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Ayers Is No Education 'Reformer' The new media spin is worse than Obama's original evasion.
Wall Street Journal online ^ | OCTOBER 16, 2008 | SOL STERN

Posted on 10/15/2008 9:48:17 PM PDT by XHogPilot

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I've studied Mr. Ayers's work for years and read most of his books. His hatred of America is as virulent as when he planted a bomb at the Pentagon. And this hatred informs his educational "reform" efforts.

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Mr. Ayers was hired by the Chicago public schools to train teachers, and played a leading role in the $160 million Annenberg Challenge grant that distributed funds to a host of so-called school-reform projects, including some social-justice themed schools and schools organized by Acorn. Barack Obama became the first chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization in 1995. When asked for an opinion on the Obama/Ayers connection, Mayor Daley told the New York Times that Mr. Ayers had "done a lot of good in this city and nationally."

In fact, as one of the leaders of a movement for bringing radical social-justice teaching into our public school classrooms, Mr. Ayers is not a school reformer. He is a school destroyer.

He still hopes for a revolutionary upheaval that will finally bring down American capitalism and imperialism, but this time around Mr. Ayers sows the seeds of resistance and rebellion in America's future teachers.

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Two years ago Mr. Ayers shared with his students a letter he wrote to a young radical friend: "I've been told to grow up from the time I was ten until this morning. Bullshit. Anyone who salutes your 'youthful idealism' is a patronizing reactionary. Resist! Don't grow up! I went to Camp Casey [Cindy Sheehan's vigil at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas] in August precisely because I'm an agnostic about how and where the rebellion will break out, but I know I want to be there and I know it will break out." (The letter is on his Web site, www.billayers.org.)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ayers; billayers; campcasey; cindysheehan; dohrn; weathermen; weatherunderground

Ayers is re-forming Chicago schools into communist re-education camps. The above article is only an excerpt. The entire piece is well worth reading.

1 posted on 10/15/2008 9:48:18 PM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: XHogPilot

Has anyone just tried the back of the hand?

Ever?


2 posted on 10/15/2008 9:51:35 PM PDT by unspun (Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
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To: XHogPilot

Oh...he’s a reformer all right. Instead of teaching the three R’s, he wahts to teach them about sex beginning in kindergarten and continue on to teah them how to hate their country. Maybe that’s why we spend more on education that other countries but the students are doing worse.


3 posted on 10/15/2008 9:52:58 PM PDT by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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To: XHogPilot
You have to admire the way Obama responded to Ayres tonight.  Yeah, he was only 8 years old when Ayres bombed the Pentagon.  Come to think of it Charlie Manson hasn't killed anyone since Obama was 8 years old.  I wonder if Obama has Manson working the phones for him from Corcoran prison?
4 posted on 10/15/2008 9:53:50 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (48, one in the box and one in the bush.)
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To: XHogPilot
Can we ship him to the real "Camp Casey?" Camp Casey
5 posted on 10/15/2008 9:56:47 PM PDT by BuckyKat (,)
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To: BuckyKat
Oops - somehow that link didn't work. Fixed below. Camp Casey
6 posted on 10/15/2008 9:58:11 PM PDT by BuckyKat (,)
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To: XHogPilot
Why is an unrepentant domestic terrorist allowed to teach in an American school?

No wonder the Ayers connection will be ignored by the average person. They probably feel if he isn't in prison for life and is allowed to teach in our schools, he must not be that bad.

Why he is allowed to teach in our schools?!
7 posted on 10/15/2008 9:59:16 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ( "The carnage of the free love generation has come home to roost.")
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

What is staggering isn’t that an unrepentant domestic terrorist found sanctuary in higher education, it is the network that placed him there.

Do you know of anyone who controlled 150 million in non profit grant money? This guy did. Who gave it to him?


8 posted on 10/15/2008 10:11:28 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: truthluva

From Michelle Malkin’s Website.

What’s on Bill Ayer’s door?

Ayers’ office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X.

It is also home to pictures of children, bills of rights for students and parents, and a rainbow-hued greeting card advising “How to Be Really Alive.” A place of prominence is give to a New Yorker cartoon of a man interviewing for a job. The interviewer says, “I’m trying to find a way to balance your strengths against your felonies.”


9 posted on 10/15/2008 10:19:06 PM PDT by Spunky ((You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences))
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To: BuckyKat
Wow, that jogged some memories out of nowhere. :)

Spent some time on Casey (mostly it's little brother, Camp Hovey) back in another lifetime.

Freegards.
10 posted on 10/15/2008 10:21:14 PM PDT by rpierce (We have taglines now? :)
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To: IrishCatholic
Do you know of anyone who controlled 150 million in non profit grant money? This guy did. Who gave it to him?

Our Liberals Commies in Government?
11 posted on 10/15/2008 10:21:36 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ( "The carnage of the free love generation has come home to roost.")
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To: rpierce

LOL. Yeah, my better half spent a year there - in fact he was there on 9/11.


12 posted on 10/15/2008 10:27:07 PM PDT by BuckyKat (,)
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To: XHogPilot
Ayers Latest Book - Race Course Against White Supremacy



Product Description
White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days—and that it is still very much with us—the discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors' own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents, teachers, and reformers.

13 posted on 10/15/2008 11:21:13 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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This is why we need to be concerned about Bill Ayer’s and his connection to Barack Hussein Obama. He and his Wife Bernardine Dorhn raised this step Son Chesa who is a Communist ACTIVIST!. Funny how you can go from community activist to being a full fledged Communist. But American’s better wake up before we elect the real Manchurian Candidate. Obama’s link to Ayer’s and Dohrn are important to us as we will end up like Cuba or Venezuela a country that both Ayer’s and Chesa are really tied too. Do a Google search for this connection.

There is a chapter in the book by the son of Rashid Khalidi that again shows Why the Jewish voter should be alarmed with voting for Obama. Rashid’s son is Ismail Khalidi as radical as you can get. Read at Google Books his letter to his parents! This is very troubling if you’re an Israel supporter.

Recent Macalester College graduate Ismail Khalidi, 22, was born to Palestinian parents in Lebanon and grew up in Chicago. His letter is to his parents and he wrote it right after the seige and bombardment of Fallujah in November 2004. "It was written in a desolate time of year--winter--miming the desolate time in our country and other countries," says Khalidi. "It's really kind of a 'sad poem,' but also a way for me to take stock of what I believe in." And what he believes in is the struggle for justice.

, Khalid writes, "I know I am never doing enough and that I have much to learn, but I know that I am still learning, and that I will find my own way to fight. I know you understand that, and that is what pushes me onward when the wind chill plummets and when lies pass for truth."

You can only assume Ismail was another classmate of Chesa and taught by Ayers,Dorhn and Obama.
Obama’s Ties to anti-American friends is troubling and we need to stop his election by educating the American public.


Here is the link to a book published by Chesa and others. I can bet you that most of these activists are working for Obama or ACORN during this campaign in some stealth manner.

“LETTERS FROM YOUNG ACTIVISTS” Edited by Dan Berger Chesa Boudin and Kenyon Farrow

“Today’s Rebels SPEAK OUT”

Preface by Bernardine Dohrn

They even have a website called : http://www.lettersfromyoungactivists.org/
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14 posted on 10/16/2008 10:38:53 AM PDT by ncfool (Obama stands for The New United Socialist State or "TNUSSA")
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