If I asked you........

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Registered: 10-17-2008
If I asked you........
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Fri, 10-24-2008 - 3:08am

Who is the last group of people to say ‘History doesn’t matter.’

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 2:06pm

>"trying to kill 25,000,000 people"<


"Please explain where you're getting this number.


I'm not

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 2:16pm

Every single teacher that signed this petition should be fired today due to lack of critical thinking skills.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 3:43pm

>>It seems to me that noone wants any discussion of anything. No questioning at all.<<

Tootired, I think I can speak for MOST of us when I say that this horse has been beaten dead. This has been discussed on many threads. I can say that I've given my opinion on this and so has most of this board. How many ways can you skin a cat? When they say Ayers was sorry he didn't do enough, it was taken out of context. It was a blurb in a paragraph. I posted the whole article but do you think for one minute that it changed anyone's mind whose mind was already made up? We have all done things in our past when we were younger that we are not proud of.

What is sad is that here we are, days away from this election and the right is still harping about Ayers. That's OK, good luck with it.

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 4:12pm
ITA, ab.
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Registered: 10-23-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 4:40pm
There is current buzz that Ayers and possibly the entire underground were not anti-war protestors at all, but Stalinists taking cover under the guise of war protestors to operate. I don’t know enough about Ayers to say, but this bit about killing 25 million capitalists doesn’t sound like the plannings of pacifists to me.


I think it's been pretty well-established that the Weather Underground were not pacifists. That much has been known for a long time - ever since they detonated their first bomb, I'd guess. So that's not exactly news. But advocating violence (specifically, bombing) doesn't automatically make them "Stalinists." If it did, then G. Gordon Liddy'd be a Stalinist as well. So would Eric Robert Rudolph. Bombing is a tactic, not a philosophy or point of view.

And I don't mean to sound like a humbug but I've learned to distrust "current buzz" eleven days from a crucial election, especially when it comes from unnamed conservative sources. Perhaps especially on a day when one such conservative "buzzer" turns out to have carved a "B" into her OWN face to try to blame blacks, or Obama supporters or....whomever.

Your own "take" on William Ayers' psyche, or his goals or morals, may or may not resemble the reality of the man's thoughts and sentiments. However, what we can assess quite clearly are Ayers' actions in the time since he resurfaced after the Weather Underground days. Feel free to ascribe to them any motives you wish (I see you have already done so, LOL), but - not to put too fine a point on it - there's a reason we arrest people for bombing the Pentagon, but not for thinking about it. There's a reason people go to jail for murdering their spouse, but not for thinking about it. Even if every one of your ideas about this particular tiger not having changed his stripes after forty years is 100% accurate, it's a bit like what many social conservatives say about the gays: I don't mind that they're gay, as long as they never act on those feelings. Hehe.

Oh....and? Confederate Yankee? Honestly, Perry, that's not exactly a top-rung source there. Not that I dispute the transcript of the video clip in Yankee's post - it speaks for itself. I just think that the whole "relevance" issue is where the whole "D-List blogger" thing comes in. Let me see if I can translate Yankee's words here (courtesy of the fabulous Sadly, NO!:

Some obama genocide unnamed individuals allegedly said some despicable things at an unspecified obama death camp time, presumably in the late 1960s or early 1970s, according to an account given perhaps a dozen years obama terrorist sleeper agent later by a police informer in a YouTube clip from auschwitz a documentary film bill ayers time travel menace that I obama haven’t communism seen nazi holocaust.


Sounds about par for the course for ol' Confederate Yankee:


Konichiwa, Bitches!
McCain LOST???

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 4:46pm
Those teachers are a perfect demonstration of what's wrong with our education system today. I'm afraid our kids are being taught by morons.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 4:47pm
Do not question...simply obey...Obama...obey...
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 4:48pm
LOL! I love the fringe-dwellers futile attempts to turn Liddy into a terrorist like Ayres. Too funny.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 4:53pm

Oh yes, all those morons from

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-15-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 4:59pm

>>>Ayers is no different.

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