This is copied and printed in its entirety from Frontpage.com. The article is from 2006. William Ayers…The Date Rapist Not Just A Terrorist
Remembering a Sixties Terrorist
McCain does need to say it to his face. Ayers is Obama’s BFF that he keeps in the closet. We are ALL starting to see what lousy character judgement Obama has.
John McCain has been on this planet for a very long time. He doesn’t have associates like this. If anything, Michelle Malkin’s blog is stating that most of us are fed up with his being Mr. Nice Guy.
The consenses is BRING UP THE TERRORIST GANG BANGER AYERS!
By Donna Ron
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, January 04, 2006
I read occasionally of former Weatherman Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, both now not only accepted, despite their bombing campaign against America in the 1960s and 70s, but successful , establishment educators whose opinions on social issues are taken seriously. Every time I see Ayers’ name I shudder with fear and rage and realize that I will never be able to erase the mark he left on my life one evening 40 years ago.
It was at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan on a Friday night in November 1965. I was a sophomore and was living in a sorority house — Alpha Epsilon Phi. I was walking down the stairs to leave the library. Billy Ayers was standing on the first floor and started talking to me.
I thought he was cute. There seemed to be jovial kind of instant connection between us. As I am writing this now I think he must have noticed me before , boys were attracted to me in those days , and planned to try to pick me up. As we struck up a conversation, Ayers told me very quickly about his leftist activism as if he knew this would intrigue me. In fact, I had made attempts to join SDS and the anti Vietnam War Movement on campus during my freshman year but had been put off by what hustlers the young male “activists” were. They talked in lofty ideological abstractions, but they also used their political sophistication as a lure for young women who wanted to be on the right side of the great social issues of the day. I picked up on that cynicism early and so spent much of my freshman year at Michigan trying to figure out how to act. I was politically idealistic back then and believed in Tikkun Olam — that we had to do something to make the world better.
My freshman year at Michigan I attended the Teach-Ins and the campus demonstrations against the Vietnam War and studied hard for my Chemistry exams once a month. At the same time, I decided to pledge a sorority, partially just to prove I could and partially because young women’s options for campus living arrangements were still quite limited in those years.
Despite the caution I’d learned about young ideologues on the make, I was charmed by Bill Ayers and by his savvy talk of politics and the children’s school he was involved with. He asked me to go to a party with him and I did. I have a vague memory of the house where the party was and the people there. I think he got quite drunk and I suppose I drank too. I remember walking home with him. He was very open about himself and told me he was one of 5 children and that he was from Chicago and that his father was rich.
I felt comfortable with Bill. Throughout my life I had always had a friendly buddy-kind of connection with certain boys and felt that I was developing such a connection with him.
I remember going back to his attic apartment — he describes it in his book Fugitive Days. He had a roommate — a black man who was 23 and married with children. There was a couch, a table, a stereo and a sink in the room. There were two beds – Ayers’ and his roommate’s on each side of the attic wall. I slept with him there.
I came there a few times afterward to talk and to listen to his LPs. I especially loved Glen Yarbough’s album Come Share My Life. I met Bill’s roommate who also worked at the children’s school. I also met Bill’s younger brother Rick. Bill was a year older than I and his brother was a year younger. He spent a lot of time at Bill’s apartment.
Bill Ayers’ apartment was around the corner and a half a block away from the sorority house. The more time I spent there, the more out of place I felt with my sisters. Sometimes I would stop by just to keep from having to go back to a place I had begun to think of as boring. I guess it was one of those evenings — maybe on the way back from the library, maybe just to get out of the sorority house, I don’t remember exactly. What I do recall is that when I was getting ready to leave Ayers told me I couldn’t go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up.
At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldn’t sleep with his married roommate because he was black — that I was a bigot. I had gone to school with black kids and had them as friends all my life. I couldn’t believe he was saying that to me
I felt trapped. I had to get out of the situation I was in and because he was so effective a guilt-tripper, I also felt I had to prove to him that I wasn’t a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommate’s bed and put myself on it and he fucked me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger fuck me angrily while I hated myself.
