Posted by
JTD on Friday, October 17, 2008 2:22:13 PM
During his last debate with Obama, John McCain brushed off William Ayers as nothing more than a "washed up old terrorist."
Such a cavalier dismissal underestimates the damage that a dedicated marxist continues to wreck from within our ideologically debauched educational system.
In the October 16, 2008 Wall Street Journal, Sol Stern, a Senior Fellow at the Mannhattan Institute, reveals some appalling facts about Mr. Ayers' more recent accomplishments. Mr. Stern notes, "In the world of the Ed. schools, Mr. Ayers' movement has established a sizeable beachhead. -- witness his election earlier this year as vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association, the nation's largest organization of education professors and researchers." (An unrepentent terrporist is VP of the AERA? Wait, it gets better.)
Or consider this: "Mr. Ayers was hired by the Chicago public schools to train teachers......" Though Ayers calls himself a reformer, Stern saliently notes, "In fact, as one of the leaders of a movement for bringing radical social justice teaching into our public school classrooms, Mr. Ayers is not a school reformer. He is a school destroyer."
Let's not lose sight of the fact that this man is a terrorist. Arrested in connection with multiple Weather Underground bombings but spared prison time on a technicality in the 1970s, Ayers chortled upon his release from jail, "Guilty as charged. Free as a bird."
This is the same Bill Ayers who, in his fourth trip to the marxist paradise of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela in 2006 said to Chavez, "We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution..."
This is the same Bill Ayers who in 2001 stood on an American flag for a cover photo of Chicago Magazine.
This is the same Bill Ayers who, in an interview with the New York Times in 2001 said, "I don't regret setting bombs, I feel we didn't do enough." And, when further pressed if he would do it again added, "I don't want to discount the possibility."
This is the same Bill Ayers who in 1970 planned the bombing of a dance social at Ft. Dix, New Jersey, with the intent of killing dozens of United States soldiers and their dates. (This was the bomb that detonated prematurely in a Manhattan townhouse, killing three members of the Weather Underground and sending Ayers and his terrorist wife Bernadine Dohrn into hiding.)
Yes, this is the Bill Ayers that Obama worked with on the Annenberg Challenge and with whom he wasted $150,000,000.00 on radical educational programs that a later Annenberg audit determined produced no educational improvements and no successful programs.
Yes, this is the same Bill Ayers, that Chicago Mayor, Richard J. Daley, Jr. -- for whom no one on the Left is too radical -- described as having "...done a lot of good in this city and nationally." So America's schools of education, whose students have the lowest SAT's scores of all disciplines in the United States, are also irredeemably marxcist and radical, and at the center of it all stands William Ayers. Before John McCain or any one of us, for that matter, are tempted to dismiss Ayers as a "washed up old terrorist" remember this: The vermin of the radical left NEVER stop gnawing away at the foundations of our house.
In 1970 Ayers, the bomb-trowing terrorist, was dangerous. In 2008 Ayers the the radical, ideolgue school reformer, is
even more dangerous!
THE MAELSTROM QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
(Hmmmmmmmmmm, who do you think is winning that race?)
The Maelstrom