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August 23, 2008
University of Illinois To Release Obama Records Regarding Ayers
University of Illinois to release Obama records
WASHINGTON (AP)
The University of Illinois said Friday it is releasing records of Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization linked to former 1960s radical William Ayers.
Supporters of John McCain have been trying to exploit the tie between Obama and Ayers, with a conservative group spending $2.8 million on an ad focusing on Ayers. Ayers' Weatherman group took credit for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
The records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an organization that Obama chaired and that Ayers co-founded, will be made available to the public Tuesday, the University of Illinois at Chicago said in a statement.
On Monday, National Review magazine posted an online article saying the university had initially declared that the records were open to inspection but that the university subsequently reversed its position.
On Tuesday, the university said that there had been a misunderstanding about the status of the collection.
The unidentified donor of the records notified the university about the absence of a signed ownership agreement last week.
The donor's only concerns regarding the collection are due to personal information that could include names, confidential salary information and even Social Security numbers, a university spokesman said at the time.
In its latest statement, the institution said that it now has legal authority to allow public access to the material.
In the 1990s, Ayers was instrumental in starting the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was awarded nearly $50 million by a foundation to help reform Chicago schools. Ayers is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Obama and Ayers have other ties.
Ayers held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s. Ayers and Obama live in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
Ayers and Obama served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002.
The new ad sponsored by American Issues Project says that Obama and Ayers served together "on a left-wing board. Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?"
One of the board members at American Issues Project, Ed Failor Jr., was a paid consultant for McCain's campaign in Iowa last year.
In April, Obama said he "deplored" Ayers' actions in the 1960s and that "by the time I met him, he is a professor of education at the University of Illinois. We served on a board together that had Republicans, bankers, lawyers, focused on education."
Wild Thing's comment...........
Why the sudden change of heart...did they get a call from Clinton Inc.?
...The University of Illinois said Friday it is releasing records...
There is one word missing in this article though maybe on purpsose not sure.....the word missing -- "all records".
I wonder how many are missing, cleansed and redacted?
They better put an extra fire alarm in that university building over the weekend.
I did a search on Wikipedia on these folks last night and there were too many to easily count: Here is the list (links are to original article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)
This is what we know:
How many buildings did Bill Ayers and his wife try to blow up?
Chronology of events
18-22 June, 1969 – SDS National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois. Publication of "Weatherman" founding statement. Members seize control of SDS National Office.
We are talking about TRAITORS and TERRORISTS who banded together with our enemies in time of war:--- Wild Thing side note hereJuly, 1969 – Members Bernardine Dohrn, Eleanor Raskin, Dianne Donghi, Peter Clapp, David Millstone and Diana Oughton travel to Cuba and meet representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments.
August 1969 – Weatherman member Linda Sue Evans travels to North Vietnam. Weatherman activists meet in Cleveland, Ohio, in preparation for "Days of Rage" protests scheduled for October, 1969 in Chicago.
4 September 1969 – Female members converge on South Hills High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they run through the school shouting anti-war slogans and distributing literature promoting the “National Action.” The term "Pittsburgh 26" refers to the 26 women arrested in connection with this incident.
24 September 1969 – A group of members confront Chicago Police during a demonstration supporting the "National Action," and protesting the commencement of the Chicago Eight trial stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
7 October 1969 – The Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago is bombed; The Weathermen later claim credit for the bombing in their book, Prairie Fire.
8 October-11, 1969 – The "Days of Rage" riots occur in Chicago, damaging a large amount of property. 287 Weatherman members are arrested, and some become fugitives when they fail to appear for trial in connection with their arrests.
November-December, 1969 – A small number of Weatherman members join the first contingent of the Venceremos Brigade (VB) that departs for Cuba to harvest sugar cane.
6 December 1969 – Bombing of several Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO claims responsibility in Prairie Fire, stating it is a protest of the fatal police shooting of Illinois Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on 4 December 1969.
27 December-31, 1969 – The Weathermen hold a "War Council" in Flint, Michigan, where they finalize their plans to change into an underground organization that will commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO).
February, 1970 – The WUO closes the SDS National Office in Chicago, concluding the major campus-based organization of the 1960s. The first contingent of the VB returns from Cuba and the second contingent departs. By mid-February the bulk of the leading WUO members go underground.
13 February 1970 - Several police vehicles of the Berkeley, California, Police Department are bombed in the police parking lot; 16 February 1970: A bomb is detonated at the Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen. No organization claims credit for either bombing.
March, 1970 – Warrants are issued for several WUO members, who become federal fugitives when they fail to appear for trial in Chicago.
