January 26, 2009

Unrepentant Terrorist Bill Ayers To Speak At University Of Michigan Tonight

Billy still denies lies about plotting to blow up Detroit police sites as well as other atrocities the Weathermen Underground committed while protesting the Vietnam War trying to overthrow our government.

Bill Ayers, leader of a 1960s radical anti-war organization who helped launch Barack Obama’s political career in Chicago in the 1990s then threatened to derail it when their relationship became an issue in the 2008 campaign, will be in Michigan Monday. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, are scheduled to make a free appearance at 7 p.m. Monday at the University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, Room 100. See www.shamandrum.com.

He talked Friday to the Free Press at length about the nature of terrorism and terrorists (He’s not one, but John McCain is and “I’m as much an American as Sarah Palin”), his relationship with Obama (“I would say he’s a guy in the neighborhood, as he said about me.”) and whether the results of the election mean the revolution is over. He denied knowledge of a 1970 Weather Underground plot to blow up Detroit police facilities.

Here are some excerpts:

Freep.com: You’re in town to talk about your book "Racecourse: Against White Supremacy".

Ayers: The book is a personal essay or memoir about our involvement over the last 40 years, 50 years even, of struggles around racism both in the eudcational[sic] system and the juvenile justice system. And it’s based partly on personal story and partly it’s a history. Partly it’s a reminder that this country has a long, long history of white supremacy. And that even though right now we’re witnessing an important shift against white supremacy, it’s not a fatal blow.

Freep.com: Both of you have been anxious to see reform, sometimes pretty radical and rapid reform. Do you have reason to believe now that there is some opportunity for that to happen that wasn’t there before because of the last election? more..

[...]Ayers: None that I know. Then, I don’t know everything.

Freep.com: You’re familiar with his allegations?

Ayers: No. You’re telling me this.

Freep.com: You’ve never heard of this guy?

Ayers: I’ve heard of Grathwol. I remember him. But no, I’ve never read his book. I don’t know what he said. You’re the first person telling me.

Freep.com: He said that in February 1970 the Weatherman built two bombs targeting the Detroit Police Officers Association building and the 13th precinct.

Ayers: Not true.

Freep.com: (Reading from Grathwol) “The instructions I received from Billy Ayers was that the bombs to be used in Detroit must have shrapnel and fire potential.”

Ayers: Not true. Not true.

Freep.com: And you’ve never heard those allegations before?

Ayers: No. Not those. I’ve heard a lot. But I try not to watch Fox News too much because I think it’s poisonous.

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