This Weatherman Blows

Bill Ayers is back for another 15 minutes and this respected scholar(?) is revising history.

Ayers claims the Weather Underground never committed terror. It’s not terrorism because it doesn’t target people.

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines terrorism as--the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.

Among the definitions of terror is--
violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands.

Reminds one of another Bill who had trouble with word meanings and the scientific community is united in that fact.

One of his former cohorts, Brian Flanagan, compared the group's activities to terrorism..."Armed robberies, terrorism, you know there's all kinds of things that went down."

Ayers further tries to whitewash the past with "Not only did I never kill or injure another person, but the Weather Underground in its six years did not injure or kill another person."

Is that so?

“On February 16, 1970, a bomb exploded at a San Francisco, California Police Department substation, fatally wounding Sergeant Brian McDonnell…. A second officer, Robert Fogarty was partially blinded by the bomb’s shrapnel… members of the Weather Underground, including Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, were prime suspects.

And...

On October 20, 1981… members of the Weather Underground undertook the robbery of a bank to finance their terrorist activities. During the robbery the group murdered an armored car guard and two members of the Nyack, New York, Police Department – Officer Waverly Brown and Sergeant Edward O’Grady, a Vietnam War veteran….several members… were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.”

Don't forget three of their ilk were killed when a bomb they were building, to detonate at an officer's dance at Fort Dix, blew up on them.

At a recent campus lecture, Ayers said...

"You cannot move forward as a society unless you engage in a dialogue with people you disagree with...you have to be willing to accept there are a range of opinions across the board."

This from a man who's group declared war on the United States in 1970.

Ayers probably doesn't know the meaning of the word irony either.