Posted by
Boomer911 on Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:44:41 PM
For the last few months, the American people have heard brief snippets about a relationship between the home-grown terrorist William Ayers and Barack Obama. Ayers was a member of many radical left-wing organizations in the 1960's, culminating in his leading membership in the Weather Underground, who were responsible for more than a dozen bombings between 1970 and 1974. Considering the implications of such a relationship, one would think that Obama's political adversaries would have jumped all over the news story and brought it to the attention of as many people as possible. But the connection between the two has been largely ignored by the mainstream media which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, and the lengths at which some will go to cover up the Obama-Ayers connection is in and of itself rather radical.
Stanley Kurtz of the
National Review decided to address the concerns and questions surrounding the relationship, and wanted to dig a little deeper to see what he could un-earth. Kurtz contacted the
University of Illinois at Chicago who reportedly had 132 boxes of various documents concerning the relationship as Kurtz believes the documents may show Obama and Ayers were close—far closer than Obama has acknowledged—over oodles of foundation gifts on education projects the two worked on together. Kurtz was initially given permission to research the documents. But after having landed in Chicago, the library had changed their minds and denied Kurtz access to the documents. John Kass's article in the
Chicago Tribune covers the story rather well and shows to what length Obama's Chicago cronies will go to see their man elected. His article can be found here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-kass-ayers-thurs-21-aug21,0,7140263.column This Obama-Ayers relationship is important if only to point out Obama's extreme views for the country, his relationship with those who share the same views (terrorists mind you), and his massively flawed judgement which once again is called into question. How many associations with radical leftist ideologue's can Obama possible have without the people seeing that he himself is a radical leftist? A history of the
Weather Underground and
William Ayers is essential to understanding the critical nature of their relationship.
William Ayers radical history began with memberships in various radical left-wing groups such as the
New Left and the
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The groups Ayers headed in Detroit and Michigan became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS. In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected "Education Secretary".
[4]Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886
Haymarket Riot.
[7] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.
[8] The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on
May 4,
1970, and blown up again by Weatherman on
October 6,
1970.
[9][8] Built yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast.
[8] He participated in the
Days of Rage riot in Chicago that October, and in December was at the "War Council" meeting in
Flint, Michigan.
The following year he "went underground" with several associates after the
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, in which Weatherman member
Ted Gold, Ayers' close friend
Terry Robbins, and Ayers girlfriend, Oughton, were killed when a
nail bomb that was under construction exploded.
Kathy Boudin and
Cathy Wilkerson survived the blast. Ayers was not facing criminal charges at the time, but the
federal government later filed charges against him.
[1] While underground, he and fellow member
Bernardine Dohrn married, and the two remained fugitives together, changing identities, jobs and locations. By 1977, federal charges against both fugitives were dropped due to
prosecutorial misconduct.
It is important to understand what the
Weather Underground stood for and what their ideology represented. The Weathermen were initially part of the
Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's
Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a
vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the
capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "
anti-colonial" movements
[11] to achieve "the destruction of
US imperialism and the achievement of a
classless world: world
communism."
Since his involvement in the terrorist activities mentioned above, Ayers has never apologized for or never has hinted at regretting his radical past. Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since the year 2000 stems from an interview he gave to the
New York Times on the occasion of the his memoir's publication.
[17] The reporter quoted him as saying "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again" as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility."
[10] Ayers has not denied the quotes, but he protested the interviewer's characterizations.
Where does Mayor Richard M. Daley play into all of this as John Kass's article suggests? Well, Ayers was tapped by Chicago Mayor
Richard M. Daley to help found the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge, that city's now nationally-renowned school reform program. In fact, when the rumblings first began about an Obama-Ayers relationship, Daley issued a statement about Ayers and how the mayor knows him personally and that Obama should not be labled guilty simply for having known Ayers. That statement and Chicago Tribune editorial can be found here:
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/daley_dont_tar_obama_for_ayers.html And now, thanks to some shady Chicago political dealings, the true relationship between Obama and Ayers will not be known, at least until November 5th.
This radical relationship with Ayers is only one of many Obama has had with communist-socialist influences. The people you hang out with says a lot about you as people tend to spend time with those who share their views. For example, the record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Frank Marshall Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.” The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What’s more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations.
The time has come for these relationships and all the questions pertaining to these relationships to be answered. Obama's views are radical to say the least and his unabashed support of socialism is prevalent in his views and ideas for the country. The reasons why we find these radical associations with rascist reverends and communist terrorists, and why he has recieved endorsements from Louis Farrakhan, Hamas, and various communist publications, is because he, Obama, is radical. And they identify with his views as evidenced by the Che Guevara banners on the walls of his campaign offices and what's more important here is that Obama identifies with them. I only hope America will wake up to the reality of his views and his visions for America before it is too late.