Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers on NPR’s Fresh Air
By No-nonsense Nancy on November 19, 2008 at 12:45 AM in Ayers, Bill Ayers, Media, Radio, William Ayers
I just listened to an interview by Terry Gross of NPR titled, “Which Way The Wind Blows: Bill Ayers On Obama.” Ayers is the former anti-war activist and one-time fugitive leader of the Weatherman Underground organization of the 1960s and 70s.
As in other recent interviews, he denied having a very close relationship with Barack Obama but at the same time he states that the residents in his neighborhood are very friendly, get together in each others’ homes and “laugh about the inflated rhetoric of the 60s”. Tell me, Bill, do Barack and Michelle sit in on these pow-wows? He says that the ads that Senator McCain aired about Obama’s relationship with him and his past activities were lies. He says that it is a credit to the American people that the ads didn’t work. Then it is good that Americans elected a president who probably agrees with your past activities and may even have some dangerous agenda in store for all of us?
Ayers denies that the Weather Underground was a terrorist organization but that it was a militant one.
So explain this to me: How is bombing the Capitol Building, the Pentagon, the NYC Police Headquarters and a judge’s home NOT terrorism? His reasoning is that they didn’t hurt or kill anyone. He says the police officer killed in 1970 was not done by them. He goes on to explain that the bomb at the Pentagon was a small one set in a restroom. It knocked out a computer and held off the air war for a couple of days. It was intended to harm property, not people. Give me a break!! A bomb is a bomb is a bomb!! What if someone had been in that restroom at the time that the bomb went off? Or standing next to the computer that was hit? These actions, he states, were “Extreme acts of Vandalism”. Gosh, I must be naive. I thought vandalism was like painting graffiti on bridges or turning over outhouses, as kids in my younger days did. I wouldn’t have labeled setting bombs as vandalism. Now, mind you” 9-11 was terrorism pure and simple”. Whew! I was glad to hear that!!
Regarding the statement that he has made, “I feel we didn’t do enough” he says that he was misquoted by he NY Times. When Terry Gross stated that people call him an “unrepentant terrorist” he responded that he would “need something specific to apologies for”. What say all of you? Can YOU think of any specifics?
Submitted by No-Nonsense Nancy
Here is the link to hear this interesting interview. It was an hour long but well worth the time.
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The deal is this…Ayers is A TERRORIST. Period. Whomever is giving him a forum to promote his nonsense belongs in hell with him. I wouldn’t let that scum PET MY DOG. Period. When in God’s name are we going to see the Ayers crap for what it is? He’s a terrorist and no one should give him the time of day. Other than to remind America that he’s OVomit’s FAMILY FRIEND. This whole thing is SURREAL.
I’m the tall guy standing behind Dino Rossi in the center of the picture with a Bahama shirt.
This was my first outing as a newly minted republican
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Seattle, is that suppose to be a picture of you? If so how does your link work?
You have to copy it and put it at the http section at the top and then paste.
OIAF wanted to see a picture of me tonight and that’s the best I can do till I scan some more.
Rats, I couldn’t get it to load!
Ughhh….I am dying to see HOTTIE Seattle but it didn’t work for me either. Sigh.
I’m looking forward to showing you gals the real Clint
I’m sorry about that image..Works on mine
It looks like it’s on your hard drive(c:\), not on the internet.
Seattle, upload it to photo bucket.
Seattle…Figure it out. I need something POSITIVE like your gorgeous face.
I sent Susan an e-mail with an attachment file..
http://s437.photobucket.com/albums/qq95/clintdcox/?action=tageditmany
Ughhh…not working for ME either. It directs me to MY photobucket pics.
http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq95/clintdcox/8-9-08Auburn5.jpg
I saw it. Wowzah are you HOT. Are you like 6″5′? Where’s the BROTHER I asked for? ROFLMAO. You really ARE handsome my darling MOSS. Yikes.
Why thank you my Beautiful!
6′4″ and 48 next week
Get a room, you two.
No wonder you are such a fabulous looking man … fresh air, plenty of water and still YOUNG. Make that two brothers, please!
