| Ayers and Dohrn are Liars |
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| Written by Thomas E. Brewton |
| Wednesday, 24 December 2008 08:16 |
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December 24, 2008
by Thomas E. Brewton Everything, from people within the Weatherman Underground, to Bill Ayers's own words, proves his mendacity. Doug Welsh on his Twitter site posted a link to Larry Grathwohl's reply to Ayers. Mr. Grathwohl, from his personal knowledge as an FBI infiltrator in the Weatherman underground in the late 1960s and early 70s, confutes the self-serving, hypocritical rationalizations that Mr. Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn are now peddling. In the same vein, read Bill Ayers: Unrepentant Terrorist and Hypocrite and Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism In Schools.
Organized anti-American student anarchism began with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Tom Hayden's 1962 Port Huron Statement. More violent, radical members of SDS, among them Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, broke away from SDS to form Weatherman.
The ethos of this violent, anarchist student-activist movement is preserved in Weatherman, a 519-page compilation of articles and speeches by members of the group published in 1970 by Ramparts Press and "Dedicated to the Vietnamese people." A typical statement was in The Real SDS Stands Up, an article by Andrew Kopkind that appeared in the June 30, 1969, issue of Hard Times, a student radical publication. Mr. Kopkind said, But the most significant ideological force with SDS was a group of 11 New York and Midwestern activists and intellectuals who had drawn up an analytical and programmatic thesis called, simply, "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows" (the title is from Dylan...). "Weatherman" was a 16,000-word paper which made the first and crucial attempt at defining an ideology and a program for SDS...it was the first major overhaul SDS has had since the "Port Huron Statement" and "America and the New Era" From the same volume, Look At It: America 1969, which appeared first in New Left Notes, August 1969, amplifies on this outlook:
Revealing in his own words that he is a liar, Bill Ayers wrote in A Strategy To Win, appearing in New Left Notes of September 12, 1969,
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc. The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
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