* Obama’s “Tangential” Friend, Bill Ayers
* Obama has NEVER condemed Ayers on his website, preferring to let Mainstream Media sources do his talking for him–many who take the “it was 40 years ago, what’s the big deal?” Approach
* What would Americans say if someone who was 8-years-old on September 11, 2001 ran for president in 2020 and whose good friend was–Osama Bin Ladin?
* Media continues to spike Bill Ayers-Barack Obama stories
[ABOVE: Bill Ayers, Chicago Magazine, August 2001]
“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.”
–Bill Ayers, summing up the ideology of the Weather Underground
Imagine a candidate running for President that had ties to a man and his wife who were former federal fugitives wanted for over 30 bombings during the 1970’s, some of whom they were personally responsible for: the New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.
During an interview on the Bill O’Reilly Show, Barack Obama attempted to disassociate himself from Bill Ayers, a former member of the radical 60’s and 70’s domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground.
Obama claimed that he “knew thousands of people” and then called his relationship with Ayers, “tangential”. DBKP took a look at just who Bill Ayers is, his past, and whether Obama was telling the truth about the “tangential” tango between himself and the former domestic terrorist, that Ayers was merely one of the “thousands” of people in Obama’s life.
We found the transcript of the show at the Chicgo Sun Times. Journalist Lynn Sweet’s “bio” on Ayers:
“Ayers spent 10 years as a fugitive–and now lives in Hyde Park with wife Bernardine Dohrn–also a Weather Underground fugitive. They faced federal charges when they surfaced, eventually dropped. Ayers and Dohrn–who runs a program at Northwestern’s law school–have become well regarded members of Chicago’s civic community. I wrote a column in April explaining how the past of Ayers—an urban education specialist embraced by Mayor Daley–did not bother anyone in Chicago by the time Obama showed up on the scene.”
Make note where Sweet states the federal charges against Ayers and Dohrn were “dropped” and that the two, Ayers and Dohrn, are now “well regarded members of Chicago’s civic community”.
“Guilty as sin, free as a bird, America is a great country.”
–Bill Ayers, Destructive Generation by David Horowitz and Peter Collier
The charges against Dohrn and Ayers were dropped, not due to insufficient evidence, but due to charges that the FBI used “improper surveillance”.
“You are wrong. Let’s start from scratch. Number one, I know thousands of people, right, and so, understandably, people will pick out folks who they think they can –”
–Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly Show, 9-9-08
Partial Transcript from Bill O’Reilly Interview of Barack Obama, 9-9-08
MR. O’REILLY: I’m sitting there, and I’m an American. I’m sitting there in Bismarck, North Dakota, I’m sitting there in Coral Springs, Florida, and I’m seeing Reverend Wright, I’m seeing Father Pfleger, who think Louis Farrakhan’s a great guy, I’m seeing Bernadette Dohrm and Bill Ayers, Weather Underground radicals who don’t think they bombed enough, I’m seeing MoveOn.org, who says General Betray Us, and I’m seeing you go to a Daily Kos convention — and this week, Daily Kos came out and said that Sarah Palin’s Down syndrome baby was birthed by her 15-year old with no proof — they put that on there — and I’m going, gee, that Barack Obama, he’s got some pretty bad friends. Am I wrong?
Obama: Now, on this Ayers thing which, you know, you’ve been hyping, Bill, pretty good –
MR. O’REILLY: Not that much. You know, you were on the Woods Foundation board –
SEN. OBAMA: Here’s the bottom line. This guy did something despicable 40 years ago.
MR. O’REILLY: You know, (it was ?) despicable last week when he said he didn’t do enough bombings. That’s last week!
SEN. OBAMA: I haven’t seen the guy in a year and a half.
MR. O’REILLY: But you know who he was. He’s on the Woods Foundation board. You know he is there.
SEN. OBAMA: Let me finish my point, all right. Here’s a guy who does something despicable when I’m 8-years old.
MR. O’REILLY: Okay.
-snip-
SEN. OBAMA: All right. I come to Chicago, he’s working with Mayor Richard Daley, not known to be a radical. So he and I know each other as a consequence of work he’s doing on education. That is not an endorsement of his views. That’s not me –-snip-
SEN. OBAMA: That’s pretty flimsy. Here’s the point, right. This guy is not part of my campaign. He’s not some adviser of mine. He is somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know. The problem that your viewers, your guys, your folks, the folks you champion, the problem you’re going through, the problems they’re going through with trying to pay their bills, trying to keep their job, trying to move up in this world, their problem isn’t Bill Ayers. It was Bill Ayers 40 years ago when he was blowing stuff up.
Was Ayers merely one of the “thousands” of people in Obama’s life as he stated to O’ Reilly?