OIAF, I agree Ayers is a terrorist, pure and simple. I want to know why he is receiving so much attention. Shouldn’t he be in jail? Shouldn’t his wife be there with him? Oh yes, that little technicality that got him off. Well, perhaps he could stay in his neighborhood and leave the rest of us alone. I don’t understand why these “so-called intelligent” people - many college professors listen to this jackass. And didn’t he receive some reward from these same professors? It’s mind boggling just like that video done by Zogby. This is what decides our country’s leaders? We’re in trouble - I mean look who this public elected.
I remember those years. And the fear the Weather Underground instilled in people. People don’t fear vandals.
They don’t like them (vandals) much and they worry that somehow their property might be damaged by the “vandals”. But they don’t fear losing their lives.
I was against the Vietnam war. I protested. I made noise. I wrote my senators. I sang songs. I marched. I did not blow up buildings, or bathrooms. No one died as a result of anything I said or did. I was a protestor. I wasn’t a vandal. And I wasn’t a terrorist.
William Ayers was a terrorist. He instilled fear and he and his followers terrorized this nation. I remember. He is no longer a terrorist. He is a liar.
Exactly!!!
Earlier today a resident troll tried to claim that this was old news — in the past and that no one cares any more.
Sorry — but people ARE in jail for the stuff that Ayers got away with. He got away with domestic terrorism because he had a rich daddy.
There are young girls whose bodies are used to strap explosives to and then sent in to market places in the middle east. These young girls aren’t in search of allah or virgins, they are being used as mules — not for drugs, but hate — and what does the (spitting the word out) media call them? TERRORISTS. Ayers did it with planning, cunning and fore thought. He is a mastermind terrorist. Years from now, will people like Bin Laden be harmless simply because they cease taking active part in a movement? Terry Gross and the rest and being used. They are tools and fools.
Ayers is a murderer and terrorist, a neighbor and friend of our Vaulted President Elect. I suppose Ayers is, as His Magnificence said, one “of the ones we’ve been waiting for” in Obama’s new and depraved Amerikka.
Next stop, Gitmo. Let’s take all those dear sweet rays of light being so unjustly treated (no bedtime stories with cookies and milk, tsk tsk) down there in Cuba. Let’s get bring up here and spend taxpayer dollars feeding, housing and defending them in court.
Perhaps Obama can enlist the Gitmo detainees in the Peace Corps as a form of rehabilitating them into a cultured society. After they’ve learned the errors of their ways he can then make them officers in the new civilian security force. Peace, Love, Dove, and Ecology for all. I now feel better for having such a transcendent thought. Hugs!
So using Ayer’s example… I don’t like him, I think he is bad for the American People, therefore, I have the right to hunt him down, hold him up in his house (with his hellspawn) and bomb him to kingdom come. After all might makes right…right?
Ayers group never *intended* to harm anyone nor did they *indend* to inspire terror. Thus they were not “terrorists” either ethically, morally and legally. People who think they are don’t understand what terrorism is.
I do not accept your Orwellian attempt to redefine the English language.
The WU & fellow travellers attempted to spark a civil war in this country that they estimated would result in 25 MILLION casualties.
The reason they didn’t kill more people is due to technological incompetence on their part. The reason all of them aren’t in jail is due to prosecutorial incompetence on the attornies part.
Good analogy Strawberry, what would happen if we all decide we don’t like what our government is doing now.
The GOP?
Bill Ayers is a lying piece of [insert term] and the mere fact that he’s allowed to get away with spinning his fantasy with impunity is ridiculous. Read his own words. Listen to his own words (not now, in clean up time, but at the time he was “militant” and committing his acts of “vandalism”).
The Weather Underground issued a formal declaration of WAR on the United States in the name of the Black Panthers. They fire bombed a federal judge’s house (including a bomb under the gas tank of the judge’s family car that didn’t go off) for presiding over a trial of Black Panthers.
What exactly does the whinny, supercilious bastard think a declaration of WAR is? “Inflated rhetoric?”
The man’s a self-involved, delusional nut.
