Ayers to speak -- and be protected

From Wizbang: William Ayers will be speaking at the University of Wyoming. He's also to be given "adequate protection".  Against what?  Well, presumably against the sort of things that are considered "heroic" when inflicted upon conservative speakers:

So, how should Mr. Ayers be received on campus?

Well, he could be greeted with a nail bomb planted in his podium. A little "blast from the past" for the former bomber. Heck, perhaps he could critique its construction and demonstrate how to properly disarm it.

Nope, the right doesn't do that.

Then, how about throwing a cream pie in his face? Have a couple of students rush the stage and plant a big, gooey mess right in the old terrorist's kisser? It's all the rage on college campuses -- just ask Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, William Kristol, Anita Bryant, William F. Buckley Jr., Phyllis Schlafly, or other prominent conservatives who've been pied.

Nah, that won't work. When a conservative gets pied, it's a prank, a joke, an exercise in free speech, a brave blow against fascists. If a conservative were to pie a prominent liberal, it would be assault and battery, a brutal expression of political violence, an attempt to silence a speaker, and a crime against Gaia and the poor to waste food. So that's right out.

How about threatening to riot if he's allowed on campus? How about saying that it's time to take a stand against hate and violence?

Uh-uh. Only hard-left anarchists and radical Muslims are given that freedom. The rest just get their asses tossed in jail for just the threats.

Well, why not simply show up with lots of big signs and banners protesting Ayers' presence (and his unapologetic attitude towards his terrorist past)? Why not just wave the banners and signs and shout the bastard down? Hundreds of people chanting "NO TERRORISTS ON CAMPUS" and the like?

Forget it. That kind of freedom of speech is only granted to leftists. Keeping that from happening would fall under what the judge has ordered as "adequate security." Protest signs and banners would be excluded, protesters closely watched, and anyone who even says "boo" to the vermin Ayers will be removed.

In the end, the lesson to be learned from Ayers' visit to the University of Wyoming will be this: in our system, all are equal. It's just that some are more equal than others. And someone like William Ayers --an unrepentant former domestic terrorist -- is simply more entitled to more rights and more acceptance and more forgiveness than conservatives who don't have his record of atrocities and aren't anywhere near as extreme.