An article on Feb. 20th reports “Lancaster County’s Republican state House delegation is putting pressure on leaders of the higher-education system and Millersville University to cancel an upcoming lecture by radical-turned-professor William Ayers.”
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If the ACLU, then headed by a Holocaust survivor, was willing to lose half of its membership in the 1950’s to support the right of the Nazi Party to march down the street in Skokie, Illinois, then we in Lancaster should support Millersville University allowing William Ayers to speak, despite his alleged engaging in illegal and violent protests against the Viet Nam War.
