Do Known Terrorists Make Great Educators/Leaders?
It is a sad day when evil becomes our idea of good and good becomes our idea of unacceptable. Let’s first listen to this report on William Ayers, for example, to which some additional facts will be shared on the concept.
Ayers, as WMD has reported, was a key member of the radical Weathermen group – a band of revolutionaries who declared war on the U.S. government and the free enterprise system – during the 1970s and has written about his involvement in bombing the New York City police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,” Ayers wrote in his memoir, “Fugitive Days,” released the day before the Pentagon was struck again in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”
The New York Times reported that Ayers later clarified, saying he didn’t actually set the bomb, but was visualizing it to dramatize his participation in organizing the attack.
In a Times interview published Sept. 11, 2001, Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” He posed for a photograph accompanying the piece that shows him stepping on an American flag.
The Times also reported that when asked if he would rule out planting another bomb someday, Ayers responded, ”I can’t imagine entirely dismissing the possibility.”
Nevertheless, more than 600 educators have endorsed the letter, which dismisses Ayers’ terrorist past, fails to mention his more recent statements and asserts, “What is most relevant now is his continued engagement in progressive causes, and his exemplary contribution – including publishing 16 books – to the field of education.”
So, now a man whom should be on the FBI’s most wanted list, we find lauded as Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Does there seem to be something wrong with this picture? This is a man that is a real danger to America or any society.
This brings to mind how the renown Yasser Arafat was elected Charman of the Executive Committee of the PLO in February 1969. The PLO was a world-known terrorist group that bombed civilians, includingwomen and children ruthlessly. By 1992, Arafat made was honored to join in supposed peace proposals with Israel and by 1995, he was voted as President of the Palestinians. It was sort of shocking to see diplomats embracing him in the general media, and then to be awarded a Nobel Peace prize at Oslo.
Will history books be changed to educate our children that it is good to go against authority, think nothing of the value of human life, put your personal cause before even your country, and then they will have ashot at the reward of honor, in this twisted society? It might behoove us to consider what is happening here, in our country, right before our own eyes. A careful study of all the so-called “great” societies, will show that this path is the one they were on as they fell.
