The PHANTOM
7/24/2011 7:43:00 PM
On Jul 24, 2:23 pm, rfisc...@sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote:
> Salty Stan <wsjames...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Jul 23, 1:33 pm, liberal <liberalh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What he's pointing out, and what you're too stupid to grasp, is that
> >> conditions in inner cities schools are a breeding ground for activism,
> >> be it terroristic or revolutionary.
>
> >If that's true, then what an excellent argument in favor of a voucher
> >system.
>
> So that more taxpayer money can be funnelled into revolutionary
> training camps.
>
> Idiot.
>
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> Ray Fischer | Mendocracy (n.) government by lying
> rfisc...@sonic.net | The new GOP ideal
Here's your "revolutionary training camps" you brainwashed,OboBagging
fuckslop:
Bill Ayers: Or how I learned to stop bombing and destroy the system
from within
By the mid-1960s, all hell had broken loose in the American education
system, most obviously in the universities that were at the center of
the Vietnam War protest movement, but more subtly in the public
school
system as well.
And since the universities that were exploding with radical
ideologies
in the 1960s were also the furnace in which future educators were
forged — there was an inevitable long-term effect on what teachers
taught their students about American traditions, values and beliefs.
The anti-American fervor on college campuses during the Vietnam era
was the fuel that led teachers to give up their traditional role as
the builders of culture and turned them instead into termites that
ate
away at the foundations of our society.
That disconnect between American idealism and American youth may
ultimately be how progressive education was able to shift the
paradigm
in America, and no better poster boy exists for the transformation of
American education from a cultivator of good citizens into an
incubator of radicalism than Bill Ayers.
You may remember Ayers from his tangential role in the 2008
presidential election. It turns out that he was an early supporter of
Barack Obama and had helped the future president get jobs on two
boards that divvied up millions of dollars in education and anti-
poverty grants.
That wouldn’t have been a problem except for the fact that Ayers is
best known for blowing things up. As a founding member of the Weather
Underground, he turned to violence in the late 1960s as an approved
tactic for bringing about social change.
That may have been the most dangerous thing Bill Ayers did in the
turbulent Sixties, but it is certainly not the most effective
technique he found for changing America from a capitalist nation to a
communistic one.
For that you need to look at where Ayers spent his time both before
and after his bomb-throwing period — namely at schools and
universities — and on those boards doling out big bucks to effect
social change through education.
Ayers was at the University of Michigan when Students for a
Democratic
Society was founded in 1966, and he participated directly in the
radicalization of SDS that led to the violent revolutionary group
known as the Weather Underground. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the
Pentagon, inspired riots in the streets, and encouraged violent
uprising in order to bring about a new socialist world order.
You can get a taste for Ayers’ style of politics from a January 1970
report by syndicated columnists Robert Allen and John Goldsmith on a
four-day meeting of the national council of the Weatherman faction of
SDS which took place in Flint, Mich.
After his now-wife Bernardine Dohrn had worked up the crowd by
bashing
them as “wimpy on armed struggle” and reminding the assembled
revolutionaries that “violence is our aim and motto,” Ayers got his
turn to go macho, giving karate lessons that were “accompanied with
such encouraging remarks as ‘It is necessary to take up arms and
resort to violence in order to fight and destroy the pigs” (namely
the
police and establishment leaders).
Probably no one reading this column today would condone or accept
such
rhetoric, unless they were themselves avowed revolutionaries. But
make
no mistake about it, that rhetoric was standard fare on the campuses
of the 1960s. For at least a decade, it was common college wisdom
that
America was evil and that you couldn’t “trust anyone over 30.”
Well, a lot of those folks over 30 were what we today call “the
greatest generation,” the American men and women who sacrificed life,
limb and our national treasure in order to preserve liberty for their
children. It would no doubt take a major psychological study in order
to ascertain what factors came into play in the post-war years to
explain how the “greatest generation” allowed their children to rip
apart everything they themselves had worked so hard to secure.
But for now we can simply surmise that the generation which had given
up so much in order to ensure that their children would enjoy
liberty’s bounty was also somehow psychologically circumscribed from
imposing ANY significant restrictions on that precious liberty, and
thus created a generation characterized by an overwhelming sense of
entitlement, narcissism, and ultimately ingratitude. For lack of a
better name, call it the Bill Ayers Generation.
The “older generation” no doubt didn’t understand the Bill Ayers
Generation, and that probably went for Ayers’ own father, too. Thomas
G. Ayers was president and later chairman and CEO of Commonwealth
Edison. In other words, he was a major industrialist, and part of the
system of capital and wealth creation that his son and the Weather
Underground sought to topple. Again, the psychological implications
are enormous, and the story of the Ayers family was no doubt
duplicated in millions of other Baby Boomer families across the
nation.
By letting their children do whatever they wanted instead of
grounding
them in the same wholesome principles with which they themselves had
been raised, the “greatest generation” was engendering a generation
of
experimentation, rebellion and decay. The children and grandchildren
of that generation are the ones left holding the bag these 50 years
later, and the bag is empty rhetoric. “Hope and change” has replaced
“blood, sweat and tears.”
Of course, the people who have been selling hope and change for the
past 50 years, in one form or another, are hopeful that you will not
notice the gap between reality and rhetoric.
They are also no doubt hopeful you will not follow the trail of
evidence that links progressive education, revolutionary politics and
the decline of America, but it’s all laid out in plain sight — often
in the words of Bill Ayers himself.
Ayers was a key author of “Prairie Fire: The Politics of
Revolutionary
Imperialism,” which was distributed while he was a fugitive from
federal charges in 1974.
There is much to learn in this book, which candidly describes the
plan
for revolution in America, but let’s just close with what the book
tells us about education, the field which Ayers entered in 1966 and
in
which he later became a distinguished professor with a wide influence
on contemporary pedagogic thinking.
Here, in a discussion of “busing” students to achieve racial
“equality,” Ayers and his co-authors give away the game:
“The real question is: Who will control the schools? The design of
the
state is control of the child’s education, whether in the integrated
or segregated school.”
That was the real question, and it still is: “Who will control the
schools?”
Bill Ayers tried and failed at violent revolution, but he never lost
sight of his goal — he just changed tactics. In an assessment of the
Cuban Revolution in “Prairie Fire,” the authors noted that, “The
revolution has launched an offensive to transform education and
culture into powerful revolutionary tools.”
In future columns, we will explore just how Ayers and his colleagues
launched an offensive in the 1960s and beyond to “transform education
and culture into powerful revolutionary tools” right here in America,
and how they succeeded.
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