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Friday, June 4, 2010

Jack Cashill on William Ayers' Writing, inside Barack Obama's Books

You may know that author, Jack Cashill could rival Sherlock Holmes in his detective work concerning Bill Ayers' apparent ghost-writing, for Barack Obama's two books. As I reflect, Mr. Cashill's own writing is more enjoyable than Arthur Conan Doyle's. And the more one reads of it, the more apparent the criminal mind of Billie Ayers becomes, inside Barry's books' covers.

Is Ayers still playing Moriarty at the keyboard, for Obama, through the famous presidential Blackberry?

Trying like Dr. Watson to catch up with Jack, I.O. provides a Table of Contents for his Ayers/Obama examination and related work, and now, if you will take these in order from bottom to top, you have quite a story from Mr Cashill.
Ayers to the Rescue?
How the Liberal Mind Works
How Obama Got Into Harvard
Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud
Media Matters Misfires on “Manchurian” Smear
New Obama Bio Strengthens Case for "Dreams" Fraud
What I learned from Obama's Pop
Frank Marshall Davis's "Young Man"
Decrypting Obama's "Pop"
Just who is Obama's "Pop?"
How the Media Spiked Suttongate
Ayers Escalates Cold War With Obama
The competing narratives of Barry and Sarah
Why “Rogue” Is A Better Book Than “Dreams”
Fact-check This, Associated Press!
Obama Pal Edward Said Another Fraud
Before Dreams There Was Roots
What Ayers Saw in Barack Obama
Obama Comes to the Mainland
Barack Obama's Great Expectations
A closer look at Obama's Odyssey
Rigoberta Menchu Won the Nobel Peace Prize too
Ayers at Starbucks
How the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Really Works
Media slam "Palin" co-author
Media mum on Dreams Fraud
Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More
Media protect 'Literary Lion" Obama
Andersen Book Blows Ayers' Cover on 'Dreams' (updated)
Book confirms: Ayers wrote Obama's book
Did Ayers Help Obama Get Into Harvard?
An Odd Coincidence?
Obama, Ayers and the Knowledge 'Too Big" to Handle
"Birther” Media Breach Could Reveal Deeper Truths
Who wrote "Audacity of Hope"?
Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama's "Dreams"
Washington Times Asks Ayers About “Dreams” Collaboration
Who Wrote Dreams and Why it Matters
Dreams From My Teleprompter
Ayers already turning on Obama
Barack Obama's Milli Vanilli moment
Newly found article confirms Obama "Dreams" fraud
There are bigger frauds to fry than Rosenblat’s
The improvised Odyssey of Barack Obama (.com)
Ayers doth protest too much
The odd story of romance in Dreams From My Father(com)
Ayers dances around "Dreams" controversy
"Dreams" controversy goes global
Oxford Don Trips Badly On “Dreams”Analysis
Finish Your "Oxford" Study Mr. Millican
Yavelow Study Confirms Ayers Hand In Obama's "Dreams"
London Times Inquires About “Dreams” Fraud
Science points to Ayers authorship of Obama's 'Dreams'
Barack Obama: Bill Ayers' Alter Ego
Ayers’ Role in Obama’s “Dreams” Poised To Break Out
More Evidence That Ayers Ghosted Obama’s “Dreams”
Evidence Mounts: Ayers Co-Wrote Obama’s “Dreams”
Nautical metaphors could sink Obama
Obama did not write "Dreams From My Father"
Who wrote "Dreams From My Father"? (om)
Roots' fraud set standard for Obama's
Obama's poems show real talent level
More proof Ayers ghosted Obama's "Dreams"
Did Bill Ayers write Obama's "Dreams"? - Part 3: Why it Matters
Did Bill Ayers write Obama's "Dreams"? - Part 2: Deconstructing the Text
Did Bill Ayers write Obama's "Dreams"? - Part 1
Why Obama is mum about Harvard
The Mansourian Candidate
Is Khalid al-Mansour the man behind Obama myth?
How Orwell Anticipated the Obama Delusion
Who wrote "Dreams From My Father"?
(July 23, 2008)
Yes, start with this one. Why bottom to top? That is the way they are listed at Cashill.com. It makes sense for Jack's return visitors to see the latest at the top and in my laziness, I defer to his kindness.

