Old Biz: In 1969 Bill Ayers co- founded The Weather Underground. A Communist revolutionary group that conducted a bombing campaign in the USA. Radical bomber Jane Alpert (not in photo) criticized Ayers in 1974 for his callous treatment and abandonment of fellow terrorist Diana Oughton. At 28, she died in a blast and was identified by her finger. Ayers therefore receives low points for his reported generally fickle and high-handed treatment of women. Scores: 9 out of 10 in the bomb department; only 2/10 for limited PC awareness.
In 2001, Ayers published a memoir, Fugitive Days. Timothy Noah's 2001 Slate Magazine review says he can't recall reading 'a memoir quite so self-indulgent and morally clueless as Fugitive Days.'
Sol Stern, a longtime critic of Ayers has studied Mr. Ayers's work for years and read most of his books. Stern has also written critiques of Ayers's career as an education reformer for City Journal and elsewhere. His criticism in summary: 'Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer"
New Biz: Among the Prof's present interests are giving his blessing to the flotilla of boats filled with unknown goodies which sail as often as poss towards the coast of Terror.Org commonly know as Hamas of Gaza. Though in his mid 60's Bill's as keen as ever along with other activists and groups of similar persuasion. You won't be too surprised to hear, that they come from quite a variety of dubious pasts and present. But ahoy and avast there plank walkers! Shiver me timbers if the land lubber enemy is not already shiftin' aplent! (Fact: Israel on a daily basis transfers approximately 6000 tons of goods and materials into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing) So... are small fry deliveries really necessary? Now you might just begin to see that given the usual suspects who are involved with the so called flotilla project, the Prof and others just may have quite another agenda.
Note1: During the Weather Underground's hay day, it was infiltrated by an FBI undercover agent who spent a considerable time with them. In 2009 this agent gave an interview stating that Ayers wanted to overthrow the government of the United States. In the interview the agent, Larry Grathwohl stated: 'The thing, the most bone chilling thing Bill Ayres said to me was that after the revolution succeeded and the government was overthrown, they believed that they would have to eliminate 25 million Americans who would not conform to the new order'.
Note2: Italics are especially for the attention of Coldplay types, left leaning celebs and the many ill informed and bewildered flotilla loving idealists of all nations.
