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DANIEL J. FLYNN
“The Ghosts in Grant Park
Obama plans a party where his radical friends once ran wild.”
3 November 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Tuesday night, Barack Obama holds what he hopes will be his victory celebration in his adopted hometown’s Grant Park. The Associated Press explains: “Grant Park is the place Chicagoans have long gathered to party, protest, and pray,” noting visits by Franklin Roosevelt, the Queen of England, and Pope John Paul II. If the park is a natural place for a party celebrating Chicago’s favorite son, it’s also an unwelcome reminder of two of the Windy City’s black sheep, who nearly derailed his presidential ambitions.
Should Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, by now the most infamous Chicago Friends of Obama, attend the Grant Park victory celebration, their lives will have come full circle. In October 1969, Grant Park served as a rallying point for several events during the radical leftist group Weatherman’s “Days of Rage”—four days of planned chaos in the Windy City. Born into wealth and privilege, Ayers and Dohrn marginalized themselves by voicing insane rhetoric exalting parricide and Charles Manson, committing acts of terrorism against the police, banks, and government, and remaining fugitives from the law throughout the 1970s. Now, 28 years after emerging from hiding, Ayers and Dohrn amazingly have a friend and political ally poised to win the presidency—one who hails from the same Chicago they once terrorized.
The Days of Rage scheme was 1969’s unimaginative sequel to 1968’s protests at the Democratic National Convention. It used the same set (the streets of Chicago), featured the same villain (Mayor Richard J. Daley), and recycled the same script (youth rising up against the Man). “
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“Fatal bus fire on German motorway”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Up to 20 people have been killed and several injured in a bus fire on a motorway near Hanover in Germany.
The bus had been travelling to Berlin when the fire broke out, trapping some passengers, most of whom were reported to be elderly.
But 10 people were able to escape from the vehicle after the fire started, on the A2 Autobahn.
The cause of the fire is not yet known but some reports say the fire may have been started by a cigarette.
“Someone was smoking secretly in the toilet and that’s what started the fire. It happens,” said Oliver Pehl, whose mother is the owner of the coach company.
However, officials said it was too early to be sure of the cause and a technical fault could be to blame.
Mr Pehl said he had driven the coach himself in the past and it had never had any problems.”