Bill Ayers Hits the Road Post-Election, Whitewashing His Past
Ayers’ attempt to absolve himself is obvious: if everyone is a terrorist, then none of us is a terrorist, most especially him. Unfortunately for Ayers, he doesn’t get to redefine terrorism to suit his personal desires. Nor does he get to claim that he was not responsible for the attacks he ordered without being challenged … though it doesn’t keep him from trying.
Enter former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl, who is still trying to hold Ayers responsible for his terrorist acts 38 years later.
Freep.com: I have to ask you about the specific allegation from, (Larry) Grathwol, the FBI informant, that there was a specific plot to blow up the Detroit Police HQ.
Ayers: None that I know. Then, I don’t know everything.
Freep.com: You’re familiar with his allegations?
Ayers: No. You’re telling me this.
Freep.com: You’ve never heard of this guy?
Ayers: I’ve heard of Grathwol[sic]. I remember him. But no, I’ve never read his book. I don’t know what he said. You’re the first person telling me.
Freep.com: He said that in February 1970 the Weatherman built two bombs targeting the Detroit Police Officers Association building and the 13th precinct.
Ayers: Not true.
Freep.com: (Reading from Grathwol) “The instructions I received from Billy Ayers was that the bombs to be used in Detroit must have shrapnel and fire potential.”
Ayers: Not true. Not true.
Freep.com: And you’ve never heard those allegations before?
Ayers: No. Not those. I’ve heard a lot. But I try not to watch Fox News too much because I think it’s poisonous.
Of course, Larry Grathwohl did not make these comments to Fox News. Cable news of any kind was nothing but a dream when Grathwohl testified in detail to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1974 regarding his time in the Weather Underground as an FBI informant. The same was the case when his book Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen was published in 1976.
PJ Media was able to contact Larry Grathwohl regarding Ayers’ evasive answer, and Grathwohl was far from surprised that the aging terrorist refused to take responsibility for the attacks he ordered.
Regarding Bill’s comments, I would be amazed at any remarks legitimatizing my accusations about Bill & Bernardine [Dohrn, a fellow WU leader and Ayers' wife] and their connection in the leadership of the WU. I take note of the fact that Bill responded with only a NO in regards to the bombings in Detroit. I also note Bills claim that he had never read my book even though he was not asked that question. Reports I submitted to the FBI during the time that I was with the WU document Bill’s & Bernardine’s activities. Further information regarding their locations are accessible under the Freedom Of Information Act indicating the accuracy of the information I provided to the FBI.
Consider the consequences if Bill acknowledges the correctness of anything I may have said, or say, about him & Bernardine, he faces the possibility of creating contradictions that could result in prosecution of both himself and his wife Bernardine.
Ayers and Grathwohl have not crossed paths in almost 40 years, but that may change tonight if Ayers carries through with his plans to speak at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Move America Forward, a conservative activist group, is protesting Ayers’ speech on “social justice” at the college, and Grathwohl has accepted the role of featured speaker at the protest. It should be quite a reunion.
I suspect Bill Ayers is genuinely nuts – I mean, there are self-serving elements in what he says and does that make him seem more rational, but he’s sold out so thoroughly that even considering all the “get in the institution if you’re really radical and change it from in there, man” stuff, his anti-capitalist logic doesn’t add up: he’s become part of the system he wanted to destroy.
This irony is probably considered best by examining his writings: I’ve spent probably too much time looking at “Narrative Push/Pull.”
“You have to start with a definition of terrorism.”
What is it with liberals and their never-ending obfuscation.
Billy Bob: “That depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is.”
If Bill wasn’t nuts before, I think he’s been driven nuts due to the fact he’s been living with Bernadine Dohrn for the last 25/30 years or so.
she is one psycho byatch.
Didn’t Bill Ayers once say “kids should kill their parents” during his WU days? If he did I’d hope his kids (if he has any) or students would take heed? I have some AN they can have for free and there is a place that sells FO down the street. I’m sure he and Bernie would be very proud to be waken up by an ANFO bomb under their bed.
I do not think Billy Ayers is nuts. I think he is very cunning, as is that type of Communist activist. He has been careful all these years to avoid, deceive, and deflect, which is true to form for that type. In all my years on the Left (1977-1987)the numbers of people in that movement who I could say were truly good, decent, and virtuous were not many. Billy knows exactly what he’s doing. Crazy like a fox he is.
Fred is exactly correct. I knew a number of prominent New Left activists in the later 1960′s and early 1970′s in Southern California. The vast majority of them were far more interested in revolution, revenge (against imagined wrongs) and the exercise of power than anything else.
Let’s take Ayers’ arguement on step further. The slaves in America were freed because people fought, killed and died to make this happen. A good number of those who died were non-combatants. In Ayers view these soliders were as evil as any known terrorist today or during the 60′s because of that result.
