Posted on 10/06/2008 5:42:47 PM PDT by AfterManyASummer
Edited on 10/06/2008 6:15:16 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
And the media.
Just watched a Nightline segment that compared Ayres/Obama connection to McCain/Keating. No mention of Ayres standing on the flag 3 years ago, joking “guilty as sin and free as a bird” or his unrepentant attitude. Just that he is a tenured professor.
McCain/Keating..no mention that he was exonerated of the association..along with John Glenn.
The closing statement..”Which is worse, an activist from 40 years ago or someone that cost the taxpayers billions of dollars 20 years ago?” (paraphrased)
I am steamed...the communists aren't the only one that belong in prison.
He was a sixties radical, by 1970 he was already in hiding for what he had done. The Weathermen came from SDS.
“Ayers became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).[7] He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969. As head of an SDS regional group, the “Jesse James Gang”, Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy.[5]The group Ayers headed in Detroit, Michigan became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS.[5]”During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year [1969]”, disaffected former Weatherman member Cathy Wilkerson wrote in 2001. Ayers had previously become a roommate of Terry Robbins, a fellow militant, Wilkerson wrote. Robbins would later be killed while making a bomb.[8]In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.[5] Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police.”
“In 1970 he “went underground” with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, in which Weatherman member Ted Gold, Ayers’ close friend Terry Robbins, and Ayers’ girlfriend, Diana Oughton, were killed when a nail bomb (an anti-personnel device) they were assembling exploded. “
Patty Hearst who was actually kidnapped... served more time in jail than Ayers ever did.
the porn internet is full of sick white guys who like to watch their wife get gang banged by black guys...it’s like a micro industry
so Ayers is that kid of limp ***** perv too as well as being a bomber?
how nice....
maybe we should check if he left Obama alone with Bernadine much.
They need to note that the only reason Ayers wasn’t thrown in Prison to rot was because of a technicality that got him off.
to be fair nearly all the Weathermen has their start in the SDS earlier in the middle 60s ans some even earlier in the Civil rights and Freedom Rider days
many of the radicals were far older than college aged
but some of the girls were young
“many of the radicals were far older than college aged”
In this story all of them were college age, all were McCains generation the authoress (the raped one), the black guy, Bill Ayers, even his wife Bernardine Dohrn. The little brother was young enough that he may have been born in 1946.
this was 4 years before the Weathermen were founded
just google all the famous radicals from the 1960s and their ages at their peak and you will see they were mostly late 20s or even early 30s Pied Pipers leading gullible college kids
let’s take Woodstock ...the zenith of the yippie-hippie movement as benchmark
even Horowitz...born 1939, aged 30 in 1969
Abbie Hoffman...born 1936.....aged 33 in 1969
Jerry Rubin.....born 1938, aged 31 in 1969
Mark Rudd.....actually the age of a college senior in 1969
Leonard Weinglass....born 1933, aged 36 in 1969
Tom Hayden.....born 1939, aged 30 in 1969
Ayers, born 1944 was 25 when he founded the WU...past college undergrad age and then some
Wavy Gravy, born 1936...aged 33 at Woodstock
David Crosby, .....born 1941, aged 28 at Woodstock
Paul Krassner....born 1933, aged 36 at Woodstock
Phil Ochs, born 1941, aged 28 at Woodstock
note how few of these notables were even Boomers although Boomers (myself a fairly late boomer) get all the blame for that silliness
I thought folks 28-40m were old when I was in college.
You read the writings of some of those guys and the candor is that it was about the Punani and the Dope first....
and so forth
“just google all the famous radicals from the 1960s and their ages at their peak and you will see they were mostly late 20s or even early 30s Pied Pipers leading gullible college kids”
We are on the same page on this. Even Dirtyharry’s, a blog I like, put a picture of the Chicago Seven up to start a diatribe against “Boomer” Scum.
Not a one of those guys is a boomer they went all the way back to 1915.
The bombings occrued in the 1970s (the Pentagon was bombed in 1972). He was a 1970s terrorist. Just as the Unabaomber was.
How much did bombing the Pentagon, investigation, prosecution, and subsequent increase in security cost the US taxpayer?
He never was an “activist”. He was a self-proclaimed COMBATANT. That makes hims a TRAITOR in a time of war.
And just because he was a “professor” doesn’t mean crap. Timothy Leary, Ward Churchhill, and the Unabomber were also professors.
“Don’t trsust anyone over 30”. Rock against the Barack vote.
OK, I agree with you now.
He was an activist in the sixties, he did that one, less substantive bombing in 1969, but his real terrorist activities and identity are from the 1970s.
He is either a 1970s terrorist or a terrorist from the 60s and 70s, but he is not a 1960s terrorist.
It took me a while but I very much agree with you now.
BUMPING AN OLD THREAD RELEVANT TO OBAMA’S BACKGROUND.
This has to do with BILL AYERS and RAPE.
This has to do with BILL AYERS and RAPE.
BTTT again
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