Funny, and ironic, isn’t it, that being a vandal of the highest order, fighting his domestic WAR, kept him from going to a real war, in Vietnam, and getting his snippy ass shot off.
p.s. / I keep saying this but nobody (with access and the ability to do it) will take on the mission. Somebody needs to interview BERNADINE. She was the dangerous one. She’s the one with the quote about the Tate victims and how “wild” it was that they stuck a fork in the stomach of one of the victims. She’s the one who didn’t want to come out of hiding. She’s the dangerous one. This man is toothless and pitiful. She is scary. Put her on the big screen and let’s see what she has to say about what they did and what they (both) think today. She set bombs. He talked about it and sent others out to do the dirty work. A gutless wonder.
p.s. / When Bill Ayers talked about the Pentagon bombing back before image scrubbing time, he said the “bastards” were going to finally “get what was coming to them.” Did he seriously mean they were going to have to mop up the bathroom?
And, finally: Are we all really as stupid as he (and BHO) think we are?
“Somebody needs to interview BERNADINE. She was the dangerous one. She’s the one with the quote about the Tate victims “
Yep and she’s the one who was friends with Michelle Obama. That’s scary….
Indiedog…we here are not stupid but all those who voted and stayed away and did not vote - those are the stupid and ignorant ones who did exactly as Obama and Ayers wanted. I hope they all watched the Jones saga on tv…it relates to them … and BHO’s in every way…
People can interview Bill & Bernadine again and again, looking for a clue to their radical mindset, and they won’t ever find it. They are both very shrewd, and they are very adept at fitting into polite society and saying all the appropriate things. They look like upper-middle class academics, and they can play these roles seamlessly.
Do you remember a movie with Tim Robbins called “Arlington Road”? It is a movie about a rabid terrorist who moves into a nice upper-class suburban neighborhood and blends in perfectly with his neighbors. The “joke” of the movie is that he seems so normal! He is so soft-spoken and articulate and polite!
You aren’t going to see a hint of a wild-eyed terrorist in any interviews, but I would not trust Bill or Bernadine for a second, and I would never turn my back on them. Who in their right mind would?
Ayers is a Domestic Terrorist. OVommit is his friend. This election is a joke.
Eight years is gonna be a long time to sing that tune, OIAF. Do you truly wish to dwell on the fringes of American life for that long?
If so, can you please endeavor to be more entertaining? Thank you.
Where were you when someone was writing “better red than dead?” I am sure that you might have made it that much “catchier.”
Any word on when that “whitey” tape is going to be released?
LOL!! Is that the best you can do Obot?? You’re fired!!
Need a date? There’s always Hooters. Can you afford a plate of buffalo wings?
When you get a brain.
testing
Nelson Mandela engaged in bombings also. And John McCain included him in a book of heroes.
Just saying… leave the Ayers meme where it belongs; in the closed book of failed guilt-by-association campaign tactics.
Hitler was surrounded by Nazis, let’s not accuse him of guilt by association.
Hard Bop, when the associations of an individual are predominently of a distinctive mindset, it’s not just guilt by association, it’s guilt by saturation. Obama actually admits in his first book to seeking out creeps like Ayers.
You can know a great deal about a man by the company he keeps.
Wikipedia is now whitewashing their weathermen, ayers, dorhm stories. Last spring, it said that they paralyzed a cop with one of their bombings & it had a horrible, mocking poem written by dorhm about the poor guy. I believe it also said they robbed a brinks truck, but that part is gone also. They even shortened dorhm disgusting statement about the manson murders, and has added in ayers statements about their “not hurting anyone”.
It does still have a paragraph about the nail bomb they were building that they were planning to set off at an officers dance at Ft Dix. This is the one that went off when they were constructing it & killed Ayers girlfriend & 2 others.
A nail bomb. For a dance. But they never wanted to hurt anyone.
The FBI report said that they “possessed enough explosives to level both sides of the street”.
wiki also quotes Harvey Klehr, a prof @ Emory U, who said in 2003:
“The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don’t know what sort of defense that is”.
Why can`t Ayers try suicide bombing. At least he would only get one chance.
He’d probably need help. In him I see someone totally dependent upon his father. Gee. Have we heard that before? He and 0daddy are the yin and yang of Oedipus complexes. Great freaky pair they make. Neither one of them would be SHIT without the daddys.
Yup and this filthy, dirty, America hating scum is a “family friend” of OVomit. I just can’t believe that this is America.
