1. Obama Has Links to ANOTHER '60s Radical
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Obama has consistently sought to distance himself from former domestic
terrorist Bill Ayers. But it’s a different story with another student
radical from the 1960s — Marilyn Katz — who is actually on Obama’s
fundraising team.
Katz, a public
relations executive in Chicago, serves on Obama’s national finance
committee. She is listed as a fundraising “bundler” on his Web site,
has hosted fundraisers for the candidate, and attended the Democratic
Convention as part of the Illinois delegation.
But
during the violent protests of the 1968 Democratic National Convention
in Chicago, Katz was the security chief for the radical Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), which spawned Ayers and the Weather
Underground.
During those protests, Katz advocated throwing studded nails in front of police cars, the Chicago Tribune reported.
In
1969, an undercover policeman named William Frapolly testified at the
“Chicago Seven” trials, and prosecutors asked him to describe his
collaboration with organizers of the protest the previous year.
He testified that one night in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, Katz briefed a group of protesters on the use of “guerilla nails.”
“She had two types,” he told the court.
“One
was a cluster of nails that were sharpened at both ends, and they were
fastened in the center. It looked like they were welded or soldered.
She said these were good for throwing or putting underneath tires.
“She
showed another set that was the same type of nails sharpened at both
ends, but they were put through a Styrofoam cylinder.”
A prosecutor asked, “To whom was she showing these objects?”
Frapolly answered, “Everyone in the group.”
Katz
was a principal organizer of the October 2002 anti-war demonstration in
Chicago where Obama first expressed his opposition to the looming Iraq
war.
In 2005, she co-authored the book
“Stopping War, Seeking Justice” along with longtime Marxist and Obama
supporter Carl Davidson.
Now she is
co-chair of Chicagoans Against War & Injustice, and her public
relations firm is working on contracts with the city of Chicago worth
millions of dollars. She lists as her clients the city’s housing
authority, law department, and departments of housing, human services,
streets and sanitation, and public health, among others.
As
for her relationship with Ayers, who admitted helping to bomb the U.S.
Capitol and the Pentagon in the 1970s, the Tribune reported that she
has said, “Bill and I were in different parts of SDS. We disagreed on
tactics.”
Guy Benson wrote on
Townhall.com about Obama’s Katz connection: “There are so many
objectionable figures in Obama’s social milieu, new revelations about
yet another garden variety radical may elicit shrugs at this point . .
.
“Perhaps it follows that someone who
preferred lobbing guerilla nails at police over planting pipe bombs in
federal buildings would be integrated into Obama’s official campaign
apparatus without so much as a second look.”
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