Monday, October 13, 2008

William Ayers' Influence Makes Obama a Traitor




Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers alone is reason to vote against him and do everything possible to destroy his political influence. Once responsible citizens understand what William Ayers has done and what he represents coupled with his close association with Obama’s growing career in Chicago, it is obvious we’re dealing with a figure who has values that are contrary to basic American principles and one can infer border on traitorous.

There’s a person who is very interested in your knowing more about William Ayers and why Obama’s relationship with this traitor is so damaging. The gentleman is John Murtagh, a Yonkers, New York councilman, whose home was bombed by the Weather Underground when he was a child growing up. His father was a New York State Supreme Court Justice who was presiding over the trial of a notorious “Panther 21” on trial for conspiring to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Weathermen slogans were spray painted on the sidewalks around the Murtagh residence and Bernadine Dohrn, Ayers mate, warned of more bombings. Murtagh details his experience in an article in the October 13, 2008 New York Post.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/terror_victims_qs_for_barack_132619.htm

Ayers is far more than some weirdo college professor from the 1960’s, he is a traitor and conspirator in bombings that resulted in at least the death of a San Francisco police officer. People don’t understand what the Weather Underground represented. Few had any idea just how extreme some of the Radical groups of the late 60’s and early 70’s were. When the nightly news consisted of the latest bloodbath in the jungles of Vietnam and the chaos in Washington as our leaders couldn’t develop an effective exit strategy, not enough focus was dedicated to the revolution that was building in major cities and on college campuses across the country. There were plenty of anti-war groups and gatherings exposing alternative lifestyles. While many of them were pretty wacky and almost always from way out in left field, they weren’t mean spirited. They weren’t threatening the fundamentals of American society. They did not seek to topple the American government. As such, groups like the Weather Underground were often casually dismissed as just another bunch of pot-smoking weirdoes. While that might have been an appropriate stereotype for a lot of the rebel groups, that was not true of Bill Ayers and his confederates.

The Weathermen grew out of a radical faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, (SDS), one of the most extreme and overtly Marxist of activist groups of the time. While many protest groups looked to figures like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi as roll models for their movement stressing nonviolent resistance appealing to a higher spiritually to guide their idealism. The SDS was a militant political organization drawing influence from Norm Chomsky and Herbert Marcuse, prominent social Marxists whose beliefs were widely popular among left-wing intellectuals on the college campus. Their philosophy attempted to articulate Marxism (THAT’S COMMUNISM, FOLKS!!!) in a relevant manner as a means to overthrown the American government "the destruction of US imperialism and achieve a classless world: world communism." (Quoted from You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, their founding document.) The Weathermen drew their name from that line in Bob Dylan’s song, “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” Of course, Bob Dylan vehemently denied and constantly condemned any association with the extreme radical left even drawing fire from former friend and social activist, folk singer Joan Baez who passionately pleaded for Bob Dylan to join “the movement.” William Ayers, his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, and the rest of their organization established themselves as allies of the Black Panthers, Che Guevara’s guerillas in Latin America, and Communist movements around the world including prominent student revolts in Europe. The White race was the great oppressor, and their goal was the total subversion of Democratic Free Enterprise systems of which the United States was the most powerful and hated. Violence was a justifiable means to their ends.

Among the criminal and treasonous acts the Weathermen committed were:

Their big kick off event on October 8, 1969 was designed to riots as part of their “Days of Rage” whose mission was articulated by William Ayers who explained, “The Days of Rage was an attempt to break from the norms of kind of acceptable theatre of 'here are the anti-war people: containable, marginal, predictable, and here's the little path they're going to march down, and here's where they can make their little statement.' We wanted to say, "No, what we're going to do is whatever we had to do to stop the violence in Vietnam.'" The Weathermen had expectations of drawing thousands to participate in their kick-off riot, only to have a few hundred show up. Of the 200-300 who attended, some broke into smaller mobs that spread rioting through Chicago’s upscale Gold Coast community vandalizing a bank and smashing car windows. Eventually, the police used tear gas and drove squad cars directly at the mob. Twenty eight officers were injured and 68 of the thugs were arrested.

Their violence had another side to it, destroying properties that symbolized their “oppressors” or going after institutions that supported the war or symbolized Capitalism. Their first target was as an outgrowth of the “Days of Rage” blowing up a statue in Chicago which honored police officers who died in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 5, 1970. The Weathermen destroyed the second statue on October 6, 1970.

After the Chicago police and FBI raided the Chicago Black Panthers headquarters at the home of Panther Fred Hampton, killing Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark, the Weathermen pledged even more violent rebellion. Ayers’ wife and fellow treasonous villain Bernadine Dohrn issued their position,

“We felt that the murder of Fred required us to be more grave, more serious, more determined to raise the stakes and not just be the white people who wrung their hands when black people were being murdered.”
Soon, the organization issued a “Declaration of War” against the United States government, as the “Weather Underground Organization” pledging to stage covert activities to destroy our civilization. First were preparations to bomb a non-commissioned officers’ dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey intended to be the biggest attack on the US Government within its own territory.

