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Bill Ayers Defends Weather Underground Bombings, "Can't Compare Them To Boston Bombing"

Unbelievable..

Via Beacon Journal:

KENT: Bill Ayers says people can't equate the bombings that he and others in the Weather Underground did 40 or so years ago with the April 15 twin bombings in Boston that killed three people.

"Six thousand a week being killed and I destroyed some property. Show me the equivalence. You should ask John McCain that question … I'm against violence."

Ayers, a keynote speaker at Saturday's annual May 4 commemoration of the National Guard shootings at Kent State in 1970 that left four students dead, spoke briefly after giving his talk before an estimated 350 people on the university's Commons.

There is no relationship at all between what Weather Underground members did and the bombings that two brothers allegedly committed on April 15 in Massachusetts, Ayers said in response to a reporter's question. No one died in the Weather Underground bombings.

"How different is the shooting in Connecticut from shooting at a hunting range?" Ayers said. "Just because they use the same thing, there's no relationship at all."

Ayers, a retired professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, co-founded the anti-Vietnam War Weather Underground group that bombed the U. S. Capitol, the Pentagon and other buildings in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s. The radical Weather Underground took its name from lyrics in a Bob Dylan song.

The United States is the most violent country that has ever been created, Ayers said.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., committed daily war crimes in Vietnam "and I get asked about violence when what I did was some destruction of property to issue a scream and cry against an illegal war in which 6,000 people a week are being killed," Ayers said. "Six thousand a week being killed and I destroyed some property. Show me the equivalence. You should ask John McCain that question … I'm against violence."

"To conflate a group of fundamentalist people [in Boston] who are nihilistic in some way with a group of people who spent their lives trying to oppose the murder of 6,000 people a week … and still the killing went on. And still the killing went on. What would you have done?" Ayers said. "There's no equivalence [with Boston]. Property damage. That's what we did."

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Property damage? For those who may not recall, The Weather Underground were the "terrorists" of the 60s and early seventies, along with aligned group, the Black Panthers. WU bombed multiple buildings, including the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon.

They were suspected in the other bombings, including one that killed a police officer in San Francisco.

Three of their members were killed when they were preparing a bomb loaded with nails (much like the pressure cooker bombs used in  Boston) to blow up at a dance at Fort Dix in order to kill and maim as  many military as they could.

What happened to Bill Ayers? Despite admitting to participation in bombings, including those at the Capitol and the Pentagon, he was never punished. He became a professor, has inculcated how many others in his hatred for this country and has even said he "didn't do enough".