Bill Ayers Continues to Defend Weather Underground Terror Attacks on His Blog
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 5:10 AM
Dig it!… Obama’s terrorist pals are blogging about the revolution.
Barack Obama’s family friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn still feel no remorse for their acts of terrorism.
Unrepentant terrorists Bill Ayers and terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn continue to this day to defend their acts of violence during the 1960′s and 1970′s. In a March 6, 2010 post on his blog, Bill Ayers again defended the murderous acts of The Weather Underground.
…Empire, invasion, and occupation always earn blow-back. In 1965 most Americans supported the war, but by 1968 people had turned massively against it—the result of protest and organizing and a burgeoning peace movement, and of civil rights leaders like the militants from SNCC, Muhammad Ali, and Martin Luther King, Jr. denouncing the war as illegal and immoral. Even more important, veterans came home and told the truth about the reality of aggression and occupation and war crimes. The US government found itself isolated around the world and in profound and growing conflict with its own people inside its own borders. The Vietnamese themselves were decisive: they refused to be defeated. The Tet Offensive in 1968 destroyed any fantasy of an American victory, and when President Lyndon Johnson announced at the end of March, 1968 that he would not run for re-election, it seemed to us we had won a victory.
But peace proved to be a dream deferred, for the war did not end—it escalated into an air and sea war, expanded into all of Cambodia and Laos, and every week the war dragged on another six thousand people were murdered in Southeast Asia. Six thousand human beings—massive, unthinkable numbers—were thrown into the furnaces of war and death that had been constructed by our own government. The war was lost, but the terror continued. All Vietnamese territories outside US control were declared “free-fire zones” and airplanes rained bombs and napalm on anything that moved, destroying crops and live-stock and entire villages. John McCain, an unremorseful war criminal, flew some of those missions. As a young lieutenant, John Kerry testified in Senate hearings at the time that US troops committed war crimes every day as a matter of policy, not choice.
No one knew precisely how to proceed, for the anti-war movement had done what it had set out to do—we’d persuaded the American people to oppose the war, built a massive movement and a majority peace sentiment—and still we couldn’t find any sure-fire way to stop the killing; millions of people mobilized for peace, and our project, our task and our obsession, was so simple to state, so excruciatingly difficult to achieve: peace now. The war slogged on into a murky and unacceptable future, and the anti-war forces splintered then—some of us tried to organize a peace wing within the Democratic Party, others organized in factories and work-places, some fled to Europe or Africa or Canada, others to communes, the land, and hopeful but small organizing projects. Some began to build a vehicle to fight the war-makers by other means, a clandestine force that would, we hoped, survive what we thought of as an impending American totalitarianism. Every choice was contemplated, each seemed a possibility then—and we had friends and family in every camp—and no choice seemed utterly beyond the pale.
The Weather Underground carried out a series of illegal and symbolic attacks on property then, some 20 acts over its entire existence, and no one was killed or harmed; the goal was not to terrorize people, but to scream out the message that the US government and its military were committing acts of terrorism in our name, and that the American people should never tolerate that. Some felt that our actions were misguided at best, off-the-tracks, indefensible and even despicable, and that case is not impossible to make. But America’s longest war itself, with all its attendant horrors, was doubly despicable, and while many stood up, who in fact did the right thing; who ended the war; who transformed the world?
…We remember our lost comrades, their many brave, as well as their damaging last acts, and we continue to vibrate with the hope and despair they embodied then.
Bill Ayers Bernardine Dohrn
Of course, Ayers was not being completely honest about his terrorist past. San Francisco’s police officers union accused Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn in a 1970 bombing that killed San Francisco police officer Sgt. Brian McDonnell.
Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn were accused in 2009 of bombing a police station and killing Sgt. Brian McDonnell .
It’s comforting to know that our president was close friends with this unrepentant terrorist since his college days, huh?
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Padre Steve commented:
The November elections can’t get here soon enough!
Zipity commented:
“These are not the unrepentant terrorists I knew….”
- Barack Obama
Rev up the bus, got a couple more I need to re-throw under it.
Robert commented:
“and no choice seemed utterly beyond the pale”
THE LAW meant nothing to them then, or now.
‘We just make up the rules as we go along.’
‘I don’t care about the Constitution’
olm commented:
Wow, reminds me of Hanoi Jane.
These people scare me. Not because of what they did or what they are capable of now, but because their total divorce from reality and, worse, their self centered world view.
Obama included.
Richard Romano commented:
The Vietnamese themselves were decisive: they refused to be defeated.
What about the Vietnamese who were slaughtered in incredible numbers by their compatriots?
Why don’t these leftist moral fools ever bring up this little tidbit of mass slaughter? Jane Fonda? John Kerry? Bill Ayers?
sliderblaze commented:
Zipity… looks like they’re gonna need a bigger bus
AV commented:
Just rename the TEA PARTY to “Weather Underground Lite” and we can claim the same freedom of speech rights to protest and assemble as the close friends of Obama have had.
averagemelon commented:
Nothing else matters but their way and their view. Nothing.