To whet your appetitie, you may wish to look into and even listen to this item from the above, reproduced, below.

How the Liberal Mind Works
©Jack Cashill
AmericanThinker.com - May 30, 2010

In April of this year, I wrote an article for American Thinker about David Remnick’s new book, The Bridge, and titled it, “New Obama Bio Strengthens Case for Dreams Fraud.”

“It surprised me to learn that David Remnick had dedicated three pages of his comprehensive new Obama biography, The Bridge, to my thesis that Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father,” I wrote at the time. “It will surprise Remnick even more to learn that he has unwittingly reinforced a thesis that he set out to discredit.”

That night Milt Rosenberg of Chicago’s dominant AM radio station, WGN, was hosting Remnick for two hours in studio. A mutual friend arranged for me to call in just as though I were a regular caller. I was finally able to locate the audio.

If I seem too polite in the exchange that follows it was because I did not want to embarrass Rosenberg. This format offered the rare opportunity for someone from what Remnick calls the “Web’s farthest lunatic orbit” to splash down in the refined waters of the liberal elite.

For the record, Remnick is the Princeton-educated, Washington Post-groomed, Pulitzer-Prize winning New Yorker editor. I am a “little-known conservative writer” who lives in Kansas City.

When I called in, I introduced myself, said that “David” would probably know who I am, and noted that I had originated the thesis that Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write Dreams From My Father. The question I posed to Remnick was this, “Why did you ignore the six detailed pages Christopher Andersen spent confirming my thesis?”

Rosenberg, bless his heart, asked me who Andersen was and what was my thesis. This allowed me several minutes to report in detail what Andersen had discovered.

As I explained, Andersen is “a celebrity biographer with great establishment credentials.” I said on air how I had talked to Andersen, who told me had two sources on the ground in Hyde Park.

Rosenberg allowed me to establish in some detail how Andersen documented the Obamas’ financial struggles in the early 1990s. Andersen related how at the urging of Michelle, a “hopelessly blocked” Obama turned to “friend and neighbor” Bill Ayers to help him with his much acclaimed 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father.

Andersen’s details are specific. The Obamas were convinced of “Ayers’s proven abilities as a writer.” Barack particularly liked the novelistic style of To Teach, a 1993 book by Ayers. Obama hoped to use a comparable style for his own family history. The problem was that although he had taped interviews with many of his relatives, he could not find it in himself to write the book.

Andersen documented Obama’s blown advances, his futile escape to Bali, the growing financial and emotional pressure to finish a memoir he had started four years earlier.

The key sentence in Andersen’s account is the one that I quoted on air almost verbatim: “These oral histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were given to Ayers.” Added Andersen, “Thanks to help from veteran writer Ayers, Barack would be able to submit a manuscript to his editors at Times Book.”

I was also able to explain how up until the point of writing what Time Magazine called “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician,” Obama had written nothing of consequence. What he had written, said I, “as David points out,” was a “muddled” article in a Columbia University weekly called Sundial, nothing at all as a legal scholar save for one case note at Harvard, and “one really half-assed article” on community organizing.

Remnick came out swinging, and as I knew, a person in studio has a huge tactical advantage over a person on the phone. The quotes that follow from Remnick are word-for-word. To get a true feel for what condescension sounds like in its purest, most undistilled form, please listen to the audio about 47 minutes in:

link to   interview

http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/ext720/wgnam-david-remnick-the-bridge-full-program,0,5756039.mp3file

“Mr. Castle (sic), this is David Remnick. Let’s be clear about something. So on the basis of a book by a celebrity biographer of two unnamed sources--Who are those sources by the way? Do you know?”

