Posted on 12/22/2008 8:59:16 AM PST by bs9021
Don’t Tread on Bill
by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 22, 2008
American academics have mustered more support for Weather Underground alum and tenured professor Bill Ayers than they ever have for the country which they work in. Perhaps this should not surprise.
The man whom failed presidential candidate John McCain dubbed “some old terrorist” and the land of his birth and residence have frequently been at cross purposes, although his intellectual fans do not see it that way. “Any person with basic knowledge of American history in the 1960s and 1970s knows that the Weather Underground did not kill anyone (except themselves),” Bucknell assistant history professor John Enyeart claimed to Jefferson Taylor of The Counterweight newspaper. “I have a duty as a historian to correct the record whenever possible.”
The Counterweight is published by the . As for Professor Enyeart, he many want to check the record before spinning it.
“Larry Grathwohl, a former FBI informant in the Weather Underground, tells Accuracy in Media that he was contacted by law enforcement authorities about five or six years ago about bringing a murder case against Weather Underground communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn for her reported involvement in the 1970 death of a young San Francisco police officer, Brian V. McDonnell,” AIM editor Cliff Kincaid reported on Nov. 2, 2008. Dohrn is Mrs. Ayers.
“Grathwohl had personal knowledge of the bombing, having testified before Congress that Ayers told him at the time he was in the terrorist organization and that Dohrn had personally planted the devastating bomb,” Kincaid revealed. Nevertheless, while Professor Enyeart’s historical record-keeping may be questionable, his trio or reviews on ratemyprofessors.com are glowing raves.....
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Karma would be Ayers and Dorhn’s car exploding when they started it up one morning.
Wow! I guess you can get a ringing endorsement from some people as long as you stop just short of murder.
By defending Bill Ayers 0bama and the left are eliminating the stigma of using bombs as domestic political statements.
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