THE GHOST OF COMMIES PAST

Now that Barack Obama has the presidency safely locked up, the ghost of commies past has decided to reappear. In an op-ed column published by Pravda, U.S.A., aka, The New York Times, Bill Ayers has endeavored to set the record straight. It seems that Ayers believes he was mischaracterized by the Main Stream Media in an effort to link Obama to an “unrepentant domestic terrorist.” Yea, right. The Main Stream Media were such truth seekers regarding Obama that half of the people I talk to never even heard of Bill Ayers. For those of you in this group, let me get you up to speed.

Bill Ayers was a radical rich white kid who dropped out of college to join the Students for a Democratic Society (A communist group for radical rich white kids). In 1970 he co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization that advocated for peace in Southeast Asia by blowing things up in America. Ayers articulated the Weatherman philosophy as: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” More recently, he has stated that “It was a joke about the distribution of wealth.” Good one Bill. That was a real knee-slapper! The weathermen were responsible for bombings at the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, the State Department and the New York City Police Headquarters to name a few of their targets. Ayers and his comrade, Bernardine Dohrn, went underground and lived as fugitives until 1980 when, like a bad zit, they resurfaced. The details of what happened next are too offensive for polite company but the bottom line is Dohrn got three years probation and a $1500 fine for her crimes and the charges against Ayers were a non-issue, having already been dropped due to a violation of the Warren Court ruling that “Good cops are prohibited from using extraordinary skill and every day common sense in the gathering of evidence against radical rich white kids.”

Free from justice, the happy couple was now able to get back to enjoying the fruits of other peoples labor. They quickly assimilated into the lefty culture of Chicago academia where Ayers is now a “distinguished professor of education” at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his charming wife is director of the Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University. No, I’m not making up this crap! Oh-I forgot to mention that Ms. Dohrn is also quite the comedian. At a Students for a Democratic Society symposium (that’s those radical rich white kids again) in 1969, just after the Manson family murders, she told the audience: “Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach.” Ms. Dohrn has recently said of her remarks: “It was a joke.” Man, these guys crack me up!

So, this brings us to Ayers recent op-ed column in the New Lefty Times. After whining about those pit bulls in the Main Stream Media, he goes on to state some “facts”: “I never killed or injured anyone.” “In 1970 I co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization that was created after an accidental explosion that claimed the lives of three of our comrades in Greenwich Village.” Ayers doesn’t mention that this “accidental explosion” occurred while his three comrades were building one of his bombs. He says the Weathermen only placed “several small bombs” in empty offices. Small bombs? I wonder how Bill and Bernie would react to some radical Americans shooting up their house with 22’s. No big deal? That’s a very small caliber, after all. Ayers goes on to explain: “We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war. But it was not terrorism; we were not engaged in a campaign to kill and injure people indiscriminately, spreading fear and suffering for political ends.” Sure Bill. Whatever makes you feel like a decent human being. The weathermen were the Keystone Cops of terrorists. Just because the only people they killed were three of their own doesn’t mean crap to me. Their incompetence does not absolve them of guilt. Ayers laments that “…We were inadequate to end the killing of three million Vietnamese and almost 60,000 Americans during a 10 year war.”

I am really sick of the selective indignation of these American hating slugs. American troops were repeatedly put in untenable situations because of the tactics of the enemy(that would be the three million Vietnamese). The vast, vast majority of them fought with honor and courage, as American troops always have. Ayers and his comrades remained silent while the Khmer Rouge slaughtered two million of their fellow countrymen in four short years following the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Ayers looked the other way as Pol Pot murdered 25% of the entire Cambodian population through overwork, starvation and executions in an effort to achieve his communist paradise. No, Ayers would never criticize his philosophical brother.

Even the most casual observer can see that Obama and Ayers know each other. I suspect they have more in common than either is willing to admit. I really don’t care. The fact that Obama would even shake the bastard’s hand is enough of an indictment for me.