[Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Eisenhower->j.F.k->LBJ->niXon->Ford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war

Sometimes its the only thing they can understand.
http://news.siu.edu/news/April02/040502k2087.html

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vietnam>History Repeats Itself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vietnam

Insanity: doing the /same thing/ over and over again and expecting 
/different results/. Albert Einstein.

The Unbroken Thread of American Imperialism/Interventionism...how much 
is Enough?
FDR->Truman->Eisenhower->JFK-> LBJ->Nixon->Ford->Carter->Reagan->Bush 
I->Clinton-> Bush II -> Obama ->???



Marti Wilkinson wrote:
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>     Ayers ought to be UI embarrassment
>
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>             Wednesday October 29, 2008
>
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>            A University of Illinois professor's history of criminality
>           cannot be minimized.
>
> The Associated Press reports that more than 3,200 people, identified 
> as "mostly academics," have signed an online petition objecting to the 
> "demonization" of University of Illinois-Chicago faculty member 
> William Ayers.
>
> Ayers is an admitted and unrepentant terrorist who, by his own 
> admission, participated in more than 20 bombings in the early 1970s as 
> part of a group of militant leftists known as the Weather Underground.
>
> Ayers has come to national attention during the current presidential 
> campaign because of a multiyear association with Democratic 
> presidential candidate Barack Obama. Both live in the Hyde Park 
> neighborhood in Chicago. Until Obama's recent denunciations of Ayers 
> for his "detestable" criminal conduct, the pair were longtime 
> associates. Ayers was among Obama's active supporters for public 
> office and Obama served as chairman of an education-related committee 
> organized by Ayers.
>
> Republican presidential candidate John McCain has challenged the 
> wisdom of Obama's association with Ayers, but the public does not 
> appear to be offended. Memories fade with time, so more people seem to 
> accept Ayers' current persona as a professor than his former role as a 
> political radical who engaged in serial criminal activities, urged the 
> overthrow of the U.S. government, encouraged the poor and middle-class 
> to "kill all the rich" and children to "kill your parents."
>
> Ayers' supporters are complaining bitterly about his "demonization," 
> as the petition states. But any fair reading of Ayers' long history of 
> criminality demonstrates that he has demonized himself.
>
> In defense of his bombing spree, which he describes in detail in his 
> memoir "Fugitive Days," Ayers downplays his conduct on the grounds 
> that no one was injured. He's much too modest. There were numerous 
> casualties left by Ayers and his Weather Underground associates, and 
> he can't escape responsibility.
>
> There was the 1970 bombing in Greenwich Village in New York, where 
> Ayers' comrades, including his then-girlfriend Diana Oughton, were 
> killed or injured. They were making bombs to use for an attack on Fort 
> Dix, N.J., when an explosion occurred.
>
> Let's not forget the Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969, when Ayers and 
> his associates engaged in a vandalism spree in downtown Chicago and 
> assaulted pedestrians. Richard J. Elrod, a former Cook County sheriff 
> and current judge, was paralyzed in the melee.
>
> In 1980, members of the Weather Underground, including Ayers' friend 
> Kathy Boudin, robbed a Brink's truck. Two police officers and a 
> security guard were murdered. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, a 
> law school graduate denied a law license in Illinois on character 
> grounds, raised Boudin's son after she was arrested and imprisoned.
>
> So don't get too carried away about what a swell fellow Ayers is. The 
> son of a wealthy utility company executive, he's a moral reprobate who 
> brags that not only does he not regret his criminal behavior but that 
> he wishes he and his fellow revolutionaries had been more destructive.
>
> His presence on the University of Illinois faculty should be a source 
> of shame, not grounds to leap to the defense of an indefensible man.
>
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