They were what? VERY CAREFUL??? Weather Underground Organization bombed NYC were first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society. With revolutionary positions characterized by Black power and opposition to the Vietnam War, the group conducted a campaign of bombings through the mid-1970s, and took part in actions such as the jailbreak of Timothy Leary. The "Days of Rage", their first public demonstration on October 8, 1969, was a r**t in Chicago timed to coincide with the trial of the Chicago Seven. In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization" Now who was a member of the WUO, maybe Bill Ayers.

They were what? VERY CAREFUL??? Weather Underground Organization bombed NYC were first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society. With revolutionary positions characterized by Black power and opposition to the Vietnam War, the group conducted a campaign of bombings through the mid-1970s, and took part in actions such as the jailbreak of Timothy Leary. The "Days of Rage", their first public demonstration on October 8, 1969, was a r**t in Chicago timed to coincide with the trial of the Chicago Seven. In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground Organization" Now who was a member of the WUO, maybe Bill Ayers.

Read my post very carefully again, Mac. I spoke of 2 contrasting demonstration causes--(1) early 60s civil rights cause very careful to avoid extremes and violence and (2) the late 60s & early 70s antiwar cause used by extreme l*****ts to promote revolutionary thinking and violence on behalf of international c*******m. You attribute to me the opposite of my statement about the antiwar business. I appreciate the detailing you provide about the extreme l*****t manipulation of the antiwar issue (which I compare to extreme right manipulation of various issues, by the way), but I decidedly object to your misrepresentation of what I said. If one of the more rabid OPP rightwingnuts had made this misrepresentation, I would have thought it deliberate or misreading from rabid partisanship, but in your case I'll assume mere hurried reading.

By the way, the secretary-treasurer (key control position) of ADA was a student at U-W when I was a grad student there in 60-62--don't remember the name now but did when I read an article about ADA in the day of the demonstrations. He was either a c*******t or Trotskyite at U-W (I think com but not sure), nice kid & did not discuss politics with, so no idea what his specific views were. U-W at the time was where socialists, c*******ts, etc. sent their children. I assumed from what I knew that the ADA was c*******t controlled when I read the name of the secretary-treasurer. Just like I assume from posts that various OPP posters are extreme right nuts...my wife keeps telling me I leap to conclusions from single instances with all sorts of things. Hmm, maybe I should be careful...that's a marker of the rightwingnuts!

As part of her t***sition out of power, Alice Palmer introduced her successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of left-wing terrorists, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn -- long-time friends of the Obamas.

As noted by David Horowitz:


On the morning of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times including many who would never be able to read the paper again, I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. The article was headlined in an irony that could not have been more poignant, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives." The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s' Weather Underground, America's first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.

While Ayers and Dohrn, who, in July, 1969, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments, may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they're better known nationally as two of the most notorious -- and unrepentant -- figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement. These two d******c t*******ts have written and spoken at length about their pasts -- their bombings and robberies -- and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she's an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

William (Bill) Ayers went underground with several comrades after their co-conspirators' bomb accidentally exploded on March 6, 1970, destroying a Greenwich Village townhouse and k*****g three members of the Weather Underground (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers' girlfriend at the time). He and his colleagues invented identities and traveled continuously. They avoided the police and FBI, while bombing high-profile government buildings including; the United States Capitol, The Pentagon, and the Harry S. Truman Building housing the State Department. Living underground, Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn raised two children, Zayd and Malik, (Muslim names) before turning themselves in in 1981, when most charges were dropped because of what Ayers described as "extreme governmental misconduct" during the long search for the fugitives.

Dohrn served seven months in a NYC federal jail in 1983 for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the Brinks robbery of 1981, in which two policemen and a security guard were k**led.

Dohrn worked in a baby boutique in 1979 where stolen customer ID's were used to rent trucks used in the series of robberies culminating in the 1981 slaughter in which 9 kids lost their fathers, the youngest of which was six-months.

Because of the criminal convictions Dohrn, who received a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1967, was refused admission to the New York bar.

Nonetheless, she was hired as a legal clerk by Sidley and Austin, a major Chicago law firm, in their New York office in 1984. Howard Trienens, then managing partner of the firm, recently told the Chicago Tribune that he arranged the hiring of Dohrn as a favor to his fellow Northwestern University trustee and classmate, Tom Ayers. Tom Ayers' firm, Commonwealth Edison, has used Sidley as outside counsel for many years. She later worked in their Chicago office when she and Bill Ayers moved back to Chicago in 1987. She left Sidley in 1988.

Update: In 1989, Obama was a summer intern at Michelle Obama's law firm. One of Michelle's co-workers was Bernadine Dohrn. So the relationship between the Obamas and Ayers has spanned twenty years.

One of the best known contacts between Obama and Ayers was when the couple hosted a "meet and greet" for Obama at Ayers house in Hyde Park -– an upper middle class neighborhood on Chicago's south side, where Obama now lives as a neighbor of Louis Farrakhan.