Posted on 01/11/2021 4:21:16 PM PST by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
January 11, 2021
In 1969, a guy named Bill Ayers co-founded a terrorist organization called Weather Underground, whose founding document called for “world communism.”
In 1969, Ayers set off a bomb in Chicago at a statue that was dedicated to the city’s police. At the time of the explosion, no one was close enough to the statue to be killed. However, the explosion was so powerful that it broke almost 100 windows.
On March 6, 1970, three members of Weather Underground, including Diana Oughton (Ayers’s girlfriend) and Terry Robbins (Ayers’s close friend), were killed when they accidentally, prematurely set off a bomb which they were in the process of building, in their townhouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The explosion was so powerful that it destroyed the entire four-story townhouse.
In 1970, Ayers bombed the headquarters of the New York City Police Department.
In 1971, Ayers bombed the United States Capitol building.
In 1972, Ayers bombed the Pentagon.
Although charges were filed against Ayers for these bombings, the charges were later dropped because law enforcement agents had conducted wiretaps and property searches without warrants.
Ayers was later hired as a professor at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In 1995, when Barack Obama was running for state senator in Illinois, Obama held a fundraiser in the living room of Bill Ayers’s home.
The political left doesn’t find any of this to be even the slightest bit embarrassing or shameful.
I would hope this reminder would reach Rush and Steyn, too.
Liberal ‘elites’ don’t give a damn about violence ... CommaLaaaa was working to get looters and antifa thugs out of jail over the summer.
What white liberal ‘elites’ care about is hating conservative Americans. That’s it. That’s their gig.
Whose ox is being gored - no overriding principle involved.
I forgot about all this, thanks for the reminder.
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