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Retired terrorist Bill Ayers, a kind of folk hero among today’s left, had a run-in with Washington Times editorial staffer Kerry Picket.
Picket’s encounter with the would-be mass murderer who plotted to bomb a crowded dance hall at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in 1970, was captured on video.
The newspaper reported this about the brief interview with the former associate of President Obama:
When questioned by The Washington Times during a lecture on racism, Mr. Ayers went ballistic. “Did you drink the kool-aid over at The Times or are you okay?” he asked. “What I’m saying is … do you actually have a mind of your own?”
Drinking the kool-aid.
That’s an odd choice of words for Ayers. The expression came from the mass murder-suicide carried out by Jim Jones at Jonestown, Guyana in 1978 when Jones forced his congregation to drink poisoned flavored liquid.
Like Ayers, Jones was an America-hating revolutionary Communist. Jones left the U.S. and created what he hoped would be a socialist paradise in the Guyanese jungle. When things went awry, Jones decided it would be better to slaughter his followers than allow them to leave. More than 900 people died.
Jones remained a revolutionary Communist to the end. On an audio recording of the mass murder in progress, he can be heard attempting to reassure his followers: “We didn’t commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.” (transcript here)
Jones used religion to advance Marxism; Ayers uses the academy to advance Marxism.
Two different homicidal activists sharing a common ideal.
Maybe Ayers’s choice of words wasn’t so odd after all.
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Pingback| 5.20.09 @ 12:00AM
Bill Ayers Should Avoid "Drinking the Kool-Aid" | But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Angel| 5.20.09 @ 12:16AM
I thought you were supposed to mellow out a little when you got old--not this old fart commie. He's just an old horse's ass now.
Nope| 5.20.09 @ 12:25AM
Wait... You're still talking about Bill Ayers as though he has anything to do with Obama. Hold on a sec.
...BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
(Wiping tear from eyes.) ...Ah. No, seriously though. You Neo-Cons have no actual ideas. You're screwed. Good night.
Pingback| 5.20.09 @ 12:52AM
Ed Driscoll » Bill Ayers Drinks The Kool-Aid links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
freeta goodholm| 5.20.09 @ 12:57AM
" You Neo-Cons have no actual ideas. You're screwed. Good night. "
Isn't neo-con crypto-fascist code for Jew?
MT| 5.20.09 @ 1:41AM
I don't know about the neo-con thing but Nope is definitely code for idiot.
Jim Treacher | 5.20.09 @ 3:17AM
"You're still talking about Bill Ayers as though he has anything to do with Obama."
Perhaps it would help if you told us which of Obama's denials we should believe, considering that they all contradicted each other.
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One thing is apparent about Willy Ayers. He's got a skin thinner than Obama's. He wants everyone to 'see' him as he sees himself. But how he sees himself denies the heinousness of his unapologetic approach to his sins against all of society {a society he hates}. He can't stand any alternative view because he never grew up OUT of his hate. It's his pathetic identity now, one he's trying to build into a media sensation that pays him his due in money and pop-culture respect. I don't think it's working out quite as he envisioned when comrade Obama won in Nov 08. {a small pleasure in the midst of Obama's New Amerika}
Tom G | 5.20.09 @ 9:10AM
As it happens, I just finished reading a book about Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang--the notorious Red Army Faction. Among other things, it reminded me that along with his other non-accomplishments, Bill Ayers was a dismal failure as a terrorist. He never really managed to kill anyone except his own comrades, whereas the RAF killed some 40 people over the years. Ultimately the RAF's leading cadres did the right thing by committing suicide in prison. But Ayers? He joined the establishment—from which cushy venue he continues to boast about his radical past. No doubt this pathetic self-delusion is what makes him the ideal role model for Obama-era progressives.
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