. Anyone who knows anything about this man – he’s a distinguished scholar at the University of Illinois and he has been involved in education reform over the past 15 years. To imagine in any way he was a threat to Canada is really absurd.”
What’s he doing in Toronto the day before the inauguration, anyway? Surely this respected educator, community activist, and pillar of liberal Chicago society is someone Barack Obama would want front and center for his big moment. Kindly Reverend Wright is in town, in fact, although there’s no word yet on whether he’ll be at the festivities or confined to the basement the way he was when this train first got rolling two years ago. Exit quotation: “[C]ivilian Palestinians … are systematically stamped out by a military machine second to none.”
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And with the Ramos and Campion pardon we are going to have a decent week after all.
JonRoss on January 19, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Hopefully they blocked him on the return trip too….
Hog Wild on January 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Sheila Jackson Lee 2012
TheSitRep on January 19, 2009 at 6:26 PM
thank you Canada for the smack-down on the scum. Too bad they didn’t put him on a plane for the tundra and then lose his luggage.
Mallard T. Drake on January 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
I am tired of radicals hiding behind universities to provide themselves with a veneer of respectability.
Teaching at a University hardly makes you the buttoned up, sweet, schoolmarm of yesteryear. In fact, it almost guarantees the opposite at many universities.
JadeNYU on January 19, 2009 at 6:42 PM
“If it were me I would have let me in.”
Hahahahhah!!!
I can imagine Michael Jackson saying the same thing after being barred entry to a 3rd grade all-boys school.
GarandFan on January 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Dumb ass Canada got something right for once.
beachgirlusa on January 19, 2009 at 7:10 PM
From looking at Ayer’s picture, I’d suggest his looks
Red State State of Mind on January 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM
I dunno…since they elected Harper, more often than not, they’ve been looking a lot smarter than the US…at least smarter than the majority of the US that elected Obama…wow, it just dawned on me…Canada has just turned away our new ‘First-Terrorist’…it really has been a year of change.
AUINSC on January 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM
What makes anyone think that Mr. Harper had anything to do with this? The current immigration act was passed in 2002 before his party took over. He’s just enforcing the laws as written, as is his duty.
Still, he didn’t bend the rules for short-term gain, as the other parties would have done. Good on Mr. Harper for standing up for law and order.
KillerKane on January 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM
All of a sudden Canada is turning into a such a sensible country. They are turning away war-deserters also.
I thought Australia was the only sane palce in the world but Canada is giving it a sound competition. We have to do something more to get out message across than have Nicole Kidman kiss Hugh Jackman.
promachus on January 19, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Ayers, besides his other disgusting attributes, is a MWLLOL.
Kralizec on January 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM
To the list of reasons for turning him back in the future, add that he doesn’t know why he was turned back. Also add, “Because I wish it.”
Kralizec on January 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM
What’s he doing in Toronto the day before the inauguration, anyway?
Perhaps he doesn’t want to be around when things go boom?
DSchoen on January 19, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Lemme guess….
Man
Who
Looks
Like
Old Lady?
UltimateBob on January 19, 2009 at 10:32 PM
But you have to admit,the earring adds a touch of grace and elegance…
AUINSC on January 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM
It’s the most interesting thing I’ve read today. Thank you, Canada!
qestout on January 19, 2009 at 11:11 PM
More than one:
a) They’ve stood by us in Afghanistan.
b) They have a conservative government in power.
c) They’re sending back American deserters.
d) They refused Bill Ayers entry.
…and, last but not least…
e) They burned down Washington during the War of 1812.
unclesmrgol on January 20, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Canada did not burn down Washington in the War of 1812. The British did that – not that it helped them much. They suffered humiliating defeats at Lake Champlain, Baltimore and New Orleans which more than offset the temporary loss of the capital.
KillerKane on January 20, 2009 at 12:36 AM
So what? Just wait until our courts force the release onto our streets of nearly 200 “detainees” when no country will take them.
Sergeant Tim on January 20, 2009 at 3:51 AM
Bombast.
hillbillyjim on January 20, 2009 at 6:28 AM
Referring to the good Reverend, of course, not the good Doctor Ayers.
Hard to even type that without laughing out loud.
hillbillyjim on January 20, 2009 at 6:33 AM
Oh, where have you been,
Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Oh, where have you been charming Billy?
I have been to seek a wife,
she’s the joy of my life,
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Did she ask you to come in,
Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
Did she ask you to come in charming Billy?
Yes, she asked me to come in,
there’s a dimple in her chin.
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
Can she make a cherry pie,
Billy Boy, Billy boy,
Can she make a cherry pie charming Billy?
She can make a cherry pie,
quick as a cat can wink an eye,
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
How old is she,
Billy Boy, Billy Boy,
How old is she charming Billy?
Three times six and four times seven,
twenty eight and eleven.
She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother
hillbillyjim on January 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM
Let’s look at Wright’s sermon with the modifiers modified.
And his sermons aren’t racist?
shick on January 20, 2009 at 8:43 AM
HAHAHAHA. And this after all the MSM in America made him feel so welcome, too. Scumbag.
scalleywag on January 20, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Hee, hee…his “chickens have come home to roost”! Dirtbag!
hopefloats on January 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM
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