How are Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers Tied to the Anti-Nazi Group at the Center of Chicago Mob Attack?
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This is a guest post by Chuck Ross.
The group that has claimed responsibility for a mob attack at a Chicago-area restaurant over the weekend is the same group that hosted former Weather Underground terrorists and Barack Obama associates Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers last year, according to fliers published on the organization’s web site.
That group, as The Blaze mentioned earlier this week, is Anti-Racist Action (ARA). According to its own website and a documentary on the group, ARA formed in the 1980s under the street name “The Baldies” in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area and as anti-racist skinheads to combat neo-Nazi groups that were gaining power.
On Saturday afternoon, a group of eighteen people wearing all black stormed Ashford House, a restaurant in Tinley Park, a community in the Chicago metro area. Ten people were injured in the attack and three were placed in the hospital.
Various news outlets have reported that the group targeted in the attack was associated with Stormfront, a website popular among white nationalists and white supremacists.
Discussion threads on that website suggest that the meeting at Ashford House was a meet-and-greet for forum members. The docket for their luncheon, which was organized under an organization calling itself the Illinois European Heritage Association, suggests that their goal was “economic networking.” The coordinator of the event, later identified as Beckie Williams, said the event was not racist, while material for the gathering was meant to promote “work for whites.”
One of the men hospitalized in the attack, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Blaze, “Our group is not a violent group. We do not condone violence at all.” The man, who received eight stitches after suffering a head wound and bruised left eye socket, said that the attackers terrorized the party. “They were armed with weapons from metal batons, hammers, nun chucks, wood batons, and various other items. They even used chairs and tables as weapons.”
Witnesses at Ashford House reported that the assailants were meeting in front of the restaurant prior to the attack and stormed in, singling out specific group members for attack. Some patrons and Ashford House employees were also injured.
As previously reported by The Blaze, five men have been arrested for their participation in the attack: three brothers – Jason Sutherlin, Dylan Sutherlin, and Cody Sutherlin, all hailing from Bloomington, Indiana – as well as two other men, Alex Stuck and James Tucker. All are being held on charges of mob attack, aggravated battery, and destruction of property and are being held on bonds of at least $150,000.
The Sutherlin brothers and their father, Tim (bottom seated). Standing, from left to right, Cody, Dylan, and Jason Sutherlin. (Photo via Facebook)
The Sutherlin brothers have ties to the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement / Indiana Antifa (“antifascist”) Support group (H.A.R.M.) — which is listed on ARA’s umbrella website as an ARA chapter. One of the Sutherlin brothers, Dylan, had ties on Facebook to the movement as well as several Occupy Chapters including “Occupy Indiana University”, “Occupy Indianapolis”, and “Occupy Bloomington.”
H.A.R.M., the Bloomington, Indiana arm of ARA, ceased supporting Occupy Indianapolis because the movement had failed to establish a physical presence in the city and because, according to H.A.R.M.’s website, it “systematically alienated, disenfranchised, and censored radical voices both during its physical occupation and via its online presence.”
None of the ARA chapters could be reached for comment. The nature of the planning efforts and communication between ARA’s South Chicago chapter and H.A.R.M. are unknown.
ARA held its 17th Annual Anti-Racist Action Network Conference on September 17 of last year. Among several other speakers, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were said to have appeared. The group issued a flier touting that fact, which is available on its website. Neither Dohrn nor Ayers could be reached for comment.
Ayers and Dohrn were members of the radical Weather Underground group and were on the run from the law after terrorist activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ayers is a retired professor of education from the University of Illinois – Chicago and Dohrn is a professor at Northwestern University.
ARA has since developed into a general left-wing organization. They now have chapters all throughout the United States and Canada with a presence in Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Toronto, Montreal and dozens of other cities.
Chuck Ross is a freelance writer.
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Gypsy123
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:04pmAyers fingerprints are all over everything including the white house.
