President Obama’s former associate Bill
Ayers and his partner-in-crime Bernardine
Dohrn, ex-leaders of the Weather
Underground terrorist group, addressed
a small group of the ragtag Occupy
Wall Street movement in New York City last week. They dispensed the usual
shrill, tired old leftist laments about AmeriKKKa being the modern equivalent
of the militaristic city-state Sparta. After declaring the United States to be “a
declining economic and political power” but “a virulent and expanding military
power,” Dohrn complained:
Yes, in many ways, national
security… it’s all the United States seems to have to offer. It isn’t jobs or
healthcare or public education or public parks or public libraries, it’s
security, security, security. So, we don’t
want that kind of a future. Occupy doesn’t want that kind of a future. We want
a future for the 99%.
Well, if it’s insecurity
they want, Ayers’ protégé Obama is certainly moving things in that direction. Dohrn
has a valid point about our declining economic and political power, since Obama
has steered us toward a post-American future of crushing debt and geopolitical
impotence, as well as slashing
the military budget. Insecurity indeed.
The star-struck handful of protesters listened intently as Ayers
picked up Dohrn’s baton and ran with it:
We are living in a militarized
society. That, that, it’s clear what the message is from power. The message is
that Occupy represents violence, and marginalization and insanity, when in
reality it’s the 1% that represents violence, and insanity and militarism.
Besides this ludicrous concept that America is a militarized
society and his class-war nonsense about the 1%, the evidence couldn’t be more
overwhelming that the Occupy movement does
represent anarchic violence and insanity in the form of a mob mentality. Ayers’
imaginary 99% does not suffer from “marginalization”; on the contrary, it is
the Occupy movement that is hell-bent on violently marginalizing the so-called
1% out of existence: “Kill the rich,” their signs demand. “Eat the rich!” “Only
the blood of the rich will stop Occupy!” These, along with “Kill your parents,”
are exactly the same sentiments Ayers endorsed in his previous lifetime as a Weather
Underground terrorist. Apparently becoming an influential university educator
hasn’t mellowed his anti-capitalist nihilism.
Not content to incite the Occupy automatons against “the
rich,” Ayers went on to voice this bitter, petty complaint about how American service
members were actually allowed to board his flight to New York first:
We’ve got a militarized society and
it’s become so commonsense that, getting on the airplane coming out here, the first thing they said was “Let all the,
uhh, let all the, ya know, uniformed military get on first and thank you for
your service.” And I said as I always do, “Let’s let the teachers and nurses
get on first and thank them for their service.” I mean, why is it
everything military has gotta be good and everything that has to do with actual
work, real work, not jobs, real work for people, that stuff gets discouraged
and marginalized?
Ayers has borne a murderous animus toward the military for
decades. In 1970, three of his compatriots were killed when a bomb they were
constructing accidentally detonated. That bomb had been intended for a dance
attended by hundreds of Army soldiers at Fort Dix. Ayers himself attested that
the bomb would have torn through “windows and walls and, yes, people too.” His
fingerprints were found at the site, along with other terrorist weaponry and
Marxist-Leninist propaganda. Two years later he participated in a Weatherman
bombing of the Pentagon.
Despite his outrage over our servicemen and –women being
accorded a modicum of gratitude, Ayers
shared with a few admirers his hopeful vision for the future:
I get up every morning and think, “Today
I’m going to make a difference. Today I’m going to end capitalism. Today I’m
going to make a revolution.” I go to bed every night disappointed but I’m back
to work tomorrow, and that’s the only way you can do it… We have to begin to
imagine a world without war, a world without prisons, a world without borders…
We can’t imagine a world without capitalism!? What the f–k would that look
like? But actually, I can imagine it, and I want you to imagine it.
Radicals like Ayers and Dohrn can think only in terms of destruction. They are incapable of creation, of creating wealth or security
or a workable future for all, which is a promise that only capitalism can offer.
That’s why when it comes to solutions, they can only propose zero-sum measures
like “redistribution” or dimly-imagined utopian fantasies like a world without
war, prisons, or borders.
In reality, when Ayers’ ilk hold power, the leaders occupy
the mansions of the rich and pack the prisons with their political enemies, at
least the ones who haven’t been rounded up and shot by sadistic cowards like
Ayers’ idol Che Guevara. Remember that Ayers and friends estimated recently
that it would be necessary to eliminate some 25
million people in “reeducation camps” in order to advance the revolution.
So when Ayers wants his
impressionable followers to imagine a world without prisons, what he really
means is a world in which there are no more dissenters left to imprison or
execute. That’s the world he still dreams of every night and gets up every
morning to work toward.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 4/11/12)
