William Ayers is a problem for Barack Obama in more than one way.
First, there's the fact that Obama has a long relationship with William Ayers -- proud, confessed, unrepentant terrorist.
Second, there's the fact that the Obama campaign is aggressively attacking those informing the public about Obama's connections with Ayers, trampling on free speech.
An ad from the Obama campaign asks:
With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the sixties, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?
McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers' crimes, committed when Obama was just eight years old.
Ayers committed his crimes when Obama was eight years old. So what?
That's irrelevant. Obama, as a 47-year-old man, knows about Ayer's crimes. That's what matters, not that he was eight at the time Ayers was at war with America.
Obama wasn't eight when on September 11, 2001, in a New York Times article, Ayers said, "I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
To this day, Ayers stands by his acts of terrorism against America. Obama knows about Ayers' efforts to subvert the U.S. government. Nonetheless, Obama is friendly with him.
Why?
Ayers' acts were so extreme and his statements continue to be so radical that it's not enough for Obama to simply denounce him to ease my mind. That doesn't erase his long term relationship with terrorist Ayers.
Obama wants to be president of the United States and he counts (or counted) this anti-American terrorist among the people with which he's friendly.
That's extremely troubling. It speaks to Obama's judgment and it's not good.
Equally disturbing, Obama is using all avenues possible to attempt to silence those daring to speak of his very real connection to Ayers.
William Ayers isn't some composite character pieced together for the purposes of scoring political points and sliming Obama.
He has a place in American history. Ayers co-founded the radical Leftist group the Weathermen, later called the Weather Underground Organization.
Here's a review of some of the group's "accomplishments":
(Hat Tip: Mark Levin, Hat Tip: AliVeritas - Stolen from TSchmereL)
For those who have forgotten or weren’t born yet here is a list of a few of the activities. Just think if this were happening today:
7 October 1969 – Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, apparently as a “kickoff” for the “Days of Rage” riots in the city October 8-11, 1969. The Weathermen later claim credit for the bombing in their book, “Prairie Fire.”
8 October-11, 1969 – The “Days of Rage” riots occur in Chicago in which 287 Weatherman members from throughout the country were arrested and a large amount of property damage was done.
6 December 1969 – Bombing of several Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO stated in their book “Prairie Fire” that they had did the explosion.
27 December-31, 1969 – Weathermen hold a “War Council” meeting in Flint, MI, where they finalize their plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the “Weather Underground Organization” (WUO).
13 February 1970 - Bombing of several police vehicles of the Berkeley, California, Police Department .
16 February 1970 – Bombing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.
6 March 1970 – Bombing in the 13th Police District of the Detroit, Michigan. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During February and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility.
6 March 1970 – “bomb factory” located in New York’s Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members die . The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION.
30 March 1970 – Chicago Police discover a WUO “bomb factory” on Chicago’s north side. A subsequent discovery of a WUO “weapons cache” in a south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city.
10 May 1970 – Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C..
21 May 1970 – The WUO under Bernardine Dohrn’s name releases its “Declaration of a State of War” communique.
6 June 1970 – The WUO sends a letter claiming credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice; however, no explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had apparently been dormant for some time.
9 June 1970 - Bombing of The New York City Police Headquarters .
27 July 1970 - Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco. [NYT, 7/27/70]
12 September 1970 – The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary, break out and escape from the California Men’s Colony prison.
8 October 1970 - Bombing of Marin County courthouse. [NYT, 8/10/70]
10 October 1970 - Bombing of Queens traffic-court building . [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]
14 October 1970 - Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30]
1 March 1971 - Bombing of The United States Capitol . “ [NYT, 3/2/71]
April, 1971 – abandoned WUO “bomb factory” discovered in San Francisco, California.
29 August, 1971 - Bombing of the Office of California Prisons . [LAT, 8/29/71]
17 September 1971 - Bombing of The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, NY [NYT, 9/18/71]
15 October 1971 - Bombing of William Bundy’s office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]
19 May 1972 - Bombing of The Pentagon . [NYT, 5/19/72]
18 May 1973 - Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York
28 September 1973 - Bombing of ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy . [NYT, 9/28/73]
6 March 1974 - Bombing of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco
31 May 1974 - Bombing of The Office of the California Attorney General.
17 June 1974 - Bombing of Gulf Oil’s Pittsburgh headquarters .
11 September 1974 – Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation).
29 January 1975 - Bombing of the State Department in (AP. “State Department Rattled by Blast,” The Daily Times-News, January 29 1975, p.1)
16 June 1975 - Bombing of Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York .
September, 1975 – Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation .
October 20, 1981 - Brinks robbery in which several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, New York. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others were wounded.
1981 “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz.
September 11, 2001 “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers is quoted in NYT article
As Ayers and his fellow weathermen would say, quoting Bob Dylan's song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues":
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
And American voters don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
4 comments:
You swiftboater you...
This fiasco along with Obama's other digusting personal connections makes him unelectable. The Clinton's know it and right thinking Americans know it.
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This story has no legs.
They both were hired by the University of Chicago. Employees being on the same foundation boards to reduce poverty and increase the quality of schools is a good thing.
Obama has repeatedly said that he does not support violence being used for political purposes.
This guilt by association tactic is old and not worthy of our democratic process.
If you want to look into a scandal that matters, do some research into the Keating Five where McCain took campaign contributions from failing banks and passed legislation to bail them out.
Yes, that's me, a swiftboater. :)
Obama has serious problems. The truth is what it is.
This story has strong, muscular legs and Obama has himself to blame.
The aspect that really keeps the Ayers story alive is the way the Obama campaign has used such heavy-handed tactics to squelch free speech.
That alone makes it remarkably revealing.
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