First,Barack Obama endorsed the anti-Tea Party/Glenn Beck rallies planned by Comedy Central’s John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Now Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (AIM) reports he’s been joined by his terrorist pals,Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground:
When comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced their rallies on the national mall scheduled for this Saturday,they may not have expected—or wanted—an endorsement from Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. But Ayers told the Ford Motor Company-sponsored Green Festival in Washington,D.C.,last Saturday that the event will be a needed respite from the “Alice in Wonderland” world of military domination of the planet and wars waged by the U.S. “empire.”
The October 30 Stewart/Colbert rallies,dubbed “Restore Sanity” and “Keep Fear Alive,” are “worth attending,” Ayers said.
Ayers’ wife,Bernardine Dohrn,once labeled a “violent maniac” by a former gang member in congressional testimony,turned deadly serious at the Green Fest in declaring that the U.S. was no longer a “hegemonic power” because of its economic decline but that its military strength was still a major problem in the world.
Sounding as anti-American as ever,Dohrn and Ayers complained about U.S. military aid to Iraq,Afghanistan,Pakistan,and Israel,and U.S. backing for “repressive” regimes.
Ayers,who is retiring as an education professor for the University of Illinois,encouraged the audience to focus on “community power,” such as what they can accomplish in “the classroom.” He said,“This is the only power we have access to.”
At the sparsely-attended event,Ayers declared that “education is a human right” and put his faith in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Offering something for the “Green Americans” in attendance,Dohrn said that Americans have to learn to “live differently.”
Appearing together on stage in a talk show format,the efforts by Ayers and Dohrn to gin up the crowd mostly fell flat,in part because the acoustics in a location in the Washington Convention Center made it difficult for many to hear what was actually being said. Even Ayers complained about an inability to hear the questions.
However,questions from this columnist about their communist terrorist backgrounds were heard clearly and denounced by Dohrn as a “pack of lies.” The questions concerned Dohrn’s praise of the Manson Family murders and a book they wrote that was dedicated in part to Sirhan Sirhan,the assassin of anti-Vietnam War candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
Dohrn griped that they have become “pawns” against their old friend and associate,President Obama,and that critics of Obama have been trying to depict them as “insane” and “murderers.”
Rid our Country of these Anit-American extremists !