Ayers rationalization is his attempt to hide behind the fact that he chose to do what he did because he fancied himself some sort of romantic revolutionary whose name would ultimately go down in history. While he still spouts the same non-sense that he did 40 years ago the basic fact of what he did was totally outside the bounds of civilized behavior. As in the old 60′s saying – Killing for Peace is like f***ing for virginity.
He’s come a long way from “Guilty as sin, free as a bird”, hasn’t he? He’s finally figured out that what he did inspires revulsion in decent people, so now he’s furiously denying and revisionizing just like a Holocaust-denier. What I’m having trouble getting my head around is why so many media outlets are opening their arms to his whitewashing. Must be because he’s a friend of the Obamessiah.
I’m not okay. You’re not okay. That makes it all okay.
Why do you use an old picture of this pig? Try using something a little more current. The Dorian Grey effect has started to kick in.
‘Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, John McCain, John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, me and whoever else you want to put up there … George Bush’
George Bush or Henry Kissinger, difficult to choose who is worse, the architect of the carnage in Iraq or the architect of a document called NSSM 200. Where george Bush has succeeded in his satanic mission, Kissinger has failed because population increases in his backyard are the wrong type for him.
OJ Simpson thinks he’s a swell guy too! All psychopaths believe that they’re just misunderstood. This guy will get his ticket punched someday, and hopefully he’ll stand in front of his maker with the same obnoxious arrogance that he displays now!
LAURA
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Laura, your assessment of Ayers is spot on. The man is patently a pathological liar…typical of so many of the reformed (read as retread) ’60s radicals. They were nauseating then and are even moreso now-particulary when they try to drape themselves in cloaks of respectability.
Just goes to show that you still can’t shine sh*t !!!
I bet he gets off debating the poor college kids who arrive with a sense of morality.
Even worse, can you imagine all the clever, twisted conversations he and Barack and their circle of friends had over coffee?
Ugh, read the article, now I have puke to clean up as a result. Thanks. That this man is still alive is unbelievable.
I find no difference between this guy and a hemorrhoid. He needs to be surgically removed and thrown out with the other biohazards.
You know the guy’s a loser when even Canada won’t let him in…..
Mohammed, perhaps your namesake could be placed on the same podium with Kissinger and Bush for war crimes; specifically for the crime of ethnic cleansing in the Arabian Peninsular.
“Ayers: No. Not those. I’ve heard a lot. But I try not to watch Fox News too much because I think it’s poisonous.”
Well now, THERE’S the pot calling the kettle black, ain’t it?
And this unreconstructed hippie terrorist asshole is now…a COLLEGE professor, huh?
Yep, only in America do half-assed incompetent revolutionary terrorists morph into parasites upon the Pell Grant and Scholarships-subsidized public purse.
And just to contrast listening to Ayres and watching Fox News…it’s too bad that no-one ever found this guy’s “MUTE” button…
…or his “OFF” button.
So, Ayers the radical boil on Americas rump, is still spewing his mentally ill psychobabble. That he is not permanently locked out of society is a travesty.
The real shame is that college audiences don’t thunderously boo him offstage before he can get a word out of his dirty mouth. His neighbors should boo him out of town too!
Where ever he goes, this pig should get the same “spit in the face” reception that Bin Laden, Amedinejad or any of Americas enemies would or should get.
Amazing that Ayers is on the University of Illinois and Bohrn is at Northwestern University, And we wonder why University Society is out of touch with America, Why would we send our children to these schools.
As MBA Kellog of Northwestern, a great number no longer contribute to this University,
A bit of a salute to Canada: They sheltered our embassy employees during the 444 days the “brave soldiers” of Iran terrified women and children. They recently expelled a couple of draft resisters. Now they show the utmost good taste by refusing entry to a man that thinks he’s completely normal in regretting that he didn’t set more bombs on public property. To paraphrase Michelle Obama, for the first time in some time I am really proud of my mom’s country.
really
Tim McVeigh and Eric Rudolph were just regular guys in the neighborhood.
What ever happened to Timothy McVeigh or Mr. Nichols? were they successful at terrorism and Ayers a failure?
It would be nice to see how he differentiates himself from them… Sophistry doesn’t work when it meets real villains…
It must have been frustrating for Ayers to be silent for so long during the election cycle. He could say anything on the off chance that some rogue press member reported what he said without whitewashing (is that racist now, in a Huck Finn sort of way?) his past. Of course, he also lucks out in that few people believe that you are judged by the company you keep. What a quaint, Luddite belief.
Interesting argument he makes. No dead at his hands, yet somehow he is worse than the butchers we send to the third world.
Ayers makes more sense than 90% of the commenters at PJM. Terrorism is in the eye of the terrorized. Soldiers have a higher duty than to follow orders. Too bad we fail to learn from past mistakes.
Peace.
DS
Psychology 101: Sociopaths have no concience. It’s obvious.