“He wouldn’t tell me.”

“Okay,” said Remnick emphatically, as though his point had been confirmed.

“Do you reveal your unnamed sources?” I asked. Having read his book, I knew that Remnick used such sources, often for key details, sometimes bogus, like for the instance the person known only as “aide” who misled Remnick on how Obama managed to write Audacity of Hope.

“My book is filled with hundreds of named sources.”

“But so is Andersen’s.”

“Yes, but you are not providing any sources here. So on the basis of two unnamed sources in a celebrity biographer’s book that really has had very little currency and on your own notion that he uses the word ‘eyes’ a lot . . . “

“Hold it right there,” I said. “Hold it.” Remnick had said something comparably slighting in his book. Those on the left are so used to saying such rubbish unchallenged that he must have forgotten where he was.

“I let you speak. Now you are going to let me respond.”

“Go ahead,” I conceded, trying not to make things awkward for my generous host.

“So it is hardly scientific,” Remnick continued. “I find it deeply offensive. First of all the history of literature is filled, filled with writers whose first books appear on the scene and they are very good or excellent or they are better.”

This is true only to a degree. All great authors have a first book, usually very good, and always at the end of a paper trail strewn with other good writing. Obama’s paper trail leads back to a literary junk pile. His sudden flowering is miraculous and unprecedented. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to explain this on the air.

“I make no fantastic claims for his memoir,” Remnick continued. “I don’t come out of there claiming it to be Moby Dick or Richard Wright or anything of the kind. I describe it as a very good book and no more and no less, but I examine it as a book that tells us something about Barack Obama, naturally, and something that comes out of the memoir tradition in African American literature and American literature folklore.”

Richard Wright is an African American author. Note how Remnick feels the need to balance an undeniable classic by a white guy with a black guy of sufficiently lesser stature that he does not--or cannot--cite a Wright book. Affirmative action on the fly!

“So your theory, and it was a theory expounded as well by a much bigger microphone, by Rush Limbaugh, got a lot of currency on the Internet, and I find it offensive on the minimal amount of proof you provided, in fact, on no proof at all that I could find convincing . . . “

“Well,” I interjected.

“I am going to finish my thought here, Okay?” Remnick scolded, sounding all the world like my second-grade nun. “There is something innately offensive about the notion that this man is incapable of writing a book.” I should add that in his book Remnick laments “the ugly pedigree” of my and Limbaugh’s “racist insinuation.”

“I am not saying he is stupid. I never did say that.”

“But you are saying he is faking the book.”

“Yes, I am absolutely saying that. He had help, serious help, and all evidence points in that direction.”

I must confess to being a little perturbed here. If you listen to the audio, you will want to strangle Remnick too. I plowed on.

“And when you reduce the 20,000 or so words I did of textual comparison to saying ‘something about eyes,’ you are insulting me. And when you call me a racist, David, or when you call Limbaugh a racist, you are insulting the whole damn audience.”

“The instances of Barack uh , , uh Rush Limbaugh using racist language is so long as to beggar the imagination,”

Remnick answered, nearly averting a newsworthy Freudian slip. He then launched into an odd and disingenuous account of how he “has great respect for serious conservatives” who challenge Obama on his policies, the political equivalent of “some of my best friends are black.”

“So why do you call me a racist?” I asked, cutting to the chase.

At this point, Rosenberg thanked me for calling in. If Remnick were gesturing wildly to kill the conversation, I would not have been surprised. Once he had imputed racism to a lesser mortal—the most popular liberal hobby after recycling--he had no other argument to make.

“I appreciate your having me on,” I said to Rosenberg. “Sorry, but I don’t like being called a racist, and that is part of the problem with the post-racial fraud we are living under now because all criticism is racist.”

So the conversation ended. I don’t get to talk to liberals much anymore.

-- Jack

You can also hear Jack in interviews via this linked page and twice as a guest on our program, "The Awakening."

