Posted on 10/06/2008 10:14:57 PM PDT by newbie2008
...when Barack Obama's friend tried to kill me.
The mainstream media have bought Barack Obama's spin on his relationship with Bill Ayers--I was only eight years old when he was trying to commit mass murder!--hook, line and sinker. So it's revealing to hear from one of Ayers' intended victims, John Murtagh:
During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.
In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night.
Read it all. During the years when Obama was "palling around" with Ayers, as Sarah Palin accurately termed it, Ayers was proud of his attempt to kill nine-year-old John Murtagh and his family. He said, for publication, that his only regret was that he and his murderous colleagues hadn't tried to kill more people. This unrepentant would-be mass murderer was the one person (along with his bloodthirsty wife, the only public figure, to my knowledge, who expressed enthusiastic approval of the Charles Manson murders) whom Barack Obama chose, over all other friends and acquaintances, to host his inaugural Democratic Party political fundraiser. And Ayers was Obama's close collaborator in trying to "reform" Chicago's public education system by drenching it in radical politics and anti-Americanism.
Exactly as Obama dropped out of Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright's church only when the association became politically inconvenient, he insincerely "denounced" Ayers only after his association with the terrorist had become a liability. That was after years of working with Ayers as a radical political ally, without showing the slightest concern about his friend's career as an attempted mass murderer.
One wonders, sometimes, what it would take to convince an American reporter that a Democratic Presidential candidate has poor judgment.
I saw Mr. Murtagh on “Hannity’s America.” Scary and sad story. In my opinion, Ayers should be in jail. BTW, here in Pittsburgh, the Weathermen bombed the USS Steel building in 1974 but no one was hurt, thank God.
Why IS this man walking around free? serious question here.
One forgets, too, the emetically sympathetic docudrama that CBS made about the Weathermen in the late 70's or early 80's. They really did.
That was about the time that CBS News's George Crile, may he burn in hell, was trying to dream up a new way to defame the U.S. military every month, and about the time that CBS lost their less-than-famous (the media kinda didn't cover it) lawsuit brought against them by retired Gen. William Westmoreland, whom they had smeared in a Crile-produced magazine show.
As for Bill Ayers, all this belated notoriety -- including the photo of him standing on an American flag -- could get his life insurance cancelled.
Hell, why go half way` 0’bama, step aside and let Ayers run instead.
McCain needs to get the Bernardine Dorhn connection, especially her Manson statement, in there, someway, somehow. I know it’s not the most politically relevant part of this now, but it is true, it is factual, and it will open the eyes of Americans to just what kind of people these were and are. It’s simplistic but shocking, to hear a woman say what she said about the murdered pregnant Sharon Tate. That particular line of connection needs to have the dots connected in an ad.
It's now apparent that his friends are NOT bad judgement but rather a measure of how radical Obama really is. America will find out when this guy gets power if we aren't proactive, i.e. we spread the word. The MSM will not tell the truth, they've been duped.
Watch the six parts of the video if you don't understand what's being pulled off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HZMD97nMw&feature=related
Would be nice just to see his story.I thank him for his story.
I wonder if there is any footage of Dorhn....there’s nothing like a youtube for those who live by sound bites.
Brian V. McDonnell, a sergeant with the San Franscisco Police Department who received fatal shrapnel wounds from a Weatherman pipe bomb set off on February 16, 1970.In a bombing that took place on February 16, 1970, and that was credited to the Weathermen at the time, a pipe bomb filled with heavy metal staples and lead bullet projectiles was set off on the ledge of a window at the Park Station of the San Francisco Police Department. In the blast, Brian V. McDonnell, a police sergeant, was fatally wounded while Robert Fogarty, another police officer, received severe wounds to his face and legs and was partially blinded.
Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn has been suspected of involvement in the February 16, 1970, bombing of the Park Police Station in San Francisco. At the time, Dohrn was said to be living with a Weatherman cell in a houseboat in Sausalito, California, unnamed law enforcement sources later told KRON-TV.[28] An investigation into the case was reopened in 1999,[29] and a San Francisco grand jury looked into the incident, but no indictments followed, and no one was ever arrested for the bombing. An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Bill Ayers, then a high-ranking member of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn’s husband), had said Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb. Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had heard about it from someone who was there. In a book about his experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself. In 2008, author David Freddoso commented that “Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them”.
Brian V. McDonnell
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