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Fifth Column
'No Regrets' -- Bill Ayers stomps on a US flag
2008-05-05
Long piece from the August 2001 Chicago Magazine, now making its rounds in the blogosphere. In the future, when you look at the 'Fifth Column' section of Rantburg, you'll think of William Ayers first.

Remember: in comments, the redact rule applies even to this reprehensible waste of human skin.
Posted by:Steve White

#22  Tom Roeser has the goods on Ayers, including this tidbit;
"The only strict rule of the Weathermen was they were to be polygamous"
which might explain this incident.
Posted by: tipper   2008-05-05 23:58  

#21  I was wondering how many 'rants' it would take to bring up Obama's name in this thread?!! Sorry to say, 15...with Sgt. Mom 'jugging the way' as usual!
Posted by: smn   2008-05-05 22:52  

#20  I hated sanctimonious pricks like this when they spit on my uniform in the 60's and 70's. I still hate them and probably will until the day I die. They only reason scum like him are still alive is they aren't worth killing.
Posted by: RWV   2008-05-05 21:31  

#19  #9 - University of Illinois/Chicago is NOT the same as University of Chicago. Chicago may not be any better, but they don't have this guy on their staff.
Posted by: Oldcat   2008-05-05 20:42  

#18  at least there's a white guy that they can blame it all on!

Swweeeeeeet! Sgt Mom's got the hammer today...heh
Posted by: Frank G   2008-05-05 18:57  

#17  I hope he lives long enough to regret the way he has conducted himself. I hope it comes back to haunt him .
Posted by: anymouse   2008-05-05 18:49  

#16  kill that son of a bitch
Posted by: sinse   2008-05-05 17:52  

#15  And this 60's retread is one of the Obamessiah's great and good buds...
Sorry, I think this, along with the Rev. Wright's rants (including the G*d damn America sermon) has just put a stake in the heart of BO's nomination.

You have to recall that the referenced article was probably part of the media build-up for this bastards' self-serving memoir, which had the good luck (or the bad, depending on how you look at it) to come out on 9/11.

I understand all of his signing events and his publicity efforts flat-lined, because of that historic event. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

And if this does sink the Obamessiah, at least there's a white guy that they can blame it all on!
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2008-05-05 17:47  

#14  Guys like this are the reason that vigilantes come to pass.
Posted by: Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707   2008-05-05 17:31  

#13  Why...no.

Dohrn plea-bargained to charges of inciting to mob action and resisting police officers. She was sentenced to three years' probation and a $1,500 fine. Ayers was not charged. Even then he showed a way with words: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country," he said.

One of the drawbacks of a democracy, I guess...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-05-05 16:18  

#12  Did Ayers serve time and if so how long? It always stuns me how the left can put scum like this up on a pedastool and then cry that people say they are unpatriotic.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-05-05 16:11  

#11  Where the 'imperalist' American militarist shoes are planted, re: Germany, Japan, South Korea, you have prosperity, democracy, and respect of human rights. All the anti-American neo-marxists of the 20th Century have to show is a 100 Million dead and the economic pit they've left for future generations. Parasites.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-05-05 15:44  

#10  Talk about a walking contradiction. This guy clearly never grew up. Like your average 5 year-old, he wants to have his cake and eat it, too.

As Victor Davis Hanson pointed out during an interview on the Dennis Miller show the other day, "Generally speaking, life is about choosing between bad and worse." Capitalism may be "bad" (i.e. not perfect) but the alternatives are far worse (i.e. take your pick of examples).
Posted by: eltoroverde   2008-05-05 15:22  

#9  Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago...

You have to wonder what this idiot has to teach anyone. Surely, the University of Chicago can find someone else that qualified to teach there. He paid no price for trying to bomb and tear done the U.S. system. He is a domestic terrorist.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-05-05 15:01  

#8  What a putz. As they only claimed to target federal property that makes it okay since it is only the tax payer that will ultimately pay for those property damages - fucking idiot. Even private property covered by insurance that is ultimately passed on to the consumer. Too bad the police didn't put a slug through his slimey head.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2008-05-05 14:26  

#7  I note he's hiding in an alley with only a cameraman, not in the open where people could see (And object).
not only a flag stomper, but a coward as well.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-05-05 13:17  

#6  I'm sure a lot of people will have 'no regrets' about pissing on this guy's grave either.

He's just desperately searching for relevance - and resurgence of his 'glory days'. Kind of like the guy who keeps watching his old high school football films where he makes the 'big catch'. Or John Kerry watching his old vietnam home-movies.

You know - the highlight of his entire life....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-05-05 12:43  

#5  How about a one-way trip to the Kalahari Desert?

O.K. - he could have a quart of water...

Does he like it better somewhere else - say with Castro, or is that this country isn't good enough - for him?
Posted by: Bobby   2008-05-05 12:39  

#4  If you are a former terrorist who is still proud of his terrorist work and still willing to stomp the American flag, that is no barrier to working in academia.

But, if you dare to hypothesize that there are gender differences in a small subset of the population that specializes in science, engineering and math, you can't work in academia and any speeches you make will be protested.

Similarly, if you worked for the US Govt and wrote a memo sketching out the general legal priniciples that affect illegal combatants, you will be harrassed and hounded at every opportunity.
Posted by: mhw   2008-05-05 12:21  

#3  The words, piano-wire necktie keep coming into my head.
Posted by: Snaque Untervehr9412   2008-05-05 12:11  

#2  Hey, why not? It's not like he ever had to pay a price for it. In fact, it appears it's worked out quite lucratively for him.
The fact that he's a self indulgent, hypocritical pig seems not to bother him in the least. There seems to be a market for that in certain aspests of society. Academia, for one...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-05-05 11:54  

#1  Well, I will have no regrets on the party I will throw the day he dies.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-05-05 11:50  

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