Report Post »Arshloch
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 4:08pmSomeone needed toilet paper and those two came to mind.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 12:14pmthey “dropped the radical pose, for the radical ends” as B.Ayres said in his video. They have trained all the public school teachers and all the radical proffessors in the colleges and universities.
Report Post »YOU have entrusted your kids with them from 1st-grade and all the way through college/university. YOU voted for all their progressive-helpers in WH+Congress. What? You voted for them, too-lazy to check-them-out, before voteing?
AnAmericanToo
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 11:37amI saw a video of Ayers pushing his Marxist agenda at a college in Oregon recently. I would suspect that Ayers flew from his high end digs in Chicago to Oregon. If that is true and given Ayers’ KNOWN violent past and his political views continue today, how is it that Ayers and his wife are not place on the “no fly list”?
Report Post »Mark13
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:49amIt’s time to find a national and international will to fight the War on Communism. We used to infiltrate these groups. In the 70′s there were little Marxist cells that popped up similar to the Weathermen. They were led by psychopathic egomaniacs who gathered the young, the angry, the throwaways, the easily led. People like Manson, Jim Jones, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Donald DeFreeze. They ran cults of personality and controlled their little zombies with drugs, sex, brutality, and brainwashing (like any good little communist). DeFreeze (aka Cinque, pronounced Sin’ Q) led the SLA, the group that robbed and shot up banks and kidnapped Patty Hearst. Read about the SLA. The lesson is how LAPD dealt with them. One of the best operations they ever conducted. Reminds me of some of the music of the day. Burn, Baby, Burn! Come on Baby Light My Fire. Time to choose up sides and start cleaning up our country.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:54pmHOW can one ANTI-a-group… but not Stand for SOMETHING? Communists are tradionally Anti-Nazi… but Conservatives are Anti-Socialist, Communist & Nazi!
SkinHeads… act like Nazi… and if claiming to be Anti-Nazi, they are really a Neo-Nazi, competing.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:00pmIt seems that you either forgot or never knew what the word NAZI stands for.
It is an abbreviation of the word “Nationalsozialistische” in Die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which translates as The National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Pay attention to “National Socialist Workers’”
Communists have their origin in The Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party.
Pay attention to “Socials Democratic Workers’”.
“Communists versus Nazis” are just like two spiders in one can – the fight for POWER, not for ideology.
The essence of both parties was/is the same – Socialism.
The difference was in that Lenin wanted joined Socialists of Europe (aka International Socialism) ruling the entire world, while Hitler wanted German Socialism ruling the entire world.
So, in short, the only difference is “International versus National.”
Conservatives reject all versions of Socialism, because any kind of Socialism is inevitably a DICTATORSHIP (following Marx-Lenin formula “Dictatorship of the proletariat.”)
So, please, as Russians used to say, “don’t mix together cutlets and flies.”
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:40pmSeems like Bill Ayers and Dohrn have more of a profile of fighting for liberty than Glenn Beck does, it seems there in favor of the prosperation of the common man no matter the ideology and against the evil corrupt elites, there not terrorists, there serving our country and fighting for our freedoms.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:30pmThey are of the School… out of Chaos, Order is Born… and they will support any Conflict which adds to Chaos… as they are Nihilists!
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:59pmThey are fighting to be the ones to control you, they do not believe in freedom for everyone. These idiots who attack unarmed people eating dinner with no regard for the elderly and the women in the restaurant. These guys are terrorists fighting to prevent the free expression of opinions they do not agree with.
Report Post »CrawfishFestival2
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:53pm@ Individualism:
If you think that – you are one of them – a sucker-punching bunch of cowards – who cannot discipline themselves to maintain any civil discourse.
Using WMD – inciting violence – as menaces to society – are people with MENTAL DISORDERS.
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law – for arranging this MOB ATTACK – as DOMESTIC TERRORISTS – if their lover was not in the White House.
