The quintet of jihadists who planned to assassinate soldiers at Fort Dix have been sent away behind bars (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin):…

“When he [Bill Ayers] returned, we had another meeting at which time―and this is the only time that any Weathermen told me about something that someone else had done―and Bill started off telling us about the need to raise the level of the struggle and for stronger leadership inside the Weathermen ‘focals’ [i.e., cells] and inside the Weatherman organization as a whole. And he cited as one of the real problems was 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.”

Grathwohl added that Ayers “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.”

He was asked, “Did he say who placed the bomb on the window ledge?” He replied, “Bernardine Dohrn.”

Asked if Ayers said that he had personally witnessed Dohrn placing the bomb, Grathwohl responded, “Well, if he wasn’t there to see it, somebody who was there told him about it, because he stated it very emphatically.”

This testimony completely obliterates the notion, perpetuated by the Chicago Tribune and other media, that the Weather Underground communist terrorist bombings only killed the bombers themselves. Such propaganda is designed to play down the serious nature of the terrorist crimes. It is also designed to make Obama’s relationship with Ayers and Dohrn more palatable.

Grathwohl includes this conversation with Ayers in his 1976 book, Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen. The park police station bombing in San Francisco was “a success,” Ayers is quoted as saying, “but it’s a shame when someone like Bernardine Dohrn has to make all the plans, make the bomb, and then place it herself. She should have to do only the planning.”

Kincaid goes on to note that there is no statute of limitations for murder.

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.

Does that mean Ayers should have been sentenced to life in prison?

Unlike Ayers, these guys didn’t actually kill or bomb anyone or thing.

The defendants were acquitted of attempted murder charges but face life in prison for conspiring to kill military personnel.

This should have been Bill Ayers’ fate.

Circuit City clerks on the front lines against terror..you gotta love it! Good job young man.

Mason on December 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM

You know, now that we have another “international terrorism isn’t war” President, we should all try to pay a bit more attention to what’s going on around us. Who know how much the FBI and CIA will be obstructed in the coming years… but we can all do our part to help!

See, there really are conspiracies in the world. Try to remember that the next time you feel like calling someone a “conspiracy theorist.”

The likelihood of a conspiracy being real is inversely proportional to the number of people who must be in on it.

See, there really are conspiracies in the world.

Maxx on December 22, 2008 at 3:55 PM

You’re acting like this is news. The official story of 9/11 is one of a conspiracy.

That doesn’t mean conspiracy theorists aren’t also nuts.

Try to remember that the next time you feel like calling someone a “conspiracy theorist.”

Heck, as I told the comedian Mort Sahl (he believes JFK was killed by a conspiracy of, well, everybody in government) once, two people having lunch is a conspiracy.

It’s what they’re discussing that’s critical.