Ayers seeking to create 'peace movement'
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Obama associate wants U.S. to stop 'thinking we can conquer the world'
February 04, 2010
By Aaron Klein
Former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, a close associate
for years to President Obama, is seeking to create a "peace movement."
"I think that what we need is a peace movement, and I'm trying to
build one," Ayers said in a street interview Tuesday with Peter Doocy
of FoxNews.com.
When asked how he plans to build his "peace movement," Ayers replied:
"Well, I mean, how do you build a movement? How do you build a civil
rights movement or peace movement? Look at history. All kinds of
ways, but what we need is to stop spending billions of dollars on war
and we need to invest in being a nation among nations and giving up
on the insanity of thinking we can conquer the world."
Ayers previously has alluded to creating a "peace" movement to "save"
Obama's presidency.
"With any luck, the peace movement, the justice movement can save his
(Obama's) presidency. ... So to me the injunction is to get busy and
build a movement," Ayers stated in an April 2009 interview with The
Commentary Factory.com.
Also, in a February 2009 speech at the University of California at
Berkeley, Ayers emphasized "intergenerational cooperation" as the key
to building a peace movement in the modern day.
Ayers, Dohrn stir chaos in Middle East
Ayers lately has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism.
Last month, WND reported Ayers and his wife, Weather Underground
co-founder Bernardine Dohrn, were involved in provoking chaos on the
streets of Egypt in an attempt to enter the Hamas-controlled Gaza
Strip to join in solidarity with the territory's population and leadership.
The protests were led in large part by Jodie Evans, co-founder of
Code Pink, a far-left activist organization formed in 2002 to protest
America's war in Iraq. The group previously met with Hamas and with
leaders of the Taliban. Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler
for Obama's presidential campaign.
Also protesting in Egypt was Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the
anti-Israel Electronic Intifada website. WND previously reported
Obama spoke at pro-Palestinian events in the 1990s alongside
Abunimah. In one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for Palestinian
"refugees," Abunimah recalls introducing Obama on stage.
In May, Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who also sparked
controversy for Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, spoke at
a Chicago church to a gathering called by the Oak Park-based
Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine. The talk at the
church reportedly preceded a 1-mile walk of solidarity through
downtown Oak Park.
Close Obama associate
Ayers became a name in the 2008 presidential campaign when it was
disclosed the radical worked closely with Obama for years.
Ayers helped launch Obama's political career with a fundraiser in his
home. Obama served on the board of a Chicago nonprofit alongside
Ayers. The former terrorist later hired Obama to serve as chairman of
the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a job Obama later cited as
experience that helped qualify him to run for public office.
While at the CAC, Obama and Ayers both granted funds to the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
WND columnist Jack Cashill has produced a series of persuasive
arguments that it was Ayers who ghostwrote Obama's award-winning
autobiography, "Dreams from My Father."
Ayers and Dohrn were two of the main founders of the Weather
Underground, which bombed the New York City Police headquarters in
1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. The group was
responsible for some 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and
security infrastructures of the U.S.
Characterizing the Weather Underground as "an American Red Army,"
Ayers summed up the organization's ideology: "Kill all the rich
people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution
home, Kill your parents."
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,"
Ayers recalled in his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days." "The sky was
blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to
get what was coming to them."
Ayers brandished his unrepentant radicalism for years to come, as
evidenced by his now notorious 2001 interview with the New York
Times, published one day after the 9/11 attacks, in which he stated,
"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers posed for a photograph accompanying the New York Times piece
that showed him stepping on an American flag. He said of the U.S.:
"What a country. It makes me want to puke."
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