{"id":7558,"date":"2009-11-11T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:24:24","slug":"patrick-assails-new-umass-invitation-for-convicted-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/patrick-assails-new-umass-invitation-for-convicted-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick assails new UMass invitation for convicted terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/11\/patrick_assails.html\"> Patrick assails new UMass invitation for convicted terrorist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor Deval Patrick today assailed the speaking invitation that a group of UMass Amherst faculty extended to a convicted terrorist, even after criticism from state and university leaders scuttled earlier plans for a speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am more than a little disappointed about this invitation having been extended,&#8221; Patrick said at a State House news conference. \u201cI fully get the point, and respect the idea of free speech. But I think it is a reflection of profound insensitivity to continue to try and have this former terrorist on the campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray Luc Levasseur, the founder and former leader of the radical revolutionary group United Freedom Front, is scheduled to speak Thursday night. An earlier invitation for him to speak at a library symposium was canceled last week amid pressure from Patrick&#8217;s office and from family members of victims of his group&#8217;s attacks, which included the April 1976 blast on the third floor of the Suffolk County Courthouse that injured two dozen people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe: Patrick assails new UMass invitation for convicted terrorist Governor Deval Patrick today assailed the speaking invitation that a group of UMass Amherst faculty extended to a convicted terrorist, even after criticism from state and university leaders scuttled earlier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/patrick-assails-new-umass-invitation-for-convicted-terrorist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[1288926,6385,6384],"class_list":["post-7558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","tag-free-speech","tag-ray-luc-levasseur","tag-umass-amherst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7559,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions\/7559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}