Radical teachings leave democracy short-lived

Today, most of us probably don't recognize the names of:

Diana Oughton (SDS terrorist and communist killed with two others while making bombs).

Bill Ayres and wife Bernadine Dorn, top terrorists (acquitted from serious terrorist activities on a technicality). Joanne Chesimard (convicted police killer and prison escapee to Cuba for 40 years).

Kathy Boudin (convicted of felony murder of three police officers, was set free after serving a scant 20 years). She was later rewarded with a position of adjunct professor at Columbia University.

There is a clear nexus between the tumult of the late '60s and earlier '70s to the manufactured divisiveness we have experienced for the past seven years. Some of the people, named above as well as many other fellow radicals, are educating our children. Instead of blowing things up and killing people, they have simply learned the subtlety of doublespeak, subversion and the application of Alinsky tactics. Currently their useful fools are at work on our college campuses and burning down Main Street.

It is my opinion that Ayres and "friend" Dr. Benjamin Spock and their acolytes sought with significant success to pry the authority of parents from their children under the guise of child rearing, thereby rendering them empty vessels to be educationally filled with all manner of leftist pollution.

Today we have a well-represented percentage of people who, at 20 years of age and beyond, have the emotional maturity of 8-year-olds. To be offended is the elixir of life that gets them out of bed in the morning. Mention the Bill of Rights in their presence is akin to throwing holy water on a vampire. Their vacuous education in traditional values, morals and ethics and religious rights that made this country flourish beyond all others is demonstrably clear and malignant.

Patrick Neylan

Bradenton

This story was originally published November 18, 2015 at 5:49 PM with the headline "Radical teachings leave democracy short-lived ."