By the way, Joseph Morris, the other gentleman on Milt Rosenberg's program that night, is an excellent Americanist, a brilliant disciple of law and politics, and should be one of Illinois' U.S. Senators. - AW

Monday, May 31, 2010

Obama Friends Ayers, Dohrn, Abunimah, plus Code Pink Behind 'Free Gaza Movement' which Attacked Israeli Navy

This again, from our compatriots, Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliot. Please click through and read the full article. It connects the dots.

Klein: Ayers, Dohrn Top Activists in Gaza Flotilla Group
May 31, 2010, by Brenda J. Elliott

Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports from New York: The group behind the Gaza flotilla that engaged in deadly clashes with Israeli commandoes today counts among its top activists Weather Underground terrorist founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn as well as Jodie Evans, the leader of the radical activist organization Code Pink.

Ayers and Dohrn were close associates for years with President Obama, while Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama’s presidential campaign. Earlier today, Israeli navy commandos raided the six-ship flotilla, encountering heavy resistance and live fire from the activists. Nine activists were killed and dozens of others were reportedly injured, as were several of the Israeli commandoes.

The flotilla was organized by the Free Gaza Movement, a coalition of leftist human rights activists and pro-Palestinian groups engaged in attempts to break a blockade imposed by Israel on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Ayers, Dohrn and Evans’ Code Pink have led several recent Free Gaza Movement initiatives, including attempted marches into the Gaza Strip. Dorhn was in the Middle East just last month on behalf of the movement.

continues...

And as we remember today, those who have fought for authentic freedom in past wars, let this remind us that we are at war now, throughout the world, and at great risk of losing the Soveriegnty and Responsible Liberty for which those who came before us fought. My generation, as so many died to allow us to also pass along this sacred gift, please carry on in this charge, instead of being prodigals.

photo: "Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Gaza, 12/31/09"

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Cliff Kincaid at National Press Club Today, Exposing Ayers' & Dohrn's 'Social Justice'

More, on the illustriously revolting revolutionary couple, including the communisty organizing business partner of Barack Obama, in the corruption of Chicago's inner city school children. (Like they were not disadvantaged enough.) What could these two have done, to be any more celebrated by America's "progressive" elite? Blown up more policemen, maybe?

by James Simpson

How did long-time Obama friend Bill Ayers, a self-described "
little ‘c' communist," and domestic terrorist, become a "distinguished professor" at the University of Illinois? What exactly does he teach? What is his relationship with Hugo Chavez? How did his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, gain a tenured position at Northwestern University?


Billie & Bernie ... murdered San Francisco officer, Brian McDonnell ... Billie & Bernie
last picture, from Los Angeles Times

These questions and more will be answered at a
"Communism in the Classroom" press conference this coming Thursday, August 20, 12:30pm, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.


Conference chairman, Cliff Kincaid, long-time editor of Accuracy in Media and President of America's Survival (http://www.usasurvival.org/) will be joined by a distinguished panel of speakers:
  • Paul Kengor is the executive director of the Center for Vision & Values and professor of political science at Grove City College. Known for his best-selling books, God and Ronald Reagan, God and George W. Bush, and The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, Kengor frequently appears as a political commentator on national radio and television. Mr. Kengor will be discussing his report: "Anti-Anti Communism and the Academy."


Cliff will also discuss the information obtained with inexplicably great difficulty from the University of Illinois regarding Bill Ayers classroom syllabus and his activities as "distinguished professor."


Much of the information to be presented at this forum on Bill Ayers' teaching activities has never been made public before. The conference is open to the press and public and will be held in the First Amendment Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor - Washington, DCC 20045.


Sunday, March 22, 2009

Jim Simpson on Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn: 'Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird' (for now) + Larry Grathwohl Interview

Larry Grathwohl, the federal investigator who infiltrated the Weather Underground will recount what he witnessed of Ayers and Dorhn's direction of murder and destruction and discuss the attempt at renewed prosecution -- on "The Awakening, with Hanen & Arlen," Monday, 3/23/2009, 9pm ET,,,6pm PT linked here [edit: and archive widget, here]:



by James Simpson, originally published in American Thinker, 3/18/2009

Bill Ayers' famous quip may come back to haunt him. There is no statute of limitations on murder charges.

