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Ayers and the Weathermen
by teigan
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For those who have forgotten or weren't born yet here is a list of a few of the activities. Just think if this were happening today:

7 October 1969 – Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, apparently as a "kickoff" for the "Days of Rage" riots in the city October 8-11, 1969. The Weathermen later claim credit for the bombing in their book, "Prairie Fire."

8 October-11, 1969 – The "Days of Rage" riots occur in Chicago in which 287 Weatherman members from throughout the country were arrested and a large amount of property damage was done.

6 December 1969 – Bombing of several Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO stated in their book "Prairie Fire" that they had did the explosion.

27 December-31, 1969 – Weathermen hold a "War Council" meeting in Flint, MI, where they finalize their plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO).

13 February 1970 - Bombing of several police vehicles of the Berkeley, California, Police Department .

16 February 1970 – Bombing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.

6 March 1970 – Bombing in the 13th Police District of the Detroit, Michigan. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During February and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility.

6 March 1970 – "bomb factory" located in New York's Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members die . The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION.

30 March 1970 – Chicago Police discover a WUO "bomb factory" on Chicago’s north side. A subsequent discovery of a WUO "weapons cache" in a south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city.

10 May 1970 – Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C..

21 May 1970 – The WUO under Bernardine Dohrn's name releases its "Declaration of a State of War" communique.

6 June 1970 – The WUO sends a letter claiming credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice; however, no explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had apparently been dormant for some time.

9 June 1970 - Bombing of The New York City Police Headquarters .

27 July 1970 - Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco. [NYT, 7/27/70]

12 September 1970 – The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary, break out and escape from the California Men's Colony prison.

8 October 1970 - Bombing of Marin County courthouse. [NYT, 8/10/70]

10 October 1970 - Bombing of Queens traffic-court building . [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]

14 October 1970 - Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30]

1 March 1971 - Bombing of The United States Capitol . " [NYT, 3/2/71]

April, 1971 – abandoned WUO "bomb factory" discovered in San Francisco, California.

29 August, 1971 - Bombing of the Office of California Prisons . [LAT, 8/29/71]

17 September 1971 - Bombing of The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, NY [NYT, 9/18/71]

15 October 1971 - Bombing of William Bundy's office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]

19 May 1972 - Bombing of The Pentagon . [NYT, 5/19/72]

18 May 1973 - Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York

28 September 1973 - Bombing of ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy . [NYT, 9/28/73]

6 March 1974 - Bombing of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco

31 May 1974 - Bombing of The Office of the California Attorney General.

17 June 1974 - Bombing of Gulf Oil's Pittsburgh headquarters .

11 September 1974 – Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation).

29 January 1975 - Bombing of the State Department in (AP. "State Department Rattled by Blast," The Daily Times-News, January 29 1975, p.1)

16 June 1975 - Bombing of Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York .

September, 1975 – Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation .

October 20, 1981 - Brinks robbery in which several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, New York. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others were wounded.

1981 “Guilty as hel*. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz.

September 11, 2001 “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers is quoted in NYT article

Re: Ayers and the Weathermen
by tap

And what you don't seem to realize that Obama was 8 years old when these events occured.

You McCain supporters are really desperate, and it is fun to watch.

They keep re-living the past as if it never left
by Pace

Vietnam, the Weatherman, Stolen Valor, it's really a pity they are

so arrested in their development, it won't end until every boomer

on the right has either succumbed to the brain eating Alheimers

or the conquering worm.

Regards

Pace

Re: Ayers and the Weathermen
by julieboomer

did you know that Ayers would've been convicted if Nixon's DOJ hadn't botched the prosecution?

instead, President Reagan's ambassador to the UK, Walter Annenberg, of the Annenberg Foundation, put Ayers on the board of one of their projects in Chicago, thus legitimating him. hahahaha. you can't make this shit up.

Re: Ayers and the Weathermen
by teigan
You can't make up Obama's friends either. LOL hahahahaha
Re: psssssst...........it's 2008 dude
by PatIowa
that war is soooo over...for most of us anyway....I notice you don't mention why the charges were droppped against Ayers & Douren the FBI agent provocateurs and J. Edgar's messing it all up...and the "pardon"?? You really need to look up the entire NYT quote....your version is inaccurate. but golly, heck, what'sa little inaccuracy among "mavaricks" you betchum!
Re: Yup....more of Obama's "friends" from Annenberg Board!
by PatIowa
The Annenberg(Ayers/Obama?) Foundation Director Brooks Jackson states: "Our mission is to be as neutral and nonpartisan as humanly possible. Annenberg supports that, and nobody at the Annenberg Foundation has ever tried to influence anything we've written."

For the record, the Annenberg Foundation's president and chairman is Leonore Annenberg, the founder's widow. Public records show she's given $2,300 to the McCain campaign, which announced on Oct. 8, that she has endorsed him for president.
Among the mainstream Chicago luminaries on Obama's board was Arnold R. Weber, a former president of Northwestern University, who in 1971 was appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon as executive director of the Cost of Living Council and who later was tapped by Republican President Ronald Reagan to serve on an emergency labor board. More recently, Weber has given $1,500 to John McCain's presidential campaign this year.

Others on Obama's Board included Stanley Ikenberry, a former president of the University of Illinois system; Ray Romero, a vice president of Ameritech; Susan Crown, a philanthropist; Handy Lindsey, the president of the Field Foundation of Illinois; and Wanda White, the executive director of the Community Workshop for Economic Development.
Re: Ya don't need a weatherman do know
by PatIowa
which way the wind blows.....a couple of things, how many of these bombings was Ayers involved with?? How many were instigated by the FBI provocateurs who provided weapons and bomb materials?? Who id the most time for these bombings??
Re: psssssst...........it's 2008 dude
by teigan
Whats the difference between Ayers and OJ?
Re: Ya don't need a weatherman do know
by teigan
Guess you'd have to ask Ayers, he's the one that said he was guilty as hell.
So let me get this straight
by Trebuchet

As long as we are playing six degrees of guilt by association, McCain is more of a pal of this terrorist than Obama is.

McCain's buddies are caring and feeding this guy - Obama was just in the same room with him twice.

I know teacher! I know!
by Trebuchet

Obama was never in the same room twice with OJ!

Not sure why you aren't drawing some parallel between OJ being black and a criminal and Obama being black.....that is a link you know....

Oh well, maybe if McCain loses another battleground state to Obama (are there any left) it might get to that!

Meanwhile there is always Reverend Wright, right?

Don't take no-doz
by Trebuchet

Stay away from those

that carry around a fire hose...

You ask Ayers - how much time did he spend in the slammer?

Re: So let me get this straight
by teigan
God your ignorant.
Re: psssssst...........it's 2008 dude
by PatIowa
Well, 2 dead people to start...up close a personal murder....O.J. was found not guilty....Ayers was pardoned, after the more serious charge were dropped....due to FBI agent provocateurs admitted to pushing weapons, escalating violence and bomb materials onto the Weathermen.....and after the Chicago bombings and the organization going underground, in 1969 there is nothing that ties Ayers to any of the other bombings.....and it was 40 years ago, no other crimes have been committed by Ayers....no charges, no 'fringe' behaviors....he's was naive, egocentric, rich, upper middle class kid 40 years ago...OJ?? not so much, other then being an overgrown jock, who still thinks he is in somekind of weird movie?? Professor doing charity work in education vs. Acquitted murderer, committing armed robbery, playing golf and being an all around has been wife beater shit??? Other then that, I quess they are exactly the same! They both have a penis
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