[SJackson]

The Chicago Magazine article, No Regrets from 2001.

No, Barak, a Chicagoian, doesn't read Chicago, he's too busy in church, so he didn't see this.

He's getting really good at criticism after the fact, years after.

[lesser_satan]

OK, so Obama-yo-mama had no problem with him being a terrorist, but now that he steps on the flag, throw him under the bus. Alrighty then.

[Williams]

Right, this appals Obama but not setting bombs, and it's unfair to be concerned that Obama "knows" this hateful creature?

This is the real face of the left folks, and it is coming at us fast.

[The Pack Knight]

Which flag is that again? The one he won’t wear on his lapel, or the one he won’t salute?

And finding out all your lifelong friends, and you wife, are rabid anti-Americans all in the span of a couple weeks must be enough to make a patriot like Obama’s head spin. Sit down and take a couple aspirin there, buddy. It’ll be okay.

[Inyo-Mono]

“Senator Obama is appalled by___________” seems to be the most popular phrase from the Obama campaign lately.

[Eye On The Left]

Bill Ayers: communist revolutionary, terrorist, pervert

A few excerpts from the Sept 11, 2001 Bill Ayers-NY Times article...
"During his fugitive years, Mr. Ayers said, he lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes the typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom; fermented Vietnamese fish sauce in the refrigerator, and live sourdough starter donated by a Native American that was reputed to have passed from hand to hand over a century."

(snip)

"Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as:

'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,' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

And he says he doesn't actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but 'it's been quoted so many times I'm beginning to think I did,' he said."

(snip)

"He also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."

New York Times, Sept 11, 2001:
"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

__________________________________________________

The following excerpts are from the same August 2001 Chicago Magazine article in which the above flag stomping photo appeared:

"In 1980, Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in. (The first words Ayers's father said to him were, "You need a haircut.") By then they had had two children together, and the bombing conspiracy charge against the couple had been dismissed due to government misconduct.

Dohrn plea-bargained to charges of inciting to mob action and resisting police officers. She was sentenced to three years' probation and a $1,500 fine. Ayers was not charged.
Even then he showed a way with words:

'Guilty as hell, free as a bird--America is a great country,' he said."

(snip)

"'Essentially, you must see the student before you as a locus of energy,' he says. 'He already has a heart, a soul, a mind, interests, and dreams. You need to help him shape those interests, pursue those dreams.' Ayers is distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where two years ago the university named him Senior University Scholar, an award given to outstanding faculty members."

(snip)

"'I think there will be another mass political movement,' he predicts, 'because I believe that the kind of injustice that is built into our world will not go quietly into the night.'"-

Article: No Regrets, Chicago Magazine, August 2001.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/index.php?cp=2&si=1#artanc

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"In July 1969, Dohrn, Eleanor Raskin, Dianne Donghi, Peter Clapp, David Millstone and Diana Oughton, all representing 'Weatherman', as Dohrn's faction was now called, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

July 27, 1970: The United States Army base at The Presidio in San Francisco is bombed on the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. [NYTimes, 7/27/70] :
Chronology of Weather Underground attacks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events __________________________________________________

Bill Ayers, April 6, 2008:
"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: http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

Note: Ayers is very likely quoting Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, with the phrase 'both possible and necessary' in regards to a communist overthrow of the US government. See these Yahoo search results for "bob avakian" + "possible and necessary"--Eye On The Left

[KansasGirl]

Obama can’t distance himself from this as much as he would like b/c of his refusal to where the American flag pin and comments his refusal.

[mylife]

I aint buying it Barack

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Another one down and how many more to go?

"Now you listen to me. I am going to say this just one more time. I did not have matrimony with the woman, Michelle Obama."

[cvq3842]

This photo makes me physically sick - like, say, a Klansman in full regalia burning a cross or a uniformed Nazi saluting the swastika would.

And the Democrat Party has no idea whatsoever what people like me are talking about!

Really, this country is in sad shape when a party such as that gets anywhere more than 10% of the vote, tops.

