William Ayers, No Regrets From Domestic Terrorist of Privilege

"No Regrets" by By Marcia Froelke Coburn from August 2001 Chicago Magazine is an adoring puff piece on William Ayers, former Weather Underground domestic terrorist and his bride Bernadine Dohrn.  Ayers, the privileged son of a Commonwealth Edison executive who attended tony schools, went to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, got angry and radicalized for no apparent reason and later lived live as a fugitive before turning himself in and beating the rap.  His charmed life of privilege continued as he today plays the faux revolutionary who didn't suffer a day in his life for anything and yet has an aggrieved attitude as he retells tales from his cowardly days as a piece of radical flactulence.

"Bill Ayers stomps on Old Glory" 

"Ayers and the Old Glory Boogie"

In 1969, they decided to "bring the war home" by staging a protest in Chicago during the trial of the "Chicago Eight" radicals accused of conspiring to cross state lines to incite a riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention here. (Their conviction was later overturned.) "The Days of Rage," as the 1969 protest was called, brought several hundred members of the Weatherman—many of them attired for battle with helmets and weapons—to Lincoln Park. The tear-gassed marches, window smashing, and clashes with police lasted four days, during which 290 militants were arrested and 63 people were injured. Damage to windows, cars, and other property soared to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Around this time, Ayers summed up the Weatherman philosophy as "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents—that's where it's really at."

Not exactly Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi - just a spoiled brat playing at domestic terrorism - not unlike the al-Qaeda members such as Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri - rebels without a cause or a reason for personal grievance - just an excuse to do violence against others covered with the fig leaf of some sort of warped self-imposed justification.  He apparently is blithely unaware as he writes of his heady days in his navel gazing memoir Fugitive Days.   

Ayers is now a well thought of, at least in the radical circles of University of Illinoir at Chicago, as an education instructor - which may say more about why with future teachers receiving instruction by this piece of cheese that student achievement has plummeted of late as he peddles his useless philosophy. 

It shouldn't be surprising, in this sort of atmosphere in Chicago, that Barack Obama would see nothing amiss with such a person doing a fundraiser for him or being his friend.