On February 16, 1970, someone planted a bomb at San Francisco's Park Police Station. It was placed in a window of the business office and timed to explode at shift change, when the maximum number of officers would be there, either finishing up or starting their work.

It was a powerful blast, throwing one officer in the station parking lot completely over his patrol car and sending shrapnel for over two city blocks. The bomb fortunately detonated a few minutes early so the destruction was less than it might have been. Still, nine were wounded, one -- Officer Robert Fogarty -- badly enough that he retired from the force on disability, and one, Sergeant Brian McDonnell, 45 year old married father of two, was killed.

On Thursday, March 12, 2009, Cliff Kincaid of America's Survival Inc. held a press conference at the National Press Club, launching the Campaign for Justice for Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism, to focus public attention on evidence that may finally bring the alleged perpetrators to justice: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

He has a lot of support. In a letter to Mr. Kincaid's group, the San Francisco's Police Officer's Association writes:
There are irrefutable and compelling reasons to believe that Bill Ayers and his
wife Bernardine Dohrn, members of the terrorist group 'Weather Underground', are
largely responsible for the bombing of Park Police Station and other police
stations throughout the United States during their 'tour of terror' in the late
1960s and early 1970s.
This case has been reopened and evidence is being gathered. Meetings have been held among local and state authorities, including current and former law enforcement officials, to obtain justice. That is why the "Campaign for Justice for Victims of Terrorism" held this press conference. They want to bring pressure on Obama's Justice Department, now headed by former Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, to release all of the evidence in their possession.

It's true that some evidence in the past that could have been used against the Weather Underground was ruled inadmissible -- because of the way it was collected, not because of its veracity. But there is much more that can and should be used. The belief is that it lies in the Justice Department or the FBI.

This is where a problem emerges. In addition to the outrageous pardons of fugitive criminal Marc Rich and 16 FALN terrorists, Holder provided key assistance to two Weather Underground members implicated in the Brinks Robbery murders, pardoning them quietly along with Rich -- who of course got all the headlines.

Given the Attorney General's apparent sympathy for terrorists, and Bill Ayers' perceived status as President Obama's friend and mentor, the Justice Department may be reluctant to provide all of the evidence in the Park Station bombing case unless they are forced to do so.

Under the Bush Administration, such a press conference would not have been necessary. After all, the federal authorities under Bush provided evidence and assistance that resulted in the 2007 arrests and indictments of members of the Black Liberation Army for the murder of another San Francisco policeman, John Young, in 1971. That case is now underway.

A process of evidence-gathering has been underway in the McDonnell case as well. But now that Obama and Holder are in power, that process could come to a screeching halt. That was the reason for the March 12 America's Survival, Inc. news conference -- to make sure that federal assistance doesn't stop and that it accelerates. One hope is that FBI Director Robert Mueller, who is technically independent of Obama and Holder since his contract runs through 2011, can act on his own to obtain and make available all the evidence that is needed in this case.

Featured at the event were individuals with critical knowledge of both the bombing and the people involved. Larry Grathwohl, a former undercover FBI informant, is best remembered for his chilling 1980s testimony describing how Ayers told him that once the revolution succeeded they would have to murder 25 million Americans.

In his book, Bringing Down America - An FBI Informer with the Weathermen, Grathwohl describes a meeting where Ayers reveals Dohrn's role in the bombing. It was in the context of a complaint that other Weathermen were slackers:
"Too many of you are relying on your leaders to do everything," he said sternly.
Then ...he mentioned the park station bombing. "It was a success," he said, "but
it's a shame when someone like Bernardine has to make all the plans, make the
bomb, and then place it herself. She should have to do only the planning."
This book repeated sworn testimony Grathwohl had provided before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1974. His testimony has been consistent for decades -- Ayers told him that Dohrn planted the bomb, and Ayers had detailed knowledge of its make-up and where it was placed. Such knowledge could have come only from the bomber, or from someone who assisted in building the bomb.

