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RehabilitationUnrepentant former domestic terrorist and current UIC professor Bill Ayres is apparently too proud to ask for forgiveness. Proud like a peacock of course, but also literally proud of what he’d done as a domestic terrorist. He has, in fact, admitted that the Weathermen “didn’t do enough.” Probably because trying to “do more” resulted three Weathermen blowing themselves up with a nail bomb they’d planned to set at an non-commissioned officer’s club dance in Fort Dix, NJ. Because, you know, that domestic terrorism gig is really trippy until someone gets hurt the wrong people get hurt. And then suddenly it’s not so much fun anymore. Which anyway, Ayers’ lack of repentence is apparently not that big of a deal, because Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” – later published in the UK under the title “What’s the Matter with America?” – (short answer, Kansans/Americans are teh stoops!) and the Chicago Tribune’s James Janega are falling all over themselves to show that all that domestic terrorism was an awful long time ago, Ayers is really a nice guy, a good teacher, loves puppies and so on. The former probably because Ayers only meant to kill the right sort of Americans and anyway if the stupid, evil, racist, stupid Rethuglicans are making such a dreary fuss about the connections between the unrepentant former domestic terrorist and his favored presidential candidate that’s reason enough to rehabilitate him. Expressing remorse and asking for forgiveness prior to being granted forgiveness being such a pre-post ironic legacy of those procrustean godbothers who, let’s face it, are a large part of what’s the matter with Kansas. Janega, for his own part, is apparently hoping to smooth the ruffled feathers of Chicagoans whose closest previous connection to terrorism – that they knew of, anyway – is dyeing the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day. Nothing to see here, sheeple. Step away from the window. Go back to sleep. 9 comments to Rehabilitation |
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And they wonder why people, perhaps after reading such articles as the WSJ one, climb to the top of a university bell tower with a sniper rifle, powerful scope and LOTS of extra ammunition…….Not that I’m approving or anything, but I UNDERSTAND……
I’m just sayin’……
P.S. Which way to the duck blind?
Somebody please help this simple mind, but isn’t teaching insurrection in our schools a form of domestic terrorism? Isn’t someone who has authored myriad books on insurrection a terrorist? Isn’t preaching insurrection against the U.S. from a foreign pulpit also a form of terrorism?
And if any one of the above is true, wouldn’t that mean, ummm, that the perpetrator is, umm, what’s the word I’m looking for? Unrepentant?
Somebody, please clarify for this simple mind…
[...] Lex: Ayers rehabbed! [...]
“Unrepentant” has no meaning in our brave new world. You can’t feel guilt over anything you don’t love.
Ayres :”elementary education theorist” who never had his butt kicked in high school. And we reap the results.
It’s okay Ayers now lectures at Harvard and Vassar so that makes him alright in the Left eye.
“What Bill Ayers and [former Black Panther, now U.S. Rep.] Bobby Rush . . . did 40 years ago has nothing to do with [the presidential campaign],” Katz was quoted as saying in the Chicago Sun-Times in April. “[Ayers] has a national reputation. He lectures at Harvard [University] and Vassar [College].”
I’m not sure that will matter in Kansas.
Virgil, whenever I look at that bell tower at the University of Texas at Austin, I am reminded that throughout history it is proven that, indeed, one man can make a difference.
The difference he makes is sort of up to him, you understand…
Ayers seems to be a complete and utter failure at his job with the Weathermen, thus I’m hardly suprised that he went into academia. Can’t think of a better place to hide incompetence and sloth with bluster and BS outside of the DMV.
– Max
What happened to that one domestic terrorist?
Oh, yeah, Timothy Mcveigh was executed…
Lex: minor correction. the plan was to blow up the NCO club at Dix, not the O-club
Living in the Chicago area as I do, I’ve read my share of apologia for William Ayers published in the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere, where public officials and various figures in academia offer comments along the lines of “he’s associated with [prestigious academic institution] and [particular socio-political organization]“.
Guys, you don’t understand. The mistake you’re making is that the general public holds those organizations in high regard and thinks that they have the public’s best interests at heart. News flash; often (in both cases) they don’t. Such associations do not whitewash Mr. Ayers’ reputation. They blacken those of those organizations.