After that I had to go lie down on Bill Ayer’s bed for his brother to screw me. Rick Ayers was a decent person, unlike his brother, and couldn’t go through with it He started and stopped and let me go. I also thought I had to let Bill screw me but at that point he unbolted the door and I left.
I remember going back to the sorority house and talking to my best girlfriend and telling her what had happened. But there were no words yet to describe it. There was no term “date rape” yet in our political vocabulary. The notion of a psychological rape was not on the table.
I was a mess and felt it was my fault for letting it happen. I was ashamed. Back home at the end of the semester, I got my parents to send me to a psychiatrist. What had happened affected my ability to trust in a relationship with a man and I didn’t have a close relationship again for a long time.
I graduated in 1968 and went to Europe for the summer and came back right before the Democratic Convention. I worked for McCarthy in the Indiana primary. Wherever I went over the next few years, I carried with me the shame and guilt with me. I felt it had been my fault for not putting up more of a struggle against Ayers.
I started a PhD program in clinical psych at Yeshiva University in 1969. I was also working part time for a branch of the University of Chicago Institute for Social Research which was in the same building. I was there in a room with other employees one day sitting around a big table and coding questionnaires for a research study on Head Start when we heard a huge explosion. Soon after we discovered that it was a bomb that went off in the brown stone on 10th street which killed three buddies of Bill Ayers, who was now one of the leaders of the WeatherUnderground, a terrorist cult. One of the victims was Diana Oughton, his girlfriend at the time. I had known her: a kind soul who had worked at the Fresh Air Camp for troubled kids before she got mixed up with ever so persuasive Bill and the other Weatherman terrorists. When I found out she had been blown up, I thought how like him to send his girlfriend to make the bomb rather than do it himself.
I eventually moved to Israel, married and had a family. But for a long time I felt as if I existed in a time warp in relation to events in the US that were a continuation of the 1960s. In 1994 I returned to the States for my 30-year Mumford High School reunion. I was in NYC visiting a friend and asked about the Weathermen. He told me that Billy and Bernardine Dohrn had come up from the underground and resumed middle class life-including the radical politics-without being prosecuted for their crimes.
Later I read about Ayers and his book Fugitive Days on the Internet. This was just after the terrorist attack on 9/11 and he was entirely unrepentant for having been a terrorist himself. “I would do it again,” he told the Times when he was asked about having set a bomb in the Pentagon. I also discovered that he was a Distinguished Professor of Education at University of Illinois Chicago campus. I think that freaked me out more than anything. That a man so cruel and conscienceless could attain such a position enraged me. I contacted him by email through the University’s website. He wrote back that he didn’t remember me.
I was in Detroit in November 2001 and bought his memoir at Book Beat at Lincoln Plaza in Oak Park. I looked to see if there was some hint in it of what had become the defining event of my life. Nothing. But why should he remember me if he has convinced the world to forget, or is it forgive — that he set out to launch a bombing campaign to blow up America?
Andrew Sullivan’s readers are still asking trying to figure out why Obama does not answer the Ayers questions to the satisfaction of the Right.
October 9, 2008 at 8:10 PM
What a story, William Ayers is trash of the lowest form and his Buddy Obama is lower. Sorry for you anguish
October 9, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Please tell everyone about Ayers other side. He is a sociopath. His wealth has bought him privilege. Unfortunately, his tentacles are far reaching. Obama is no different.
October 9, 2008 at 10:25 PM
I am not surprised. I remember Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Both were very arrogant, consciebceless people. I am so sorry for your suffering.
October 9, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Do you people understand that Obama had NOTHING to do with this poor woman’s date rape? I am sure if I try hard enough I can find despicable people who have connections with McCain. But you don’t want to hear about that, do you? No, any excuse to taint Obama with a rape that happened when he was what, 7 years old? Should we talk about McCain and his alleged “special treatment” in Hanoi (apparently other POWs hated him because he received privileges and better treatment). No, let’s just talk about Obama and his loose connections to a scumbag because it’s more convenient.
October 10, 2008 at 12:02 AM
DO YOU PEOPLE understand that this is an issue of character judgment.
Today was the Anniversary of the Weatherman’s Rage.