This implies that “Wikipedia” is actively engaged in “whitewashing” these entries. Of course, Wikipedia is written by the folks who visit the site, and in any controversial entry there is a war of factions as to what will appear on the page. The ebb and flow of editing on any given page can be accessed, and is usually interesting and instructive to follow. If you want, you can go back to the Wikipedia page and add more defamatory information about Bill and Bernadine. Of course, somebody else is likely to edit the page tomorrow and remove your information. Interesting process.
Yes, I get that. They have “editors” who oversee challenges and other stuff. The point is, last spring when I looked up info on ayers & dorhm, there was a lot more incriminatory information than there is now. I checked with other sources (never rely on wiki alone) that had the same info.
Take it however you want. I take it as part of a pattern…ayers now shows up on GMA & npr to promote himself as someone who never wanted to hurt anyone & info about him on the internet starts getting scrubbed. Whats next?
Comment by Hard Bop | 2008-11-19 02:28:46
Eight years is gonna be a long time to sing that tune, OIAF. Do you truly wish to dwell on the fringes of American life for that long?
If so, can you please endeavor to be more entertaining? Thank you.
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Kiss my azz ignorant, uneducated, welfare recipient, trailer trash TROLL. Thank You.
I pray that somehow, some day I run into low life, scum, terrorist Ayers. I would LOVE to tell that aging, nasty, SICK F*K perv what America really thinks of him. I guess his gay lover, Fraudbama, makes it all okay for Uncle Chester the America hater and bomber. Once those two nuts are done roll playing I would bet that normal, decent Americans would really want these two to leave the country. OUR COUNTRY. Not the country of scum.
What is up? Wat’s up? WaZZZZZZZZZZZuP? How you freepers doin’? I almost missed you so much! How did those McCain votes work for ya? The half-baked Alaskan has it ALL over you. Love the effort your making!fist bump
It’s not likely that your Idol Obama will ever read your eloquent tribute to him. A more effective display of your devotion to him would be to take a trip to Chicago where a certain cab driver can hook you up with “The One”, so that you can passionately felate him. I’m sure you’re good at it.
Perhaps your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
Yes, the poster child for the destructive effects of any sort of contemptible behavior.
They sure sound like terrorists to me. If they were not so *unfortunate* to blow themselves up, they would have bombed a bunch of soldiers and their partners at a dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l_5mAqBUko&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiIC8YwQVV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay4cgdq6g-o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ9zPySHbuY&
(is it just me, or does Paul Rudd seem just like Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue got Married?)
Thanks for the vid links, Sarainitaly. You’re right, Mark Rudd is like Cage’s character in “Peggy Sue” (my all-time favorite movie), kind of endearingly boyish and naive. But then there is that little matter of blowing up things, something that Charlie Bodell would not have contemplated. He just wanted to be like Fabian.
George Bush is partly to blame for screwing up the language until we have a choice between “terrorist” and “freedom fighter”–as though someone can’t be both. A terrorist is one who attempts to incite terror, and just WTF else was Ayers and Dorn and their ilk trying to do? At least the two scumbuckets never claimed to be freedom fighters. Just graffiti artists!! Oh dear God, tell that to the jury if new evidence ever emerges that you two, a la Charles Manson, can ever be pinned to a murder! No statute of limitations there, folks! Did I hear you’re headed for Venezuela? Good thinking!
Is anyone asking either of these creeps on the air why a dedication was made in one book to Sirhan?
I have been doing a lot of research on the Clinton’s. I have always supported them and prayed Hillary would win the election. I do have to admit I didn’t know a lot of facts though and didn’t understand the people even from their own camp that didn’t like them.
I just found this out. Did any of you know that President Clinton Pardoned two weather underground members before leaving office? Susan Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans. He also pardoned 16 members of FALN a Puerto Rican group that set off bombs in New York and Chicago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy
Yes, some of us knew.
Hypocrisies do abound. Some former “militants” apologize for the pain they caused while fighting a “war” they thought was right at the time. Others, have never admitted or apologized for their actions. Ayers refuses to acknowledge his own culpability in violence. That’s where I draw the line, I guess.
