Bill Ayers and Hugo Chavez:
Blood Brothers in Terror
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck08.12.09.html
By Cliff Kincaid
8/12/09
A state Freedom of Information Act request for official information
on the foreign travel of University of Illinois Professor Bill
Ayers has disclosed trips to Taiwan, Germany, and Amsterdam for
"educational" purposes over the last several years, but nothing to
Venezuela, which is where we know that he was in 2006, propagandizing
for Hugo Chavez. So it appears that Ayers' trip to celebrate Chavez's
"Socialism of the 21st Century" was financed by someone or something
other than the taxpayers who pay Ayers' $126,000 annual salary at a
public university. Did Chavez pick up the tab?
The complete results of several Freedom of Information Act requests
to the University of Illinois about Ayers will be discussed at an
August 20 conference in Washington, D.C. that I am convening.
We are told that Ayers, a political associate of Barack Obama, has
abandoned his activities as a communist terrorist, and that he and
his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, another former leader of the Weather
Underground, are now "respectable" academics. Ayers is formally known
as a "Distinguished Professor" of Education and "University Scholar,"
while Dohrn, a one-time booster of mass murderer Charles Manson,
teaches law and discusses "human rights" issues at Northwestern
University. But the Chavez regime that they are aiding and abetting
is backed by terrorist Iran and directly implicated in the activities
of the Communist narco-terrorists in Colombia. Perhaps their
continuing influence over Obama helps explain why the President has
been so accommodating toward Chavez.
The new book Gringo by Red diaper baby Chesa Boudin, who was adopted
by Ayers and Dorhn after his own parents went to prison for murder,
includes some incriminating information about what the terrorist
couple has been doing abroad. But it goes without saying that Obama
Attorney General Eric Holder will probably turn a blind eye to what
has been happening.
Boudin, a Rhodes Scholar, writes about working for Chavez in the
presidential palace in Venezuela, on subjects such as "Presidential
International Relations," and being involved "in the revolutionary
process" and assisting with such projects as the "Third Annual
International Conference in Solidarity with the Bolivarian
Revolution." He also "worked as a freelance journalist, an
interpreter, and a think tank researcher with ties to the Ministry of
Higher Education."
Boudin, whose real father, David Gilbert, is still in prison for his
involvement in a terrorist act which killed two police officers and a
security guard, declared, "More often than I liked, I found myself
speaking as an advocate for the Chavez government." But it is obvious
that he really did like it. He is a true "Chavista," a term for the
robots who follow the Marxist ruler.
Being an advocate for Chavez in the U.S., which clearly continues
with publication of the book Gringo, seems to be the textbook
definition of a foreign agent, who, according to the U.S. statute,
provides "propaganda" for a foreign regime for the purpose
of "attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and laws."
Foreign agents are supposed to register as such with the U.S.
Department of Justice. But again, Holder, who facilitated the Clinton
pardons of Weather Underground members, can't be expected to enforce
the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which is under the supervision
of the Department of Justice.
A reading of Gringo establishes that Boudin has been actively aiding
the Chavez regime "in the belly of the revolution," as he calls it.
Another Boudin book, "The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions. 100
Answers," was co-authored with Gabiel Gonzalez, an "analyst for
President Chavez's team of advisers." Interestingly, this book
highlights that Chavez and Castro have "strong relations" in such
fields as education, where Ayers figures prominently, and that
Venezuelan students are studying in Cuba. Gringo includes many
favorable references to Castro associate and killer Che Guevara, but
notes that the concept of armed revolution has given way to
"progressives" taking power in countries like Brazil and Venezuela
through democratic means. Now, he makes clear, the challenge is to
consolidate the revolution in Venezuela.
Ayers and Dohrn have been called upon for their expertise. Boudin
explains that,"In May 2005, my parents, Bill and Bernardine, were
invited down to Venezuela…" He doesn't say by whom, but the context,
because of his own work for the regime, suggests that the invitation
and probably the funding for the trip came from Chavez. Boudin
says that they "gave talks" to various audiences at "universities and
cultural centers" and that "The groups they spoke to were primed with
screenings of the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Weather
Underground. I interpreted for them throughout the trip, including
their public appearances."
This "documentary," which aired on PBS in the U.S, was a romantic
look at a Cuban-supported terrorist group which targeted police
stations and killed police officers, supposedly for the worthwhile
cause of ending U.S. military involvement in South Vietnam and
turning the country over to the communists. Ayers and Dohrn are still
under investigation for their reported involvement in a 1970 bombing
that killed San Francisco Police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell.
Boudin wrote that, "People with a highly developed political analysis
saw, in the film and in our presence, hopeful examples of internal
resistance to imperialism norteamericano" [American imperialism]."
This constitutes an apology for terrorism. This account firmly
establishes that Ayers & Company are traveling abroad in order to
stir up violence and hatred against the United States by
demonstrating that terrorism against America and American interests
can succeed.
But another aspect of their subversive campaign involves manipulating
education, and that is where Ayers as an "educator" figures
prominently. In 2006, Ayers addressed the "World Educational Forum"
in Venezuela, a conference that was officially entitled "Bolivarian
Education and the Overcome of the Capitalist School." Ayers said in
his remarks this was his fourth trip to Venezuela.
