John M. Murtagh describes the nightmare night when terrorists bombed his childhood home:
I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother’s pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS.
For the next 18 months, I went to school in an unmarked police car. My mother, a schoolteacher, had plainclothes detectives waiting in the faculty lounge all day. My brother saved a few bucks because he didn’t have to rent a limo for the senior prom: the NYPD did the driving. We all made the best of the odd new life that had been thrust upon us, but for years, the sound of a fire truck’s siren made my stomach knot and my heart race. In many ways, the enormity of the attempt to kill my entire family didn’t fully hit me until years later, when, a father myself, I was tucking my own nine-year-old John Murtagh into bed.
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There was never any doubt who the terrorists were: The Weathermen. Murtagh's father, a Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the “Panther 21” who were indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores and terrosts attacked his family to get the judges to free the Panthers. In The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground Ron Jacobs says a terrorist cell called the Weathermen attacked Murtagh's family. The NY Times quoted Ayers saying, “We meant to kill that judge and his family..."
Ayers has said of himself: "Guilty as sin, free as a bird."
Bill Ayers, a member of the Weathermen, fought against America for decades.The week of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,974 people, the NY Times published an interview in which Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” When asked if he would do it all again, Ayers responded: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.”
Photo of Bill Ayers stepping on the American flag:
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My poll asks a simple question: Would you be chums with Bill Ayers? I wouldn't. I would try to reform him, but I would never be friends with an unrepentant terrorist. What is your opinion?