This is really sticking in my gut...

I really don’t care if Bill Ayers is a close, personal friend of Obama’s or not… both have admitted to a “friendly association” and both have voiced similar political views. The liberal left made the act of mentioning Ayers during the campaign tantamount to public slander… but a few organizations have made real efforts to show just how dangerous someone like Ayers is, especially in light of his current role as a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

A conservative think-tank in Appleton, WI has recently presented a series of articles in which they detail just how much false information has been given to the public about Ayers, both by his own words and interviews and by the mainstream media. The main article can be found HERE, but I’ll summarize the info here on the Bund for all of us, okay?

During the GMA interview of Ayers a couple of days ago, Bill Ayers AGAIN stated that the Weatherman did not kill anyone, and that he was in no way responsible for any deaths or injuries attributed to the Weatherman, the SDS, the RYM, or any other violently anti-American organizations of the 60’s and 70’s that he may have been associated with. He AGAIN defended his words and actions as “justified” in light of the era they were happening in… including the manufacture, placement and detonation of explosive devices in public places and buildings and calculated acts of deadly violence against police and civil authorities. Rather than voice any regret over the acts and words of the past, Ayers explained them away as “misunderstood” in the light of past perspectives.

This is what I KNOW to be true about William C. Ayers, Distinguished Professor and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago and “family friend” of President-Elect Barack H. Obama:

According to his memoirs, Fugitive Days, Ayers was instrumental in moving the radical anti-war group SDS towards violence and militancy through the efforts of his Midwest branch of the SDS, called the Jesse James Gang, during the years of 1968 and 1969. In 1969, Ayers participated in the construction and detonation of a bomb at a public statue in a Chicago-area park (with no reported injuries associated to it, I’ll admit).

By 1970, the FBI had determined that Ayers and his future wife, Bernadine Dohrn, were the de facto leaders of the “Weatherman”, which had assumed control of the SDS during the “Days of Rage” in 1969.

In December of 1970, the Weather Underground Organization (the name Ayers gave the Weatherman), wrote an “official” Declaration of a State of War against the government of the United States of America. Although never indicted, this constituted an Act of Treason against the United States, which carries the maximum penalty of death, and a minimum penalty of no less than 5 years in prison and a fine of $10,000… and has NO statute of limitations (click HERE if you doubt me). Ayers has never retracted that declaration, nor shown or stated any remorse for having made it.

In Fugitive Days, Ayers admits to being involved in the bombing of the New York City Police HQ in 1970, the bombing of the US Capitol in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. No deaths resulted from these bombings, but the resulting damage was estimated at roughly $500,000 and took more than a year to repair and 17 people were hospitalized (in total).

Ayers wrote a 34-page defense of his “Smash Monogamy” theory, whereby all traditional monogamous relationships would be forced to split up, and individuals would join into large “group sex” events that would foster a sentiment of communal “sharing” of every aspect of privacy or intimacy. He has never retracted anything from that document, although he has been married to SDS radial Bernadine Dohrn for nearly 40 years.

In 1974, Ayers and Dohrn co-authored the manifesto of their movement, calling it Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism. This terribly disturbing book is something that every defender of Ayers should be forced to read, as it gives (in no uncertain terms) a clear blue-print of the Weathermen’s, and specifically Ayers and Dohrn’s, political and social agenda. The manifesto contains such quaint little tid-bits as:

A description of the Weathermen as an organization: “We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. We are deeply affected by the historic events of our time in the struggle against U.S. imperialism. Our intention is to disrupt the empire, to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, to make it hard to carry out its bloody functioning against the people of the world, to join the world struggle, to attack from the inside.”

An insight into the agenda of the Weathermen: “Revolutionary war will be complicated and protracted. It includes mass struggle and clandestine struggle, peaceful and violent, political and economic, cultural and military, where all forms are developed in harmony with the armed struggle. Without mass struggle there can be no revolution. Without armed struggle there can be no victory.”

A very insightful definition of the group’s ideology: “Socialism is the total opposite of capitalism/imperialism. It is the rejection of empire and white supremacy. Socialism is the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the eradication of the social system based on profit. Socialism means control of the productive forces for the good of the whole community instead of the few who live on hilltops and in mansions. Socialism means priorities based on human need instead of corporate greed. Socialism creates the conditions for a decent and creative quality of life for all.”

In the GMA interview, he defended his WUO associations as part of a broader “anti-war” effort. This is a far too simplistic view, though, I fear. Follow the links provided, and then tell me that man and his associates weren’t advocating violence and militarism against US society in general. Far too much of Ayer’s rhetoric is anti-American, and far too little is anti-war.

How can one be anti-war and still advocate the VIOLENT and MILITARISTIC overthrow of the US Government? How can one be an “avowed pacifist” (as he STILL claims to be) and admit to having PARTICPATED in the planting of as many as SEVEN BOMBS within the boundaries of the US… and all in public areas?

How does one determine that “violent action against racism” is any more of a defense of immoral action than those people formerly associated with the Ku Klux Klan that may have participated in the bombings BECAUSE of racism? BOTH are illegal and immoral acts, by any definition of the words, and both positions are indefensible, in my eyes.

Now, do I feel this is a pertinent subject for discussion because Ayers and Dohrn are associates of Obama? Yes, but not everyone may feel that way. However, EVERYONE should be concerned by the fact that both Ayers and Dohrn are STILL teaching for the State of Illinois, and BOTH have been commended PUBLICLY by Obama as far back as 8 years ago… well before the Presidential campaign kicked off in Ayer’s living room.