[Q] - On August 27, 1996, in the midst of that year's Democratic National Convention in the Windy City, the Chicago Tribune had interesting news (posted in full at my web host for fair use and discussion purposes) about what was then a new Internet initiative.
That Tribune story serves to confirm why the distancing from and supposed ignorance of the past activities of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn by presidential candidate Barack Obama and other members of the Democratic Party ring very hollow. James Coates's Tribune piece begins with an all-too-typical whitewash of the pair's violent past. But what's revealing is what Ayers and Dohrn were involved with, and who else was involved with them (bolds are mine): Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers took to the streets 28 years ago to protest what they considered the injustices in the world, especially the war in Vietnam. The former leaders of the Weather Underground still are fighting injustice, but--adapting to the changing landscape of American politics--their current arena is the World Wide Web. After Dohrn, who wound up on the FBI's Most Wanted List, and Ayers resolved their legal woes, they wound up, together, in the Chicago area. They work in social programs--she at Northwestern University and he at the University of Illinois at Chicago--and today enjoy the status of folk heroes in leftist circles. And they have discovered the Internet as a medium for social change. ..... Tuesday night, Dohrn and Ayers will open their home in Hyde Park to debut an ideologically oriented site on the World Wide Web, where the whole skein of 1996's protest movements are within the click of a computer mouse for all who call it up at http://www.democrats.com. The invitation reads "The Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party hasn't gone underground .... We're on the Internet!" Dohrn and Ayers did not respond to requests to discuss the Web site plans, which also involve more mainstream Democrats, including David Lytel, who set up President Clinton's... - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/10/12/1996-dems-were-proud-be-associated-ayers-dohrn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