Interestingly, an official Venezuelan announcement of the event
identified Ayers this way: "…William Ayers was leader of
revolutionary and anti-imperialist group the Weather Underground
which brought an armed struggle to the USA for more than 10 years
from within the womb of the Empire… He teaches classes on urban
reform of schools, problems of the capitalist school, and
investigation. He authored and published more than 11 books,
including a memoir titled Fugitive Days about the struggle against
the government of the United States."
Labeling communist terrorism an "armed struggle" from "within the
womb of the empire" is an indication that this is a foreign
government that wants to encourage violence against the U.S. and
understand the best way to undermine and ultimately destroy the
"imperialist" United States.
Ayers was so proud that he posted a copy of his speech, in which he
talked about education as the "motor-force of revolution" and ended
with cries of "Viva Presidente Chavez! Viva La Revolucion
Bolivariana! Hasta La Victoria Siempre!"
The irony of all of this is that the young people of Venezuela,
especially university students, reject what Ayers & Company represent
and are leading the opposition to Chavez.
At a recent American Enterprise Institute symposium, Venezuelan
pollster Luis Vicente León said most young people ages 18-24 are not
"Chavistas" and that they are resisting the Chavez drive to transform
the country into a version of Communist Cuba. His polling found that
69 percent of the general population opposes the Chavez policy of
assigning Cuban Communist administrators to "supervise" the
educational system in Venezuela and 83 percent "reject the Cuban
model as an example for Venezuela."
At a July 15 news conference held at the National Press Club,
Venezuelan human rights lawyer Gonzalo Himiob released a 56-page
white paper entitled "Bolivarian Rule of Lawlessness," describing how
the Chavez regime is using the criminal justice system to harass,
intimidate, and even imprison political opponents and dissidents,
many of them students.
In a highly unusual move, a representative of the Venezuelan embassy,
Robinson Zapata, showed up to disrupt the event and try to dispute
the charges made by Himiob. Zapata's attempts to defend the Chavez
regime were obnoxious and pathetic. He serves as Third Secretary for
Political Affairs.
I later emailed Zapata, asking him for details about the travels to
Venezuela by Bill Ayers and Peter McLaren, a UCLA Professor who has
been "honored" by the Chavez Ministry of Education with a "Chair for
the Study of Critical Pedagogy at the Universidad Bolivariana de
Venezuela." Zapata hasn't responded to my request for further information.
McLaren, whose name appears on Ayers' "blog roll" of favorite sites,
has a website which opens with a Che Guevara face and "Che Lives!"
slogan on a red flag promising "Hasta La Victoria Siempre!" and
inviting people to "Join the Revolution." McLaren's latest book
carries the subtitle, Education as Revolution, which says all that we
need to know what about he is up to.
UCLA issued a press release hailing the Venezuelan "honor" for
McLaren and quoting the professor as saying, "I am thrilled to
receive such a prestigious honor. I feel that all of my work as a
socialist scholar can now be integrated in a revolutionary course
that will initiate dialogues and address critical needs in the area
of educational advancement."
The same press release cited praise for McLaren's work from the
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and his other books,
including Capitalists and Conquerors: Critical Pedagogy Against
Empire (2005), and Red Seminars: Radical Excursions Into Educational
Theory, Cultural Politics and Pedagogy (2005).
In the cases of Ayers and McLaren, their common Venezuelan connection
is an individual named Luis Bonilla, who runs something called the
Miranda International Centre (CIM), whose purpose is to "coordinate
international support for the Bolivarian process."
Bonilla, whose interviews with Ayers and McLaren appear in YouTube
videos, has explained that the CIM's purpose is "To promote,
centralize and empower the work of international advisors and the
care and attention given to foreign collaborators, by helping them to
coordinate with national networks which are reflecting on
emancipatory processes." He says he wants to "encourage the creation
of a network of foreign experts who are interested in the process
Venezuela is going through. Marta Harnecker from Chile and Michael
Lebowitz, from Canada have been working with us from the very beginning."
The term "foreign collaborators" is most interesting.
Marta Harnecker and Michael Lebowitz are a husband-wife team who also
figure prominently in Chesa Boudin's book Gringo, as being among his
close associates. He describes Harnecker as "a Chilean-born
journalist, writer, and radical theorist" who spent much of her life
living in Cuba and became an adviser to Chavez. Lebowitz is "a
Marxist economist and professor from Canada" whose book, Beyond
Capital, features a photo of Karl Marx on the cover.
Bonilla goes on to say that the CIM will work "to publish works that
fall into the tradition of revolutionary thinking and to publish the
research of intellectuals on subjects vital to the debate on and
analysis of twenty first century socialism and the replacement of capitalism."
All of this just goes to show, as if we needed any more evidence,
that Bill Ayers never abandoned his commitment to international
communist revolution. The big question is to what degree Obama shares
his commitment. It is not reassuring to note that Chavez and Obama
are working together these days to destroy the anti-communist
government of Honduras.
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