Report Post »Mark13
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:10amBill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn stand for starting a Marxist revolution, overthrowing the US, destroying our Constitution, and killing anyone that stands in their way. I guess if you describe Liberty as mass murder, then you may have a point. They are true soldiers of Satan. You are truly an idiot. They will push you to the front and hide behind the likes of you. Enjoy your role as cannon fodder.
Report Post »AnAmericanToo
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 11:33amAnd the violence of these two people means nothing to you?
Mr. Beck always denounces violence and supports change through positive character, love, compassion.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:04pmIndividualism
I hope that you are a young person. At least with time, you will be able to recognize how inane your comments are.
Report Post »Jim AZ
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:33amDepending on the severity of the attack, as a bystander, I would have had to whack them, regardless of their motives. Stupid, ugly, cowardly.
Report Post »After media attention for the act, with orders from manipulators trying to start a race riot.
Metallicat
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:39pmI still think the Sutherlin brothers are in it just to bash homophobes cause one of the brothers is gay,IMO they look gay.
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:36pmgee they are still free ? I remember ewading how people were exicuted for less..like the rosenburgs & etc…gee how times/treasonous actions have changed
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:52pmIn a Ron Paul world Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers are hero’s, just like Paul see’s Bradley Manning a hero and condemned the killing of terrorist.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:41pmthey are heros, in a non criminal banker/corporatist world.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:33pmSatanic BullCrap!
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:02pmRon Paul does not condone violence, so no they would not be heros. Ron Paul stands for freedom, not for silencing the opposition. These guys have more in common with John McCain NDAA, unpatriot act sponsoring RINO’s than with Ron Paul. Every bill attacking our freedoms has been put forth by establishment Republicans.
Report Post »ToddH
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 3:32amI’ve never heard Ron Paul endorsing violence to mute unpopular speech. He is very much a supporter of free speech. Nice try but you haven‘t turned anyone against Ron Paul here by inventing a false scenario over whom he’d support in this clearly lop-sided war.
Report Post »BTW, since when are the criminal bankers and corporatists found on Stormfront?
Anti-racist action; doesn’t sound like they are concerned with criminal bankers at all to me; just concerned with silencing free speech.
Drop these pasty white boys in the ghettos of Oakland, Hyde Park or the Bronx for a few nights with no motel money. I’d like to see how these white “anti-racist heroes” fare.
It’s bad enough when blacks are stupid and hypocritical towards whites about racism but when whites are stupid about it, I just like to see them camp out with their beloved brethren of all colors so they can see who gets to eat last.
Is Obama worried that whites will start finding employment for other whites the way the NAACP does for blacks? Just trying to figure out what the problem with this meeting was; what’s the justification for violence?
mandela
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:43pmHaven’t you noticed?
Report Post »ONLY White countries are BULLIED that they must be BLENDED out of existence to solve the “race problem”, and this quest is never ending, until NOT ONE White community remains on the planet.
Africa will still be African
Asia will still be Asian
For White people and ONLY White people it is oblivion – White Genocide (by the UN’s criteria for genocide)
It’s increasingly obvious:
Anti-racist is a CODEWORD for anti-White.
Metallicat
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:27pmYeah I noticed that too,and anytime whites group for mutual defense the feds harass and disarm them
Report Post »ToddH
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 3:33amExactly.
Report Post »Patriot of My America
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:32pmHow is it that Ayers and his paid mascot are still breathing free air. Just how is it that those to rabid insane anti Americans have not been charged with Sedition and Treason against this great Nation.
Report Post »None dare call it Treason but I do we need to have a counter demonstration against that slime and his
***** mascot. Enough is enough already. that pos is just pi$$ing off all patriotic Americans.
Metallicat
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:03pmyeah I noticed that too,and anytime whites gather for mutual defense the feds harass them and disarm them
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:42pmDohrn seems to head a… invisibile group of Professors… who vet Teachers for important positions, and Professors for assignments and promotions… throughout the US. Ayers seems to get all the attentions… but she is The PowerHouse!
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:04pmBecause no one is willing to put them to bed.
