Yes, I'm sure this grand group of guys and girls making NAIL bombs were really not looking to hurt anybody. In fact, I came up with that sentiment before reading this:
"On March 6, 1970, during preparations for the bombing of an officers' dance at the Fort Dix U.S. Army base and for Butler Library at Columbia University,[18] there was an explosion in a Greenwich Village safe house when the nail bomb being constructed prematurely detonated due to a wiring malfunction. WUO members Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins died in the explosion. Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin escaped unharmed..... An FBI report later stated that the group had possessed sufficient amounts of explosive to "level ... both sides of the street".[19]
The bomb preparations have been pointed out by critics of the claim that the Weatherman group did not try to take lives with its bombings. Harvey Klehr, the Andrew W. Mellon professor of politics and history at Emory University in Atlanta, said in 2003, "The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don't know what sort of defense that is."[18]"
Just because the FBI was harassing the Weathermen doesn't make what they did less illegal- they're just lucky they had a way to get off. There are ways of getting people involved that don't involve blowing things up. Also, from what I've read, it's quite questionable how much Ayers really regrets. Where's the line- what if this guy had actually "accidentally" killed somebody with his Haymarket bomb? Could he be rehabilitated then?
He sounds like an ass, judging by his Wikipedia page. Good to see he grew up, but that doesn't excuse his past.. particularly since he seems to have somehow gotten off scot free.
as he continues to be news in the election cycle (much to his distaste), it doesn't seem too outrageous to point folks to a statement of support for one of my committee-persons, the beautifully humane bill ayers
how so? i zipped through the article and found nothing very assy. i'm not sure if the article mentioned it, but him getting off "scot free" was due to years of police and fbi harassment and illegal activities. because i zipped through the article, perhaps i also missed the fact that nobody was ever injured during their bombings - aside from their comrades building a bomb. their bombings were meant to be symbolic statements against (namely) the Vietnam war-machine. the bombs were small and always called in to evacuate the area.
frankly, i wish more people today would be politically active like the Weathermen were. and i don't mean people doing things like killing abortion providers - though at least McSame and Palin stand up for those types.
funny that the Ayers non-issue has become newsworthy whereas the more recent, repulsive, and relevant work of McCain in the Keating Five has gone largely uncommented upon. perhaps McSame would make the best president as he has the relevant experience in croneyism that defrauds tax-payers for suspect-to-illegal banking practices that the US clearly needs some help navigating.
are you really one of those? (i guess i had my ayn rand phase when i was in high school )
and what would you call yr current phase?
not sure, i'll let you know in 10-20 years if i'm still around. clearly, i'm very dis-satisfied with corporate socialism (or whatever one might want to call it) that is aggressively at work here in the states - supported by lap dogs Obama and McCain.
i'll likely vote for the ticket headed by a black person and supported by a woman:
vote your convictions