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Kathy Boudin had to serve 20 years in prison and, to this day, her husband, David Gilbert, is incarcerated. I'm not impressed by Bill Ayers self-justification, his Pontius Pilate act, as he's on the point of flogging his book "Fugitive Days" once again.
Please remember that legal immigrants to the US during the Sixties were being drafted into the armed forces to fight in Vietnam. I know one of them but, apart from that, the average age of the draftees was 19 and they were overwhelmingly from working-class backgrounds. Many of the children of the wealthy were more desperately needed in the USA to pursue their legal studies (you are said to have one lawyer for every 280 citizens) and others made their merry way to Morocco to smoke and collect their money orders from their well-heeled parents in the United States at the post office/bank.
The rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War have been hotly debated over the decades, as have those between capitalism and socialism. The wheel keeps on turning but all I know is that it's a craven and despicible act to set off bombs in any civilian setting, no matter what ideology is claimed. Bill Ayers girlfriend, prior to Dohrn, was one of three people blown to smithereens when a bomb they were assembling exploded prematurely. Bill Ayers is a nasty little creep who has never had to truly face the consequences of his misguided actions which have led to the deaths of fellow-Americans while he ends up with a cushy number at the University of Illinois. Having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he could expect nothing less.
