The event was full of mostly supporters given the amount of loud applause he received. A true question and answer session never really occurred, as audience members were required to write their questions on note cards for pre-screening. Knowing organizers would only choose softball questions, I confronted Ayers with Radio Equalizer's Brian Maloney.
I asked Ayers about the dedication to Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan in his 1974 book Prairie Fire. The video is uploaded at Eyeblast.tv:
PICKET: Professor Ayers you had an unusual dedication to Sirhan Sirhan in your previous book. Do you regret that?
AYERS: Absolutely, but that wasn’t a dedication…show me. You heard it somewhere. The dedication in Prairie Fire in 1974…It was a manifesto was to all prisoners, and if I were writing a book like that today, I would dedicate it to 2.1 million people in prison. I think it was a stupid thing to single him out, but I also think that we have created a monster in the prison system. We ought to abolish the prison system. That’s what I believe.
It is unfortunate the mainstream media refused to ask Ayers any questions about the Weather Underground’s 1974 manifesto, but that would make scrubbing his past even more difficult.
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Kudos for getting a real
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 03:33 ET by MrSnugglesKudos for getting a real question in, his answer is of course to be expected from someone like himself.
That right there!
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 07:32 ET by JWFHe did and said insane things in the past. And he is still at it!
Abolishing the prison system? There are plenty of stone cold killers in there. He is gonna let them out? What about the serial rapists? Armed robbers?
We need to keep a camera on this idiot 24/7.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
of course
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:49 ET by jazzact13He dedicated the book to a stone cold killer, so else could he mean then letting people like that go?
Of course, he'd probably replace the prison system with a gulag, someplace to put those who don't toe his line.
"Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true."
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Did you notice...
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:39 ET by mizflame98...that he denies dedicating the book to Sirhan and then admit that it was a stupid thing to do in the same response? Unbelievable!
Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration
http://www.despair.com/government.html
First he obfuscates, then he admits he did it
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 12:30 ET by OxyCon"That wasn't a dedication. You heard that somewhere. Show me."
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"I think it was a stupid thing to single him (Sirhan Sirhan) out (in his dedication)."
Show me? OK!
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 14:20 ET by CobraManSo, traitor, you need proof of your own dedication? Ok, here it is. That IS Sirhan Sirhan's name printed in the Dedication page, is it not, traitor?
BTW, Traitor, why don't you remind people just what your actual political views and goals really are. Here's a quote from your own book to remind you, if you've forgotten:
"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"
Well, traitor, how do you plan to make your ideals and goals a reality?
I guess this pretty well spells it out for all of us:
"THE BANNER OF CHE
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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."
So, traitor, why are you so afraid of letting people know, now, what you're true intentions really are?
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
CobraMan
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 22:36 ET by BarkerExcellent post!
And there is no statute of limitation for murder or treason. It is fair to say that this terrorist thug Ayers has committed both.
Charge him, try him, and if found guilty, fry him. Or put him under the prison system he wants to abolish.
Barker... I agree. Here's
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 22:57 ET by Clear thinkerBarker...
I agree. Here's how Ayers was indoctrinated in the first place...Teach Your Children Well and he's too stupid to realize it. Why this man is still walking the streets of the USA is a complete mystery to me.
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Congrats Kerry...
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 17:14 ET by JPR1Bill O'Reilly ran your question to Ayers in his opening segment on radio today.
Too bad he didn't bother to mention either your name or Newsbusters.
What Ayers actually regrets
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 22:38 ET by Jack ColemanNot dedicating the previous book to Lee Harvey Oswald. Now there was a radical leftist.
Ayers' "Pairie Fire" is still alive and active..
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 23:20 ET by Gary HallAyers' "Pairie Fire" is still alive and active..
Here's how one gets there. Taking this path is definately more interesting..
Next Left Notes
Click on the link prairie fire organizing committee- just after Bernardine Dohrn's picture. I suspect the link to the a current piece: Bernardine Dohrn on Homeland Imperialism might proove to be an interesting side road for those curious about Students For A Democratic Society (SDS).
The history page for Pairie Fire, based in Chicago, should be interesting, as the call for revolution still seeks to blame the government for HIV/Aids.
And for dessert, You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows, byKarin Asbley, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Home Machtinger, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins, Mark Rudd and Steve Tappis, should - well - this should serve as an effective diet plan. Here you can learn more about:
Good reading - and don't worry, I'm sure that not a one of them are involved in Obama's community organizing efforts - although assignments at State are not yet announced. (;~/ gary