Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Obama Revisits the Army Base Where His Buddy Bill Ayers Tried to Kill Servicemen. His jokes bomb.

◼ Obama is speaking this afternoon at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. This mouthful is known more commonly as Fort Dix - National Review Online

In 1970, Ayers summarized the Weathermen’s philosophy: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”

...Ayers, Dohrn, and the Weathermen went on a bombing campaign that blasted the Pentagon, the State Department, Gulf Oil’s Pittsburgh headquarters, San Francisco’s Presidio military base, and New York’s Queens Courthouse.

One of the Weather Underground’s bombs went off early, thank God.

Weathermen (Weatherpersons?) Ted Gold, Diana Oughton (Ayers’s then-girlfriend), and Terry Robbins, fatally detonated themselves on March 6, 1970. They were constructing a bomb inside a townhouse at 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village. Within the debris, cops discovered an anti-tank shell and 60 sticks of dynamite.

What was their target?

Were they better bomb makers, Ayers’s comrades would have set off a nail-filled bomb at a dance for non-commissioned officers and their dates and spouses at Fort Dix. As Ayers has observed, the bomb would have ripped “through windows and walls and, yes, people too.”

That bomb never went off, fortunately enough....



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