1/20/09

Canada bars '60s radical

Weather Underground co-founder William Ayers had been scheduled to give a lecture at U of T

Jan 20, 2009 04:30 AM

Debra Black
STAFF REPORTER

Weather Underground co-founder William Ayers, who made headlines last year during the U.S. presidential race for his controversial links to Barack Obama, was turned back at the Canadian border Sunday night.

The Weather Underground, a radical 1960s anti-Vietnam War group, was responsible for a number of bombings in the United States in the early 1970s.

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For crying out loud. Peacenik was looking forward to enjoying the inauguration. Peacenik was happy. Peacenik was feeling good. Peacenik should have stopped looking at the news. This is worse than embarrasing. It shows you what kind of country Canada has become under Harper. And that country is intolerant, petty, and vindictive. Someone should have intervened to prevent this from happening. Instead someone intervened to make it happen.