Weather Underground: Honoring the Cops They Killed - PoliceLink
For persons who have been granted the authority to give and take life, I see a frightening disregard for facts, truth and honesty here. Doesn't anyone care for the truth of a given situation? Or is following the herd preferable to being honest? Because a look outside the echo-chamber so many seem to prefer learning from will quickly reveal the following:
The Weather Underground was investigated ONLY for the 1970 bombing, including again in 2003 using advances in technology to find the bombers. No one from the WUO was indicted. The WOU took responsibility for numerous bombing, all of which were preceded by warnings to allow evacuation. Of the bombings claimed by WUO, not one person was killed.
Given these facts, it seems more likely that another of the many radical groups then protesting Vietnam, woman's liberation and black civil rights was responsible. The modus operandi of the Weatherman was not present during the murder of Sgt. McDonnell, and all subsequent investigations bear that out.
The author of the article states "This article’s only purpose is to honor those three fallen heroes. Plenty has been written about their relationship from both sides of the campaign, and I have absolutely no interest in exploring that relationship further."
But contrary to his own words,. the very next paragraph starts, "Ayers, who has long held a position as a college professor in Chicago, has a surprisingly nefarious past."
No interest in exploring "that relationship" further ? One would have to be both stupid and blind not to see that smearing Obama with the Weathermen brush is all he is concerned with doing, and using the "memory of fallen officers" is the way he's going to do it.
As for "honoring" their memory....Well, let's take a look at how honorable the man is, shall we?
Despite his claim that the WUO operated through the 70s and early 80s, they were in fact a group of 60's radicals whose main concern was the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. When the Vietnam War came to a close, so did any support they might have had, which resulted in their own demise soon after. Ayers and Dorhn eventually turned themselves in in 1980, both receiving only fines and probation --- hardly he kind of sentences one would expect had they been anywhere near as dangerous as the "murderous terrorists" depicted above.
The proof that our noble author has an agenda other than what he claims is the simple fact that the 1983 robbery and subsequent firefight he tries to pin on Ayers group, the WUO, was in fact committed by members of another group known as the Black Liberation Army. They were all caught, convicted and sentenced to terms that will not see them up for parole until the year 2056. The only connection that can possibly be made is that one member had at one time belonged to the Weathermen. As for who that member was, it is notable only in that this is the one who received the shortest sentence, namely only one 20 - to life-sentence. The reason she received less time is that she was the unarmed get-away driver of the U-Haul that was miles away during the botched robbery, and had already surrendered herself at the time the robbers, now inside the cargo area, opened fire killing Officer's Brown and O'Grady.
So the claim that the Weather Underground is responsible for any of these deaths, nevertheless specifically Ayers and Dohrn, is absurd. Not only is it dishonest, but it is being done using the memory of officers who he claims to be respecting. Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but to me....anyone who would seek political advantage using the bodies of fallen LEOs as stepping stones, then lying to their surviving fellow years later, no doubt banking on the fact that most of you are too young to remember what was happening at that time....is lower than low. It's despicable!
Then to somehow take n even greater leap and try to link this whole mess to Obama, a man who was all of 8 yrs old at the time, is bordering on criminal insanity.
The only connection between Ayers and Obama is a $200 donation by Ayers to his re-election campaign, including his membership on the same 8-man Woods Fund board, a position that once saw the group together at Ayers residence. Whoopee....
And what he isn't telling you is that Ayers was an aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley at the time. Is he ready to call Mayor Daley a terrorist? Why not? Having Ayers as his paid employee would make Daley the Bin Laden of Chicago! .....Or at least if we are going to use the same reasoning as this puke has done.
No, no. If there's anything to be pissed about it's people who would manipulate law-enforcement with such crass motives and deeds. In fact, it ought to be a crime.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Weatherman_actions
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1521312
http://web.archive.org/web/20060616133324/www.kathyboudin.com/facts...
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