October 08, 2008

Old Terrorists

Paraphrasing an old saying, do old terrorists die or simply fade away?  Bill Ayes presence in the life of Barak Obama shows that a recalcitrant domestic terrorist does neither. 

 

Bill Ayers, who is he?

 

 

Born in 1944, Bill Ayers, along with his wife Bernardine Dohrn, was a 1960s leader of the homegrown terrorist group Weatherman, a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society. Characterizing Weatherman as "an American Red Army," Ayers summed up the organization's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents."

Today Ayers is a professor of education and a Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois. He has also authored a series of books about parenting and educating children, including: A Kind and Just ParentTo Become a TeacherCity KidsCity TeachersTo TeachThe Good Preschool Teacher; Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools; and Teaching Towards Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom

In his 2001 screed, Fugitive Days, Ayers recounts his life as a Sixties radical, his tenure as a Weatherman lieutenant, his terrorist campaign across America, and his enduring hatred for for the United States. "What a country," Ayers said in 2001. "It makes me want to puke."

 

Well, since Ayers has been living and working the unreality of the Ivory Tower sometime, ‘puking’ is probably the only physically productive thing he’s done.  Beyond puking, there is a problem which isn’t getting enough air time and I don’t expect it will, and that is Ayers and Obama are pals. 

 

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