What does it take for a “progressive” to get booted from his own ball?

Honesty, according to Bill Ayers.

On a site called Monthly Review – which describes itself as speaking for “socialism and against U.S. imperialism”- Ayers posted a 2006  letter he received from colleagues who wanted to explain the reason they were not inviting him to their party. Ayers also posted his hilarious reply where he rejected the notion that he did anything wrong.

“…You refer to 'the violent aspects' of my past," Wrote Ayers, "...you seem to say that I have some uniquely dreadful behavior to account for, and I politely disagree.”

In the brush-off, "Lauren" explains why she and others aren't inviting him to an award ceremony for a fellow progressive educator even though they consider Ayers “among the most noted progressive educators in the country.”  (Caution: While I couldn’t find anything on a “John Dewey Prize for Progressive Education” that doesn’t necessarily mean one doesn’t exist. But, when trying to research it, the first entry on Google lead to a site which immediately attempted to download a virus. The goal was to dupe me into paying for their “Antivirus 2009” program and supporting its author.)

Lauren explained to Ayers, “We cannot risk a simplistic and dubious association between progressive education and the violent aspects of your past.  We believe, of course, in your right to express your views, then and now.”

Nice. They support him, they just don’t want run the risk that anyone would connect the dots.

“This is not about curtailing your expression,” Lauren wrote, “ Rather, in this age when Google summarizes instantly, and often shallowly, who we are…we have to find ways for the public to see progressive education not as radical or threatening but as nurturing and familiar, connected to the very best aspects of their own learning experiences.”

His colleagues obviously lament the days when parents simply believed everything NBC told them.

Darn that Internet!

“We don't want a shallow press to prevail,” she wrote, “ We want to engage the public with as little interference as possible.”

Interference? Excuse me? (Note to self: “interference” now means the free exchange of ideas that expose one’s true agenda.)

Ayers however, took exception when these esteemed members of academia attempted to hide their agenda by simply crossing a domestic terrorist off their invite list.

“Different times demand different responses, of course” Ayers responded, “but to claim the mantle of ‘social justice’ while practicing this kind of exclusion is unacceptable...Your hope to position progressive education ‘not as radical or threatening but as nurturing and familiar’ is in some ways a fool's errand… progressive education, if it means anything at all, must embody a profound threat [emphasis is Ayers’] to the status quo.”

What irritates Ayers, apparently, is not that his lefty friends want to pretend he doesn’t exist, it’s that they just don’t have the guts to say what they really believe.

And trust me when I say that is exactly what scares me as well.

“Educators” like Ayers position themselves as merely fighting against racism or injustice, but the clear goal is to teach political propaganda through people who openly embrace Marxism, Communism, and Socialism.

Many parents simply want their kids to receive an education that is free from any political agenda, right or left.

The problem comes when he is foisted upon public school/college students and then indoctrinates the youth of America with his communist theories of “education” at taxpayer expense, in an environment that is supposed to be free from political agendas. And lest you think that’s not happening, just last week a parent called the local Chicago radio station, WLS-AM, to alert parents that Ayers had been invited to speak at her child’s public school in a northern suburb of Chicago.

People like Bill Ayers is why students have felt compelled to start groups like “Students for Academic Freedom.”

Yet, the snubs by his own kind must be wearing thin on Ayers.

In a 2006 Interview with “Revolution: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist” shortly after the shunning, Ayers explained his cynicism. “And by cynical what I mean is that you don’t trust people and so you kind of try to parse out your own little place to have your career as a lefty. And that just makes me sad when it doesn’t make me sick. You have to believe that if you speak the truth, if you speak up and speak the truth as you understand it, and you’re willing to listen and be in dialogue with people, that people can get it."

Newsflash Bill, we get it. Most parents don’t believe in the values of Socialism, Marxism and Communism and they rightly get concerned when someone tries to sell these ideas to our kids instead of teach about them.

Ayers says he wants to "listen" and wants a "dialogue" but that's only if you agree with him. Everyone else probably won't get hired. Check out  Want to Teach Here? Then Tell Us Your Politics by Daphne Patai, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

I for one, believe in the free market system which says that anyone, no matter what color, how poor, or what background, can work hard, apply himself and carve out a better future for himself. And in a day when Bill Ayers sees his “Distinguished Professor” title losing meaning quicker than Barack Obama can redistribute your wealth, American parents have a duty to demand academic freedom in the classroom. Otherwise, the only freedom future generations might have is the one the State allows.