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To: sunmars

Who is Rick Ayers?


2 posted on 10/17/2008 11:40:54 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

I think he is William Ayers brother.


4 posted on 10/17/2008 11:43:52 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I Love The Smell Of Schmidt Storm in the Morning...and Afternoon....and at Night!!!!!)
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To: livius

I think it’s Bill Ayers’ brother


5 posted on 10/17/2008 11:44:08 AM PDT by Laur
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To: livius

Brother of Bill

and also a former member of Weather Underground
This section form article link below.
Note connection to Chicago...

“He grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, his father a businessman, his mother a stay-at-home mom. In high school, Ayers was part of a self-described “nerdy, artsy group,” and though a precocious student, he felt stifled by his surroundings.

“I was in honky heaven, and we were just dying,” he said. “Every time we could, we went out to Chicago and would hang out at blues clubs and go to museums................”

“Ayers is used to rustling feathers. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan—where he dated the late comedian Gilda Radner—he was drafted into the army and immediately took to organizing anti-war sentiment. When his company was deployed to Vietnam, he went AWOL, subsequently joining up with the Weather Underground, a radical anti-war group responsible for dynamiting public buildings like draft boards, prison offices and, most notably, the Pentagon. (Ayers declines to comment what activities he was involved in—if any.)”


31 posted on 10/17/2008 12:30:23 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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