http://education.uic.edu/directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers
Posted on 10/07/2008 6:07:16 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
http://education.uic.edu/directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers
Because they agree with him
“Ohhhh, look! A real Communist revolutionary terrorist! And all I did was smoke a bong in the Student Union when we shut the University down in protest of Viet Nam (and finals)!”
Many of you are too young to remember how hateful and insane the left was back in the 60s. The so-called “Summer of Love” was simply a pro-Communist, anti-establishment hate fest. Should have been “Summer of Hate.”
Ayers and Dohrn as spoiled kids that HATE their parents and any authority. Will they hate themselves when they are in power?
Altogether now:
NO TO TAXES!
NO TO TERRORISTS!!
NO TO TYRANNY!!!
NO TO OBAMA!!!!
The new rumor is that English prof Ayers ghost-wrote Obama’s books. There is some early forensic/style evidence pointing strongly in this direction. If this can be nailed down by comparing other Ayers work to Obama’s (?) books, Obama is finished.
But the forensic work has to be done super fast to have any effect on the election.
Obama was noted for NOT writing, neither as editor of the Harvard law review, nor as a lecturer on con-law. The man just didn’t write, in positions where most folks write like crazy.
Then he pops out with two fantastically well written books that become best sellers? And this has nothing to do with his freindship with political mentor and English prof Bill Ayers?
The forensic work has to be done super fast to have any effect on the election.
I already saw a thread where nearly exact phrases were used in an unpublished but available online Ayers work, and Dreams From My Father. Seems that Ayers had been a merchant seaman for a short while, and the nearly exact same sea and sky descriptions are in both his and “Obama’s” works, even though “Obama’s” books don’t deal with seafaring.
Smoke, meet fire. These sea and sky descriptions jumped out on a first read, but actual forensic analysis could NAIL THIS DOWN. Like a fingerprint or DNA match.
If Ayers is Obama’s ghost-writer, we need to prove this in a very short time.
I’m trying to stir up this rapid research here on Free Republic. Remember Dan Rather and Memogate, and the forensic analysis that was done in a matter of hours?
WE need an effort like that now.
Why the Hell? Chicago connections:
chicagotribune.com
Family ties proved Ayers’ point
By Ron Grossman
May 18, 2008
A funny thing happened to Bill Ayers in the years between his first headline-grabbing activities and his cameo role in the 2008 presidential campaign. He became a pillar of the very establishment he had once conspired to bring down.
When questions were first raised about Barack Obama’s relationship with Ayers, including their serving together on the board of a charitable foundation, Chicago’s elite rallied behind Ayers.
Mayor Richard Daley proclaimed Ayers, an educational consultant to the city, “a valued member of the Chicago community.”
“I don’t condone what he did 40 years ago, but I remember that period well,” Daley said. “It was a difficult time, but those days are long over.”
Ayers, 63, was less charitable about Daley’s father, who was mayor in 1968 when Vietnam War activists tried to disrupt the Democratic National Convention.
“White and fleshy, he reeked with the stench of evil,” Ayers wrote of Richard J. Daley in his 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days.”
Ayers’ round trip—from a privileged childhood to the bomb-making wing of ‘60s radicalism and back up the social ladder—shows he got one thing right in his critique of America:
Whom you know is as important as what you know. Being to-the-manor born is all but a lifetime guarantee that doors will be opened.
Ayers’ father, Thomas Ayers, was CEO of Commonwealth Edison as well as a trustee of Tribune Co. and chairman of the board of Northwestern University.
Ayers was raised in Glen Ellyn, played football at Lake Forest Academy and graduated from the University of Michigan. He joined the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society movement, and in the 1970s went underground—”fleeing what the government winkingly calls justice,” as he put it.
“My weapons were explosive words at first, slowly replaced by bombs,” he wrote.
