IV. Apprenticeship with Foundation-Funded Terrorists: Ayers and Dohrn 151There is now undeniable proof of a longstanding relationship between Barack Obama and
William Ayers. We are not talking about two guys who just happened to bump into one another
on the street. We are not talking about a secret admirer (Ayers) who quietly sent $200 to an
aspiring politician. No, we are talking about William Ayers hosting a fundraiser for Barack
Obama and actively working with him to secure Barack’s first electoral victory in Illinois. But
wait, there is more. Barack and Ayers also served on the board of the Woods Fund. And they
worked together to give money to some other folks, including a group with ties to the PLO. [...]
Look at the beating that John Kerry took for tossing his medals over the White House fence.
Ayers did not toss medals, he threw bombs. Real ones. Bombs that exploded. Do you think that
Republicans will ignore Obama’s ties to Ayers? The two were serving on the same board in- We are talking less than six years ago and the record will come out showing some
questionable grants by these two characters. William Ayers, in the age of terrorism, will be
Barack Obama’s Willie Horton.’ (noquarterusa.net, April 16, 2008)
THE SDS MENAGERIE AROUND OBAMA
The problem goes way beyond just Ayers and his fork-saluting spouse. The Obama campaign
presents the aspect of a storm cellar or assisted-living facility for the burned-out wreckage of the
intelligence community operations of yesteryear. Some of these figures were Weatherman terrorists,
some were simply SDS extremists, some flirted with Stalinism. In July 1996, the New York Times
reported that Marilyn Katz, a former aide to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and now a wheel
horse of the Daley machine and a supporter of Obama, “oversaw security for Students for a
Democratic Society, a radical group at the eye of the Chicago protests” during the 1968 Democratic
National Convention. There was no “security” in the SDS contingent on that occasion. Ms. Katz
was presumably occupied with organizing provocations to provide cover for the police riot that
ensued.
On October 2, 2002, when Barack Obama delivered his obscure, unrecorded, and poorly
attended but now famous speech at a Chicago antiwar rally, Katz was one of the key organizers of
the rally. On the event’s fifth anniversary, Marilyn Katz, now a member of Obama’s national
finance committee, posted the following statement on the blog of Chicagoans Against the War and
Injustice (CAWI), which she had “put together,” relying upon “some of her old contacts she met
organizing anti-war demonstrations for Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s.” Katz
described how the rally in Chicago on October 2, 2002, was “not organized by a politician or a
recognized political force. It was organized by a loose group of friends, mostly SDS veterans. Katz
was thus key to providing Obama’s only foreign policy credential and proof of his alleged good
judgment – his lame anti-war speech of October 2002, the horse that he mercilessly rode to death
during the 2008 primaries. What would Barky ever have done without his SDS friends?
MARILYN KATZ, SDS VET AND ORGANIZER
OF OBAMA’S OCTOBER 2002 ANTI-WAR SPEECH
Marilyn Katz later recounted: ‘Meeting in a living room in Chicago just ten days earlier, we
chose to act, agreeing that on October 2, 2002, we would assemble in Chicago’s Federal Plaza to
stand against the war. With a gut feeling that other Americans also thought the invasion of Iraq was
foolhardy, if not immoral and absurd, but with no assurance than anyone would come to a
demonstration we agreed that “If we were five, we would be five.” “If we were without any elected
officials, we would be an involved citizenry. But we would take a stand.” But we were not alone. In