Posted on 08/26/2008 9:42:41 PM PDT by kristinn
William Ayers, who was a founder of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground, told FOX News correspondent James Rosen in a candid 2004 interview that he still believed he was “on the side of justice” years after the group’s wave of attacks.
In the interview, conducted three years after the September 11 attacks, Ayers argued the U.S. government had carried out “many other acts of terror … even recently, that are comparable,” and claimed he and his bomb-planting comrades were “restrained” in their actions.
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Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by “hope and love,” not despair, and said he did not think the group’s violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were “a big deal.”
Interviewed in May 2004 in connection with Rosen’s book “The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate,” published recently by Doubleday, Ayers affirmed that 9/11 was “an act of pure terror,” one that had caused him to weep, and that terrorism is “always wrong, always evil.” But Ayers also condemned the Bush administration for using the attacks “to advance a right-wing agenda on every front: every uterus must be examined, every tree chopped down, every oil well dug. I mean, it’s absolute madness.”
“I mean, the only group of people that I know who weren’t weeping for the next several weeks [after 9/11] were the people who were busy typing legislation into their computers,” Ayers continued.
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So I think every American that I know was weeping over the next several weeks, and devastated and shocked. Was that an act of pure terror? It absolutely was.
“And there are many other acts of terror carried out by our government, even recently, that, that are comparable.
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“I don’t buy that even a little,” Ayers said. “I think that we were driven by hopeand change.
Ayers and Dohrn are Communist terrorists who remain close friends and sponsors of Barack Hussein Obama.
Maybe he’ll give Ayers a Cabinet position.
Look for the large heading:
"About the Weather Underground-related police killing mentioned in the new anti-Obama video" (see bottom portion of page)
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl
And if you haven't seen the video yet, here it is:
Do you "Know Enough" about Barack Obama?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY
"When the Berrigan Brothers climb into nuclear silos and hammer on the warheads, is that terrible terrorism and violence? I don’t."
One thing to protest outside Walter Reed and another to blow it up (as the Weathermen might have done if given half a chance).
I think we all need to know more about the association with this guy whom could tremendously influence Barack Obama as President of this Nation.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067695/posts
A Marxist offshoot of SDS(Students for a Democratic Society), the Weathermen took their name from a line in Bob Dylan's 1965 alienated-youth anthem "Subterranean Homesick Blues": "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." They later changed the name as it is now known as the Weather Underground.
This movement has been in existence since the sixties and is the case with many communist sympathizers of that era, still exist and hold the views of that era still today. This association is truly a passing of the torch from Ayers to the next generation to continue the movement.
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