[ETL]

Exclusive: Bill Ayers Talks About Election Night in Grant Park
[Obama win brings commie Ayers to tears!]

From NBC Chicago, Jan 21, 2009:

Bill Ayers was "overflowing with happiness, relief, love" when he and his wife went to Grant Park with tens of thousands of Chicagoans to celebrate the election of President Barack Obama.

Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, spoke exclusively with NBC Chicago's Dick Johnson about why they joined the Election Night celebration in the park, where 40 years before they helped stage the Days of Rage riots.

The couple said they got last-minute tickets from a friend to be in Grant Park that night.

"I couldn't stop crying a couple of times. I found the exact spot where I was beaten 40 years ago," Ayers said. "But I've never been in a crowd that large that wasn't edged with either anger or drunkenness or gluttony, and it was really an extraordinary feeling."

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Exclusive-Bill-Ayers-Talks-About-Election-Night-in-Grant-Park.html

[PhilDragoo]

And it was forty years ago this October 8-11 in Grant Park.

A carry-over from the May 1968 Night of the Long Sticks.

My friend and I had followed Mark Rudd around Purdue for seven hours as he urged the students to go to Chicago.

I sat next to him on someone's living room rug but he was leary of opening up to the tape recorder.

Smiling, he indicated his too-serious-taking-of-self "Maoist" comrades who "think you are police".

Mayor Daley's police army kicked Weatherman ass in Chicago--we were at the park with our Beaulieu 16mm and the two hundred-some shaggy dogs in Army surplus were surrounded by uniformed, or leathered, or trenchcoated, or plainclothesed Daley heat.

The Che-ettes broke some plate glass--24-Hour Emergency Board Up Service was sawing and hammering plywood right behind them--right behind them!.

It must have really popped the "revolutionaries'" bubble to hear the comments we got on tape--"They should be in jail!"

So much for the revolution.

Then they went to the bombings--still no revolution.

So they went to buying votes with wild promises of paying peoples' mortgages.

They want power; they want obedience.

They'll try censorship, intimidation, propaganda, gun-banning, audits, character assassination.

The oddest thing is that the Daley who kicked Weatherman ass had a son who kisses Weatherman ass--

[lentulusgracchus]

Awwwwww......how sweet.

Maybe that quote of Ayers's from 1970, that 25,000,000 Americans would have to disappear in one-way trips to concentration camps to make society new again, would be an appropriate bookend to Ayers's gushy sentiment expressed last year.