6 March 1970 – 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered in the 13th Police District of Detroit, Michigan. During February and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, for the purpose of bombing a police facility.[citation needed]
6 March 1970 – WUO members Theodore Gold, Diana Oughton, and Terry Robbins are killed in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, when a nailbomb they were constructing detonates. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
30 March 1970 – Chicago Police discover a WUO "bomb factory" on Chicago’s north side. A subsequent discovery of a WUO "weapons cache" in a south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city.
April, 1970 – The FBI arrests WUO members Linda Sue Evans and Dianne Donghi are arrested in New York.
2 April 1970 – A federal grand jury in Chicago returns a number of indictments charging WUO members with violation of federal anti-riot laws. Also, a number of additional federal warrants charging "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution" are returned in Chicago based on the failure of WUO members to appear for trial in local cases. (The Anti-riot Law charges were later dropped in January, 1974.)
10 May 1970 – The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C. is bombed.[citation needed]
21 May 1970 – The WUO releases its "Declaration of a State of War" communique under Bernardine Dohrn's name.
6 June 1970 – In a letter, the WUO claims credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice, although no explosion has occurred. Months later, workmen locate an unexploded bomb.[citation needed]
9 June 1970 - The New York City Police headquarters is bombed by Jane Alpert and accomplices. The Weathermen state this is in response to "police repression."[citation needed]
23 July 1970 – A federal grand jury in Detroit, Michigan, returns indictments against a number of underground WUO members and former WUO members charging violations of various explosives and firearms laws. (These indictments were later dropped in October, 1973.)
27 July 1970 - The United States Army base at The Presidio in San Francisco is bombed on the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. [NYT, 7/27/70]
12 September 1970 – The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary escape from the California Men's Colony prison.
8 October 1970 - Bombing of Marin County courthouse. WUO states this is in retaliation for the killings of Jonathan Jackson, William Christmas, and James McClain. [NYT, 8/10/70]
10 October 1970 - A Queens traffic-court building is bombed. WUO claims this is to express support for the New York prison riots. [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]
14 October 1970 - The Harvard Center for International Affairs is bombed. WUO claims this is to protest the war in Vietnam. [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30]
December, 1970 – Fugitive WUO member Caroline Tanker, who fled the country for Cuba, is arrested by the FBI in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fugitive WUO member Judith Alice Clark is arrested by the FBI in New York.
1 March 1971 - The United States Capitol is bombed. WUO states this is to protest the invasion of Laos. President Richard M. Nixon denounces the bombing as a "shocking act of violence that will outrage all Americans." [NYT, 3/2/71]
April, 1971 – FBI agents discover an abandoned WUO "bomb factory" in San Francisco, California.
29 August 1971 - Bombing of the Office of California Prisons, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of George Jackson. [LAT, 8/29/71]
17 September 1971 - The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, New York is bombed, as per the WUO to protest the killing of 29 inmates at Attica State Penitentiary. [NYT, 9/18/71]
15 October 1971 - The bombing of William Bundy's office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]
19 May 1972 - Bombing of The Pentagon, "in retaliation for the U.S. bombing raid in Hanoi." [NYT, 5/19/72]
18 May 1973 - The bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York. WUO states this is in response to the killing of 10-year-old black youth Clifford Glover by police.
19 September 1973 – A WUO member is arrested by the FBI in New York. Released on bond, this member again submerges into the underground.
28 September 1973 - The ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy are bombed. WUO states this is in response to ITT's alleged role in the Chilean coup earlier that month. [NYT, 9/28/73]
6 March 1974 - Bombing of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco. WUO states this is to protest alleged sterilization of poor women. In the accompanying communiqué, the Women’s Brigade argues for "the need for women to take control of daycare, healthcare, birth control and other aspects of women's daily lives."
31 May 1974 - The Office of the California Attorney General is bombed. WUO states this is in response to the killing of six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
17 June 1974 - Gulf Oil's Pittsburgh headquarters is bombed. WUO states this is to protest the company's actions in Angola, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
July, 1974 – The WUO releases the book Prairie Fire, in which they indicate the need for a unified Communist Party. They encourage the creation of study groups to discuss their ideology, and continue to stress the need for violent acts. The book also admits WUO responsibility of several actions from previous years. The Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) arises from the teachings in this book and is organized by many former WUO members.
11 September 1974 – Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation). WUO states this is in retribution for Anaconda’s alleged involvement in the Chilean coup the previous year.
29 January 1975 - Bombing of the State Department; WUO states this is in response to escalation in Vietnam. (AP. "State Department Rattled by Blast," The Daily Times-News, January 29, 1975, p.1)
March, 1975 – The WUO releases its first edition of a new magazine entitled Osawatomie.
16 June 1975 - Weathermen bomb a Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York, WUO states this is in solidarity with striking Puerto Rican cement workers.
