Bill Ayers, Former Member of the Weather Underground, Urges People To Be "Good Citizens"
Made the comments at book promotion event
Bill Ayers, who helped lead the Weather Underground as it waged a bloody war against the U.S. government in the 1960s, then went on to a career in academia, recently urged those attending his book promotion to be "good citizens" and "moral people."
Ayers, who retired in 2010 from his post as a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, was speaking at the school in support of his latest book, "Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident."
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What an immoral piece of shit this guy is.
It's amazing how these people think. Awful.
Oh, look. He was a lousy commie. There's a surprise.
He already has blood on his hands and never confessed like a man to his crimes as far as I know.
Now that the bomb throwers are in charge, they certainly don't want to here in reactionary shit out of you little people.
Exactly.
He got his nice, little bull shit job and his boy is in power.
Power to the people.