Ayers actually said: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Asked whether he would advocate bombing again, he answered: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Or as he writes in his memoir: “I can’t imagine entirely dismissing the possibility.”
Ayers snivels here, worth reading for the comments.
(Via)
This better be good……. clicking a link to the star is hard….. 😉
Ok, the comments were worth it!
Thanks Kate.
“Bill Ayers is a distinguished professor of education and senior scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago”
What a gagging footnote on the bottom of this drivel. I am heartened by the moderated comments that call out the terrorist for what he was and still is. In the Star, believe it or not.
It figures that the Star would print that rubbish.
I had a friend named Homer who would have found Ayers’ drivel thoroughly absorbent. Homer was our budgie.
Clearly, the election of The One is, for the blogosphere, the Gift that Keeps Giving.
Every day we can find plenty of scary stuff to blog about wrt Obama.
‘Course, it’s up to us to do that, ’cause the MSM sure won’t report anything inconvenient to Obama and his extreme-Left agenda.
Ya know, sometimes I think I’m living in a dream.
To quote Mark Twain “Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense”
Or, less philosophically, “You just can’t make up %&*$ like this”
What’s the point of writing all that after the fact?
America is an asylum run by the inmates now.
Hmmm…
Will Ayers be named the new Homeland Security chief in the new administration ??
After all, he has ample experience in this field.
🙁
Our guy won. Your guy lost.
What you talking about kaplan. Harper won.
Ayers is representative of many teachers that are indoctrinating their students with their leftist ideology. Though the comments in the Red Star are overwhelmingly against Ayers there are those that feel posters are just upset that Obama won and its not a big deal as we see with some posters in SDA. Ayers was part of the Soviet propaganda wing that was so successful in forcing the US democrats to stop funding South Vietnam leading to the deaths of so many when the defeated North, as they admitted just recently, rallied when the South had nothing to fight them with.
I remember living through this period when it seemed the communists would take over the world and it was only the US standing in their way. It hasn’t gone away either as Putin is rearming Russia. We are seeing a repeat of this propaganda in the Iraq action as the leftists attack the US weakening its resolve.
Kaplan,
“our guy won”
…and the general public lost.
Your guy won because the media has no more standards, ethics, honour or morals than does Ayers.
Obama didn’t get to where he’s at because of any of his conservative beliefs.
His leftist connections,personal beliefs and capable oration propelled him.
Within his term of office the American people will have discovered they elected a communist president.
Our guy won. Your guy lost.
Just wait ’til you find out what “your guy” has in store for you.
Idiots!
(Yes, schadenfreude is a guilty pleasure)
“Within his term of office the American people will have discovered they elected a communist president.”
The big question is – how many will care?
I’m glad I got to see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at the National Archives before they go on permanent non-display. It wouldn’t do to have too many reminders of freedom laying about for the peasants to see – they might get odd ideas in their heads.
I don’t see why Ayers is upset at the calls for his demise. He approves of killing – what’s his problem? Death is the currency he deals in.
I think justice is what scares the crap out of him. So far he has escaped justice. “Guilty as hell, free as a bird.” – as he stomps on the American flag.
Boo Hoo for the homicide Bill Ayers. Nice to see him in fear, instead of victims from his own bombs.
That he teaches at a University is as macabre as a ghoul playing mortician.
Unrepentant but still full of himself.
As a Christian I know Justice one day will be done. I don’t agree with threats to people, even monsters like him.
He rolled his own dice though. Now live with it Bill, its called consequences. Something most folks have to live with from bad choices, even tenured communists.
I like the title of the Star article:
Bill Ayers: Becoming a target of a “terrorist” attack.
A terrorist being terrorized…too funny!!
Kinsella ‘loves’ Obama .. and ‘adores?’ Ayres .. and I hope CSIS places Kinsella on their list of ‘persons of interest’ ..!!!!
“Bill Ayers is a distinguished professor of education and senior scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago”
The greatest shame to me, as one in academic life, is that so many of my colleagues think of Ayers in the terms above. Some, particularly in Canada, may not know the man’s whole sorry history, but many do, and still regard him as a man of principle and honour.
