--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Ayers was not convicted of any crime > > For the record (as I posted previously): > > ----- > He and several others were indicted on federal > charges for crossing state lines to incite a riot > and for conspiracy to bomb government buildings. He > wasn't arrested because he had gone underground, and > before he surfaced the charges were dropped due to > prosecutorial misconduct, including improper > surveillance. So he got off on a technicality. > ----- > > His girlfriend at the time was killed in the > explosion in a Greenwich Village townhouse where > she and other Weathermen were making a nail bomb-- > an "antipersonnel device" designed to kill people. > > <snip> > > Re-branding Ayers as a "terrorist" might work on someone who > > did not live through that era as a young person I guess. > > I lived through that era. I was an antiwar > activist and was as appalled as anybody at what > the government was doing. But the Weathermen, > Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, included, most > certainly were terrorists. People *were* killed, > albeit not directly by Ayers. They were lucky > more people weren't killed given what they were > doing. That they may have been "patriots" doesn't > mean they weren't also terrorists. > > As the saying goes, "One man's terrorist is > another man's freedom fighter." > > As I also wrote previously: > > ----- > His relationship with Obama doesn't particularly > bother me, although he isn't somebody I'd want to > associate with. But what's problematic is that Obama > hasn't been straightforward about the extent of his > dealings with Ayers. > > In one of the primary debates, when he was asked > about Ayers, he said: > > "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of > English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some > official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas > from [sic] on a regular basis." > > In fact, Obama worked closely with Ayers on a number > of education reform projects (Ayers is a professor of > education, not English); Ayers and Dohrn hosted a > fundraiser for Obama's Illinois senatecampaign in their > home. > ----- >
I believe that last is not true. Obama attended the announcement of his mentor's Congressional run at Ayer's house, but it wasn't specifically a fund-raiser for Obama (I think). Lawson
