Time Bomb: A '70s Cop Killing Investigation Leads to a Chicago Law Professor Who Helped Launch Obama

The Phoenix New Times ^ | 17 Sep 2009 | Peter Jamison

[wbarmy]

Time Bomb: A '70s Cop Killing Investigation Leads to a Chicago Law Professor Who Helped Launch Barack Obama's Political Career

[wbarmy]

When some of the most rabid supporters of the Obama campaign start publishing articles that are damaging to him, you know that his political fortunes are turning south quickly. This magazine was tireless in its advocacy for Barack Obama and never said anything bad about him or good about his opponents. The shift in this article is seismic.

[NoObamaFightForConservatives]

If they would have REPORTED this way back when instead of trumping left vs right for a win no matter what....we would not be in the huge mess we are in with communist 0bama.

[Pete98]

The Democrats want to get him the hell out of DC because he is dragging them all down with him.

Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. Every democrat in DC is going to disavow him soon and act like they had nothing to do with him.

[MsLady]

Ayers and Dohrn assert today that the group deliberately avoided killing people in a campaign of "symbolic" bombings of empty government buildings. They and other former Weathermen have dismissed as a right-wing conspiracy theory any suggestions that their organization was responsible for the Park Station bombing.

That's just the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. They admitted that they set bombs to avoid killing people. Maybe that's true, but, anytime you play with stuff like that, why would you be surprised that someone would/could get hurt or killed? It doesn't make you any less responsible.

[Former Proud Canadian]

This will leave a BIG MARK.

[maggief]

ping!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***They admitted that they set bombs to avoid killing people.***

Nonsense! The bomb that accidentally went off in their Manhattan apartment, killing several Underground members, was wrapped in a layer of NAILS! You don’t put nails in a bomb unless you are trying to kill and wound people.

[American Constitutionalist]

MENE ! MENE ! TEKEL ! UPHARSIN !!

[Question Liberal Authority]

My sense is that The New Times hates The Arizona Republic even more than they hate Republicans (with the exception of Joe Arpaio, who they hate above all).

For instance, when the AZ Republic started running stories in favor of 'the Phoenix Lights' UFO sightings, the New Times ran story after story ridiculing the idea that the Phoenix Lights were UFO's. Under other circumstances, however, they would have more likely ran stories about the government cover-up of the Phoenix Lights stories, chastising the AZ Republic for not covering the story.

Similarly, the New Times seems to hate the AZ Diamondbacks, for no better reason than the AZ Republic made a fortune off the land deal which created Bank One Ballpark (Chase Field).

So it could be that they finally figured out that the Obama saga is ripe for investigative journalism, and since The Arizona Republic is completely in the tank for Obama, this gives them a green light to launch after the guy.

[Rennes Templar]

Get Glen Beck on this!

[henry_reardon]

I’d always regarded the Phoenix new times as a stoner/hippy rag. I didn’t know about their feud with the repugnant, oh well I suppose the enemy of my enemy is a useful idiot

[milagro]

Just read the whole thing. I went to Northwestern in the mid-sixties, and the Law School, as well as the J-school, were well thought of. Now knowing that Dohrn is teaching there makes me SICK!

[jonrick46]

Bump for later.

[milagro]

Hope Rush is all over this SOON!--and Beck too. The article is truly a "time-bomb"!

Makes me think of an early and absolutley hilarious Bill Cosby "funny" about the kids in shop class who threw a bullet in the boiler and sat there thinking: TINK.... TINK....

It is my very earnest and heart-felt prayer that no PHYSICAL harm be done to our president,(for his sake and the sake of this nation). But please, Lord, may he--and his leftist cronies--fall victim to what they truly deserve: a POLITICAL FRAGGING!

[antiRepublicrat]

Maybe that's true

I know you are just being accommodating in debate, but there is not a chance in hell that it's true.

If you want to symbolically blow up a buiding you put some dynamite in it. It's simple, does some structural damage and won't hurt anyone not near the explosion. Remember the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion? The Weathermen were assembling a nail bomb (dynamite wrapped with roofing nails) that blew up on them. The sole purpose of adding the nails is to kill people. They have no other use in bomb making.

They had planned to use this particluar bomb at an NCO dance at Fort Dix. They are lying. They meant to inflict the most possible bodily injury on people, and they are not sorry about it.

[iopscusa]

After a brief look @ The New Times, it’s what I thought it to be, another far left shi_y paper, low budget, no integrity rag that generally are free and seem to clutter the landscape as trash blowing in the wind.
What I wonder is why they would take the time to publish this article about the wetherman/Bill Ayers now...smoke & mirrors or deflection comes to mind!

[Tzimisce]

In the seventies, we blew up the government.

Today we work for the government.

That hope and change is working out great for us! LOL!

Now pay your taxes: we need raises, not that your money is going to make us like you any better!

Who says crime doesn’t pay? LOL!

-The Ayres Family

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The truth is starting to come out....

[Grampa Dave]

Ayers is another poster boy for my 2009 tagline:

[LucyT]

Time Bomb: A '70s Cop Killing Investigation Leads to a Chicago Law Professor Who Helped Launch Obama

[Grampa Dave]

We had this data before 0b0z0 became a household name.

