October 13, 2008

Who hired Bernadine Dohrn?

Berndine Dohrn and her husband Bill Ayers were both members of the extremist Weather Underground group and Ayers went underground in 1970 and surfaced with Dohrn in 1980, who had also been underground.

As is well known, Ayers escaped prosecution because of evidence against him being acquired by means of an invalid search. Dohrn made the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list while she was underground and served a mere three years on probation and fined an amount not specified by the source.

Ayers was hired as a professor by the University of Illinois at Chicago and who hired him there is not mentioned in the Chicago Tribune article below. [1]

Berndine Dohrn, however, was hired at two prominent establishments who knew about her membership in the Weather Underground and the activities that earned her the honor of the FBI’s listing. (Quite an achievement, considering that only the most egregious offenders out of a nation of some 260,000,000 people make it onto the list.)
  • Sidley and Austin – Dohrn was hired at this prominent law firm by Howard Trienens, a friend of her father-in-law Thomas Ayers, CEO of Commonwealth Edison, a trustee of Tribune Co., and chairman of the board of Northwestern University.
  • Northwestern University School of Law – Dohrn was hired here as an adjunct professor of law by Robert Bennett, then dean. (Trienens denies any role in her hiring, though then chairman of the board of the university.) A 1991 member of the faculty, Daniel Polsby, indicates that her appointment as an adjunct professor was never voted on by the law school’s faculty.
The Tribute reporter, Ron Grossman, records this about trying to find out more about this appointment:
Seeking clarification from the university, I was told to put my questions in writing. Which I did:

Was her appointment at NU's law school made by the dean acting alone? Did it have to be ratified by the Board of Trustees?

Instead of answering the questions, the university responded with a boilerplate statement of support: "While many would take issue with views Ms. Dohrn espoused during the 1960s, her career at the law school is an example of a person's ability to make a difference in the legal system."
It’s an interesting response. It’s stunning for its smart ass answering of the question with an irrelevancy and completely failing to address the substance of the question. Apparently the law school has some sensitivity on the issue of its hiring of Dohrn.

It’s also interesting for its smugness. Dohrn didn’t make a difference in the legal system. She teaches a pathetic course called “Children in Trouble with the Law,” a 50-cent way of saying that she teaches juvenile law. Perhaps to some this is sufficient to wipe the slate clean for her leadership of a violent, radical leftist underground organization given to bombings, jailbreaks, and riots. [2]

The web site for a documentary on the Weather Underground describes one riot thus:
In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path.[3]
In 1969, the Weather Underground distributed a position paper that called for
a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other radical movements to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and achieve a classless world: world communism."[4]
I guess if I were low life like Trienens and Bennett, I’d enlist my law firm or law school to find a place for scum like Dohrn. How she could have earned admission to a law school or had the guts to want to teach law after working for world communism, I’ll never know. No pustule of a political movement in the history of the world has done more to destroy the rule of law than communism. Thank God the bar association (in Illinois presumably) had the guts to deny her admission.

She’s not fit to sharpen pencils at any law school, let alone teach law at one.

Patriot!
Mr. Grossman highlights the hypocrisy of Ayers and Dohrn moving easily from the sewers of underground communist revolutionary activity to respectability by relying on influential people who are fixtures of the current order.

This would be the same order that they despised so in an earlier time. Ayers and Dohrn mouthed fiery revolutionary sentiments against privilege and planted bombs to achieve a classless society, but when they needed to escape the consequences of their actions and again take up a life of ease and respectability, they flew to the arms of the hated class enemy like Wiley Coyote fleeing a loose Roadrunner Destruction Rocket.

Sellouts to a filthy cause for three hots, a cot, and matching BMWs, and sellouts of a different stripe waiting to welcome them with open arms.

Ayers and Mrs. Ayers -- Obama’s running buddies.

Notes
[1] "Family ties proved Ayers' point." By Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 5/8/08.
[2] "Weatherman (organization)." Wikipedia.
[3] "Weather Underground." (Footnotes and links omitted.)
[4] Weatherman (organization), supra.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Col,

I suppose it is natural for those of us "in the know" to see worthless scum-heirs to huge fortunes turn to Marxism.

These roaches bite the very hand that fed them.

But all things being equal, they are more equal than the rest of us... So moves the ever growing Obama Revolution. Pravda would be proud.

And then your post about the Fwench -- Who said Sarkosy was a Conservative ally? Is Sarkosy spelled backward the word "ArabPlant?"

In Christ,

ExP(Jack)