Ayers & Dohrn talk about election night in Grant Park

January 21, 2009

Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn were on NBC 5 tonite talking about being in Grant Park for barry's Election Night celebration 40 years after the Democratic Convention madness there. Hence the reason why barry wanted it there even though it cost millions of dollars more than an indoor arena. All he has been doing is recreations - presidential and otherwise. Anyway, they said they got "last minute tickets from a friend". What they didn't mention - on the clips I saw - was the fact that he was stopped from entering Canada on the 19th - the day before barry's inauguration.

AYERS: I couldn't stop crying a couple of times. I found the exact spot where I was beaten 40 years ago. 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.

And then they take credit for barry's presidency because of their own acts of domestic terrorism. Reverend Martin Luther King had more to do with barry's presidency than two rich kid cowards and he did not advocate violence.

DOHRN: Without the struggles of the 60s ... there would be no President Obama.

These folks are latte-sipping (Ayers admits to being addicted to Starbucks) aging hippy capitalists trying to make noble their cowardly acts of violence as a means of staying relevant. What they did was wrong and resulted in the murder of three people - not including ayers' own girlfriend who blew herself making explosive devices to indiscriminately kill officers at Fort Dix. It can never be glamorized. And it can never be forgiven - unless they first ask admit to their wrongdoing. They haven't and it appears they never will.

A taste of their regret of not doing more.

John Jacobs' slogan:

[Weatherman would shove the war down] their dumb, fascist throats and show them, while we were at it, how much better we were than them, both tactically and strategically, as a people. In an all-out civil war over Vietnam and other fascist U.S. imperialism, we were going to bring the war home. 'Turn the imperialists' war into a civil war', in Lenin's words. And we were going to kick ass.

The violence did not just result in property damage or bodily harm to the intentionally violent protesters.

Richard Elrod, a city attorney, was paralyzed after he attempted to tackle Weatherman member Brian Flanagan....He regained some control over his limbs through therapy and surgery but still requires crutches or a scooter to move around. In 2006 he told Chicago Magazine that Ayers and Dohrn had apologized to him in 2001, while making it clear "that they did not believe Flanagan caused Elrod's injuries, and that they were not disavowing their militant beliefs.

Mr irrelevant non-repentant:

Bill Ayers: The Days of Rage was an attempt to break from the norms of kind of acceptable theater of 'here are the anti-war people: containable, marginal, predictable, and here's the little path they're going to march down, and here's where they can make their little statement.' We wanted to say, "No, what we're going to do is whatever we had to do to stop the violence in Vietnam.

...To help start the "all-out civil war", Bill Ayers and others bombed a statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket Riot on the evening of October 6. The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below.

Blowing up a statue commemorating policemen killed in the line of duty sound familiar?

barry also disrespected fallen policemen in Seattle when he put his port-a-potties - despite plenty of available space - in front of the memorial for fallen officers. Worse - this was their response when the police officers asked for an apology:

Sorensen said Obama's local offices have closed until a nominee is named so it would be tough for local organizers to make a formal apology to police.

I would bet $1k you have never heard about this.

Anyone?

Canada refuses entry to barry's pal Bill Ayers

January 21, 2009

Why would Bill Ayers be going to Canada the night before barry's inauguration?

To speak at a University with a very long name: Centre for Urban Schooling at University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. If he's going up there on the 19th was he just going to come back?

Toronto Star's DEBRA BLACK:

AYERS: I don't know why I was turned back. I got off the plane like everyone else and I was asked to come over to the other side. The border guards reviewed some stuff and said I wasn't going to be allowed into Canada. To me it seems quite bureaucratic and not at all interesting ... If it were me I would have let me in. I couldn't possibly be a threat to Canada.

The man who was picking him up, Jeffrey Kugler, executive director of the Centre for Urban Schooling:

It's kind of ironic the day before Barack Obama is going to become president this is what the Canadian border security has done. It seems ridiculous that one university can't have a professor from another university to come and give a lecture on an important educational topic.

The entire four or five hours he was not allowed to have representation at all. To me this is an issue of academic freedom. He could not be a threat to anyone ever. Anyone who knows anything about this man – he's a distinguished scholar at the University of Illinois and he has been involved in education reform over the past 15 years. To imagine in any way he was a threat to Canada is really absurd.

