“Hateful explicatives (sic)” are not something from which one should infer a “lack of inteligence (sic)”. The fact is that they result more often from a simple lack of imagination and not from a person being less than you. You may also think that it is the only way these people know how to explain their bitter frustration over the situation but that certainly is also wrong.

However a true lack of intelligence can be more rightfully ascribed to the person I assume to be Ayers’ fellow professor at the University of Illinois – Chicago. When you cannot spell correctly or properly construct sentences you have no standing for dismissing those who dissent from your opinions as being stupid. Your fundamental overarching elitism is showing through your thin veneer of erudition.

With respect to your last sentence I think it would have been far more accurate and honest of you to actually capitalize the ‘d’ in your “anti-democratic” to properly reflect the manner in which truly mean the word.

Returning to your basic thesis, it uses an infantile approach to debate the merit of a given position. You chose to sink to a process of simplistic unhelpful counter-citation. Can any given action or thought be made good if a subjectively worse action or thought is found with which to compare it?

Using your own theory of validation, since I too was present during the 1960’s and 1970’s and I also spell better than you do I must be better able to assess the discussion at hand. Given those facts, my position is that you’re wrong, I’m right and Ayers is a narcissistic, self-important equivocating fool.

Amazingly this is one time it appears that using your approach leads to a valid conclusion. When using this process to evaluate you the jury is still out…I think…

My point is lets don’t rewrite history. If you didn’t live during those times as I did, don’t believe everything the network news is spewing lately. I’m not saying that I agree with the actions of the Weathermen, but clearly they were not terrorists or murderers. You may not agree with their politics, but google the name Fred Hampton and then research the outcome in the courts years later when justice was sought. There were other motivations for the actions of the Weathermen other than just the war. Before you spout hate, please know what you are talking about. Because, believe it or not, our government isn’t always right, nor does it always conduct itself lawfully. And in either case, it is the responsiblity of the citizens to chasten it and lead it back to the tack of justice and freedom.

The hateful explicatives show lack of inteligence. That can be forgiven. Ignorance is another matter.

I await your hateful, uninformed, and intolerant (as in anti-democratic) responses.

“Judge not lest ye be judged.”

what am i being selective about? the weather underground? the 1960s and 1970s? iraq?
let me guess: leftists are selective about their recall of history and those on the right always, always speak the god’s honest truth and would NEVER make anything up or distort the “facts” to serve their own agendas? is that what it is?

if you’d like, i can cite sources next time, although i’m sure you’ll STILL try to convince me that i’m being selective. what a brilliant defense for the right.

hmm, i’m thinking:
- US and UN sanctions killed THOUSANDS of iraqis, if not over a million.
- the war in iraq has created thousands and thousands of orphans and widows.
- the US is the only country to have ever dropped The Bomb.

i think that’s pretty terror-inducing.

what’s more terrifying?

institutionalized, systematic violence that cannot seem to be stopped, even when a war is unpopular and the economy is tanking and people (including americans) are dying and the war has no end in sight and as always, brown people are brutalized and killed? the continued repression of dissent in this country? the ability of the US gov’t to spy on its own people WITHOUT a warrant and their total disregard of both domestic and international law? (i could go on and on.)

OR

bill standing up for what he believes in: social justice and an end to american imperialism?

i’d have to go with the first.
nothing has changed since the 1960s and 1970s. meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

and bill, thanks for the original post. i think it’s right on.