He broke Michigan Avenue shop windows during the Weathermen’s 1969 “Days of Rage.” He helped LSD guru Timothy Leary break out of prison, Ayers wrote in his memoir, and stockpiled stolen dynamite. Some exploded in a New York townhouse, killing members of what came to be known as the Weather Underground, including his girlfriend of that time. Other explosives were planted in government buildings, including the Defense Department’s.
“We’d already bombed the Capitol, and we’d cased the White House,” Ayers wrote. “The Pentagon was leg two of the trifecta.”
In 1980, he resurfaced, accompanied by his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and two children born in their underground years. His life quickly returned to normal. Criminal charges were dropped because the government’s evidence was tainted. He earned a doctorate in education at Columbia University and joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dohrn’s post-revolutionary successes are even more remarkable, considering she was the more notorious. During their underground days, she made the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. Upon surfacing, Dohrn got three years of probation and a fine.
Today, Dohrn is on the faculty of Northwestern University’s School of Law. She teaches a course titled Children in Trouble with the Law.
Neither Ayers nor Dohrn returned e-mail or phone messages asking for comment. So we cannot tell you how they see their ascent back to responsibility.
But it’s hard for an outsider not to see the map of family connections behind their paths.
Ayers’ father moved in philanthropic circles with Howard Trienens, an attorney with the powerhouse firm of Sidley Austin. The two served together on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees. Ayers was chairman of that group, then handed the post off to Trienens in 1986.
Trienens headed Sidley Austin when the firm hired Dohrn in 1984. She had never practiced law and had been out of law school for 17 years.
When I asked Trienens if he had hired Dohrn, he replied: “Yes.”
Wasn’t that a bit of nepotism, considering his relationship to her father-in-law? A lot of lawyers would love a first job with such a prestigious firm.
“We often hire friends,” replied Trienens, 84.
Yet Dohrn wasn’t licensed to practice law. Though she passed the bar exam, the ethics committee turned her down because of her rap sheet. That limited the type of work she could do at Sidley Austin, which she left after a few years.
“Dohrn didn’t get a license because she’s stubborn,” Trienens said. “She wouldn’t say she’s sorry.”
That’s not all she refused to say. In 1981, Dohrn was summoned before a federal grand jury investigating an armed robbery involving other members of the Weather Underground. She refused to cooperate, for which she served seven months in jail.
Dohrn’s route to Northwestern is harder to discern. Trienens said he had nothing to do with it, though he was then board chairman.
“The dean hired her,” he said, referring to Robert Bennett, who was then law school dean. (Bennett did not return phone calls seeking comment.)
Daniel Polsby, a law school faculty member in 1991, recalls Dohrn’s appointment going through an academic side door. Because she was brought on as an “adjunct,” she was never put before a faculty vote.
And Obama is a friend of his.
Murder is murder.
And I also read that he is now a “sensitive” poet too! Isn’t it all just too wonderful?
BTTTp
Bump...how about it all...any pajamahideen here want to take a stab at what Travis is proposing?
Just saw an interview with Geraldine Ferraro (sp?) and she is spewing the party line, that the association was years ago. But then she did the Obama thing and threw old Ayers under the bus, saying they should get him out of the University, that he shouldn't be teaching young people. I agree with that, but it doesn't excuse Obama as it wasn't all that long ago and the association probably exists to this very day.
As for the mess that let Ayers and Dohrn live free and happy...
see the section “Tried for illegal break-ins” about half-way down
the page.
at this link
W. Mark Felt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Mark_Felt
Funny Ayers name isn’t in the Wikipedia article (what a shocker, /sarc),
but an article by a “Jennifer” Dohrn is in the links. I don’t know
if Jennifer is also Bernadine or a sister.
I didn’t realize that Felt and other FBI agents were tried by the
Carter Dept. of Justice.
Domestic terrorism = Citizen of the Year? It all depends on how much money you can bring in, I suppose.
Anyone know the name of the Ayers’ book that Obama wrote the forward to? I’m interested in seeing when it was first published.
http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1a.pdf
Read the FBI file, Ayer’s fingerprints were in the bombers apartment.
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