Posted on 09/02/2008 10:27:41 PM PDT by PRePublic
Funny you should mention Manson, because what the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Movement were about was trying to incite a race war/revolution. That is EXACTLY what Charles Manson and his "Helter Skelter" scheme were about. In fact, Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn, actually admired and praised Manson...
Allies in War
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001:
ON THE MORNING OF THE ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times including many who would never be able to read the paper again, I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. The article was headlined in an irony that could not have been more poignant, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives."
The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s Weather Underground, Americas first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.
"I dont regret setting bombs," Ayers was quoted in the opening line of the Times profile; "I feel we didnt do enough."
In 1969, Ayers and his wife convened a "War Council" in Flint Michigan, whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World revolutionaries conquer and destroy it.
Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather mini-skirt her signature uniform Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast."
Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:
"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victims stomach! Wild!"
(big snip)
Today William Ayers is not merely an author favored by the New York Times, but a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
His Lady Macbeth [Bernardine Dohrn] is not merely a lawyer, but a member of the American Bar Associations governing elite, as well as the director of Northwestern Universitys Children and Family Justice Center.
[it's true! see: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/BernardineDohrn/]
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
Segregated armies? How very retro and un-progressive!
Noble?
Yeah, if your consider cheering for the Viet Cong and wanting to see the US destroyed noble.
What is telling is how these malcontents grew up totally unrepentent, compared to many of their compatriots who were grieved after the Killing Fields and the boat people, realizing that they were in some part responsible, as part of the "anti-war" movement, for the murder and repression of millions of innocent people by homicidal communist tyrants who machine-gunned their way to power after the US pulled out of Southeast Asia. The blood of these innocents remains on the hands of Ayers and Company, who remain defiant and unrepentant. And to think that our next president counts this gang of goons as his buddies.
Noble? Yeah, if you consider cheering for the Viet Cong and wanting to see the US destroyed, noble.
That is how the film portrayed them. It's hardly what I think of them. It was leftwing PBS after all. The liberal networks always twist history this way.
So has anything come out of the Annenberg Challenge documents they were trying to hide? Those were released on 8/26, according to a couple of web pages I found. Anything interesting yet?
Bill Ayer’s father was CEO of Commonwealth Edison during his youth. He and his brother were leaders of the SDS at the Univ. of MIchigan. Weather Underground arose from the tri-partite split in SDS splitting into factions alligned with various Communist philosophies. Progressive Labor Party (PLP) was Msoist, Weatherman was action oriented and Stalinist and Revolutionary Youth MOvement II was directed at labor and community organizing. It was the force behind the victory of Alderwoman Helen Schiller and has morphed into a support group for Illegals.
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