Why didn't he call and make sure Ayers would be allowed in? It's not like the world doesn't know who he is and it's not like Bush doesn't have friends he could call.

But the real question is: why did Ayers go there the night before the Inauguration? Why would he want to be out of the country when his buddy is becoming president? It defies reality.

Here's a few posts (below) if you still think Ayers was "just a guy in the neighborhood". barry ABC debate:

This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who is a professor of English in Chicago, who I know, and who I have not received some official endorsement from.

He hosted barry's political coming out "coffee" and donated $200 to his campaign.

He is not someone I exchange ideas (with) on a regular basis.

He's always got that obamanator qualifier. One would think that in 1995 when they served on the Annenberg board they must have shared a few views because they had to make decisions together. And one would also think that just a guy in the neighborhood -- who lives a couple of blocks away -- wouldn't be hold a political coming out party and donating money if he didn't know barry's views.

Axelrod first said they knew each other because their kids go to school with together--ayers' kids being adults--which was later amended to they went to the same schools. His words are clearly present tense. BEN SMITH:

AXELROD: Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.

Ayers' also wrote a new afterword to his reprinted book characterizing their relationship as "neighbors and family friends". Friends...pals...neighbors...board members...fellow teachers...campaign fundraiser host...fellow speaker at conferences...

I know none of this matters and I really don't care what they did together. I am shocked people bought the explanation....and Wright...and Rezko...and Blagojevich...whoever is next. Especially from a man touting his superior judgment.

Ayers' wife and Weather Underground firebomb John Murtaugh's house (who was 9 at the time like barry was 8)

Weather Underground's list of accomplishments for which Ayers and his FBI's Most Wanted List wife Bernadette Dohrn did not spend one day in prison.

Video testimony of an FBI agent who infiltrated the Weather Underground. He describes their plans of "reeducating" and "eliminating" diehard capitalists. Beyond disturbing.

Here's ayers' on his hypocritical capitalist book tour talking to barama matthews.

(1-21-09) ayers and dohrn on NBC 5 - no mention of Canada.

AYERS: "I don't want to defend what I did - nor was I completely insane."

December 11, 2008
AYERS: "I don't want to defend what I did - nor was I completely insane."

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN INTERVIEWS JOHN MURTAUGH

October 25, 2008

Found some supplemental info on John Murtaugh in reference to the previous post about the firebombing of his house by Bernadette Dohrn and the Weather Underground. He wrote an op-ed and did an interview with Greta Van SUsteren.

How stupid will people continue to be?

part 1

noquarterusa

PART 2

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John Murtaugh op-ed: (4-30-08)

Barack Obama pal is an enemy, too

No Quarter LARRY JOHNSON:

Why is Obama hiding his relationship with William Ayers? Follow the Money.

Ayers and Wright both spoke at Northwestern

November 10, 2008

I find it impossible to believe that Ayers met Wright for the first time on Nov 7th. They have the same ideas and they both know Father Pfleger, as well as Barry. Ayers was invited to speak for obvious reasons. Recall Parker's comment: "This will go down in history." For what? From the Daily Northwestern's NATHALIE TADENA. Not sure where we would have gotten any info if not for her. Bernadine Dohrn, Ayers' wife, is a professor at Northwestern Law School.

TADENA: Ayers, who now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he met Wright for the first time Friday. "He has fought his whole life for justice, and I've just admired him," Ayers said.

In inviting Wright to speak on campus, FMO coordinator Zachary Parker said he hoped to "de-mystify stereotypes" surrounding Wright and his controversial remarks. He said inviting Ayers was "only fitting" because the media treated the two figures similarly.

After Friday night's event, Ayers had harsh words for the administration. He said Bienen made a "critical, critical decision" in uninviting Wright from commencement.

"What possible reason could they have except pressure by alumni, pressure by others?" Ayers said. "It's freedom of speech, freedom of thought. Without that, academics is dead."

He said he felt a "huge connection" to Wright.