Yet the LFM ~ Liberal Fringe Mediots spiked these stories so no one could read them.

[GOPJ]

Nancy, who brings up Harvey Milk from decades ago to bash conservatives - won't ‘get’ why this murder is relevant...

[MsLady]

WOW, never thought of that one. And no, I don’t have blonde roots...lol

[Question Liberal Authority]

I’d always regarded the Phoenix new times as a stoner/hippy rag.

They are. In the old days, the Obama Administration would have been exactly the sort of entity that a stoner / hippie rag would have gone after. Or any self-respecting investigative journalist for that matter.

About the only things keeping the Obama Administration from 10,000 stories like this appearing in leftist rags across the country is race and ideology. The race thing is wearing thin as the novelty of having a black president is fading fast. Ideology works best when you're giving campaign speeches, talking in generalities. When it comes to actual governing, Obama's walk doesn't match Obama's talk

[GeronL]

and that is a very liberal weekly paper

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

Ayers...The gift that just keeps on giving.

[blf1776]

Ayers will be at Purdue University on 09-24-09. There will be a protest!!!

See link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342962/posts

[3catsanadog]

Admitted setting of bombs to avoid killing people?

In the spring of 1974, the Weathermen claimed credit for a bomb that exploded on the 29th floor of the Gulf Building in Pittsburgh. It was left behind a reception desk by the elevators. It exploded in the evening but I forget exactly what time.

My boss was working late that night on the 28th floor. He was in a corner office far enough away from the explosion so wasn't hurt. But he may have been hurt had he chosen that moment to leave work and waiting for the elevator a floor below.

Someone from the cleaning crew may have been hurt severely or even died had they been vacuuming or dusting right where the bomb went off.

[JPG]

Didn't the erudite Mr. Ayers once proclaim..”Guilty as sin, free as a bird”?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

GASP!!! First I heard of this....not

I guess we should at least be thankful ‘The Others” are starting to pick it up.

[Hardastarboard]

dynamite wrapped with roofing nails

Sounds like a "Red Green" way of nailing down your roof all at once.

[Son House]

Weather Underground

Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group’s path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago’s streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6078589535743610981&ei=TcToSISuDYKM_QHws5n4Dw&q=Underground+bernadine+dohrn

[Allegra]

If they would have REPORTED this way back when instead of trumping left vs right for a win no matter what....we would not be in the huge mess we are in with communist 0bama.

I thought this at first as well. But then I got thinking...

We'd have McCain now who wouldn't be a whole lot better.

But all of these things about the left that are now being exposed to the American people who were asleep last year would still be lying dormant.

Now that the truth is coming out (and the subsequent reactions such as the town hall meetings and the 9/12 march), perhaps conservatism will go on the rise and we can reclaim our nation again.

We may be suffering the bad in order to regain the good.

Then again, I tend to be an optimist.

[Spunky]

"The bomb that accidentally went off in their Manhattan apartment, killing several Underground members,...."

One of those members was Bill Ayers girlfriend at the time.

[Son House]

Bernadine Dohrn, “holding my nose and going through with surrender”

Bernadine Dohrn “I remain committed to the struggle ahead”

Bernadine Dohrn “I am not committed to non-violence in any way”

[Son House]

Bernadine Dohrn “served on panels with Obama” referenced;

Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence

http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sfl-barackbash1,0,4014780.story?page=1

http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sfl-barackbash1,0,4014780.story?page=2

Bernadine Dohrn was once on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the “most dangerous woman in America.”

[RatsDawg]

I am not so sure about that, I mean we hammered and hammered people just as bad as this guy, like Bill Ayeres and his wife, and the Obama Kool-aid voters could have cared less.

[sima_yi]

Hey, hey, William A!
How many cops did you kill today?

[RatsDawg]

oh wait scratch that, they ARE talking about Bill Ayers, maybe I should read the article first.

[blf1776]

“Hey, hey, William A!
How many cops did you kill today?”

I think I will use that on my sign. THANKS!!!

[Spunky]

Do you have any idea when these articles were written? I don't like it when so many online articles don't have a date.

Freepers had lots of information about Ayers and Obama's connection before the election. I would send videos and articles to people I knew who were leaning towards Obama. It didn't do a bit of good. They still voted for him.

[GOPJ]

Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.

They better quit playing the race card... that "failure" is next.

[Marine_Uncle]

It may in some way add to the growing knowledge so many voters have been ignorant of for so long.

[happygrl]

I read about thois case before the election.

Something's afoot for this to appear in an alternative newspaper.

The worm is turning.

[gathersnomoss]

Maybe Barry & The Congress are no longer running the country. Barry ain’t goin’ nowhere.

Can you say “race riot”? I knew you could.

[KC Burke]

Wake me when they come up with something that wasn’t discussed here for months prior to the election of this Chicago radical leftist.

[Son House]

2005 or later according to this;

The AAAN in 2005 sent a letter to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in which it called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver’s licenses to illegal aliens a “bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims.”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

An Investigation Into a SF Cop Killing Leads to a Chicago Professor...(guess which one?)

[sima_yi]

You’re welcome, and good luck. Wish I could be there.

[antiRepublicrat]

Sounds like a "Red Green" way of nailing down your roof all at once.

Only if you wrap the bomb in duct tape.