November 14th 2008
Sounds Like Ayres Calls For Violent Action Against GWOT
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n Good Morning America this morning a still unrepentant Bill Ayres came very close to calling for violent action against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – so close that any crazy could easily have heard in his words an endorsement of a new round of bombings.
Here’s the passage, from ABC’s write-up of the interview:
“What you call the violent past, that was a time when thousands of people were being murdered every month by our own government… We were on the right side,” he told “GMA.”
The co-founder of the Weather Underground was, as McCain has claimed, unrepentant about the the bombings his group committed during the 1960s.
“The content of the Vietnam protest is that there were despicable acts going on, but the despicable acts were being done by our goverment [sic]… I never hurt or killed anyone,” Ayers said.
“Frankly, I dont [sic] think we did enough, just as today I dont’ [sic] think we’ve done enough to stop these wars,” he said. (emphasis added)
In the context of previous interviews, “not enough” meant Ayres and the wife of Frankenstein felt there should have been more bombings, enough bombings to bring the American government to its knees. If that wasn’t enough then, then his words, “just as today I don’t thing we’ve done enough to stop these wars” is a lament that there has not been enough violent – and terrorist – actions against the wars.
I’m comfortable using “terrorist” to describe Ayres despite his denials, because he and his group were planning a terrorist act – complete with bombs stuffed with nails, nuts and bolts – to be used at at dance at a military base. Part of his regrets, I’ve always felt, is that he and Dohrn didn’t get a chance to glory in the human carnage they would have caused from that bomb.
Later in the interview, perhaps aware that he had brushed up pretty close to a charge of inciting to violence, Ayres moderated his comment:
“We knew it was wrong. We knew it was illegal. We knew it was immoral,” he said, but the group’s members felt they “had to do more” to stop the Vietnam War.
He urged people today “to participate in resistance, in nonviolent, direct action” to stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Which is it? Do more of the stuff the Weather Underground did, or just be a nonviolent protester? In my book, the first statement is the true statement, and the follow-up is the cover-up.
It’s not surprising that Ayres hasn’t taken measure of his actions. He still thinks his side won in Vietnam, and refuses to measure the deaths caused by the US during the war – which he incorrectly refers to as murders – against the actions of the Communist Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army, nor does he measure it against the nightmare of murders, imprisonment, denial of freedoms, poverty and death that followed our departure and the fall of South Vietnam.
This is because, as I said, his side won. Capitalists were forced to become socialists; all spoke with one voice, the voice of “the people.” This is the vision Obama’s “family friend” still holds for our country, and he’s dedicating his life to brainwashing educating the next generation to make it happen.
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