Remarks of Cliff Kincaid at March12, 2009, Justice for Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism Conference

There will be no peace for Sgt. Brian McDonnell and other victims of terrorism until justice is done. Even before President Obama promised to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and bring at least some of those terrorists to America, we had a government that released terrorists onto the streets. Our current Attorney General, Eric Holder, was intimately involved in the Clinton pardons of members of the Weather Underground and the Puerto Rican FALN. 

Other Weather Underground members have also been walking around free. In fact, two of them, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, associate with prominent politicians and posture as educational experts. In truth, Ayers and Dohrn are vicious criminal terrorists who waged a campaign of violence and murder and are now trying to spread their filth and poison to young people. Their victims included Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell. Their current victims are college students

Ayers is free not only to brainwash college students but to travel to Marxist-controlled Venezuela, at least four times,  where he collaborates with a regime that is very close to Iran and which has been implicated in support for terrorist organizations, including some from the Middle East. It is troubling to note that a U.S. federal jury has found a businessman guilty of conspiring and operating as an illegal foreign agent of
Venezuela. ^[1] Chesa Boudin, raised by Ayers and Dohrn, describes himself as “a foreign policy advisor to President Hugo Chávez in 2005.” ^[2]

It was in Venezuela that Ayers openly talked about his role in academia, saying that education is the “motor-force” for revolution. He was described by Venezuelan authorities during one appearance as a former leader of a “revolutionary and anti-imperialist group” that “brought an armed struggle to the USA for more than 10 years from within the womb of the empire.” He returned to the U.S. after hailing “Presidente Chavez,” to resume his brainwashing activities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I have pictures of the propaganda outside his office door. They advertise one of his appearances in Venezuela, as well as his view that Israel is a pawn of the imperialist United States.

Dohrn, perhaps more notorious than Ayers, was a bomber herself, and once praised mass murderer Charles Manson as a true “revolutionary.” Together, Ayers and Dohrn contributed to a so-called “revolutionary” manifesto dedicated to the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. Students at her university joke about not wanting to take her class, afraid that something or someone might get blown up. But it’s not a laughing matter. Do we not care that young people are exposed to the communist ranting of a Charles Manson follower who was a member of a communist gang that bombed police stations and murdered police?  

Since the election, they have emerged in a more visible role, reminiscing about their days as terrorists and expressing hope that America is at the dawn of a new “progressive” era. There is evidence that a new “progressive” movement is taking shape on the campuses, under their direction.

Now, joining the ranks of Ayers and Dohrn on the national speaking circuit is Mark Rudd, one of their communist collaborators, who was trained in Cuba and who also escaped justice, and who has a new book out. We asked that Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, the parent company of Rudd’s book publisher, Harper Collins, withdraw this despicable “memoir” of his communist and terrorist activities.

Murdoch did the right thing when Harper Collins was preparing to publish O.J. Simpson’s murder book and FOX TV was going to air his “If I did it” special. The project was cancelled, and Murdoch issued a statement apologizing to the families of Simpson’s murder victims.

The same should be done today, in regard to Mark Rudd’s book, in which he talks about his support for planting a bomb at a dance at Ft. Dix, New Jersey, which was supposed to be attended by servicemen and their dates. Rudd says he wanted U.S. Army personnel and their wives and girlfriends to have a “taste” of what the U.S. military was doing to the communist enemy in Vietnam.  However, the bomb exploded prematurely, killing three of Rudd’s “comrades,” to whom he dedicates his new book.

We learned in the course of our research that Mark Rudd himself was invited to speak to a terrorism class at the FBI Training Academy during the summer of 2005. “My Talk at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, VA” was the headline over Rudd’s entry on his website. Rudd should not be invited to lecture at the FBI; he should be interrogated for what he may know about the murder of Sgt. McDonnell. After all, Rudd’s fingerprints were found in a Weather Underground bomb factory. He admits in his book casing a California courthouse so a bomb could be planted there.