During the interview Obama painted a very “slim” picture of Ayers, claiming that when Obama “met” Ayers, Ayers was “working with Mayor Daley” and “not known to be a radical” and that Ayers was “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”
According to Capital Research.org, Obama may “know” Ayers a bit more than the current Obama campaign meme. In 1995, the two former Weather Underground domestic terrorists, Ayers and Dohrn, held a fundraiser for Obama’s Illinois state representative run in their own home. Not just “any” fundraiser, but the very first fundraiser for Obama, for his first run for public office.
Another source of the Ayers fundraiser is an article from Investors Business Daily:
According to Investors Business Daily, National Review writer Stanley Kurtz has been stonewalled in his investigation into the relationship between Ayers and Obama:
“We have written extensively on the socialist past of Barack Obama as expressed in his proposals and associations, both personal and organizational. One of those associations is between Obama and Ayers, a leader of the Weather Underground, a ’60s terrorist group.
It’s true Obama has condemned and disassociated himself from the terrorist actions of Ayers and the Underground. But Ayers has never repudiated or apologized for his past, and if there’s one word that should always precede his name, it would be “unrepentant.”
Obama claims Ayers was just a “guy in the neighborhood,” but clearly he was more than that. Obama misrepresents his relationship with the man in whose home his first fundraiser was held. Leading the expose of the true nature of that relationship has been National Review writer Stanley Kurtz.”
Not only did Ayers hold Obama’s first political fundraiser in his home in 1995, Obama and Ayers had later ties with their association with the Wood Foundation:
“In the mid-1990s, Obama developed a friendship with fellow Chicagoans Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, university professors who hosted meetings at their home to introduce Obama to their neighbors during his first run for the Illinois state senate in 1996. Ayers (who contributed money to Obama’s 1996 campaign) and Dohrn had been leaders of the 1960s domestic terrorist group Weatherman, a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society. The pair had participated personally in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972. To this day, both have remained unrepentant about their former terrorist activities and their hatred of the United States.”
“Obama also had been a member of the Woods Fund of Chicago since 1993. In 1999 he was joined on this board by Bill Ayers, who would serve alongside Obama until the latter left the Fund in December 2002. (In 2002 — while Obama was still on the board — the Woods Fund made a grant to Northwestern University Law School’s Children and Family Justice Center, where Ayers’ wife, Bernardine Dohrn, was employed.)”
–Discoverthenetworks.org
During the interview Obama gave essentially the same meme about Ayers as what is posted on his Obama for President website. For a guy, William Ayers, whom Obama claims is just another of the “1000’s of people” he knows, and a “tangential” relationship to boot, the Obama campaign website saw fit to do a full page spread on Bill Ayers which was posted on April 17, 2008.
Read the rest: Obama’s Ties to 1970’s Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: Disassociation and Little Condemnation
by Mondoreb & LBG
Source: Obama’s Ties to 1970’s Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: Disassociation and Little Condemnation
Mondoreb blogs at Death By 1000 Papercuts. Interested readers can e-mail him at
mondoreb@gmail.com. All DBKP stories are filed under Mondoreb at BNN. This story was by LBG.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackSLANDEROUS! SHAME ON YOU!
Let’s not forget the six years Obama was on the Annenberg Project with Bill Ayers.
The Annenberg Chicago Project was deemed a failure in the final report. Ayers and Obama managed to throw away well over $100 million dollars on a failed project. Bill did manage to help his SDS Communist friend, Mark Klonsky with the money. I’m sure Obama made sure some of the funds helped his friends also.
Re O’Rielly’s interview of Obama. Not one mention or question re convicted Tony Rezko of Chicago slumlord repute. Why the omission of such a prime Obama “friend” and fund raiser? O’Rielly seemed more interested in an “ego trip” than unearthing any new factual information of Obama’s relationships.
SLANDEROUS? or truthful?? Truth hurts…
First Obama claims that over a TWENTY YEAR period, he never heard a single anti-American racist sermon from Jeremiah Wright … never noticed the anti-American racist literature in the church’s lobby … never agreed to the ‘Black Values System’ that all the church members swore to … never subscribed to the Marxist ‘Black Separation Theology’ espoused on the church’s website … never knew anti-American racist Louis Farrakhan, who the church awarded a life time achievement award to … and, never knew unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, when Obama launched his campaign from Ayer’s living room, sat on a board together, and whose wives worked at the same law firm
http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/10/devastating_vid.php
http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/9639
. Obama also worked with Acorn, who has been caught in massive voter fraud, in behalf of Obama. Obama obviously shares an anti-American racist, and criminal philosophy with some very unsavory people, continues to lie about it, and does not have the character, or integrity to be President of the United States of America !!!
Could Obama Be America’s First Defacto President?
Innocent Americans increasingly are sent to prison based on false evidence manufactured by police forensic crime labs. Now President Obama wants the power to incarcerate U.S. Citizens not on evidence, but for what they might do.
