Posted by: liz
Comment: #1
Tue Oct 7, 2008 10:46 PM
The funding was"to raise political consciousness", so, though you may not approve because it wasn't used for what you think it should have been used for, it was used as intended. Your expose is coming at an interesting time. You should have been so astute and forthcoming when the current President was running for office because his past and his friends are far more dirty and deceitful. But he's a Bush. With money and support from his old man's friends in the media, never brought to light until well into his presidency. When some of his dirty laundry started appearing, it had already gone through several washes. You're throwing stones in a glass house.
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #2
Wed Oct 8, 2008 6:04 AM
Sir;...This non sense and mud reminds me of a Rolling Stones Concert I went to some years back. It was at Spartan Stadium and we were in the bleachers. As the show was coming to an end the local police all lined up for their rubber gloves to be prepared for their cavity searches. Here is the deal... I had a chance to look at the people going in, and like myself, these were older for the most part, well dressed, well off, and likely conservative in most respects. I would not doubt that a sizable minority of the group had higher incomes than the police who were ready to treat them like so many common criminals. You know,.. I am a revolutionary and have been one from an early age. Like most revolutionaries, I never came closer to violence than over the Vietnam war, which was unjust, and stupid as well as futile. I resisted violence then, and I resist violence now; but Vietnam was a waste of life and wealth and effort. And still I managed to make my peace, and to work for attainable goals while waiting for change to catch up to me. I know everything I need to know about Ayers. A hundred years of time will not make an unjust war just. But, we all put the past behind us, and look for a better future. I don't think you get ahead living in the past. You are like the local cops with their rubber gloves. They were twenty five years late. You're late. Ayers is working with society. So are the rest of us. We are all heavily invested in this moment. We all have something to lose. You republicans sow division to reap victory over your own people. Join the real world. Think about what we have in common. We all need certain things from this society, from this life, from this world, from this humanity and to get them we have to give justice. Ayers is not alone. I wish I had done more to stop the war, too. That does not mean violence. It means that war destroyed many lives and many people, and we should all have been an impediment to what, in retrospect was only a distant, violent defense of failed capitalism. I hope America has the sense to throw you folks out on your ears. You cannot defend Vietnam. You are trying to stifle freedom, attacking old enemies to frighten present enemies. You guys add nothing, and only exclude yourselves from adult conversation...Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: Masako
Comment: #3
Wed Oct 8, 2008 8:57 AM
Hey Morris, time to move on from incantations, guilt by association, and keeping track of who got cooties in the schoolyard way back when. Really, you need to graduate from all that and find yourself a voodoo doll and some pins and needles. If you are going to go for fantasy and superstition why not do it right? And by the way, weren't you in mortgage-backed securities sales a while ago?
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