Report Post »The Seeker of Truth
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:22pmIt isw always amazing to me how all of these so called “antiracists” are always violent and always attack White people. This just goes to show that anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White!
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:16pmObama is tied to this group as well as much of the media, mark my words. It’s just way to coincidental to be anything but true.
Report Post »SemperFiFi
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:10pmAlong with criminal charges, the victims should file civil suits. Make them lose their jobs and homes. The same way the Klan was attacked, via civil lawsuits.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:02pmI have an idea!!
Let’s just do NOTHING about it!!
Let’s just let our country go down the toilet and wave bye bye to the way of life our fathers and grandfathers (and mothers) fought for. Let’s just give up and let the loud few take from us what is right and good. Let’s roll over and let the left suck the blood out of a healthy host like the fleas they are.
…….. ya know what?
……………Maybe that’s not such a good idea after all.
Maybe we should match kick for kick – yell for yell – and KEEP dragging these parasites into the light.
I like that plan better.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:01pm…
Report Post »Dohrn and Ayers should have been arrested, charged, and imprisoned years ago, for terrorism and treason.
AndyH
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:56pmInteresting how these “anti-racists“ and ”anti-fascists“ use violence to send their ”message”. Seems pretty hypocritical to me. Hate these “white nationalists” message all you want. Right to assembly and free speech shall not be infringed by violence of any type.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:52pmUncomfortably.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:51pmOne of the many questions intellectually lazy Americans should have asked in Nov. 2008.
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CatB
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:38pmAmazing .. how they always come up with some nice sounding name for evil.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:28pmThis is an excellent find….those two terrorists have a way of getting people killed/maimed and ruining the lives of the young and dumb…..these are Barrys’ peeps
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:44pmI call them Barry’s bumbling bastards brigade,a bunch of candyass communist cowards who couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper sack.Ayers and Dohrn should have been executed back in the sixties for bombing the pentagon,correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the communist pigs killed someone in the sixties.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:52pm@Slayer….There was an explosion in a Greenwich Village safe house when the nail bomb being constructed prematurely detonated for unknown reasons. WUO members Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins died in the explosion………they killed their own ‘brothers and sisters’..plus connected to a bomb that took out a couple of cops…check out their history, bloody, evil traitors…should have been fed to hogs…Barry keeps such good company.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:49pmSome of it was scrubbed ..Not a surprise ..I posted it up here on the Blaze shortly after it started. It was the news article from like early 2000′s… Telling about how the communist party in Illinois would be throwing their support behind the Democratic party candidates . There is still one around . But ..The one that got scrubbed actually named Barrack Obama the state senator at the time. Glenn was right about making copies of these kinds of things. At some point hopefully the truth will surface…But look how fast Rham and Daley (quasi commies themselves gubernment is overlord kind) got the hell away from Obama when they realized Obama was actually going to let his commie friends start the OWS and 99% as a political tool. And remember it was trumped up strongly by MSNBC at the time. Now what the closet commie Obama has done is created a commie Frankstien he can nolonger control…Not to mention their connection to our enemy the Muslium Brootherhood…Who Obama has openly given support to..O..You better believe it’s going to take a guy with a sack to put all this back straight…
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:08pmThis is not it but a reflection ..I am almost sure it was Chicago areas Southtown economist that had the article… http://boardreader.com/thread/Communist_Party_USA_Leader_Openly_Backs_17qnhXr15m.html
Report Post »CrawfishFestival2
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:14pm@ ProgressiveSlayer:
There was an article on Accuracy in the Media w Cliff Kincaid – wherein former law enforcement authorities and other members of society – have a bomb fragment – with a solid fingerprint on it – from the Weather Underground bombing a Police Station in San Francisco – in 1972 – injuring and maiming people on the street and killing a young Police officer.
Has Obama and The White House – w Eric Holder as US AG – intercepted these matters to prevent an investigation – that would solve this murder – from the use of WMD by The Weather Underground as domestic terrorists – because Obama is associated with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn?
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