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I wish [Bill Ayers] would make a real apology for the harm he did to the antiwar movement and the left. Not another "regrets, I've had a few," "we were all young once," "don't forget there was a war on" exercise in self-promotion, but one that showed he actually gets it. I'd like him to say he's sorry for his part in the destruction of Students for a Democratic Society. He's sorry he helped Nixon make the antiwar movement look like the enemy of ordinary people. He's sorry for his more-radical-than-thou posturing, and the climate of apocalyptic nuttiness he helped fuel to disastrous results, of which the fatal Brinks robbery, committed by erstwhile comrades, was only the most notorious.
On Saturday's New York Times op-ed page, he announced that "it's finally time to tell my true story." And like his memoir, Fugitive Days, "The Real Bill Ayers" is a sentimentalized self-justifying whitewash of his role in the weirdo violent fringe of the 1960s-70s antiwar left. "I never killed or injured anyone," Ayers writes. "In 1970, 1 co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization that was created after an accidental explosion that claimed the lives of three of our comrades in Greenwich Village." Right. Those people belonged to Weatherman, as did Ayers himself and Bernardine Dohrn, now his wife. [Weatherman], Weather Underground,.completely different! And never mind that the "accidental explosion" was caused by the making of a nail bomb intended for a dance at Fort Dix.See the full content of this document
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Bill Ayers' B.S.
It couldn't have been easy for Bill Ayers to keep quiet while the McCain campaign tarred him as the Obamas' best friend, the terrorist. Unfortunately the silence was too good to last.
On Saturday's New York Times op-ed page, he announced that "it's finally time to tell...See the full content of this document
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