Still unrepentant after all these years
Not the kind of thing I’d read after eating a large meal, as the combination of nausea and agita would likely overcome the power of even Zantac. But one brave soul from freep.com waded into the sewer and actually interviewed Bill Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist and Annenberg buddy of President Obama. If you have the stomach for it, put on your boots and go for it. For those who don’t, I offer these nuggets:
we are in a moment when the politics of 9/11, fear and loathing and paranoia and war have been repudiated.
Wow…I feel so much better now, knowing that we were simply being paranoid after Islamic terrorists took out the World Trade Center. I feel so much better knowing that, since war has been repudiated, those who would wage war against us have chosen not to do so now that Barack Obama is President.
We’ve been I think controlled in many ways by a dominant narrative or controlling metaphor … that our safety depends on militarization. To me that’s always been false, but it is patently obviously false now. And it’s a time when we can as a nation as a people redefine the controlling metaphor or dominant narrative. And I would argue that we’re in a time where the possibility of seeing a foreign policy based on justice or a foreign policy based on being a nation among nations becomes for the first time in a long time a real alternative.
This is what I was talking about when I referenced pseudo-intellectuals in my response to Mickey Edwards yesterday. The entire interview is laced with terms like “dominant narrative” and “controlling metaphor,” along with tortuous turns of phrase so characteristic of perpetual students obliged to find ever more complex linguistic formulations for what is essentially bullflop. He might as well have started chanting, “War! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” In a world governed since the dawn of mankind by the aggressive use of force, only a fool rejects the necessity of a strong military - and I know he said “militarization,” but he means our military.
Further on, this exchange occurred regarding Ayers’ terroist past:
Ayers: No, I don’t think we were wrong. But there could be some situations in which you could kind of map this out and think about the rightness and wrongness of it. For example, if you had the opportunity to interview John McCain, would this be at the front of the interview?
Freep.com: Would what be?
Ayers: The question terrorism and the question right and wrong. After all, he killed people actually from the air, innocent people. So would you be challenging him on that? Or is the fact that he did it under the rubric of legality, does that make it OK?
Got that? John McCain is the terrorist, not Bill Ayers. Countless computer keyboards have been tickled by countless fingers anxious to respond to this drivel. I can’t and won’t waste the time.
There is a word for Bill Ayers - a vulgar word, to be sure, but a colloquialism that describes him perfectly: scumbag.
Good Morning VietNam STILL to this day had it right.
“We Americans, we’re simple folk… but piss us off, we’ll bomb your cities.”
Seriously. NEVER in the HISTORY of the EARTH has anything short of Divine Intervention given a culture without sufficient forces to defend itself a way to be safe from those who would do it harm. And in today’s world there are more than enough people who are willing to do us harm.
And we’re back to the “Evil will not be sated” thing again. Oh joy, oh bliss.
Frankly, Mr. Ayers, if you feel so strongly about it, why don’t you go join them. Pfft, fat chance.
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What a MORON.
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Moron indeed. And he is teaching our kids. There’s a terrible thought. While he pretends to be discomfited from the attention, one can see he is actually enjoying it. The glory days are back. Put on some revolution muzak and break out the pipe bomb plans. He makes me sick. He’s about my age and I remember his and his Weatherpeeple’s acts of terrorism very well. He disgusted me then and he more than disgusts me now.
Oh, what a terrible man John McCain is! (kidding) He did what he was told to do. Orders. It was the Vietnam war for crying out loud! Ayers hit innocent people. He targeted a Judge in their own home for crying out loud……Oh brother. Ayers should be locked up. A technicality got that monster off. BTW, today I was listening to Edwin Star, War. Funny that you said the lyrics. It went very well with your point. Love how some people Justify their wrongs. A wrong is a wrong. I might be mad at McCain, but he is a hero. That is one issue that cannot be denied. He had to follow orders and he did just that.
Ayers is a coward. He can bomb innocent people, clinics and a Judges home with his kids there. Cowards don’t go to war and do a Just thing for our Country. Great post!