"There is no context that makes murder acceptable," Bryan Griffin said in his Tuesday column.
Griffin urged individuals who argue in defense of Bill Ayers to be ashamed of themselves and claimed, "There is no way to spin cold-blooded murder."
Funny, there should be no way to spin it, unless you are part of the dominant political discourse in America.
Somehow Republicans and Democrats alike have found a way to spin cold-blooded murder by ignoring it.
Griffin's article ignored the war in Vietnam and the actual results of Weatherman bombings. To ignore the murders the U.S. was committing in Vietnam and to paint Ayers as a murderer is to ignore the facts of history. You should be ashamed, Bryan Griffin.
Our God-blessed America was murdering innocent Vietnamese civilians, decimating their countryside with napalm and bombing raids throughout the late 1960s - not to mention shipping off young, mostly lower-class American soldiers to die in a jungle more than 8,000 miles away.
In response, the Weather Underground purposefully bombed empty buildings representing American centers of power. The only Weather Underground bombing that turned deadly occurred when explosives in a Greenwich Village townhouse accidentally ignited on March 6, 1970, killing Weatherman members Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins and Ted Gold.
I am anything but ashamed to defend Bill Ayers or anyone else involved in the Weather Underground, who honorably defended Americans then and now and refuse to accept the perpetuation of the American Empire.
