Say Anything Blog

Rob,

Bill Ayers IS an ex-radical.  The Democrat party has moved so far to the extreme left that to Democrat true believers, Ayers and Dohrn nothing more than the aging fairy tale heroes of their youth… a kind of geriatric Peter Pan and Tinkerbell.

Of course, 30 years ago, Zell Miller, Joe Leiberman, and even John McCain, would have been considered mainstream Democrats.

It’s our party now… we paid for it, we own it…
- Eli Pariser, Director of MoveOn.org

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Here’s an Ayers quote from 2001…

Obama said that his association with Ayers doesn’t matter because he was only eight years old when the bombs were set. Does it matter that Obama was 40 years old when his friend, Mr. Ayers, said “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”?

It doesn’t to those who have drank the Change™ and Hope™ Kool-Aid. Think about that: it doesn’t matter that Obama is good friends with an unrepentant terrorist. And don’t you question their patriotism.

The Change™ is hatred of America. The Hope™ is the destruction of her ideals.

On April 18th, while defending Obama, Ayers proclaimed that he is still committed to “revolution.”

He basically reiterated his belief that America and Capitalism were evil institutions based on racism, empirialism, etc…

There’s nothing “former” about Ayers as a radical. He still remains committed to a Marxist revolution, but now he uses his position to indoctrinate future teachers.

Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo, Ohio-based Islamic charity, Kindhearts, which was closed by the US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all its assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising efforts for his newest cause - Barack Obama for President.

Seems like a patern is forming…

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6203178D-C782-42E2-8D56-765A3D7EDCD7

Obama should rethink his game plan. “President” is way out of his league. Granted he can motivate the disgruntled left but they do not represent mainstream Americans. The average “Joe/Jane” can see though his BS. At times he actually makes Hillary palatable to Democrats and considering the lack of character that they put forth over the last decade that isn’t saying much.

I would vote for Hillary over Obama if that were the only choice.  At least we all know she has trouble speaking The Truth.  Barak?  he is playing a game of hard ball ‘gotcha.  He and his wife seem to have large chips on their shoulders the size of Mount Rushmore.

Communism is evil

In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Much of the controversy about him is connected with his interview with the New York Times about his book was published, by historical coincidence, on September 11, 2001,[4] and opens with his statements, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” When asked if he would “do it all again,” Ayers replied, “I don’t want to discount the possibility."[3] Ayers wrote a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times on September 15, describing the interview as: “This is not a question of being misunderstood or ‘taken out of context’, but of deliberate distortion."[5] He has explained multiple times that by “no regrets” he meant that he didn’t regret his efforts to oppose the Vietnam War, and that “we didn’t do enough” meant that efforts to stop the war were obviously inadequate as it dragged on for a decade; the two statements were not intended to elide into a wish they had set more bombs.[6][7] The interview also mentions what he wrote in his book regarding Emile de Antonio’s 1976 documentary film Underground, about the Weathermen: “[Ayers] was ‘embarrassed by the arrogance, the solipsism, the absolute certainty that we and we alone knew the way. The rigidity and the narcissism."[3]

Let me guess Rob.  “Youre not buyin it”??  Yes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

Ayers said he was taken out of context, like Obama was!  So WHAT if he said he wouldn’t discount the posibility of doing it ALL again.  So what if he preaches the same radical shit today that he did back then!  See that!  I’m soo slick I just totally discounted your negative story about my heroes.  I’m SMART!

As Ayers wrote later, he took fire from Greene’s lectures on how the “oppressive hegemony” of the capitalist social order “reproduces” itself through the traditional practice of public schooling-critical pedagogy’s fancy way of saying that the evil corporations exercise thought control through the schools.

Greene told future teachers that they could help change this bleak landscape by developing a “transformative” vision of social justice and democracy in their classrooms. Her vision, though, was a far cry from the democratic optimism of the Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr., which most parents would endorse. Instead, critical pedagogy theorists nurse a rancorous view of an America in which it is always two minutes to midnight and a knock on the door by the thought police is imminent. The education professors feel themselves anointed to use the nation’s K-12 classrooms to resist this oppressive system. Thus Maxine Greene urged teachers not to mince words with children about the evils of the existing social order. They should portray “homelessness as a consequence of the private dealings of landlords, an arms buildup as a consequence of corporate decisions, racial exclusion as a consequence of a private property-holder’s choice.” In other words, they should turn the little ones into young socialists and critical theorists.

All music to Bill Ayers’s ears. The ex-Weatherman glimpsed a new radical vocation. He dreamed of bringing the revolution from the streets to the schools. And that’s exactly what he has managed to do.

The readings that Ayers assigns are as intellectually stimulating and diverse as a political commissar’s indoctrination session in one of his favorite communist tyrannies. The reading list for his urban education course includes the bible of the critical pedagogy movement, Brazilian Marxist Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed; two books by Ayers himself; another by bell hooks, a radical black feminist writer and critical race theorist; and a “Freedom School” curriculum. That’s the entire spectrum of debate..

How should teachers teach science, for example? According to one of the books, Ayers and Greene approved for publishing,

“The marriages between capitalism and education and capitalism and science have created a foundation for science education that emphasizes corporate values at the expense of social justice and human dignity.” The alternative? “Science pedagogy framed around social justice concerns can become a medium to transform individuals, schools, communities, the environment, and science itself, in ways that promote equity and social justice. Creating a science education that is transformative implies not only how science is a political activity but also the ways in which students might see and use science and science education in ways transformative of the institutional and interpersonal power structures that play a role in their lives.”

This is what I mean when I say Ayer’s is trying to pervert our K-12 education system. His efforts at indoctrinating teachers and students into radicalized Marxist revolutionaries continue to this day, and were in full swing durig the time that he and Obama were close associates.