There are genuine scholars in Canadian and American universities who have both book learning and common sense (and, yes, you can find them even in Faculties of Education), but they are an embattled minority, careful of what they say.
I did not know Ayers or Dohrn, but I did know people who were part of their circle, themselves now deans and vice-presidents of universities or “distinguished” professors if the media like what they have to say. None has ever been held to account for his or her violent and treacherous behaviour, and I expect that over the coming few years, they will make their way deeper into the public trough.
As some of you know, I’m a VietNam veteran, and sometimes vets sit around and discuss unfinished business.
Let me leave it at that, and speak in metphor about someone I knew very well who was a go-between for Canadian and French intelligence in World War II.
He was an American who wound up in the Canadian Air Force for reasons I will not bother with here.
He became what they used to call a Houdini of the prison camps. He told me that most of the time they sawed their way out with parts of ice-packing crates.
His war years were full of high derring-do. For example, one time he was operated on on a table in a bordello and stitched up just in time to go out the back door when the Gestapo was coming in the front.
After the war was over, he became something of a success, and about 35 years after the war he went to Scotland ostensibly to play golf.
“Friends” told him where the former guard in a Nazi prison camp was who had earned the hate of men incarcerated.
This was 35 years later, mind you. My friend visited the hotel room where the Nazi prison guard was staying, and that was the end of that story.
My suspicions would be that if something ever happened to Mr. Ayers, it would not be in some anonymous way like a bomb. The eyes that looked into his would be the last thing he ever saw.
By the way, Canadians have every right to feel great pride at my friend who certainly did them proud.
Hey, he likes bombs, he’d be *perfect* as Secretary of Defense.
Roseberry: preach it!
ex-member of the “ivory tower intellectual set” that made up the Humanities/international studies department; the responsible, decent members of the faculty are there but getting as embattled as the bison; we’ve been infested with people like Ayers
I hope the man lives out his days cowering in fear from the idea of terrorist reprisals; I hope it starts a backlash that encompasses more people like him in the faculties across the land.
I know the petty, viscious hatred and hypocrisy these people have publicly espoused and perpetrated — I don’t have any guilt at having glee in the thought of them becoming the victims in reality that they’ve always fantasized about being. Most, if not all, of these people would squeal and clap with glee at the thought of most average Americans/Canadians coming to grief — they thought the killing of young military people was great, the only pity was for the poor terrorists of 9/11, they even found the deaths of those poor babies during the Oklahoma City bombing a certain pleasurable schadenfreunde (how ghoulish is that? to take pleasure in the deaths of some toddlers?). And all the while they’ve considered themselves in the high tragic victim role.
These people really need war declared against them as much as Al Queda.
If they
Makes us writhe does it not?
The judge threw out the case against Ayers on the illegality of the FBI surveillance methods. I wonder what kind of activist he/she was? Ayers father was the CEO of a massive power system. I believe it was Edison company. Possibly a factor in his statement
“Guilty as sin and free as a bird. America- what a country!”
I read a statement by an American citizen, who as a child, was in his house, when a fire bomb went off. I understand it was Ayers confederates who targeted another building. He remembered the consternation and panic, as his building caught fire. No justice friends. Oh, throw and old fashioned stink bomb in the offices of the Toronto Star- no, do not do it.
Siberia or the like for you. (chuckle).
The Montreal Gazette printed the same article with additional paragraphs on November 8th, page B7. My favorite:
“At the turn of the last century, Eugene Debs, the great Socialist Party leader from Terre Haute, Ind., told a group of workers in Chicago, “If I could lead you into the Promised Land, I would not do it, because someone else would come along and lead you out.””
“Great” and “Socialist” in the same sentence!
indeed, schadenfreude, brings such a smile to my face.
For what it its worth, you may have heard that the University Nebraska at Lincoln cancelled Ayers speech here. Today the Omaha World Herald published an editorial by said Ayers explaining how the university will “surely suffer.” He actually uses Galileo in a lengthy allegorical narrative describing the situation from his perspective. One laughs when contemplating his powerless wrath at this Republican-blessed state.