Compare: Two days after the 1933 burning of Germany’s Parliament Building, blamed on communists, Hitler responded with a powerful speech before Parliament. Hitler asked Parliament to suspend sections of the Reich Constitution that protected Citizens’ Rights and Civil Liberties. Hitler said the suspension was necessary so government could protect the homeland from being destroyed by communists. Hitler promised Parliament the Constitution would later be restored. After Parliament passed Hitler’s Discriminatory Decrees and Hitler signed it February 28, 1933, Hitler immediately used the news laws to abolished Parliament. See Hitler’s 1933 Discriminatory Laws below:
Obama gave a speech in May 2010, that proposed incarcerating in indefinite prolonged detention without evidence, any person government deemed a “combatant” or likely to engage in a violent act in the future; that would include U.S. Citizens “without evidence of wrongdoing.” With that amount power Obama like Hitler could arrest members of Congress, drag U.S. Citizens off the street and from their homes to be imprisoned indefinitely based only on Government’s claim they are a “combatant” or likely to engage in a violent act in the future.
If Congress approves Obama’s categories of people likely to engage in violent acts, overnight millions of lawful U.S. activists could be subject to arrest, Indefinite Prolonged Detention. When you examine Obama’s speech, it appears Obama wants retroactive power to incarcerate anyone government claims (prior) supported violent acts on the premise that person is likely to support violent acts in the future: U.S. activists would be extremely vulnerable because no activist can control what another activist or group might do illegally they network with domestically or overseas. Government would only have to allege a person; group or organization might commit a violent act in the future to order Preventative Detention of lawful participants with no evidence whatsoever. Americans would be afraid to speak out.
It is foreseeable any “individual” who writes on the Internet or verbally express an opinion against or entity of U.S. Government or its coalition partners could be deemed by authorities a “Combatant” or likely to engage in or cause violent acts: government too easily could claim an author’s writings inspired people in the past and will in the future to commit or support violent acts. It is problematic that indefinitely detained U.S. Citizens not involved in terrorism or hostile activities, not given Miranda Warnings or allowed legal counsel; interrogated, will be prosecuted for ordinary crimes because of their alleged admissions while held in indefinite “Prolonged Detention. Obama wants the power to override the U.S. Constitution. Obama wants the power to detain indefinitely any American without probable cause or evidence, based on conjecture someone might do something violent in the future.
Obama similar to Hitler is centralizing power in the federal Government by getting passed legislation the U.S. government could potentially use to intimidate and threaten corporations among others. Hitler got passed similar laws shortly before the burning of the German Parliament building blamed on the communists. Immediately after the fire, Hitler used his new laws to coerce corporations and influential Citizens to support passage of fascist legislation that suspended provisions of the German Constitution that protected Citizens’ freedoms and civil liberties. Obama is now approaching a position where he can use similar new laws, including the Patriot Act and 200 asset forfeiture laws to seize any corporation or individual’s assets; and force U.S. corporations and other institutions like Hitler did to support legislation that threatens or curtails rights of Americans.
More recently Obama has moved forward to crush Free Speech, silence his critics by pushing passage of HR 5175: this abomination will choke the 1st Amendment, denying the right of free speech to ordinary Americans. Under Title II: groups like Gun Owners of America and other groups including bloggers that only mention “public officials” within 60 days of an election, could be required to file onerous disclosures–and potentially have to disclose their membership lists—despite the Supreme Court ruling in NAACP v. Alabama that held membership lists like those of GOA’s) are off limits to government control. Is Obama’s support of HR 5175 similar to what Hitler did to shut up his critics? In the run up to Parliament passing his police state laws including the 1933 Discriminatory Decrees that abolished Citizen’s Free Speech, Hitler employed thugs to beat up reporters, arrest anyone who had courage to criticize the Fuhrer or his Nazi government or expose introduced legislation. Is Obama by supporting HR 5175 to shut up his critics, trying to take American to the same place?
Alarmingly the Obama Government recently employed a vendor to search Internet social networking sites to collect information about Americans that could potentially be used by this government to injure Americans, for example, if you apply for a federal job, your name might be crossed referenced by the Obama Government with comments you made at Websites against Obama; or if you make application at a bank for a loan the Government has control since the financial crisis, could your Internet comment(s) prevent you getting that loan? Obama’s monitoring of the Internet sites can too easily be used by Government to intimidate Citizens from speaking out. Obama Top CZAR Cass Sunstein prepared a 2008 paper that proposed spying on Americans, infiltrating groups and organizations to obstruct Free Speech, disrupt the exchange of ideas and disseminate false information to neutralize Americans that might question government.
See: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=121884
See Hitler’s 1933 Nazi Laws below:
DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE
Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7
In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:
Section 1
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Section 2
If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.
Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.
Whoever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.
Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.
Section 5
The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).
Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:
1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;
2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;
3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.
Section 6
This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.
Reich President
Reich Chancellor
Reich Minister of the Interior
Reich Minister of Justice
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