Bush is harboring terrorists in Florida, people who blew up diplomats and their aides in cars right in DC, or blew up Cuban airplanes full of people, including children’s sports teams. They’re living good lives, around the Miami area, because they fought for us against Castro, or for Pinochet, back when we were fomenting coups, and when we supported hideous actions like Operation Condor. So, the US has a long and ugly history of colluding with terrorists, and as they say:
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
Yes, Clinton pardoned FALN–after they had served decades in prison. Clinton also gave Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein, a visa to visit the US in ‘94–which turned out to be the smartest thing he could have done, since Sinn Fein was advocating an end to the War in Northern Ireland, and the political, peaceful progress that has taken place in Ireland, for the past 10 years. Adams regularly visits this country to talk to supporters and advocates. I applaud him, and am a longtime supporter. Adams has led the way in ending violence, prejudice and suffering in Northern Ireland for 20 years, although he supported IRA actions during the war.
Nelson Mandela fought a war against an oppressive apartheid regime–on the side of justice, no doubt–and paid with 27 years in a nightmarish prison. He, like Adams, advocated peaceful, political reform.
Bill Ayers, however–a domestic terrorist no different from Timothy McVeigh-is really an arrogant piece of shit, in my opinion. Every time I see him, I just want to slap him. His arrogant contempt is what is so breathtakingly clear.
im sorry and this maybe somewhat off topic but not really,
has anyone else notice how gay bill ayers seems, even my mom said something about it and she is 72,
i mean this guy just comes off as a pure flamer,
“not that there is anything wrong with being gay”
but then again ive always thought obama seemed a little swishy himself
Ayers practised “smash monogamy” in the Weather Underground, which meant that you slept with everyone and anyone at anytime to “smash” the boundaries of sexuality, so yes, Bill is bisexual.
By Bill Ayers argument, Osama Bin Laden is only guilty of vandalism. He ran planes in to buildings, meant to get our governments attention as a means of militancy and vandalism on a building. He didn’t intend on killing the people there, just land a plane on the buildings floors.
By Bill Ayers argument, Osama Bin Laden *is* a terrorist, since he, by his own admission, intended to kill people and inspire terror or fear in the populace. Proving *intent* in a court of law is a bit sophisticated, but in Ayers case, you’d need to know more about the history of what happened. His group alerted the authorities many hours before every bomb went off, encouraging evacuation.
They were actually trying to *prevent* people from dying in war … and, in the future, we *may* look back and realize that their actions contributed to a shortening of the conflict due to domestic instability concerns.
Again. it was not just that they *said* so, it’s abundantly clear what their motivations were from the history of the organization and the nature of their actions.
Uh huh. I don’t remember hearing that they called the judges house in the middle of the night and warning them that fire bombs were going to off.
And the nail bomb they were making that went off inadvertently and killed 3 of their own. It was meant for an officers dance at Fort Dix. Have you ever heard of a dance that didn’t have people there…like dancing and whatnot? Ask yourself, whats the point of putting nails in a bomb? I know a man who does explosions for movies, has done them for 30 years. I asked him if there was any point in putting nails in a bomb that was just meant to destroy property and not injure people & he said absolutely not.
You’re right, doc. Its abundantly clear what their motivations were.
Bill Ayers for president 2012. Finally a true patriot. It’s too bad you can’t lift the veil from your fascist eyes long enough to see it. The American people are what makes this country great, and any machine that grinds them up in imperialist wars (such as Vietnam) IS a TERRORIST organization.
Hasta La Victoria Siempre,
Sacco
The American people are thrilled to have their first African-American president!
Speaking of Barack Obama—Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:
And Michelle Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:
SCANDALS! SCANDALS! SCANDALS!
SOME OF THE WORST CASES OF RACIAL PREJUDICE IN WORLD HISTORY!
WORLDWIDE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO SCANDALS:
(I) I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed atrocious, racist, hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention. Many people know what Bush did. And many people will know what Bush did—even until the end of the world. Bush was absolute evil. Bush is now like a fugitive from justice. Bush is a psychological prisoner. Bush often worries. In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
(II) It is opined that Bill Clinton committed terrifying, racist, hate crimes during his presidency, and I am not free to say anything further about it. ‘Be sure your sins will find you out’ (Numbers 32:23).
(III) What if basically all racial-minority people would subscribe to the interpretations that George Herbert Walker Bush committed monstrous, racist, hate crimes while he was the President of the United States? It will eventually come out: it is only a matter of time.
(IV) I know it may be hard to believe. However, Ronald Wilson Reagan committed horrible, racist, hate crimes during his presidency.
- A.W.
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