Last night, some sixty odd Humboldt County residents jumped on the opportunity to follow in President Obama’s footsteps and pal around with a “terrorist.”
Educator and frequent Fox News target Bill Ayres made a scheduled appearance at Arcata’s Northtown Books to give a short talk on the state of the education in America and to discuss his new collaborative comic book To Teach: The Journey, In Comics.
Outside, about twenty members of the Humboldt Tea Party Patriots carried signs protesting Ayres appearence. While most never made it in the door, a few Tea Party members sat respectfully through Ayers speech to ask some Weather Underground-related questions during the Q&A session that ended the night. Bill graciously responded.
The night was almost without incident except for the following exchange between a man (who did not appear to be affiliated with the local Tea Party chapter) that walked in just as Ayres stepped to the microphone:
Man: “Go fuck yourself, Mr. Ayres!”
Ayres: “What?”
Man: “Go fuck yourself, Mr. Ayres!”
Ayres: “I can’t.”
Ayres invited the man to stay, which he declined by backing out the door while flipping the bird.
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Those pesky Teabaggers sure showed up Mr. Ayres
The 2nd grade approach deserves applause
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It should be noted that the shouter was not part of the organized Tea Party group.
A re-read of the post shows that Andrew did indeed note that.
As if being pro war is patriotic.
Ayers protested against the Vietnam war. The local tea party said they would not support Ron Paul because he is not pro war.
These warmongers promote terrorism against other countries.
They just don’t want to pay for it.
I strongly disagree with tactics of The Weather Underground. But that took place four decades ago. That’s what makes this protest rather odd. One would think that the Tea Party would find something relevant to protest around here.
It was a totally random occurrence, not planned one bit… but it really felt good to tell Bill Ayers to ‘go fuck yourself’ to his face, and I only regret that I did not throw my shoe at him.
I know enough about the Weather Underground to know that they intended to be a ‘communist cadre’ declaring all-out war against the United States- at least that’s what they themselves claimed in the documentary about them (The Weather Underground).
I don’t know about you, but I personally gauge radical ideologies by the body count they leave in their wake: going by the numbers, I’d say the 20th century commies were NO LESS than 5x MORE atrocious than the Nazis! (100,000,000 > 20,000,000) Funny how history remembers murderous racists more harshly than murderous “egalitarians”, you know?
While Ayers and the W.U. protested American police “brutality” and encouraged rioters to burn this nation down, how many immigrants yearned then as well as now for American-style law and order in comparison to what they experienced every day in their own homelands? HA EFFING HAW, all you chardonnay-swilling-guilty-white-middle-class-liberal suckers! The egg that gets broken in order to make a glorious omelet for “the people” may in fact be your own skull.
Go fuck yourself, Mr. Ayers, you godless, traitorous, murderous, commie son of a bitch. Go fuck yourself.
This is about as ZZZZZ as ZZZZZ gets. That any reasonable, sane, rational or sober person would ever care about either Ayers or the TEA Party is simply insulting. Journal, you are so utterly ZZZZZ these days it’s not remotely funny in any way. It’s just sad. Just sad…
Randall needs meds, therapy, and history lessons — in that order.
Randall’s just another Humboldt guy stuck in the 60s.