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Posted on 10/06/2026 11:17:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Even when I was a child, I was taught about the revolution.
"They taught me how to recognize an undercover cop and an FBI agent in a crowd, how to speak in code on the phone - it was all a game to me."
Zaid Ayers Dorn did not have an ordinary childhood.
There were no Disney characters on the walls of his children's room.
Instead, he was watched from a poster by Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh.
He could not go to kindergarten for years.
The family outings were not organized for a picnic, but to observe the federal prison before the planned release of the inmates.
At the time Zaid was born, his mother, Bernadine Dorn, was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives.
She was the leader of the Weather Underground, a radical anti-war organization that drew attention to inequality and racial injustice in America by bombing government buildings, including the Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department.
His father, Bill Ayers, was also a co-founder of this group.
The family lived under false identities, moved frequently and remained constantly aware of the threat of arrest.
The Weather Underground has been described by the FBI as a domestic terrorist group For Zaid, however, it was just a normal life.
"I knew the FBI was after us and they never lied to me about it."
"They explained it to me in ways they believed a child could understand - they compared us to Robin Hood.
"We were outlaws who steal from the rich and give to the poor, things like that," he says.
His parents came from a well-to-do white middle class.
His mother was an honors student who studied law at the University of Chicago.
However, after Martin Luther King Jr. visited the city and supported the anti-rent activist strike in 1966, she became an active campaigner and convinced of the need for more radical change in America.
The assassination of King, followed by a deadly police shootout with Fred Hampton, the leader of the Black Panthers, pushed her further into militancy.
"I think it pushed my mother and a few other people over the edge," Zaid says.
"She considered Hampton not only a friend, but a role model, and her government killed him."
His father was first drawn to opposition to the Vietnam War and the draft.
"At that time they had a slogan: 'Bring the war home.'
"The idea was to bring the violence of the Vietnam War to the streets of America—to wake people up to what was being done abroad and at home, when it came to black groups and leaders," Zaid says.
The idea that a group of middle-class students could successfully drop bombs on some of the best-guarded government buildings in the country seems unbelievable today.
However, they managed to exploit the preconceptions that you are young, white and educated, Zaid claims.
Posing as secretaries, women were able to enter buildings to gather intelligence and plant explosives in remote locations, often in women's restrooms.
"One of the advantages is that they were college-educated, articulate and fairly affluent white people, who could move through those spaces of power without drawing too much attention to themselves," Zaid explains.
The group's racial privilege also shaped its alliance with the Black Liberation Army, a splinter group from the Black Panthers.
White activists would use the access and relative invisibility to support black activists, including as getaway drivers after being released from prison and other illegal actions.
As Zayd grew up, the realities of life in the underground increasingly affected his childhood.
Without official documents, he could not go to school, and most of his friends were the children of other activists.
Most of his childhood was similar to other American children, with field trips, family gatherings and holiday camping trips.
And yet even those activities had a distinctly revolutionary tinge.
"We certainly never visited Disneyland or the Capitol or anything like that."
"My parents took me to see the monuments of the revolutionary struggle, where their heroes were killed - where Fred Hampton was killed by the police, where John Brown was hanged, where Nat Turner led the anti-slavery rebellion.
"So it was a tour of America, but as a place they were fighting against," he remembers.
It wasn't until years later that he realized that one family camping trip served an entirely different purpose.
The tent site was less than a mile from the federal prison where a member of the Black Panthers was being held.
His parents used the trip to study the prison before a possible attempt to free the prisoners.
Zaid believes that his parents sincerely wanted to avoid causing physical pain to others.
They called ahead of the explosions with warnings, and the devices were timed to detonate when the buildings were empty.
Once a movement embraces violence, he says, tragedy is hard to avoid.
"Their choices were at times risky and even counterproductive, they did things that could have been horribly, horribly tragic."
Before he was born, his father's girlfriend at the time and two other members of the group died in an accident while making a bomb.
Even as a child, he was aware of the risks.
"I've definitely worried about it - I've had friends whose parents have been killed and friends whose parents have ended up in prison for a very long time."
Now a father himself, Zayd has spent years trying to understand the choices his parents made.
He compares their mindset to people who volunteer for the army.
He says they believed they were participating in a war against their own government and were prepared to accept the consequences.
"I'm proud of them in a lot of ways."
