I want to quote a few things out of this editorial and see if they make sense to you. I don’t think the Ayers advertising was particularly effective during the campaign. This editorial is Ayers’ response to accusations made against him.
I never killed or injured anyone. I did join the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, and later resisted the draft and was arrested in nonviolent demonstrations. I became a full-time antiwar organizer for Students for a Democratic Society. 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. The Weather Underground went on to take responsibility for placing several small bombs in empty offices — the ones at the Pentagon and the United States Capitol were the most notorious — as an illegal and unpopular war consumed the nation.
The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense.
Sorry, but in my book planting several bombs in the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon doesn’t just “cross the liens of legality”, it is illegal, dangerous, and near treasonous. Let’s look at a dictionary definition of terrorism:
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
What did Ayers and his group do?
Our effectiveness can be — and still is being — debated. 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.
Use of violence -check
Meant to coerce -check
Political purposes -check
Sounds like terrorism to me. What’s the point of an editorial with his side of the story if he’s not going to be honest and admit things like they are. The language he uses isn’t apologetic and I hope our future president does not associate with him at all in the future.
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I have to say, I fully agree with you on him being a terrorist prick.
However, in regards to the overblown hype about Obama’s ‘connection’ to him, it is just that. They served together on a charity board a few years ago in Chicago. I don’t remember the Obama campaign haven taken any advice from him or having utilized his position as a professor during the campaign. It’s like saying some coke dealer you sat next to on a bus when most of the other seats were full was your childhood best friend, first french kiss, and probably will be the unemployed flea ridden father of your illegitimate children. Although I’m sure that’s a common fear.