Stop the denials. Obama sucks at judgment.
He is nothing short of an opportunist that is a puppet for people like Ayers, Wright, Dohrn, etc.
Danny pull your head out from under the sand!
Barack is not responsible for Ayers’ actions in the sixties. But he is responsible for choosing to work for, work with, and solicit political support from Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn. These are alliances. Free choice alliances.
You state that JM had favors and others hated him. What are you reading? When offered an opportunity to leave before anyone else ( because his father was a high ranking officer), he declined. I think that you should check your facts. And I don’t mean on Barack’s website.
If you don’t understand what $ amounts must be shelled out to launch a political coming out party, you truly do not understand America’s intense anger over Obama’s associations. Let’s not forget that he sat in a race hating church either. Even Oprah walked out of there quickly.
Obama does what he does because it suits him.
He did nothing in 143 days working in the Senate to qualify him PERIOD. He has worked to become President by sitting on a fence and using people to get to point B.
October 10, 2008 at 1:14 AM
I question not why Obama is interested in Ayers, but Why Ayers is so interested in Obama.
Socialism is on its way here and the Democratic Party has been bought and are paving the way. I give it 2 years before serious talk of civil war.
October 10, 2008 at 5:41 AM
There is no evidence that Obama/Biden know anything whatsoever about the economy. Because they just blew half a billion dollars trying to get him elected does not mean he will know how to handle any real economic entity, including the McDonald’s down on the corner.
* 500 million and I bet his brother still lives in that box.
October 10, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Before accusing Obama of bad judgement, what exactly do think his relationship with William Ayers is. They served together on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990’s. Does that make them “friends” or “pals”? Obama has publicly denounced Ayers’ radical actions from the 1960’s. Let the truth be heard.
October 10, 2008 at 1:51 PM
R Polanski…cry your story elsewhere. Ayers Obama relationship provides significant insight into character. It is particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama.
Obama’s seduction factor is high and unless you truly desire to find the truth, you will continue to perpetuate untruths.
Again, if you don’t know what it takes to put on a “coming out” political party, you don’t know the real Obama. Judgment is imperative. Look at GWB and his fabulous judgment.
He is now stating that he worked more with him than he had previously stated.
He has worked indirectly with the man up to 2005. Believe what you wish.
Stay tuned, Obama is now starting his, “um, I did know him” story just as he knew Rev Wright. etc.
By the way, this woman that Ayers assaulted wrote in 2006. The DNC obviously was just as seduced and disregarded every opportunity to vet this man.
October 11, 2008 at 1:54 AM
I am mad about people like Bill Ayers that continuely get by with crimes against our wonderful country and apparently crimes against women as well. And continue to live here and have the freedom to teach or anything else they want to do. I hope this lady who was assaulted will be able to forget the incident and live the rest of here life in peace.
People who take such drastic steps as bombing our public buildings and putting other lives in danger should be deported and never allowed to return to this nation that we love. It means nothing to them because they are only trying to take it away from us who do love it.
October 11, 2008 at 4:55 AM
Yes, but the MSM insists that he is an aberration and has been rehabilitated. Meeting with Hugo Chavez is not reformed and not rehabilitated in my book.
October 12, 2008 at 7:01 PM
This story seems far fetched. Why not go public with it and also to law enforcement? It also has no bearing on Obama..we Repubs should focus on the issues as it is crystal clear that this will not be an election based on character. Let’s also remember that McCain’s past isn’t without blemish..Keating, Libby and sadly I am not a fan of Rick Davis.
October 12, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Melanie, the story can be verified. The woman is now a practicing psychologist. Hence she is comfortable talking about it this many years later. Keating scandal, he made a choice and he ADMITTED it. Far cry from good ole Obama who will ONLY produce information when is forced into it. The crowd rumblings must be intense for him to even acknowledge a detail. The birth certificate. Why all of a sudden place that he had a Kenyan citizenship? Can you please tell me why now…I will tell you then. He did it because of the noise it was making. John McCain produced his certificate. The certified one. Melanie, one person is not the president. Look at who will be advising. The gestalt is what is so troubling about Obama.
November 17, 2008 at 1:26 AM
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