Bill Ayers is delusional
Terry Gross, of WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, intereviewed terrorist Bill Ayers on her radio show "Fresh Air" on Tuesday (listen to the interview here). While Ayers is a well-spoken person, he is delusional about certain aspects of his past.
Two things he said in the interview were simply ludicrous.
First, he claimed he was not a terrorist because his group, the Weather Underground, did not aim to hurt people. That is an amazing statement on two counts.
First, it is irrelevant. A terrorist is a terrorist whether he or she wants to kill people or simply destroy government property. If you use violence in an effort to affect political change, you are a terrorist.
And second, he planted bombs. He claims that his group's bombing at the Pentagon actually closed the air war in Vietnam for a couple of days (I find that hard to believe). If true, however, how many American soldiers did he kill? Besides, he bombed the New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol building in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. It was only luck that no one was hurt in those bombings.
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Why have the death penalty?
China Arnold enters the Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom for her trial sentencing phase Wednesday morning, Sept. 3, 2008, in Dayton, Ohio. Arnold, 28, was convicted Friday of aggravated murder for killing her baby in a microwave oven in August 2005. Her trial continued Wednesday as closing arguments were presented for sentencing, and the jury began deliberations. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Jim Witmer)
Unbelievable.
If you can't get the death penalty for cooking your 1-month-old child to death in a microwave oven, then why do we have the death penalty?
This might be the straw that breaks the back of my support for the death penalty. I am seriously reconsidering my support for the death penalty.
Ohio woman in microwave case spared death penalty
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A woman who killed her 1-month-old daughter by microwaving her was spared the death penalty Wednesday when the jury couldn't reach a decision on a recommended sentence.
After deliberating for five hours, the jury told the judge it couldn't agree on whether to recommend the death penalty or life in prison for 28-year-old China Arnold. Since the death penalty wasn't recommended, that sentence cannot be imposed.
Mia Jorris: Where was the father when this was happening?
STORY: Father sues Children Services over daughter's murder
This story is unbelievable. If the father is suing Children Services for failing to protect his daughter, then I might have to sue Gilberto Ugalde for the same thing.
This sickens me.
This is really the result of more than a half-century of America's nanny state where we can't do anything without government approval. We have become a nation of sheep, brainwashed by a government-run education system that tells us we should trust the government to protect us. Trust me, if I had even an inkling that this was happening to a child of mine, I would not be waiting on Children Services to protect that child. That is the role of a parent and other family members, not the state.
I suspect Ugalde is nothing but a money-grubbing fiend who should be in prison along with his estranged wife for allowing this to happen to his children. This man apparently didn't give a damn what was happening to the children until one was killed and he saw an opportunity to make a buck.
I hope I am wrong, but I doubt it.
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