4.19.2008

Who cares? It was 40 years ago!

The Chicago Daily Observer has put together a resume of the terrorist activities of everyone's favorite friendly neighbor and English professor, Bill Ayers. Some highlights include:
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.

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 – “bomb factory” located in New York’s Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members Theodore die in t. 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.

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]

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

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

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 hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz.
Emphasis mine, ALL CAPS in original.

Hope. Change. Unity. Cold-Blooded Murder. But it was 40 years ago, so who cares if people got murdered, right?

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