Please remember that above all else.
Andrew X commented:
AV – I posted this comment over at PJM regarding the New York Times comparing the Tea Partiers and the Weathermen. I thought it worth spreading around.
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I sort of wonder if the NYT is actually onto something here and if there is a tenuous link between the two movements in a way we and the NYT do not even recognize.
You know what these tea partiers do kinda resemble, now that I think about it? The civil rights marchers… of the early and mid-fifties. These folks were largely very polite, and patriotic. They hoisted the American flag high, and demanded the country live up to its own ideals. And the country began to largely agree, and act on it.
Problem is, that movement felt great to join in (for good reason), attracted many young people whose motives were more about the act of rebellion than any grounded political reasoning for it (Rebel Without A Cause: “What are you rebelling against?” “Waddya got?”), and was ripe for hijacking by people who wanted to apply that very civil rights and vibrant sense of mission to a host of other fronts, some legitimate, some not, and so began the “Long March” that led us to…. today.
So one wonders just where the Tea Party movement might wind up, especially if our political masters, public employees, and media elites continue to act as blind and stupidly toward it as Bull Connors and Orval Faubus. Will the sense of rebellion manifest itself in the passionate young, who may awake to how royally screwed they are being by this nomenklatura?
And when that happens, there is rich fallow lying around everywhere of leftist justification for the “By Any Means Necessary” ethos of the Weathermen et al.
We already see the right looking at Alinksy in a way that started out as humorous irony, and is rapidly turning deadly serious: If this is what Alinsky used to put the left in charge, a proto-revolutionary right would be fools to ignore it. And it possibly is what keeps the Obamas, the Maxine Waters, the James Clyburns awake in the dead of night to realize that they have written the book for how the Early Civil Rights Movement / Tea Partiers can morph into the Weathermen / “Sons of Liberty(?)”, in both a moral and strategic sense.
Maybe in the simplest sense, the New York Times and others are warily eyeing a bunch of petards they have hoisted, and are wondering how the clips are going to feel on their own belts.
Valerie commented:
Those pigs and their pig friends were all happy with their big plans to bomb a dance at an NCO club, when they blew up themselves, their organization, and a big chunk of the anti-war movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_(organization)#Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion.2C_March_1970
Just ’cause they accidently killed three of their own instead of the targeted servicemen and their dates doesn’t mean they aren’t guilty of murder. When you set out to kill somebody, and you kill somebody else instead, it is still murder.
And, Ayers was the biggest loudmouth of them all. He was deep into planning to kill and encouraging others to kill.
Ayers is a pig. Dohrn is a pig.
Bernadine Dohrn thought the murders by the Manson family were a good thing.
Neither of those vicious pigs have a place in any kind of decent society.
Valerie commented:
I just realized that there may be some readers who don’t know that a big slogan of these sociopaths was “Kill the pigs.”
They were talking about our police officers — you know, those heroes of 9/11, the ones who show up to try to save your life after a car wreck? — them.
Opus #6 commented:
Kind of bolsters Hannity’s claim that Ayers is an “unrepentant” terrorist.
Does not speak well of the judgement of our Dear Leader.
pst314 commented:
“Wow, reminds me of Hanoi Jane. These people scare me.”
What scares me even more is how many liberals are willing to embrace people like Ayers and Fonda and Dohrn.
Andreas K. commented:
The Vietnamese themselves were decisive: they refused to be defeated.
What?
History lesson for the leftists:
The fall of Saigon happened 30 April 1975, two years AFTER the American military left Vietnam. The last American troops departed in their entirety 29 March 1973.
The peace settlement was signed in Paris on 27 January 1973. It called for release of all U.S. prisoners, withdrawal of U.S. forces, limitation of both sides’ forces inside South Vietnam and a commitment to peaceful reunification. The 140,000 evacuees in April 1975 during the fall of Saigon consisted almost entirely of civilians and Vietnamese military, NOT American military running for their lives.
How could the US lose a war in 1975 that was already settled for the US in 1973?
Easy answer: the US couldn’t. It’s not possible.
The Tet Offensive in 1968 destroyed any fantasy of an American victory
The Tet Offensive saw a complete and utter annihilation of the Viet Cong forces. The communists could only continue the fight because the NVA moved in.
Ayers is a lying piece of sh*t.
I’m not going to comment on the crap Kerry spew during the “Winter Soldier” farce.
J commented:
Hey Bill & Bernadine,
The 60′s ended.
40 years ago.
Get a life.
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greenfairie commented:
Wonder if he still has his plans to wipe out 25 million people?
Don Rodrigo commented:
#16 Andreas K.
Thank you for pointing out a major military reality of that war. Spared me the need.
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