NOW we are supposed to know who The Weathermen are...

McCain/Palin decided now is the time to share with everyone who The Weathermen were. When I learned of them a few years ago, I was amazed that this was not common knowledge in America. As if somehow they had been erased from the history books. Obviously, you could find books about them...but there is information that finds its' way to you, and information you have to seek out. A radical 60's group that bombed government buildings without killing anyone (that was the plan)? Shouldn't this bit of the 60's be as well-known as the overrated Janis Joplin ? I suppose they'd be more famous if people died.

Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln both advocated revolutions against tyrannical government. (Quite ironic that John Wilkes Booth shouted "Sic semper tyrannis" after he broke his foot.) The Second Amendment reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." So I ask, who gets to decide what a tyrannical government is? Who gets to decide what a free State is, and who or what is preventing the state from being free? Can the State prevent the State from being free? Who gets to define free? Obviously, a government that is tyrannical will consider all that oppose it a terrorist. A State that has taken away freedoms will consider those that physically oppose their sanctions against freedom terrorists.

Bill Ayers opposed, with physical force, what The Weathermen considered to be a tyrannical government (I am sure they weren't the only ones). So they are deemed "terrorists" of the State. The Weathermen saw tyranny in Vietnam and an unholy alliance between America and the Military Industrial Complex. They saw tyranny in COINTELPRO and the murder of Fred Hampton. They saw tyranny in a prison system that profited from oppression. So who has the authority to tell them they are wrong? You? Me? Why? Because you disagree? Who is a "freedom fighter" and who is a "terrorist"? Who says which side is right? I assume in a democracy that means the majority. But in my 30 years, I have learned the majority is almost always wrong.

I'm guessing that Sarah Palin will be kept away from the media, and given written stump-speeches the rest of the way. They will use her as a "pitbull with lipstick" to spit nasty smears and half-truths all over America...and Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers, an ex-Weatherman, will be the 1 attack. It will get a big emotional response from the fast-food crowd in their sequined American flag t-shirts, and the heretical right-wing Christians that bask in their prosperity theology and war-rabidity.

Here is a CNN fact-check on their relationship.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05/fact-check-is-obama-palling-around-with-terrorists/

And if any grumpy right-wingers want to sneer at a "CNN factcheck" as an oxymoron, what information is left? That they spoke on SECRET occasions!? OOOOH. Really? Who cares if they talk to each other. Why doesn't Sarah Palin tell everyone that their relationship isn't based on golf games, but foundations to raise money for the education of Chicago schoolchildren? And they coincidentally lived in the same neighborhood, which was the prologue of their relationship.

What about the corporate friends of John McCain, that are responsible for destroying thousands of lives? Banks? Weapons manufacturers? They have done far more damage to life on Earth than Bill Ayers. But everyone "approves" of those relationships, because building weapons that murder women and children in other countries is not terrorism.

Personally, I think Barack Obama is in the wrong for distancing himself from Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers. It makes Palin's accusations more scandalous, and opens him up for attack if he had coffee with Bill Ayers last year. But he is a politician, so whatever's clever for him.