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Old 10-11-2008, 02:03 PM
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Default Re: {OT} Bill Ayers and Timothy McVeigh

In article <u770f45i8kg5rgblabp4irfff559lbjlsl@4ax.com>,
Scott in Florida <MoveOn@outa.here> wrote:

> Both are terrorists....
>
> Both should be dead.
>
> Only one is.
>
> One still lives and writes books for the Dim's Barry...
>
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> All told, Ayers and Weatherman were responsible for 30 bombings aimed
> at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the U.S. "I
> don't regret setting bombs, said Ayers in 2001, "I feel we didn't do
> enough."
>
> In 1970, Ayers' then-girlfriend Diana Oughton, along with Weatherman
> members Terry Robbins and Ted Gold, were killed when a bomb they were
> constructing exploded unexpectedly. That bomb had been intended for
> detonation at a dance that was to be attended by army soldiers at Fort
> Dix, New Jersey. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plan
> been successfully executed. Ayers attested that the bomb would have
> done serious damage, "tearing through windows and walls and, yes,
> people too."
>
> After the death of his girlfriend, Ayers and his current wife,
> Bernardine Dohrn, spent the 1970s as fugitives running from the FBI.
> In 1980 the two surrendered, but all charges against them were dropped
> due to an "improper surveillance" technicality. Ayers' comment on his
> life, as reported by Peter Collier and David Horowitz in their
> authoritative chapter on Weatherman in Destructive Generation, is
> this: "Guilty as sin, free as a bird, America is a great country."


"improper surveillance" technicality. This is exactly the kind of
bullshit GWB is trying to get away from. In order to convict criminals
and terrorists they should not be allowed freedom based on some
jackassed technicality.
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