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"..it’s hard to believe that University of Illinois Professor William Ayers has terrorized anyone lately. He is certainly vindicated by history in his opposition to the real terror of the time: the Vietnam War."

I guess your parents weren't targeted for murder by the weather underground.

Ayers is now, as he was- a murderous criminal. Unconvicted but guilty. Your support of him speaks more to your ignorance than his sick hatred of America.

Ayers bomb building "expertise" led to the death of his friends- thankfully that one never killed anyone else.

"His letter sounded so reminiscent of the things I used to hear coming home from Chapel Hill in the 60s."

WJ says "I guess your parents weren't targeted..." and "Your support of him speaks more to your ignorance than his sick hatred of America."

WJ, it sounds like Peter is probably an adult student at UNCG since he was around in the 60s. If so, he certainly isn't guilty of ignorance, at least not the youthful kind. Perhaps, you assumed he was a wet behind the ears kid.

What else have you assumed that may not be true?

Based on your knee jerk reaction to his letter, I am assuming that perhaps you are letting your own "sick hatred" get in the way of considering any point of view other than your own. Am I wrong?

Read the supportbillayers endorsement site. Here is how they 'splain away his bombing activities:

"It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans. His participation in political activity 40 years ago is history;..."

Bombing buildings is considered "political activity". I guess that makes the late Tim McVeigh a political activist as well.

Socrates challenged the status quo of govt. in his time but I don't believe he resorted to violence to make his point.

No use arguing with the new patriots, Ayers and his ilk are deserving of a place on Rushmore in their book. Who knows...if he had been more successful in offing a few pigs, he too, may have a day of no work in his honor...

Miktay,

I did a little mental math- I will be charitible, and assume that it would have been around 1968 that he was coming back from Apple Chill. That's about when things really began to heat up (I remember the atmosphere very well). If he was attending school there, he was probably a Junior or Senior at the time, to have noticed anything but the fuzzy alcohol and drug induced visions of hippie chicks that befuzzled the Frosh and Sophs. Unless he was a wunderkind, he would have then been about 20. That would make Mr. Deane about sixty, and my senior by several years.
How about it, Peter- am I close?
Perhaps I should have substituted "friends" or "ROTC classmates" for parents.
I will leave the knee jerks to those who invented the response.

Curiously enough, #4291 is registered to Donna Adair Breault of Georgia State University. A search of all the other signatories for both Peter and Deane does not show your name, Mr. Deane- perhaps you should try again? Or are you Ms. Breault using a pseudonym?

I know, I'm spending waaaayyyyy too much time on this one. But it is a real stress reliever after a long day of banging away at the keyboard.

Mr. Deane,

Sounds like your teacher on Terrorisn at UNCG poured the kool aid and you blindly gulped it down.

William Ayers and his domestic terrorism is in no way vindicated by history. To the contrary he has blood on his hands.

Yes, Ayers and his ilk were directly responsible for the 2 million innocent souls who were murdered by Pol Pot and his Communist butchers Cambodian Khmer Rouge in an effort to eliminate those suspected of free-market activities. Were you exposed to that fact in your indoctrination course?

I included this in my comment to Jason Barbour's letter but for your benefit I'll repeat it.

" William Ayers Is Still Relevant: A question of manhood" by Nichloas Guariglia

http://papundits.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/why-william-ayers-is-still-relevant/

"Overlook for a moment how bizarre and radical the Ayers-Obama education “reform” actually was — so radical Hugo Chávez praised it personally to Ayers during a meeting in Venezuela — and instead focus on Mr. Ayers himself.

Ask yourself: if a man who bombed the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, police stations, declared war against the United States, told children to kill their parents, wanted to bring upon a communist revolution across the country, only to get off on a technicality — and today says he wishes he bombed more — was in your company, would you look him in the eye? Would you shake his hand? Would you launch your career from his living room? Would you serve on multimillion dollar boards with him? Would you keep in frequent and friendly contact with him via phone and e-mail until 2005 — at the least — four years after 9/11, when Ayers asserted he was unrepentant for bombing whom he bombed?

Do you know anyone who would have behaved like that? Do you know anybody like our next president?

On a personal level, if a punk like Ayers requested my services, or wanted to further advance my career, I’d do some serious soul-searching. I don’t care if he wanted to begin a joint-venture to help old ladies cross the street. I would very impolitely point my finger in his face, tell him what I thought about him, and walk out of the room — all out of solidarity with the fellow countrymen he bombed and doesn’t feel bad about bombing.

That is how most Americans would react. That is how most men — real men, self-confidant and aware of their surroundings — would react."

Peter, perhaps you should consider having your name removed from that shameful petirion.

Forget Mt. Rushmore, Ayers is tattooed on my right shoulder blade, choking a baby no less.

That's right above the Ole Red, White, and Blue with hammers and sickles instead of stars.

I mean, the new patriotism is totally hardcore.

rufus and rahrah, tie dead heat.

Memo to Peter Deane or whoever you are.

Please tellus the name of you instructor on Terrorism so that we may send him this:

"The Other Side of Genocide"

http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/12/05/the-other-side-of-genocide