Comments on: Bill Ayers To Speak At Busboys & Poets

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:44:29 +0000

He’ll also be at Georgetown University Law Center that afternoon, at 4:30, discussing his book and taking questions.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:25:35 +0000

# Odentex Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am

Anon @ 10:13: YOU need to get your history straight, besides the 3 people killed when their bomb prematurely exploded in Greenwich Villiage in 1970, three members of the group robbed an armored car in NY in 1981 resulting in the deaths of two police officers and a security guard. So other than SIX DEATHS, I guess you’re right.
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The Brinks Robbery in 1981 in Nanuet, NY happened during Obama’s Columbia U days. Ayers was also studying there at that time. Oh, and one of the guys still in prison from that incident is named Sekou Odinga. Yup. Odinga, as in Raila Odinga.

Amazing coincidences.

By: Revolted

Revolted — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:47:39 +0000

Normally I stop going to DC restaurants thanks to shoddy service and overpriced food, but now I get to avoid one for hosting a terrorist who is going to talk about urban school reform, which he’s totally failed at in professional life…and who just happens to be family friends with the guy that will be president. What a city. If only Reverend Wright would show up and share his thoughts on education like he did at the Michigan NAACP dinner.

By: Odentex

Odentex — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:36:49 +0000

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:05:28 +0000

Bill Ayers’s actions in the late 60s and early 70s were misguided and wrong. His actions since then provoke the question: is it possible, over thirty-plus years, for a person who never killed, or plotted to kill, anyone to make up for the sins he did commit? He’s been a force for positive change in our schooling system; his writing on education is fascinating and progressive (I read his book “To Teach” during my first year as a teacher, having never heard of his previous career on the left); and no, he didn’t say, in 2001, that he regretted he didn’t set enough bombs, he said he regretted he didn’t do enough to stop the war — meaning, he recognizes that what he did didn’t stop the war. He was wrong forty years ago. Is it possible he’s right now?

By: reuben

reuben — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:07:28 +0000

I hope some of you look up from your tekkie toys and come visit me in the old hippies home from time to time.

By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:05:03 +0000

Elementary school theorist? Has he actually ever taught in an elementary school? Didn’t think so. I know he was on the lam for several years.

By: Anon2

Anon2 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:27:45 +0000

A relic of the days when people cared enough about an unjust war that they went to some extreme measures. ~60,000 soldiers died in Vietnam.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:13:26 +0000

Some of us need to get our history correct. The Weathermen NEVER physically harmed a single human being in any of their attacks, and actually sought to avoid it using strategic planning.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:54:36 +0000

While I’m glad the Ayers connection didn’t stick to President-Elect Obama, I still find Ayers a repugnant little relic of, yes, post-hippie domestic terrorism. Why would I go see a man who plotted to murder folks like my father, a drafted US Army soldier, because of some delusional belief in revolutionary violence which never resulted in any meaningful change and probably set back progressive politics by 25 years?

The Baby Boomers’ days are over and done with. Our generation should discard the relics of that time to the dustbin and move on to more productive methodologies of achieving political progress.