Weekend Edition: A Degree in Intellectual Bankruptcy

tnp eagleThis weekend, Vermont’s Goddard College, an asylum of higher indoctrination, squats to a new low as they will play the recorded words of cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal at their commencement ceremony.

This piece of trash stood over Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982 and emptied a gun into him. Abu-Jamal, then a member of the Black Panthers, has never denied doing it and never repented FOR doing it.

Here’s THE most disturbing part of the whole ‘Mumia as commencement speaker’ debacle…

It wasn’t the staff or the liberal/socialist elite who run the asylum who chose this murderer to be the speaker, to impart words of wisdom upon the assembled graduates…oh no…

According to the asylum’s interim president, one Bob Kenny…“As a reflection of Goddard’s individualized and transformational educational model, our commencements are intimate affairs where each student serves as her or his own valedictorian, and each class chooses its own speaker. Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that.”

That’s right…cop killer Mumia was chosen as this year’s commencement speaker by…the students…and if that doesn’t put the starch in your shorts to get you out to vote I a month…nothing will.

Let me explain…

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