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My disgust with people like Ayers and Dorhn are that they carried out their violence by putting working class people in the crosshairs. His little fantasy about putting a bomb in the bathroom to take out a Pentagon computer? Well, who's cleaning that bathroom? Idiot. He lived, and lives, a life of privilege, sheltered from the draft with his educational deferment, attending his Ivy League schools with the money of the parents he dissed, and putting other people's middle and working class sons and daughters at risk to make his political point and play "hero."
He should not be welcomed into our present. He's a relic of a spoiled, violent past. The anti-war movement of the time was in the right, but people like the Weathermen and the SLA and other like-minded upper-class twits did nothing but target Americans who didn't have the choices they had, who would be in the way of the inexpert bombs they planted, or of their bullets as they carried out bank robberies to fund their "rebellion."
No true progressive who claims to care about the class divides in our country should do anything but spit in the faces of these domestic terrorists. They're no better and no different from the Eric Rudolphs and Tim McVeighs of the extreme right.