When I was a kid, no such party would.

I’m sad to see what is happening in the country. I’m glad, though, that I’m not a younger man.

[goldstategop]

Like I said, a man is judged by the company he keeps. More damaging information keeps popping up about Obama's associates.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Don Corleone]

Too little, too late there Big Ears!

[stockpirate]

I noticed that Obama actually hasn’t squat.

The real issue is that Obama IS a radical Marxist, and so all of his friends are too’ and this includes his wife.

[ricks_place]

"I won't wear no damn flag pin; won't even look at no damn flag"

"Not wearing a flag pin and not looking at the flag is true patriotism." - Sultan OBAMA

[coloradan]

Now all Obama has to do is distance himself from some things a young senator called Barack once said, and it would be a perfect trifecta.

[LukeL]

Obama really scares me, he seems like teflon, nothing sticks to him and he can say or do whatever he wants and people love it.

[red state girl]

Judging nObama by his friends, I would have to say that he is either incredibly naive or a liar. Either way he’s not fit to be POTUS.

[KeyLargo]

Michael Savage should see this article.

No Lenten table causes rift at Prairie View

(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/935499,050708foodfight.article)

May 7, 2008

ILLINOIS

BY ANGELA CAPUTO Staff writer

When some parents at Prairie View Middle School asked for a separate lunch table for their children during the Ramadan fast, Principal Joel Martin thought the request seemed reasonable.

As long as the gathering of fasting students didn’t disrupt and didn’t cost the district anything, Martin had no qualm with offering the religious accommodation.

But his decision rubbed parent Jennifer Cimaglia the wrong way. And when the school shot down a similar, mid-Lenten request by seventh-grader Ryan Vandewiel and 60 or so of his classmates who signed a petition seeking separate seating for observant Catholics, the Tinley Park mother of three decided “enough is enough.”

“It’s not just about the table,” Cimaglia said. “It appears that there is preferential treatment for the Muslim students.”

The potential for ethnic tension prompted the Kirby School District 140 board to put “cultural diversity” on the agenda for its Thursday night committee meeting.

Board member John Martelli said people are welcome to attend to discuss concerns “in an open forum.” It’s unclear if the board plans to take any action on the topic, Martelli said.

Martin said Tuesday he never intended to set a double standard for students — particularly along religious lines. He only rejected the proposal for Catholic students to have a meat-free lunch table on Fridays because they hadn’t thought out the proposal enough to ask before the Lenten season began.

“Do I want to accommodate those students? Yes,” Martin said. “We’re going to look at accommodations for kids at Lent next year.”

Vandewiel — the 13-year-old who circulated the petition on behalf of Catholic students — said he’s satisfied by the principal’s commitment.

“I’d prefer that instead of having things for one religion or another there shouldn’t be anything for religion in school,” the Tinley Park teen said. “I think it’s wrong.”

The fasting-friendly Ramadan table may have been new at Prairie View, but it’s nothing new in the district, according to Supt. Michael Byrne, who is surprised by the fresh controversy. Parents at several of the schools have requested similar accommodations in years past.

What’s new is that the number of Arabic-speaking students in the Tinley Park district has continued to grow. And this year, the number of English as a Second Language students, mostly native-Arabic speakers, topped 20 at Christa McAuliffe School, which, under state law, required administrators to hire a full-time teacher to lead the students.

The addition of the ESL class bumped the art teacher from a classroom and forced the teacher to conduct class from a portable cart.

“It’s how education goes,” Byrne said. “We have special- education students ... I hope (people aren’t) pointing the finger at those students for using classrooms, too.”

But Cimaglia, who has a fifth-grader enrolled at McAuliffe and a seventh-grader at Prairie View, sees the changes made for Muslim students as a matter of preferential treatment - particularly when it comes to the religious accommodation.

“These are all little things adding up,” she said. “What I’d like to see is the same set of rules for all students. This is a public school.”

Angela Caputo can be reached at acaputo@southtownstar.com or (708) 633-5993.