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.