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Monday, November 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Bill Ayers talks back

Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.

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  • Monday, November 17, 2008 07:27 AM

    shorter version of the babbling babbitry on display:

    1. it is ALWAYS 'okay' to cheerlead, condone, or tolerate (or at least useless to resist) the lies, violence, hypocrisy, greed, and inhumanity of 'our' (sic) gummint and their immoral actions which MURDER MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS; but true patriots or dissenting gruppes who engage in ANY RESISTANCE OF ANY SORT (that goes beyond the handwringing and mewling favored by the babbling babbitry), or who foment revolution, ARE TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING...

    (you know, not the ACTUAL PURVEYORS of immoral wars, unconstitutional actions, and state violence, but those who protest their inhumanity...)

    2. pointing at other's immoral acts is always -you know- a valid excuse for your immoral acts... *snicker*

    3. viet vet's being spit upon is a konservative myth, AND besides the point, grow the fuck up...

    4. NOTHING of any worth in social movements was accomplished by letter writers and campaign donations: it is ALWAYS the mutts, the malcontents, the loudmouthed ne'er-do-wells, the 'troublemakers' who FORCE social change...

    art guerrilla

    aka ann archy

    eof

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