Weather Underground leader turned-academic William Ayers is now so docile that it never really "bothered anyone in Chicago," that Sen. Barack Obama had any connection to him, wrote Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet in the April 18 paper. Along those same lines the Washington Post's Peter Slevin argued that the '60s radical was now "considered so mainstream" in Chicago "that [Mayor Richard] Daley issued a statement on Thursday praising him as a 'distinguished professor of education' and a 'valued member of the Chicago community.'"
But while he may have forsaken violence long ago, as his blog attests, Ayers's politics are far from mainstream, and go far beyond the standard Democratic arguments to withdraw from Iraq. For example, Ayers wants to pay reparations in Iraq AND Afghanistan and practically withdraw the U.S. military from the entirety of the Middle East, even in countries that have longstanding security arrangements with the U.S.
Taken from an April 13 blog post titled originally enough, "End the War" (emphasis mine):
We need to organize and mobilize against illegal wars of conquest and domination, send a sharp warning right now as the powerful mobilize to bomb Iran under the banner of the same exhausted lies and rationalizations, and press the demand for peace in concrete terms:
1. Withdraw all mercenary forces immediately.
2. Set a date-certain-within three months-for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq and Afghanistan.
3. Dismantle all U.S. military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
4. Renounce all claims to the natural resources of Iraq.
5. Call for the creation of an independent international commission to assess and monitor the amount of reparations the U.S. owes to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is only a start, and it is still a choice-solidarity with all people, or endless war and death.As King reminded us, those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Good article Ken, and by
April 19, 2008 - 06:32 ET by Blazer"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Why stop there?
April 18, 2008 - 18:37 ET by ArcherBWhy not pay reparations to the Germans and Japanese while we are at it. If you really want to be thorough, you should pay back the Brits for that war we had with them back in 1776. Oh, and don't forget to pay the South for the war fought in the 1860's. Does that mean the South will get slaves back? How will Barak fell about that?
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary." Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Reparations? Yes!
April 18, 2008 - 18:52 ET by Mica the MagnificentMaybe Professor Bomb Thrower should pay reparations to the justice department, local police departments, etc etc for the costs (plus interest) to chase down this '60's marxist loser and his gang.
Why isn't this thug in prison?
I saw a movie on HBO about the Weather Underground. It didn't explain if global warming is affecting it. - - - Another Joy Behar comment I wouldn't be surprised to hear.
Thug
April 18, 2008 - 19:39 ET by jmad627Mica, I couldn't agree with you more, WHY ISN'T this sorry red diaper doper baby in jail? He should be spending the rest of his despicable life defending his sphincter muscle.
This is what's wrong with Colleges of Education today.
April 18, 2008 - 19:01 ET by terrigWhen I went to college in the early 80's (82-85), the College of Education (at least at the University of South Florida-Tampa-which I know has had it's own problems with terrorist profs and students since) taught us basic pedagogy with no tin horn dictator in training thrown in. In fact when I went for my grad degree in Special Education it was an absolute cake walk. The education I got there put me in good stead for the 17 years that I taught.
However, in the mid-90's I started to notice that the many of the student teachers I was getting for their final semester had political agendas, thought they would be friends with the students, and that anyone who was a Republican should not be allowed to teach.
I'm sure it's the same thing in Ayers classroom. The fact that this terrorist and his spouse are "tenured" is an absolute disgrace.
Ayers is some kind of
April 18, 2008 - 21:37 ET by NL207Ayers is some kind of mental deficient. His plan for "ending the war" is entirely unilateral. It is not possible to end a war between two or more belligerants unless all sides are prepared to lay down their arms in exchange for some compromise.
Ayers plan, depsite its scope, does not grant everything the Islamofascists want, Some notable omissions:
(1) Ayers plan does not discuss the fate of Israel. Osama bin Laden does: Israel is to be destroyed, to cease to exist. All Jews are to do one of: leave the Middle East, submit to sgharia, become Moslems, or die.
(2) Ayers plan does not address lands that Islam considers tio be its own, but which now contan Infidels. Andalusia is one of thee many places. bin Laden is effectively denmanding the removal of all infidels from these places. This includes Indonesia, many parts of Africa, India, and Southeast Asia.
(3) Ayers does not address the Jihadi demand that all peoples submit to Sharia. The world is divided into two pieces, dar al Islam and dar al Harb. In bin Laden's view, we live in dar al Harb, the world of war. It is to remain at war until it has been subjagated by dar Al Islam, what we have come to refer as the Islamofascists.
I say we hand Ayers over to these Islamofascist thugs the next time they want to make one of their beheading movies.
Noble sentiment but...
April 19, 2008 - 04:23 ET by OrroConsidering the cost of the war already and the effect this has had on the US economy (state roads and highyways for sale, any one interested???), repatriations would bankrupt the US.
A recession has already started, the dollar is weak and the national debt is towering. There is no way the US can afford, right or wrong, to repatriate Iraq & Afghanistan.
Orro http://www.dragonlas...
U.S. Conservatives Have NO CLAIM on Iraqi Oil!
April 19, 2008 - 12:27 ET by crtuneThe only claim I've ever heard on Iraqi oil was discussed primarily by Democrats. I understand that the Republicans in Congress are aware that we need to BUY oil on the open market, whether it is Iraq oil or oil from other countries.
Ayers is utterly wrong in most of his assumptions (that we entered the war for oil, that anyone owes reparations in a war to remove a PYCHOTIC despot from a country, that many hundreds of thousands died in this war - figures can easily be exaggerated). This is the FRIEND. . .or "Neighbor" of BHO. . .Barack should be forced to confront his connections to such CRAZY PEOPLE.
Chris Tune - Los Angeles
crtune -- you are
April 19, 2008 - 12:33 ET by Jack Bauercrtune -- you are correct.
Last week it was Democrats who first started demanding OIL FOR BLOOD... which is kinda two-faced because they were also the ones screaming no blood for oil.
Apparently, irony and
April 19, 2008 - 12:36 ET by RESTLESS 1Apparently, irony and democrats have never been in the same room, for dems never seem to recognize it.
we have been down this road.
April 25, 2008 - 02:44 ET by JWFThe last time Billy told us to get out of a war he did not approve of, and no one listened, things got real ugly real fast.
Billy needs to approve all actions of the United States government. When will you people get this through your tiny little heads. It is Billy Ayers world and you are lucky to be in it.
Billy says jump, you better say "how high?" Billy says fart, you better say "what color?"
Cuz Billy might make things real ugly again and this time he will have friends in the highest of places in a few more months.