In its 2007-2008 biennial report, the California Department of Justice confirmed the case is open and added that the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has been asked to analyze fingerprint evidence from the scene of the Park Station bombing. Page 16 of the report reads:
In 2000, the SFPD reopened its investigation into the bombing of the Park Police Station and requested investigative assistance from the DOJ. The DOJ's Bureau of Forensic Services was also assigned to identify a latent print collected from the original crime scene.

We don't know at this point whose fingerprints those are. But we do know the FBI obtained the fingerprints of Ayers, his comrade Mark Rudd, and other Weather Underground members at a bomb factory in San Francisco (see final page of this PDF report).

According to FBI sources, Grathwohl's testimony was corroborated by another Weather Underground source, Karen Latimer, who apparently had second thoughts about her participation in the violent group's activities and gave her story to the police. Unfortunately, Latimer died sometime later under questionable circumstances.

A bit earlier, in January of 1970, Grathwohl had listened as Ayers described to him plans for the bombing of two police stations in Detroit, Michigan. As he related to the FBI agents on the case:
Bill Ayers had debriefed me regarding every aspect of the plans we had developed before telling me I was being reassigned to Madison. Bill's two major requirements were that the bombs go off at the same time and that the greatest number of police officers would be killed or injured. Both bombs were to contain fence staples or roofing nails to ensure this effect. Bill Ayers didn't care if innocent people were also killed or injured. Bill had even gone so far as to tell us that the bomb at the 13th precinct should be placed on a window ledge. [As they later did at the park station bombing.]

Those bombs fortunately failed to detonate. Larry's press conference statement can be viewed here.

Larry's description of the bomb components, particularly the use of fence staples, got the attention of retired San Francisco police officer Jim Pera. Pera was one of the first on the scene the day of the bombing and described the scene:
The window to the business office and an interior window, where prisoners were
processed for booking were blown out. The walls and furniture were pock marked
by shrapnel. Barbed wire fence post staples, from the bomb, were scattered
throughout the ground floor of the station. Blood was all over the floor, desks
and walls and was heaviest where Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell suffered mortal
wounds to his neck, eyes, face and brain.
Pera also recovered a piece of evidence, a fence staple identical to the type described by Larry Grathwohl, as shown below. He went on to relate:
The station looked like a scene one might expect to see in a war, with wounded officers, blood, shattered windows, damaged walls, floors and ceilings, but then -- it was a war. It was indeed an urban war and it was being conducted by subversive and murderous groups, such as the Weather Underground, whose doctrine advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government, by any means, including murder and assassination, with the goal of replacing it with communism, and by their allies in the Black Liberation Army, whose primary purpose was to kill police officers and destroy our system of government as we know it.
Jim Pera was right on the money. They were part of an international conspiracy. Cliff Kincaid, with the assistance of veteran Congressional investigator Herbert Romerstein, have done yeoman's work in documenting the Weather Underground's treasonous activities, including multiple trips made by Ayers and other Weathermen to Cuba and North Vietnam to meet with their communist handlers, some of them from the Cuban intelligence service, the DGI, and even the Soviet KGB.


