Still unrepentant: Orwellian Ayers writes New York Times op-ed

Two years before 1984 was published, George Orwell wrote an essay, "Politics and the English Language," that denounced, among other things, the mangling of language to suit political goals, particularly the odious ones put forth by apologists for the Soviet Union.

Bill Ayers, Barack Obama's unrepentant terrorist friend, learned from that essay, although Orwell was hoping readers would not follow the bad examples he cited.

In a New York Times op-ed published this morning, a put-upon Ayers has the gall to mention Orwell he continues to remake his disgraceful past.

I never killed or injured anyone. I did join the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, and later resisted the draft and was arrested in nonviolent demonstrations. I became a full-time antiwar organizer for Students for a Democratic Society. In 1970, I co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization that was created after an accidental explosion that claimed the lives of three of our comrades in Greenwich Village. The Weather Underground went on to take responsibility for placing several small bombs in empty offices — the ones at the Pentagon and the United States Capitol were the most notorious — as an illegal and unpopular war consumed the nation.

The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our effectiveness can be — and still is being — debated. We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war.

"Symbolic acts of extreme vandalism?" Sheesh, there must be some leftover radiation from the Manhattan Project in Ayers' Hyde Park.

About that Greenwich Village incident: Ayers' buddies weren't building a "symbolic" nail bomb, but the real thing. That bomb was supposed to have been detonated at a soldiers' dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey. Had the bomb been exploded as intendended, it would have killed dozens.

John Murtaugh was a child in 1970 when three gasoline bombs were "symbolically" exploded in his home, which is why he wrote eight months ago, "The Weathermen tried to kill my family."

Ayers' terror group attempted to detonate bombs at police station. They didn't go off. But had they "symbolically" exploded, the results could have been deadly.

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