"Both Rev. Wright and I were brought up as cartoon characters in this campaign because of disinformation and dishonest news," Ayers said. "I did not suffer as much as he did, but we both got out of it with a certain amount of dignity."

And Obama made it out with the presidency by distancing himself from them. How much did Barry respect freedom of speech of his compatriots? How can a man who is unrepentant about being a domestic terrorist use the word "dignity"?

When are people going to get past the issue of race as concerns Wright's statements? Yes, he raged at "White America" and at Obama's opponent who "ain't never been called a nigger" and he ridiculed Obama endorser "Colon Powell" and friend of one of the murdered girls in the Birmingham bombing "Con-damnesia Rice". But he preaches Black Liberation Theology from a black Nationalist Afro-centric church that rejects the United States flag for the Pan-African flag. What else would he be promoting at his "Unashamedly Black" Church? Imagine Senator McCain belonging to an "Unashamedly White" church for twenty years.

The Double Standard.

It was Wright's raging against the government, who created HIV/AIDS as a means of black genocide. (HIV/AIDS originated in Africa from eating/touching infected chimpanzees.) And his unbelievably disgusting comments on the Sunday after 9/11 that the government was responsible for the murder of 2973 innocent American citizens and foreign nationals that is the true evil in his rage. What he chooses to believe about Europeans and Africans is up to him. What a former marine says about his country is another matter, as is his connection to president-elect Obama. And the fact that people still believe Obama had no knowledge of Wright's beliefs never read his book: "Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream", which was based on Wright's speech about "white man's greed".

Wright's speech was "Redeeming and Reclaiming our Community"

Weathermen's domestic terrorism

November 5, 2009

Weathermen's greatest hits. You can tell they were dead serious. They were not just crimes against property. They extorted, they stole $1M from Brinks truck - killing 2 policemen and a Brinks guard, they conspired against the US Government and they declared war against America and thus The American People. They attempted to blow up the Capitol Building, The Pentagon and Government buildings in Manhattan. That trifecta sound familiar? They tried to blow up the Officers at Fort Dix - the same place al qaeda inspired terrorists are on trial for.

Coincidences?

Those of you who think this is ok -- think of modern explosives and what they could have accomplished and what would have been their punishment. Ayers' got off because of "prosecutorial error" and "illegal wiretapping". His dad was a powerful CEO of Commonwealth Edison and had friends in high places. Bernadette Dohrn was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List and once the most hated woman in the US. She surrendered herself and got three months probation and had to pay a $2500 fine. That's it. Even though she admitted to trying to blow up a New York Supreme Court Judge at his residence with children inside. She blocked the entrances and placed a bomb under the gas tank of the family car. She had no regard for the judge's family.

Who would get off like that today? And if she fled to Cuba today would she be detained in Guantanamo Bay?

You want to make the excuse that barry was only 8 and that he didn't know what Ayers did?

Then you can't say barry has good judgment for being a close acquaintance and fellow board member of ayers.

Courtesy of community.mccainspace.

10/7/69 Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, as “kickoff” for “Days of Rage” riots

10/8/69 “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago - 287 Weatherman were arrested and a large amount of property damage done

10/6/69 Bombing of Chicago Police cars. The WUO stated in their book “Prairie Fire” that they did the explosion

12/27/69 Weathermen hold “War Council” finalizing plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the “Weather Underground Organization” WUO.

1969 Ayers attempted to extort money from the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, demanding $20,000 to abstain from violence during a planned peace protest.

2/13/70 Bombing of Berkeley CA police vehicles

2/16/70 Bombing of San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.

3/6/70 Bombing Detroit PD. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During Feb and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility

3/6/70 “bomb factory” located in Greenwich Village explodes. WUO members die, including Ayer's girlfriend. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, NJ that night.

3/30/70 Chicago Police discover WUO “bomb factory” on Chicago’s north side. Subsequent discovery of WUO “weapons cache” in south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city

5/10/70 Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C.

5/21/70 WUO under Bernardine Dohrn’s name releases its “Declaration of a State of War” communique. She was one of the FBI's Most Wanted and after surrendering herself got three years probation and a $2500 fine.

