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In fairly recent interviews, Ayers has freely admitted- boasted is a better word- that he is "communist with a small 'c' (not a Party member)." He speaks openly of his desire to use America's public school classrooms to train a generation of revolutionaries who will overturn the U.S. social and economic regime. He teaches that America is oppressive and unjust, socialism is the solution, and wealth and resources should be redistributed. In 2006 Ayers visited Venezuela to study how Chavez used education to implement his communist revolution. "Viva President Chavez!" he exclaimed in a speech in Venezuela, in which he also declared, "Education is the motor-force of revolution."
Ayers founded Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and ran its operational arm. He recruited Obama to be the first chairman of CAC in 1995. Ayers never would have let Obama hold that post unless he had perfect confidence in his communist sympathies. Obama's main job was to distribute tens of millions of dollars in education grants to Ayers and his communist colleagues.
No one can know Bill Ayers for five minutes without learning that he is a communist. But this sort of association is nothing new for Obama. In his famous autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama reveals that his earliest mentor in Hawaii was a man by the name of Frank Marshall Davis. It so happens that Davis had been sent to Hawaii in the late 1940s by the Communist Party to organize the party in Hawaii. Davis had begun his communist career in Chicago. He was a friend and associate of Paul Robeson, the great singer, and Harry Bridges, head of the communist dominated International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union. Both men were secret Communist Party USA members.
Upon graduation from high school, Barack attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. He writes in his autobiography: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. … We discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy."
Barack was chosen by Illinois State Sen. Alice Palmer to succeed her. Palmer had been on the executive board of the U.S. Peace Council, identified by the FBI as a front organization for the Communist Party USA and affiliate of the Soviet front World Peace Council. According to an article in the Black Press Review, Palmer attended the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and came away favorably impressed by the Soviet system. The fact that she chose Barack to succeed her indicates that she had full confidence he would continue to advance her leftist agenda. The announcement was made in the home of Bill Ayers, where Obama was presented to a small gathering of like-minded leftist power players. It was not merely an insignificant coffee. When Ayers selected Obama as Chairman of Annenberg Challenge, he promoted Obama from a Chicago lawyer into a political player. In this meeting, Ayers launched Obama's political career.
Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor and personal spiritual mentor for 20 years, preaches Black Liberation Theology, which is Marxist ideology expressed in Christian terminology. Most ordinary Christians cannot tell the difference until Wright says something like, "God damn America!" which he shouted in a recorded sermon.
The Weatherman organization was not merely anti-war. It was pro-communist. Ayers said, "We are bringing the war home." Today he insists they did not intend to harm people, but several people were killed in Weatherman attacks. The bomb which blew up accidentally, killing seveal Weatherman members, including Ayers' girlfriend at the time, was destined for an enlisted men's club on a military base. It contained nails for maximum personnel damage.
Obama once said that the Warren Court was not radical enough, because it did not define wealth redistribution as a civil right. His Marxist collective philosophy does not understand the importance of individual rights and their constitutional protections. His proposed national security force is a major step towards centralized dictatorship. Our American founders would be appalled.
Americans can work their way out of poverty, because our law protects their right to accumulate property.