I attended the speaking event at St. Mary’s several hours ago. The entire thing was a cleverly veiled justification for what he did.
Ayers is very smart, articulate, a liar and a con-man. He has no integrity.
Code Pink was there. It seems one of the St. Mary’s Trustees is either Code Pink or was a guest of a Trustee.
Willie Ayers is a joke. He’s the same old wannbe visionary-type wrapped in an ineffectual, frustrated man’s defunct manhood. A little boy inside trying desperately to prove to the world that he’s not a mama’s boy. Serial killers all share these same traits, as well as:
They believe they’re smarter than everyone else
they have delusions of grandeur
They can justify their actions due to moral arbitration
Their victims deserved it somehow, etc.
The main difference between Ayers & say, John W. Gacy (another hard-core Democrat) is that Gacy actually accomplished something. By himself.
While Ayers denies involvement with his organization’s unsuccessful murder attempts, he also seems to deny conspiracy regarding the successful ones.
I wanted to add this to my last comment:
“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill you parents, that’s where it’s really at.”
-Bill Ayers
That’s a direct quote from the boy, although I’m not sure when he said it. But bear in mind that Ayers is (I think) a professor of early childhood education at the U of Illinois. Now, with the whole “kill your parents” spiel, is this really the kind of guy anyone would want teaching the future educators of American children?
That’s one of the major problems with academia here; it’s run by the wackiest people on the planet, who have less interest in scholarly instruction as they do in political indoctrinating their charges, who don’t have any business even being near a campus, much less being in 6-digit tenured positions.
Bill Ayers’ legacy of terrorism is much like the very large white picket fence in Mark Twain’s novel Tom Sawyer. Like Tom Sawyer, Bill Ayers’ has conned the neighborhood kids (read MSM) into helping with the chore of whitewashing of that very large white picket fence.
“So according to Ayers’ twisted logic, every military veteran that fired a bullet at an enemy soldier or dropped a bomb on an enemy position is as much a terrorist as was his group, which attempted three separate mass murders.”
Good old leftwing moral relativism.
I’m a little confused by his statement that Kissinger is responsible for a million deaths – because the US tried to keep Viet Nam from turning into a totalitarian death camp? Wouldn’t the Vietnamese communists and Cambodians be responsible? Wouldn’t that be Ho Chi Minh? Pol Pot?
And the usual useful idiots show up to defend a domestic terrorist with old KGB created “moral equivalence” propaganda. Using arguements created by a dead totalitarian gulag is really stupid.
If anarchy comes, Ayers is mine.
Get in line ex-Democrat.And the line is already around the block.
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Can I have his feet when you’re done? That photo of his punk-ass standing on the flag makes me thing they’d be better suited as ashtrays…
Sociopath/fraudster/trickster playing the naive self-appointed intellectuals for their money. He is well aware that he was not prosecuted because we actually believe in the rule of law, which he does not. He is also well aware that he lives because we/Kissinger/McCain et al are not what he is, a Stalinist killer and corrupt to the bone. He will milk the left because they want and need to be milked by such con-men.
Bandit:
Something unreconstructed 60′s radicals never mention is what the North Vietnamese did once they “liberated” the South. Two million people more or less. Compared to what the US did there, the “compassionate” communists made us look like pikers. And after having won almost all the battles we fought there, our valiant House and Senate got us out of there by removing promised funding to the South. Without our funding and support the North swept in and the rest is the largely unreported history.
One wonders why these facts aren’t widely known or spoken of. . . probably has to do with how bad they make the anti-war representatives (like one John Kerry and others) look.
SO the “compassionate” ’60′s left turns out to be complicit in more death and destruction than those who they attack. Hmmm.
That photo – Look at the skeevy rat with his head cocked in juvenile defiance. His daddy should have slapped the sh*t out of him and taught him to stand up straight.
Those mini eyebrows – Looks like someone shaved a five inch swath in between them. What a dork!
His students should shoot spitballs at him until he runs to the Deans office in tears.
One observation about true reprobate minds like Ayers. He has no concept in how other humans see his terrorism as wrong. He has no clue on how the survivors of victums feel hurt and violated.
Ayers is merely a victim of his Marxist belief system. He and his ilk crave two things: power and control. After all, who are their heroes? Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho, Fidel, Che, Kim , Pol, et. al. What do they have in common that so enthralls Ayers and his acolytes? Power and control to the extreme. After all, Marxism cannot stand up to reasoned criticism, so you eliminate the critics. In their mind, that solves the problem.
I take it you supported the Vietnam War. In 1969 I was training to be an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. An instructor stopped one of our classes to tell us that we were lucky becasue they had just figured out how to end the war. “We’re going to identify the 100,000 best Vietnamese, get them safely off shore on ships, then nuke the place and pave it over in asphalt. Then we’ll sink the ships.” It got a big laugh.