In addition to the plot to bomb the NCO club at Fort Dix, which was intended to go off during a dance, using ordinance incorporating nails, that were obviously included in order to kill and maim people, it was also part of the planning of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn’s Weather Underground group to simultaneously set off a bomb in the Butler Library at Columbia University.

So, their clear intention was to kill working stiffs — non-commissioned officers in the United States Army — and their innocent dates attending the dance — and to also kill whoever was in Butler Library at the time.

Gee, I wonder why Chris Matthews forgot to ask Ayers about all that when the former Weatherman was recently given the opportunity to propagandize and pontificate about his radical history on Hard Ball? Chrisie always likes so much to pretend that he’s on the side of the working man!

And, it was indeed a nail bomb under construction that prematurely exploded in that town house in Greenwich Village. All they ever found of Ayer’s little girlfriend, Diane Oughten, was a finger tip — the print from which was used to identify her — she had been previously printed after an arrest in Chicago.

So, had they been successful, they would likely have “out-performed” these equally unsuccessful jihadists.

Bill Ayers has always conveniently ignored the role of Kathy Boudin in all of this, including in his memoir, Fugitive Days. He and Dohrn helped raise her son after she went to jail for the Brinks robbery and murder.

And, he also takes that lying line because he cannot acknowledge Boudin’s role without giving the lie to his frequently repeated assertion that they always acted to avoid casualties. That, even though the boming in San Francisco killed one police officer and injured two others.

As David Fredesso has noted, based on Larry Grathwohl’s recollections (Graithwohl’s words in italics):

But Larry Grathwohl, an FBI mole within the Weathermen, connected Ayers to the planning — and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, to the execution— of a police station bombing in San Francisco in February 1970 that killed one officer and injured two others.

Grathwohl testified that Ayers had discussed the deadly incident after the fact. The revelation came as Ayers was talking about the organizational difficulties in running a terrorist cell:

[H]e cited as one of the real problems that someone like Bernardine Dohrn had to plan, develop, and carry out the bombing of the police station in San Francisco, and he specifically named her as the person that committed that act. . . . He said that the bomb was placed on the window ledge and he described the kind of bomb that was used to the extent of saying what kind of shrapnel was used in it. . . . [I]f he wasn’t there to see it, somebody who was there told him about it, because he stated it very emphatically.

Grathwohl also testified about an unsuccessful Weatherman bombing in Detroit, which he said Ayers had planned to be executed when the maximum number of people would be present:

The only time that I was ever instructed or we were ever instructed to place a bomb in a building at a time when there would be people in it was during the planning of the bombing at the Detroit Police Officers’ Association building and the 13th precinct in Detroit, Mich., at which time Bill said that we should plan our bombing to coincide with the time when there would be the most people in those buildings.

Grathwohl tipped off police to this latter plot, and they cleared the area. When they finally found the Detroit bomb, it was unexploded. It contained 13 sticks of dynamite with an M-80 firecracker to detonate them, along with a burnt-out cigarette.

Ayers and Dohrn should have gotten life, along with these jihadists.

Trochilus on December 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM