Posted on 08/23/2008 1:24:50 PM PDT by STARWISE
Thanks for the ping!
COINTELPRO! Seriously, when the FBI was found guilty of illegal break-ins of suspected Weathermen/Weather Underground "safe houses," government attorneys requested that all weapons and bomb-related charges against the WU be dropped.
It was the late '70's, post-Watergate, Jimmy Carter, amnesty for draft evaders, the Church Commission, etc.
So Ayers and Dohrn got off with some fines: "Free as a bird. Guilty as sin," to quote this egotistical Leninist.
Most of the former Weathermen are in academia now; some have mellowed out, but not Ayers and Dohrn. They've simply changed their tactics -- working within the system to destroy the system. And Chicago is just the place for that, since Ayers' father was a wealthy, well-connected "somebody" there, just as his son is now.
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