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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 422718" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p><span style="color: blue">I don't know why you keep trying to defend Bill Ayers: More on him from Wikopedia:</span></p><p> </p><p><em>Further information: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Weatherman (organization)</span></u></a></em> Ayers became involved in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">New Left</span></u></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Students for a Democratic Society</span></u></a> (SDS).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-8" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[9]</span></u></a> He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969. As head of an SDS regional group, the "Jesse James Gang", Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-dbjsh-6" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[7]</span></u></a> The group Ayers headed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Detroit, Michigan</span></u></a> became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-dbjsh-6" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[7]</span></u></a> "During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year [1969]", disaffected former Weatherman member <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathlyn_Platt_Wilkerson" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Cathy Wilkerson</span></u></a> wrote in 2001. Ayers had previously become a roommate of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Robbins" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Terry Robbins</span></u></a>, a fellow militant, Wilkerson wrote. Robbins would later be killed while making a bomb.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-9" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[10]</span></u></a> In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-dbjsh-6" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[7]</span></u></a> Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Haymarket Riot</span></u></a> confrontation between labor supporters and the police.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Jacobs-10" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[11]</span></u></a> The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Expressway" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Kennedy Expressway</span></u></a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Avrich431-11" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[12]</span></u></a> (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-12" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[13]</span></u></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Avrich431-11" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[12]</span></u></a> Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Avrich431-11" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[12]</span></u></a>) Ayers participated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Days of Rage</span></u></a> riot in Chicago in October 1969, and in December was at the "War Council" meeting in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Flint</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Michigan</span></u></a>. Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant in the Weatherman group from the fall of 1969 to the spring of 1970, stated that "Ayers, along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Bernardine Dohrn</span></u></a>, probably had the most authority within the Weatherman".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-lgbda12-13" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[14]</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">I believe this refutes your futile attempt to defend the nut.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 422718, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]I don't know why you keep trying to defend Bill Ayers: More on him from Wikopedia:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [I]Further information: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Weatherman (organization)[/COLOR][/U][/URL][/I] Ayers became involved in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]New Left[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Students for a Democratic Society[/COLOR][/U][/URL] (SDS).[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-8"][U][COLOR=#800080][9][/COLOR][/U][/URL] He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969. As head of an SDS regional group, the "Jesse James Gang", Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-dbjsh-6"][U][COLOR=#800080][7][/COLOR][/U][/URL] The group Ayers headed in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Detroit, Michigan[/COLOR][/U][/URL] became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-dbjsh-6"][U][COLOR=#800080][7][/COLOR][/U][/URL] "During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year [1969]", disaffected former Weatherman member [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathlyn_Platt_Wilkerson"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Cathy Wilkerson[/COLOR][/U][/URL] wrote in 2001. Ayers had previously become a roommate of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Robbins"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Terry Robbins[/COLOR][/U][/URL], a fellow militant, Wilkerson wrote. Robbins would later be killed while making a bomb.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-9"][U][COLOR=#800080][10][/COLOR][/U][/URL] In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-dbjsh-6"][U][COLOR=#800080][7][/COLOR][/U][/URL] Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Haymarket Riot[/COLOR][/U][/URL] confrontation between labor supporters and the police.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Jacobs-10"][U][COLOR=#800080][11][/COLOR][/U][/URL] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Expressway"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Kennedy Expressway[/COLOR][/U][/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Avrich431-11"][U][COLOR=#800080][12][/COLOR][/U][/URL] (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-12"][U][COLOR=#800080][13][/COLOR][/U][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Avrich431-11"][U][COLOR=#800080][12][/COLOR][/U][/URL] Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Avrich431-11"][U][COLOR=#800080][12][/COLOR][/U][/URL]) Ayers participated in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Days of Rage[/COLOR][/U][/URL] riot in Chicago in October 1969, and in December was at the "War Council" meeting in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Flint[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Michigan[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant in the Weatherman group from the fall of 1969 to the spring of 1970, stated that "Ayers, along with [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Bernardine Dohrn[/COLOR][/U][/URL], probably had the most authority within the Weatherman".[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-lgbda12-13"][U][COLOR=#800080][14][/COLOR][/U][/URL] [COLOR=blue][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]I believe this refutes your futile attempt to defend the nut.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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