William Ayres, the unrepentant terrorist who hosted our new President’s first political campaign fundraiser—but who never spoke out before the election, no doubt for fear of jeopardizing Wonder Boy’s chances, has now broken his silence as detailed in a laudatory article in today’s Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111800007.html
Of course, Ayres thinks he is more sinned against than sinning. He laments that he was turned into “a cartoon and a caricature” and says that “This demonization of me, the creation of me as a fearsome person, is false.”
Was he a terrorist? Heavens no! What he did may have been “extreme” and he admits it was “illegal. But to call him a terrorist “stretches the definition of terrorism to everything you don’t approve of.” Well, Mr. Ayres has me there, I have to admit I don’t approve of setting off bombs in public buildings.
And Ayres knows terrorism when he sees it, he admits that the 9/11 attacks were “vile.” BUT he finds them no more vile than our troops clearing the terrorists out of Fallujah in the campaign against the insurgents in Iraq.
Of course, President-to-be Obama excused his association with Ayres on the grounds that the bombings he planned and executed took place forty years ago when Wonder Boy was a small Wonder Boy child. All ancient history—you see?
But can you imagine what Obama’s response would have been if one of McCain’s Arizona associates had masterminded the bombing of an abortion clinic or a black church in the South during the Civil Rights era? Such a friendship, however casual, would have damned the Arizona Senator irredeemably in the eyes of the Mainstream Media. Just a few years ago, a man in his 80s was tried for his involvement in a church bombing in Mississippi in the early 60s. I am sure this man, however, despicable his acts back then, is no more a danger to society now that is Professor Ayres of the University of Illinois. But the left does not hesitate to continue to hound those whose actions they consider to be evil, however, old and decrepit they may be or how distant their offenses. Note also the way the international hounded from country to country former President Auguste Pinochet of Chile, the man who saved Chile from Communism, for the alleged excesses of his regime.
But Professor Ayres is now respected and honored despite his attempts and those of his associates in the Weather Underground to kill and maim his fellow citizens. The MSM and the liberal elite in this country feel that while his actions may have been questionable, his heart was in the right place so while his actions may have been excessive, all is now forgiven. So Ayres gets to be Chicago Citizen of the Year, have three book deals in the works and, most disturbing, his “casual acquaintance” in the White House for the next four years.
