Posted on 10/08/2008 10:23:07 AM PDT by CharlesThe Hammer
Hundreds of educators have endorsed a letter opposing the "demonization" of Williams Ayers – the domestic terrorist who helped launch Barack Obama's poliltical career, and whose relationship with the Democratic presidential candidate continues to be major controversy – arguing that frequent reports of his involvement in domestic bombings are "designed to intimidate free thinking and stifle critical dialogue."
"We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack," reads the letter, available for endorsement at www.supportbillayers.org.
"The current characterizations of Professor Ayers – 'unrepentant terrorist,' 'lunatic leftist' – are unrecognizable to those who know or work with him," the letter continues.
Ayers, as WND has reported, was a key member of the radical Weathermen group – a band of revolutionaries who declared war on the U.S. government and the free enterprise system – during the 1970s and has written about his involvement in bombing the New York City police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers wrote in his memoir, "Fugitive Days," released the day before the Pentagon was struck again in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them."
The New York Times reported that Ayers later clarified, saying he didn't actually set the bomb, but was visualizing it to dramatize his participation in organizing the attack.
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Timothy Leary, Ward Churchhill, and the Unabomber were all professors as well.
Not to mention all of those teachers who physically molest their students.
What do 0bama and Osama have in common? The friends of both bombed the Pentagon.
What do 0bama and Osama have in common? The friends of both bombed the Pentagon.
Leftists defending leftists.
Get your Marxist hands off our education system!
He IS UNREPENTANT:
By DINITIA SMITH
Published: September 11, 2001
''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.
Denial ain't a river but there ARE antiAmerican socialists indoctrinating our children.
This tells you everything you need to know about these EDUCATORS!
I guess academic “consensus” is that he committed no treason.
“designed to intimidate free thinking and stifle critical dialogue.”
What a crock of sh__!
They’re designed to out an unrepentant terrorist, who, for his own purposes, wants to influence our educational system.
I find it interesting that when the bomb the Weathermen were building in Greenich Village accidently went off, it killed three people, including Ayers then girlfriend Diana Oughton.
Where was Ayers?
So! As free thinkers one must ponder the virtues of bombing their own country? These people are a joke, and equally terrorist of mindset!
If Ayers was famous for bombing universities and targeting other areas heavily populated by professors, would they be so supportive?
If Ayers was famous for bombing abortion clinics, whould they be so supportive?
Howie Carr talked about her yesterday. Now I know the name to the face in the scene from Across the Universe where the main character walks in on them.
The aging '60's crowd are just so ironically clever! And juvenile, of course, since now the list is a worthless joke -- just like the man it supports.
What Did Obama Know About Ayers, When? (Chicago Sun-Times)(The Chicago Sun-Times 10-7-08 Lynn Sweet)
Chicago Sun Times>>So, did he know who Ayers was when he went to his home in 1995?AXELROD>”My understanding is that when he went there, he did not,” Axelrod said.
translation: Did Obama know who Ayers was in 1995 when he went to Ayers’ home? “my understanding is... he did not”
Chicago Sun Times>>Reporters noticed that clause — “my understanding is” — and pressed further. Did Axelrod ask Obama if he knew Ayers’ history when he first met with him?AXELROD>”Yes,” Axelrod said.
translation: Did YOU ask Obama if he knew Ayers’ history (when they first met) in 1995? “Yes”
Chicago Sun Times>>And he did not know?AXELROD>>”Yes,” Axelrod said. “That’s what I’ve said — I answered the question when I was asked the other day. But no one’s suggesting that he never knew. I mean that’s not — we weren’t offering that. I wasn’t offering it — I was asked a question that you just asked me and just answered it. I wasn’t making an argument about it.”
translation: And he did not know? “Yes”
Yes he did not know or yes he knew???
Again:
AXELROD>”But no one’s suggesting that he never knew. I mean that’s not — we weren’t offering that. I wasn’t offering it — I was asked a question that you just asked me and just answered it.”
So did Obama LIE to Axelrod? Or is Alexrod claiming that Obama MAY have lied to him?
that's incorrect.
"Both have friends that have bombed the Pentagon".
Not "The friends of both bombed the Pentagon".
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