I’m really curious about this. Given that Ayers was a member of Weather Underground, that WU declared war on the United States, and that they killed policemen, and attempted to kill a judge and his family and soldiers and their families; and that (to my knowledge) Weather Underground has not either ended their war against the US or announced a change to non-violent methods, and Ayers has never renounced his membership in Weather Underground, is he still at war with the US? Could he be arrested for the threats he made, or the threats that Weather Underground made since they are still current as it were?
The best chance (if any exists) to still nail the scumbags in the legal system is probably to re-open any “cold cases” such as the bombing of a police station in CA (Berkeley, I think) that murdered a police officer. I wonder about the case in NY of the murder of 3 guards in the armored car robbery around 1981 — that involved close friends of Ayers & Dohrn (who went on to raise the children of their Weatherfreak pals who received long jail terms) and I have long wondered whether Ayer and/or Dohrn could be tied to those heinous crimes. I think that Dohrn was involved in stolen identities IIRC that helped some of that gang, so maybe she was an accessory to multiple murders. I think she did some jail time for refusing to testify before the Grand Jury investigating that case — don’t know if there’s anything that could still be re-opened, legally, but she and Ayers deserved to fry for the whole collection of murderous and treasonous crimes.
It’s often said that “there is no statute of limitations on murder” and if any evidence still exists that could link Ayers and/or Dohrn to any case involving murder then it might still be possible to nail the scumbags. I doubt that anything short of murder could still be prosecuted at this late date, although there ought not to be any statute of limitations on prosecuting treason, which the Weatherfreaks certainly are guilty of, whether or not it could be successfully prosecuted.
Ayers was and probably still is well politically connected. This, in addition to his parents being very wealthly is what got him off. To a lesser extent, so was Jane Fonda.
My opinion is that they both should have been hanged from the same telephone pole.