After that failure, the Weathermen’s next target was out west bombing the San Francisco Park police station where a pipe bomb was detonated on a window sill killing police sergeant, Brian V McDonnell and severely injuring a police officer, Robert Fogarty, who was left partially blinded by the attack.

Their violence would then spread to New York City exploding three gasoline based fire bombs at the home of State Supreme Court Justice Murtagh who was presiding over a trial of the Black Panthers for plotting to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Also that night, bombs were hurled at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting facilities in Brooklyn.

In March, 1970 a group of Weathermen blew themselves up attempting to create a nail bomb at their Greenwich Village residence. Conspirators Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins died while Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin escaped. Andrew W. Mellon professor of politics and history at Emory University noted, "The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don't know what sort of defense that is."

Witnessing their attempts were not close to as successful as their leaders had intended, the Weathermen attempted to go “underground” and be more clandestine in their activities. They chose to attack symbols of American power such as the FBI Headquarters, Capitol and Pentagon. On June 9, 1970 they took credit for bombing a New York police station as retaliation against the death of Soledad brother, George Jackson, killed by police guards when attempting to escape prison. On May 19, 1972, Ho Chi Mihn’s birthday, they detonated a bomb in the woman’s bathroom in the Pentagon causing flooding which destroyed classified data on a computer tape in an area damaged by the flooding.

The Weathermen continued their activities most notably publishing the Prairie Fire Manifesto articulating their ideology of hatred toward all things associated with the Capitalist system and the Imperialism they asserted it represented. Ayers and Dohrn were main architects of that publication.

As the legal charges mounted, Ayers and Dohrn lived in hiding as many of their surrogates turned themselves in or were arrested. As the Vietnam War concluded and Gerald Ford pardoned draft resistors, their reason d’être was difficult to assert and the group splintered. Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in on December 3, 1980 amidst a media circus. Though the evidence against them was overwhelming, charges were dismissed because it was revealed some evidence was seized by illegal FBI wiretaps.

Ayers and Dohrn, as a married couple, would dedicate themselves to above board causes through which they could further their radical ideology through legal means setting up shop in Chicago where they continue to prepare the world for a Communist classless society one brick at a time.

Since charges being dropped in 1980, Ayers and Dohrn have attempted to go more “mainstream” but they have never repented for their actions and their goals remain the radicalization of America and have chosen as the subversion of the educational process as the place to devote their efforts.

On September 11,2001, ironically the date of the most extreme terrorist attack ever committed against the United States, interviewed by the New York Times, Ayers stated, "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough.” He further reflected, “do it all again" noting "I don't want to discount the possibility."

Ayers has never refuted his belief in Marxism and the methods of Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse Tung. He has described himself as a (c)ommunist not a (C)ommunist, alleging his connection more with the actual writings and philosophy of Karl Marx not of the Communist governments allied with the Soviet Union.

It is little wonder that Ayers should seek education as a place to continue his revolutionary ideology. The grant money he administered in collaboration with Barack Obama was designed to indoctrinate students through radical teachings contrary to traditional American values. One of the fundamental positions of the Communist Manifesto as professed by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels was to “rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.” His focus in education is largely devoted to “social justice” which can translate into all kinds of radical influences and children in trouble with the law (as victims of an oppressive society.)

While a huge misinformation campaign is being waged by sympathetic elements in the press to minimize the Obama/Ayers connection, those who have a vested interest in vetting the truth such as John Murtagh can demonstrate the connection is a deep one of mutual support and one of Obama finding in Ayers a mentor to help further mold his radical political beliefs.

As our column has noted in previous discussions, the more Obama’s past is revealed and the figures who influenced him become better known, we find that his background consists of political activists full of anti-American resentment who in many instances openly embrace Marxism, religious figures like Jeremiah Wright, whose “liberation theology” adds a veneer of Christianity over essentially communist assumptions, and finally major figures in the Richard Daley political machine, one of the most corrupt and abusive political enterprises in the country.

Further, the more Obama is vetted and his biography is subjected to investigation, what no one is able to produce are those figures in Obama’s life who might have a more moderate or traditional view of America. His ideology comes from extreme anti-American activists whether they are secular influences like William Ayers or corrupted spiritual figures like Jeremiah Wright. His political methodology is a product of how things are done in Chicago, the ability to manipulate the system and engage in political opportunism for the sake of his amassing of power and influence.

Once aware of these circumstances, there is no excuse, none whatsoever to vote for Barack Obama. To do so is to vote for the destruction and corruption of the democratic and free enterprise system that are the basis of our culture. In essence, a vote for Obama is in some small but significant way, a petty act of treason, one tally against the United States of America which has afforded its people with the liberty and Constitutional rights to pursue the principles on which our country was founded in the Declaration of Independence.

Sadly, a large portion of our society came of age after the threat of communism evaporated and either weren’t born or were young children when the radical movement reached its highest levels in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Given how gruesome the war was and then to be followed by Watergate as the war began winding down, the evils committed by domestic terrorists like William Ayers was seldom given much of the attention those actions deserved.

As time passed, the radical influence prettied itself up and has become a major part of modern day journalism and education. This influence can also be seen by how activist judges have rewritten laws and issued rulings that have attacked straight on traditional American values in favor of the kind of secular, amoral society envisioned in the Communist Manifesto.

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