October 23rd 2008
Obama Has A Prairie Fire On His Hands
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ill Zombietime join Joe the Plumber as an unexpected and powerful player in the final days of the election? It’s possible because Zombietime has uncovered the “Rev. Wright” tapes for Bill Ayres – Prairie Fire, the Political Manifesto of the Weather Underground, co-authored by “Billy Ayres.”
First, let’s dispense with the “just a guy in the neighborhood” Obama-spin with “Billy’s” own list of his group’s bombings, pdf’d by Zombietimes directly from the book:
This is not just a guy who was against the war; this is a guy who wanted to start an armed Communist revolution in America because he was for the other guys in the war. He wanted our soldiers to die in Vietnam, and our people to die in the streets of America.
As promised above, this is the Rev. Wright tape for Ayres. Here’s what he (and Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn) wrote in Prairie Fire:
Our final goal is the destruction of imperialism, the seizure of power, and the creation of socialism. Our strategy for this stage of the struggle is to organize the oppressed people of the imperial nation itself to join with the colonies in the attack on imperialism. This process of attacking and weakening imperialism involves the defeat of all kinds of national chauvinism and arrogance; this is a precondition to our fight for socialism.
Socialism is the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the eradication of the social system based on profit. Socialism means control of the productive forces for the good of the whole community instead of the few who live on hilltops and in mansions.
We need to battle for a correct ideology and win people over. In this way we create the conditions for the development of a successful revolutionary movement and party. We need a revolutionary communist party in order to lead the struggle, give coherence and direction to the fight, seize power and build the new society.
PRAIRIE FIRE is based on a belief that the duty of a revolutionary is to make the revolution. This is not an abstraction. It means that revolutionaries must make a profound commitment to the future of humanity, apply our limited knowledge and experience to understand an ever-changing situation, organize the masses of people and build the fight. It means that struggle and risk and hard work and adversity will become our way of life, that the only certainty will be constant change, that the only possibilities are victory or death.
And for use particularly in Florida and New York:
We have to ask ourselves, though: Most of us were nuts once, too. Maybe not th is nuts, but still nuts. So couldn’t Ayres change like we changed? Yes he could have, but no, he didn’t.
And there’s much more evidence than that, and evidence that Ayres has dedicated his life to raising a new generation of revolutionaries through school curricula, and that Obama furthered that effort through his work with Ayres not just on one foundation board – as is the excuse of the day from the Obama camp – but two.
Did Obama know this? If he’s as bright and worthy of our trust as he says he is, of course he did. Did he use his relationship with Ayres to try to bring Ayres around to more socially acceptable thought? If he did, he’s never mentioned it.
Did he ever hear Ayres talk like this? How dumb do you think we are?
Did he ever talk like this to Ayres? Ah, that’s an interesting question!
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October 29th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
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October 23rd, 2008 at 8:39 am
Maybe we were all nuts? I was spit on while in uniform at an airport in the US and in Trier Germany.People like Ayers paid for that indignation. I’ve eaten across the street from U of I (UIC) in Chicago more times than I remember.If I ran into to Mr. Ayers I would like to invite him to eat his lunch, a number of year too late. Maybe he could have his just desserts. Indeed!Ranger’s Lead the Way Mr. Ayers and your ilk!OohRah!