6/6/70 WUO sends letter claiming credit for bombing of San Francisco Hall of Justice. No explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had been dormant for some time

6/9/70 Bombing of New York City Police Headquarters

7/27/70 Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco

9/12/70 WUO helps Timothy Leary break out and escape from the CA Men’s Colony prison

10/8/70 Bombing of Marin County courthouse

10/10/70 Bombing of Queens traffic-court building

10/14/70 Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs

3/1/71 Bombing of The US Capitol

4/71 abandoned WUO “bomb factory” discovered in San Francisco

8/29/71 Bombing of the Office of CA Prisons

9/17/71 Bombing of The NY Dept of Corrections in Albany, NY

10/15/71 Bombing of William Bundy’s office in the MIT research center

5/19/72 Bombing of The Pentagon

5/18/73 Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in NY

9/28/73 Bombing of ITT headquarters in NY and Rome, Italy

3/6/74 Bombing of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare in San Francisco

5/31/74 Bombing of The Office of the CA Attorney General

6/17/74 Bombing of Gulf Oil Pittsburgh headquarters

9/11/74/ Bombing of Anaconda Corporation

1/29/75 Bombing of State Department

6/16/75 Bombing of Banco de Ponce in NY

9/75 Bombing of Kennecott Corporation

10/20/81 Brinks robbery several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, NY. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others seriously wounded.

1991 “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz

1995 Obama campaign event at Ayers/Dohrn house

1997 Ayers and Obama serve on a U of Chicago panel organized by Michelle Obama

1999-2002 Obama and Ayers serve together as paid directors on Woods Fund Board of Directors

4/2/01 Obama accepts campaign contribution from Ayers and, after 9/11 never returned the money

9/11/01 “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? “I don’t want to discount the possibility”

4/20/02 Ayers and Obama serve on panel together called “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis” organized by Michelle Obama.

Dohrn firebombs Murtaugh house

October 11, 2008

Here's an article from TPM discussing the connection of Ayers with Mrs Obama. There's an audio of John Murtaugh and the folks at TPM. Murtaugh goes into the attempted bombing of his family residence. He relates that on Feb 21, 1970 (when he was 9) the Weather Underground placed multiple fire bombs by his front door and in the rear of the house directly under the gas station of the family car in an attempt to kill his father. His father was a NY State Supreme Court judge presiding over the "Panther 21" trial of members of the Black Panther party who were alleged to have been plotting to bombings a series of department stores in Manhattan. They did so with reckless disregard for his family, who were then placed under 24/7 police protection for the next 18 months. He said further that on November 1970, Bernadette Dohrn (Ayers wife) turned herself in (she was on the FBI's Most Wanted list) and admitted to bombing his house, two military stations in Brooklyn and a police station in Greenwich village. Recall that Ayers' girlfriend accidentally blew herself up in Greenwich Village making bombs that were to be used to bomb an officer's dance at Fort Dix. Ayers the cowardly revolutionary went into hiding.

Listening to a personal account is very disturbing and brings home how serious they were. Imagine if they had the sophistication of today's bombers. Dohrn was a law student at the time. She actually tried to pass the NY bar and when she couldn't (thank the Lord) was hired by the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin in 1984 and worked till 1988. Mrs Obama began working there in 1987.

Here's what TPM's GREG SARGENT & ERIC KLEEFELD wrote:

The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.

The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.

That's the entire attack. We wish we were joking. But we aren't.

And I wish they had decided to do a little investigation themselves before they declared it a joke - but they didn't. Ayers lives three blocks from the Obamas and the Obamas and Ayers and Dohrn spoke at some sort of conferences together. I have the documentation downloaded from a site, which I hope I can find. I believe it had to do with kids who were in the system. Don't quote me on that.

Here are some recent posts on Ayers. Obama on McCain rage ad. and McCain: Obama too risky ad, and McCain: Choose ad and Eugene Robinson and Dana Milbank. No need to transfer over the others.

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UPDATE POST: (5-2-08) Murtaugh did interview with Greta Van Susteren

(4-30-08) Murtaugh op-ed Barack Obama pal is an enemy, too

No Quarter's Larry Johnson has an article about Ayers and Sidney Austin.
(4-26-08) Why is Obama hiding his relationship with William Ayers? Follow the Money.