Jim Pera, photo by Kevin Lamb



Ayers and Dohrn have not reformed at all since turning themselves in. In fact, Ayers in particular is now traveling often to the "new Cuba" -- Venezuela.As Kincaid relates, Ayers has visited Venezuela multiple times to give "education seminars" where he was hailed as:
... a former leader of a "revolutionary and anti-imperialist group" that
"brought an armed struggle to the USA for more than 10 years from within the
womb of the empire." He returned to the U.S. after hailing "Presidente Chavez,"
to resume his brainwashing activities at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Not surprisingly, Ayers has described Chavez's Venezuela in glowing terms. At the World Education Forum in Venezuela, he concluded his speech with the following gem:
...we, too, must build a project of radical imagination and fundamental change.
Venezuela is poised to offer the world a new model of education- a humanizing
and revolutionary model whose twin missions are enlightenment and liberation....
Viva Mission Sucre! Viva Presidente Chavez! Viva La Revolucion Bolivariana!
Hasta La Victoria Siempre!
Ayers' adopted son, Chesa Boudin (offspring of Weathermen Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, (the latter is still in prison) has worked extensively in Venezuela as "a foreign policy advisor to the Chavez government" - without registering as a foreign agent as required by the U.S. government -- and is co-author of a propaganda book, The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions and 100 Answers. As the Amazon.com book review describes it, the authors: "demonstrate considerable sympathy for Chavez and his efforts, and are ultimately dedicated to revealing Chavez as a legitimately elected patriot bent on social justice..."

Sure. Chesa Boudin is seen as a key part of the emerging new "progressive" movement and the resurrected "new SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)" on college campuses. Meanwhile, Ayers and his cohorts have created the Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS), referred to by former Weatherman Mark Rudd as "the SDS old people's auxiliary." See p. 20 of this report by Kincaid and Trevor Loudon.

Meanwhile, in a related development, Kincaid reports that Rudd is planning to publish an autobiography, Underground; My Life with SDS and the Weathermen, that describes his activities in the group. In a pre-release copy of the book he admits complicity in the Fort Dix bomb plot:
"...A few nights before [the explosion], Terry [fellow Weatherman Terry Robbins]
had told me what his group was planning. ‘We're going to kill the pigs at a
dance at Fort Dix,' he said. It was to be an antipersonnel bomb made out of
stolen dynamite with sixteen-penny nails for shrapnel. Noncommissioned officers
and their wives and dates in New Jersey would pay for the American crimes in
Vietnam... I assented to the Fort Dix plan when Terry told me about it.
(Emphasis, mine.) I too wanted this country to have a taste of what it had been
dishing out daily in Southeast Asia..."
The plot was never executed as the bomb exploded while under construction, killing Weathermen Terry Robbins, Diana Oughton and Ted Gold. This book is set to be published by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Kincaid hopes that public furor over the Weathermen's reign of mass murder will force Murdock to cancel the book, as he ultimately did with O.J. Simpson's proposed "If I did it" murder book and TV special.

Sergeant McDonnell left a widow to fend for herself and two children. Those children were damaged for life, robbed of critical fatherly love, guidance and support for the rest of their lives. How, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, does that make them "equal?" How does that make them "liberated?" How does that make this world a better place? How could you, raised with silver spoons in your spoiled little mouths, never having had to work or support a family without the help of "Daddy", claim to be the administrators of "equality" or "justice?" How on earth do you arrogate to yourselves the role of God?

In his concluding remarks, Jim Pera offered an emotional challenge to the approximately fifty journalists assembled:

"Before giving these two despicable people a forum, in your newspapers and
periodicals, perhaps you should do a little bit of research, on their past and
present activities. You will find that under those calm facades and intellectual
masks, that Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, are vicious, cowardly
terrorists.

Give up your political correctness, overcome your liberal bias and do some
honest research into the background of these two criminals, Ayers and Dohrn.
Uncover their past and reveal them to the public. The American people deserve
nothing less."

I couldn't have said it better, and I hope Billy Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn finally get what they have coming to them.

It's up to you, Mr. President. You said you found the actions of the Weather Underground despicable. As Cliff Kincaid said at his press conference, "prove it." Tell your Attorney General to provide the evidence to bring the killers of Sgt. McDonnell to justice.


The views and statements expressed by Investigating Obama contributors, and in quotations and citations, are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of Investigating Obama and Arlen Williams.
See also:
And Jim Simpson's article, which describes Ayers' manifesto, Prairie Fire, "Conspiracy of Lemmngs: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis, Part III"