11 July-13, 1975 – The PFOC holds its first national convention during which time they go through the formality of creating a new organization.
September, 1975 – Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation; WUO states this is in retribution for Kennecott's alleged involvement in the Chilean coup two years prior.[49]
October 20, 1981 - Brinks robbery in which Kathy Boudin and several members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, near Nyack, New York on October 20, 1981. The robbers were stopped by police later that day and engaged them in a shootout, killing two police officers and one Brinks guard as well as wounding several others.
Posted by Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 03:47 AM
Comments
Exactly how much of this will be expunged by the school? The U of I is a great school. I have a cousin who works in the Veterinary school, illustration animal science books and many a family member graduated there, but do you really think they're going to let us read ALL of it? I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you if you believe it.
My question is why, after being born here, being treated to the best conditions in the world, would you want to even be associated with such a group as this, one of the "hate america first" club? I just don't understand these moronic village idiots who think that by hating their own kind and blaming their own kind for all the ills of the world that they look intelligent.
Posted by: Lynn at August 23, 2008 05:03 AM
About time somebody came up and is willing to back some solid facts about Obama and his radical Pals!! I can't wait til they mop the floor with his ass!!! lol!!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at August 23, 2008 08:08 AM
Have they sent in Sandy Berger yet?
Just imagine all the backroom meetings going on about this.
"By the time I met him..."
What about that photo of the wonderful citizen Ayers standing on the flag you have such a hard time with there, O? If I am recalling this correctly, that was taken after you had "met" him. Nice choice of "acquaintances" you have, Senator!
Posted by: yankeemom at August 23, 2008 09:54 AM
I hope enough of those records are released to open the door further on B.O.'s association with Ayers, an unapologetic anti American terrorist.
I don't know how many Americans are really undecided on the candidate they will vote for in November. Maybe enough are still studying the issues that information like these records will be a decidig factor to turn them against Obama.
Posted by: TomR at August 23, 2008 10:16 AM
Thank you WT.
At this late stage of the game, with all the sleazy Obama associations exposed it's hard to believe that there are those who haven't made a clear choice for or against Obama. Those 'undecided' are the ones along for the free ride anyway, how many actually vote? Most aren't even registered out of fear of having to perform a civic service like Jury duty. They are content to accept whatever fate the candidate brings their way. All too often their apathy gets a Socialist elected because they are willing to let the rest of society pack their burdensome load. Fear of having to earn their keep, fear of responsibility, fear of losing their government subsistance keeps them from their civic duty and labels then as the wishy washy constituents they are. Proof? WT quoted some above, as a society these beasts are tolerated and even venerated by some, like Obama. Responsible parents even subject their children to their indoctrination rather that adamantly rejecting these traitors in positions of higher learning and/or higher office.
Posted by: Jack at August 23, 2008 12:09 PM
The sad part of this story is that most Americans don't know this story, don't care, and don't want to know the truth. They are more interested in taking a government supplied "change" pill to magically fix all their problems. The fact that Barack Hussein Obama associated with, accepted support from, and refuses to condemn the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers speaks volumes of the character and judgement of the Democrat's president wannabe.
Hopefully, some of these documents will reveal the truth of this unholy relationship before election day.
Posted by: Les at August 23, 2008 03:32 PM
There are some 527 groups trying to get this stuff out. And educating the voters.
The bad part, though, half of the jo-bama voters don't even remember who the Weathermen were or that they even existed.
With a Jo-bama presidency you can bet missiles in 'Cuber' will be the first crisis.
Posted by: Mark at August 23, 2008 04:17 PM
Lynn, that amazes me too. This country is so awesome and to associate with anyone that wanted to bomb it in any way shows all of us just how vile Obama is and how he hates America.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 08:02 PM
Cheryl, I agree!!!
"I can't wait til they mop the floor with his ass"
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 08:04 PM
Yankeemom, good one.
"Just imagine all the backroom meetings going on about this."
Lots of yelling I would guess and late night talks into the wee hours of the morning. They really wish this would go away. heh heh
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 08:07 PM
Tom, me too, just thinking how if it did burst open it would explode even with the media mostly being all on the left.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 08:08 PM
Jackk I agree, one time someone told me that it is the "undecided"'s that decide the elections. Maybe they are right but I don't see how. They don'[t get involved, they don't pay attention usully to even who is running. And my guess is they probaly prefer to stay home and not bother.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 08:13 PM
Les, that is the thing, so many, too many don't care, don't want to know and just aren't interested. I never knew people like that growing up, but I sure have learned that people are like that and for me I started to notice when Clinton was president.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 08:16 PM
Mark, that is so true. Some people I have talked to about this had no idea what the Weathermen were. When I told them they were shocked to learn about it. Thank God they listened and were interested.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 23, 2008 08:18 PM
