Posted by
Jill Cohen Walker on Friday, October 31, 2008 5:27:12 PM
With all the justifiable hoopla about Barry O's relationship with domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, I can't help but wonder how the hand of the law didn't reel them in long ago. There's no statute of limitations on murder, and Ayers and Dohrn have all but admitted to their roles in the bombings of the Pentagon, the Capital Building, and the bombing of a police station wherein one police officer was killed. A rather lengthy history on the Weather Underground can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization). The current issues surrounding Ayers, in particular, are more interesting. According to Matthew K. Tabor:
“Bill Ayers’ March election to the post of Vice President of Curriculum Studies for the American Educational Research Association [AERA] raised a few eyebrows - albeit too few - in the great education debate. There’s been quite a bit of discussion since Sol Stern wrote his most recent piece about Ayers in City Journal in which he introduces, as have some pundits, Ayers’ connection to Senator Barack Obama ["Obama's Real Ayers Problem"]. Primary politics aside, some thought that electing an unrepentant terrorist to AERA’s ranks was a mistake; others, however, found that insinuation shameful http://www.matthewktabor.com/ 2008/05/19/revisiting-aera-bill-ayers-the-weather-underground-and-public-education/ and http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/ eduwonkette /2008/05/dean_millots_comment_on_the_ay.html.
The mission of AERA, which was founded in 1916, was to improve “the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.” Among its “26,000 members are educators; administrators; directors of research; persons working with testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists” http://www.aera.net/. Enter Bill Ayers into the AERA milieu which caused some to utter words of concern. As Tabor noted, Mike Petrilli (of the Fordham Foundation) angered Eduwonkette (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/eduwonkette/) when he wrote in a memo:
“The [AERA] Council might consider whether it’s prudent to allow a former terrorist to join its ranks—particularly a man who said as late as 2001 that “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.” …
“Is there any doubt that the election of a former terrorist to the organization’s governance body is 'contrary to the interests' of the Association?
“Out of political necessity, Obama is already distancing himself from Ayers, and most likely will do more of that in coming months. When the AERA’s Association Council meets next month, it should do the same” (See: http://www.edexcellence.net/flypaper/index.php/2008/05/memo-to-the-aera-breaking-up-with-bill-ayers-isnt-hard-to-do/.
In another article (http://www.matthewktabor.com/2008/10/17/yes-bill-ayers-is-a-school-destroyer-social-justice-aint-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/), Tabor included a statement by Sol Stern, Contributing Editor to City Journal and a Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow:
“I’ve studied Mr. Ayers’s work for years and read most of his books. His hatred of America is as virulent as when he planted a bomb at the Pentagon. And this hatred informs his educational “reform” efforts. Of course, Mr. Obama isn’t going to appoint him to run the education department. But the media mainstreaming of a figure like Mr. Ayers could have terrible consequences for the country’s politics and public schools” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122411943821339043.html.
So, why is Ayers a free man—free to destroy young minds that deserve better? He’s never been pardoned the way Bill Clinton pardoned two members of the Weather Underground as he was leaving office. Linda Evans was sentenced to five years in prison for participating in several 1980s bombings. Susan Rosenberg was charged for her involvement in a bank robbery that spawned the deaths of two police officers and one guard. “She was apprehended with 740 pounds of explosives in her possession” http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/7998_clinton_bashes.html.
No-one was ever brought to justice for the rash of bombings, the murder of Police Sgt McDonnel, or the maiming of Officer Fogarty, but not because they were innocent or there was a lack of evidence against them. There was enough evidence to convict the leadership of the Weather Underground—including Ayers and Dohrn—for the “murders” of Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins. All three were killed when an anti-personnel nail bomb they were producing exploded too soon.
Again, why no prosecution of Ayers and Dohrn? Because President Jimmy “New World Order” Carter included the Weather Underground in the amnesties he gave to all Vietnam War protestors. Carter's action stopped any attempt at justice for the victims of Ayers and Dohrn and allowed them to pursue lucrative careers brainwashing young minds to hate the United States, its government, its businesses, its education system.
Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn have been allowed to mold young minds into the New World Order version of brainwashing. They have been useful tools of a global takeover of every nation, including the United States. The children they train have a value system that’s the antithesis of what our Founders intended. Gauging the decades of indoctrination provided by Ayers and Dohrn, the numbers of children whose minds have been driven from the truth about America could be startling.
Is it any wonder Obama said he didn’t know Ayers well, though he did, or “he’s just a guy in my neighborhood?” Were he to admit close ties with the man, Obama’s own role in the New World Order fiaso would come to the forefront sounding an alarm from parts of the East Coast to the eastern borders of California (the state that loves globalism the most). Like dominos, our states are being stolen from us one-by-one as young people whose minds have been through some form of Ayers-style indoctrination in public schools, and state and private institutions, reach the age to vote.
Methinks Obama has a lot more explaining to do about his relationship with Ayers.