"At a time when most people in America, most white people in particular, were willing to let injustices pass them by and do nothing about it, my parents insisted that they do something."
However, Zayd has trouble imagining a scenario where he makes his own decisions and goes to rob a bank or break someone out of jail while his kids are at home.
"But I think it's also a privilege."
"I think many people in the world have no choice but to risk their own families to fight against oppression, injustice."
After the birth of his younger brother, Bernadine finally decided to settle and surrender to the authorities, in order to allow the family some semblance of a normal life.
At first, she managed to avoid prison due to illegal methods and errors in the FBI investigation, but when she refused to testify against her colleagues in the Weather Underground, she was imprisoned for almost a year.
Zayd's father was left not only to take care of him and his younger brother, but also the child of another imprisoned activist.
At the time, as a five-year-old, Zayd was upset and angry, and begged her to come home.
She wrote him letters from prison trying to explain, she still reads them to this day.
"She would tell me that motherhood is the most important thing in the world for her, but so is the revolution."
"She would point to, for example, her idols like Martin Luther King, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, people who fought, and they all had kids," Zaid says.
Today, his parents are in their eighties.
Zaid describes them as "amazing grandparents", but laughs at the suggestion that age has softened their political views.
After leaving behind a life of illegality, his mother became a law professor and spent four decades running a legal clinic, helping people she believed had been failed by the system.
His father became a professor and devoted himself to reforming public education.
Their methods did change.
But their beliefs are not.
"They would be offended if you called them moderate or liberal," Zaid says.
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The SDS wing of The Party.
It is The Party’s choice to hasten the death of America.
This article tells the story of Zaid Ayers Dorn, raised by radical activists Bernadine Dorn and Bill Ayers—co-founders of the Weather Underground, a militant 1960s–70s group that used bomb attacks on U.S. government buildings to protest the Vietnam War, racism, and systemic inequality.
Key points:
I've always thought: "Isn't America a great country?! Of all people, Bill Ayers ought to be most appreciative."
I mean, anywhere else in the world, or in history, if you engage in violent revolution against an established government, and are caught - you get a bullet in the back of the head.
In the USA, if you engage in violent revolution, and are useful to Democrats, you get professorships, grants, research stipends, and adulation from the controlled media.
We are truly a land of tolerance and opportunity.
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They put the WOKE in education....destroying it.
In the USA, if you engage in violent revolution, and are useful to Democrats, you get professorships, grants, research stipends, and adulation from the controlled media.
That only makes them hate it more.
Ever notice liberals/activists or whatever you want to call them...all have the same dumb ass ugly look on their face.
He's not doing this as a favor to anyone but himself.
And his mother and father should have spent the rest of their lives in prison.
There was an earlier thread about cultural hegemony and Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci described how to take over institutions(the long march through the institutions) and controlling the culture so absurd ideas will seem normal. What seems like common sense will become unthinkable. That’s why with the left the issue is never the issue.
There is one aspect not mentioned in the story as the story is about the kid. But it is important to understand the impact Bill Ayers has had on DATA CENTERS.
Data Centers need electricity. Bill Ayers was not “middle class”. He was the son of the head of the largest nuclear power company in the world. His daddy was head of Commonwealth Edison. Cheap, plentiful Fusion Nuclear Power was in reach. Fission Nuclear power was in the near future.
The reason we need fossil fuel is because Bill Ayers was mad at his daddy. For 55 years we have not built nuclear power plants solely because Bill Ayers was mad at his daddy.
This extended to more than just nuclear power. Alinsky and other protest organizations would plan and execute protest actions against Gas Companies and Telephone Companies. But they would not touch the electric companies solely because they did not want to get in the middle between the family quarel between Billy Ayers and his daddy.
Bernadine Dorn and Bill Ayers influenced obama.
But as a revolutionary and as a President, obama was a dud!
You can bet once they achieved power, they would have loved nuclear power.
This is from a Serbian website!
But as a revolutionary and as a President, obama was a dud!
He was the Trojan Horse.
What a load of garbage. Dorn and Ayers lived as entitled royalty.
Right after Barry was selected those two SDS radicals were given a standing ovation at Humboldt State. Big heroes of the grand communist revolution...winning?
bombin bill ayres boy
Agree but he was a token for the party for 8 years a lot of damage happened in that time and some still lingering.
Never trust a democrat
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