Ayers' Murderous Intent

Andy McCarthy takes apart Bill Ayers' claim these days that the domestic terrorist Weatherman group only wanted to blow up a few buildings. Not so. The Weathermen had murderous intent. When his girlfriend was killed making nail bombs he had designed, they were meant for US soldiers at Ft. Dix. A founder of the group, in his own words, the Weathermen were the "American Red Army" and this was their mission "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents." To this day he is unrepentant.

And let's recall his lovely wife Bernardine Dohrn. McCarthy:

As I noted back in April in this article about Obama's motley collection of radical friends, at the Weatherman “War Council” meeting in 1969, Ayers' fellow terrorist and now-wife, Bernadine Dohrn, famously gushed over the barbaric Manson Family murders of the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and three others: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!” And as Jonah recalled yesterday, "In appreciation, her Weather Underground cell made a threefingered 'fork' gesture its official salute." They weren't talking about scratching up the wall-paper.

Dohrn went to jail rather than testify against her friend Susan Rosenberg, who was arrested in Cherry Hill, N.J. with an arsenal of weaponry and explosives ready to go for mass murder. (Bill Clinton pardoned Rosenberg.) Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists. Ayers asked Barack Obama to work for him on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and Obama accepted to further his political objectives--they had a close relationship early on in Chicago. Ayers and Dohrn still hate America, and anyone who would deliberately seek them out as mentors can not claim ignorance of their actions and radical beliefs.

UPDATE: WSJ, John Fund:

Barack Obama's supporters insist that an ad from a conservative group attacking his ties to unrepentant 1970s radical William Ayers is irrelevant to the campaign. Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor and close friend of Mr. Obama, says that while he is "very disturbed by [Mr. Ayers'] past and by his refusal to disavow what the did . . . the implications of this for Obama are zero."

You wouldn't know that from the reaction of the Obama campaign.

Here's the ad again. But for the quote from Obama, it's accurate. Actions speak louder than words, Barack.

UPDATE:Trib reports the Obama campaign alerted supporters that National Review's Stanley Kurtz was on WGN Radio last night to discuss the Annenberg papers. My co-blogger at UNCoRRELATED, Mick Stockinger, has more on the Obama-Ayers relationship and deconstructing the odd over the top reaction of the Obama campaign.

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