B. Obama and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers were on a panel together in 1997 sponsored by the University of Chicago discussing Bill's book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court. Bill thinks the government can be a good parent to children as opposed to the bad parents who allow kids into a life of crime. Bill is also of the opinion that gun control will keep guns out of the hands of children. So how is that working in Chicago Bill? They have some pretty stringent gun control laws there.
Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop. The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Center's monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public.
Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent seven years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher at the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher at the Detention Center.
The juvenile justice system was founded by Chicago reformer Jane Addams, who advocated the establishment of a separate court system for children which would act like a "kind and just parent" for children in crisis.
One hundred years later, the system is "overcrowded, under-funded, over-centralized and racist," Ayers said.
Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.
Ah yes. Michelle. Our lady of the perpetual scowl. I can't wait until she gets her hands on the children of America. Not just the ones going to the University of Chicago.
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I wonder if bomb control would keep bombs out of the hands of radicals.
tim maguire · October 6, 2008 10:00 AM
Open a dialogue - Translation: We keep talking until we get the government to do it our way. What anyone else says is of no consequence, because we already know the right answer.
All this happened over ten years ago, and it is entirely possible that one of the two Obama's have mellowed from their socialist principles since then. I don't mean Barack and Michelle, silly, I mean Barack I and Barack II who have BOTH been running for President in 2008. It's clear to me that at least Barack II has seen the error of his socialist ways somewhere between the end of the primary season in June 2008 and today, October 2008. Barack II has been one helluva a sprinter toward all things centrist. Someone better slow this man's forward momentum before Barack III hits the presidency as a neocon conservative!
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I wonder if bomb control would keep bombs out of the hands of radicals.