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Breaking (Bad) News for Ed Profs Ayers and Dohrn
National Review ^ | 3/11/2009 | Candace de Russy

Posted on 03/11/2009 6:17:48 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: wife-mom; Bertha Fanation

I suspect your sarcasm meter badly need recalibration.


101 posted on 03/12/2009 2:48:00 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: markomalley

Interesting!


102 posted on 03/12/2009 4:30:21 AM PDT by Valkyrie927 ("This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper." -TS Elliot)
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I wonder if Obama will have his buddy Hill Clinton describe the technique for making witnesses “commit suicide”?


103 posted on 03/12/2009 4:55:13 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: Bertha Fanation

If you are going to post the name of perhaps the most influential media voice in our nation, please learn how to spell the name correctly. Hint: Limbaugh, not Limbeau. Such inattention to important facts does not speak well for your grasp of events of the day.


104 posted on 03/12/2009 4:56:36 AM PDT by HattonFarmer (Fear the government that fears your gun.)
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To: txroadkill
And not this Linda Evans!
105 posted on 03/12/2009 5:00:11 AM PDT by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: April Lexington

And worse is that people are paying to send their kids to college to ‘learn’ from these two and others we just haven’t heard about.


106 posted on 03/12/2009 5:00:27 AM PDT by whatshotandwhatsnot
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To: April Lexington
If there REALLY is social justice... Billy and Bernie will face the guillotine.

Nahhhh the guillotine is so distinctly French that the only reason to use it is to preserve the organs of the condemned for possible transplant, but who in their right mind would want so much as a hair plug (hello Joe Biden? lol) from such scum as Ayers and Dohrn?

Noooo, IF these two criminal slugs are ever actually put on trial for murder, and IF they are convicted, and IF given the death sentence (that's a 3-IF threshold), the only suitable method of execution is the all-American gallows, with a properly prepared noose, a quick trap door, and a hangman that will make sure they swing until the twitching stops.

But until that point, Ayers and Dohrn have a life sentence of contempt from any and all self-respecting Americans who know what they did, know that they basically skated, and are now enjoying the fruits of the American dream that they labored (and still labor) so mightily to destroy.

And unless they come to the Cross, confess their sins to the Good Lord Jesus, ask Him to save them from eternal damnation, they're going to reach the end of their lives, die in their sins, and burn in Hell for a very, VERY long time.

Forever is a long time, they won't escape justice.
107 posted on 03/12/2009 5:02:19 AM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: zot; Interesting Times

wishful thinking?


108 posted on 03/12/2009 5:13:01 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead (3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87))
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To: markomalley

And the MSM will totally ignore it.


109 posted on 03/12/2009 5:27:11 AM PDT by Waco
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To: HattonFarmer; Bertha Fanation

Perhaps you should read that post again. The misspelling of Rush’s last name was a clue that the whole post was a parody of libspeak - used as intentional sarcasm.

Just as Rush says that it takes six weeks to understand his show, perhaps it takes a while to learn to read the flow of freeper posts.


110 posted on 03/12/2009 5:32:30 AM PDT by maica (Barack Obama is a Communist Party Project.)
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To: tsmith130

Dohrn did seven months for refusing to testify to a grand jury about the Brink’s robbery.


111 posted on 03/12/2009 5:49:59 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: markomalley

Accessory to murder.


112 posted on 03/12/2009 6:00:05 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama is so far out of his depth he's in orbit.)
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To: Bertha Fanation
"Team Obama’s got to keep its focus and the nation’s focus on the nation’s real number 1 problem: How bad and devisive Rush Limbeau is for the country."

Not to mention how all of Obama's failings are "Bush's fault".

BTW, the WSJ has an economist's poll out today that gives both Obama and Geithner a failing grade - lower than any Bush Treasury workers, heh, heh.

113 posted on 03/12/2009 6:04:49 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama is so far out of his depth he's in orbit.)
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To: fso301

Looks like a reopened cold case, so it might not be DOA.


114 posted on 03/12/2009 6:06:29 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama is so far out of his depth he's in orbit.)
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To: markomalley; All
Re: "Ed Profs Ayers and Dohrn"

"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference

[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

Source: ABC News - Transcript: Obama and Clinton Debate, April 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/Story?id=4670271&page=2
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[Obama] is named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge founded by Bill Ayers
(article typo has Ayers instead of Obama)

In late 1993, Bill Ayers, now an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus, organized a team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge. The money was to be used by Ayers and co. to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.

The grant application was successful and in early 1995 Barack Obama was named chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was named co-chair of the Challenge’s operative and strategic body, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Ayers and Obama work together for the next five years on raising an additional $60 million in matching money from local foundations and corporations and using the money to intervene in the governance of the Chicago public schools.

The Challenge through a multi-million dollar Leadership Development Initiative intervened in the School Council elections in the middle of what was known as the Chicago School Wars. At the same time Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was pushing, successfully, to gut the power of the Councils.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/
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"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop
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Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)

"One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.

When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.

While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.

In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.

The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.

In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/
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In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.

(snip)

In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.

The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).

http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html
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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!


"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: Bill Ayers' own website:
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

"a better world is both possible and necessary"

Looks to me like Bill Ayers stole (or borrowed) this phrase from Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Both the Weather Underground and RCP have roots in the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organization.

"The following is an excerpt from an historic talk by [Revolutionary Communist Party] Chairman Bob Avakian, soon to be available on video and DVD from Three Q Productions-REVOLUTION: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About. This talk, delivered in 2003, followed by questions and answers, is a wide- ranging revolutionary journey, covering many topics."
http://rwor.org/a/1238/introbaspeech.htm
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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"

http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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2007! Bernardine Dohrn on video calling for the "overthrow of capitalism":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dba7_D3m1UU&feature=related

115 posted on 03/12/2009 6:12:09 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: popdonnelly

**And it’s hard to see how she can be a professor of law, since she has never passed a bar exam.**

Brings back the old saying... “Those that can, DO .. those that Can’t... TEACH!!


116 posted on 03/12/2009 6:15:06 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (My 2nd amendment protects my 1st amendment... I carry a GUN because I can't Carry a LAWYER!)
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To: True Republican Patriot
Michelle Obama gave up her Law License under threat of Criminal Oharges in 1994 and ZERO gave up his Law License in 2002

??? Really? First I've heard of this. Any details, links?

117 posted on 03/12/2009 6:18:26 AM PDT by LTCJ (God Save the Constitution - Tar & Feathers, The New Look for Spring '09)
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To: markomalley

They just lived in the neighborhood


118 posted on 03/12/2009 6:24:26 AM PDT by acsrp38 (greedy -- bitter clinger)
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

More likely is the scenario that Obama will be willing to salvage his waning popularity by throwing Dohrn and Ayers under the bus, and letting the chips fall where they may, if this case comes to a conclusion. This of course would ‘PROVE’ retroactively that Ayers was just, after all, a guy from the neighborhood, who had no real ideological connection to Obama. Obama is perfectly capable of doing this: another natural-born bus-thrower-under was Bill Clinton, if you’ll remember.


119 posted on 03/12/2009 6:31:14 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
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To: GreyFriar; zot

Cliff has pulled together a considerable amount of evidence. Dohrn, at least, was never cleared of this murder and remains a primary suspect. At a minimum, it helps call attention to the background of Obama’s key mentors.


120 posted on 03/12/2009 6:45:16 AM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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