A couple of recent comments from Bill Ayers’ blog. Yes, he has a blog. And he’s still talking “violent revolution.”

On April 13 of this year:

In the spirit of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. we have to dare to see the world as it really is, and then to choose justice over tribe or nation or petty self-interest. We need to organize and mobilize against illegal wars of conquest and domination, send a sharp warning right now as the powerful mobilize to bomb Iran under the banner of the same exhausted lies and rationalizations, and press the demand for peace in concrete terms:1. Withdraw all mercenary forces immediately.2. Set a date-certain—within three months—for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq and Afghanistan.3. Dismantle all U.S. military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. 4. Renounce all claims to the natural resources of Iraq.5. Call for the creation of an independent international commission to assess and monitor the amount of reparations the U.S. owes to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.This is only a start, and it is still a choice—solidarity with all people, or endless war and death. As King reminded us, those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

April 6 of this year:

“My e-mail and my voice-mail filled up with hate, as happens, mostly men with too much time on their hands I imagined, all of them venting and sweating and breathing heavily, a few threats—“Watch out!”; “You deserve to be shot”; and from [email protected], “I’m coming to get you and when I do, I’ll waterboard you”—all of it wildly uninformed.”

(Ayers is apparently clairvoyant in his ability to determine that someone is sweating from a typed e-mail message or voice mail message.)

It is terrible and horrifying to receive violent threats. Still, we’re in a strange world when a man who planted bombs complains about receiving threatening e-mails. An e-mail that says, “you deserve to be shot,” is terrifying. Probably almost as terrifying as a bomb going off in one’s workplace.

“I’ve never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently.”

Ayers has a unique perspective on why a bomb in a public bathroom is not terrorism.

Obama can insist that Ayers today is just “a professor of English” (actually Education, as Michael Barone notes), but he’s a man who still today believes that his acts, including the planting of bombs in public places, does not constitute terrorism.

Can ordinary Americans relate to attending his parties, serving on a board with him, accepting a donation from him, probably shaking hands, smiling, having an ordinary conversation with him?

Would it pain Barack Obama to come out and say, “Bill Ayers committed horrible acts, aimed at injuring and killing men who wear this country’s uniform and those who love them*, and while the legal system has no further beef with him, I do”?

* Remember, Ayers went on the run when a bomb that was to be used at an officer’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey went off in the bombmakers’ apartment. So not only was the aim to kill and maim soldiers, but to do so at the moment they’re dancing with their wives, girlfriends, and sweethearts.