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Prairie Fire
Ayers has claimed that his actions were not terrorist acts. <ref>Bill Ayers' blog, Episodic Notoriety–Fact and Fantasy, by Bill Ayers, 4/06/2008[http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/episodic-notoriety-fact-and-fantasy/]</ref> He has stated that according to the official definition of both the U.S. and the U.N., terrorism consists of violent acts intended to intimidate or coerce a populace into a political end, and that his actions were intended to draw attention to and combat the state terrorism of the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In his autobiography, Fugitive Days, Ayers claimed that his bombing of the Pentagon prevented aerial bombardments in Vietnam for several days, which he defined as terrorism. In this regard, Ayers has implied that he ''prevented'' terrorism rather than caused it.
Ayers has claimed that his actions were not terrorist acts. <ref>Bill Ayers' blog, Episodic Notoriety–Fact and Fantasy, by Bill Ayers, 4/06/2008[http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/episodic-notoriety-fact-and-fantasy/]</ref> He has stated that according to the official definition of both the U.S. and the U.N., terrorism consists of violent acts intended to intimidate or coerce a populace into a political end, and that his actions were intended to draw attention to and combat the state terrorism of the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In his autobiography, Fugitive Days, Ayers claimed that his bombing of the Pentagon prevented aerial bombardments in Vietnam for several days, which he defined as terrorism. In this regard, Ayers has implied that he ''prevented'' terrorism rather than caused it.
==Prairie Fire==
[[Image:Prairie Fire.jpg|thumb|left|150px]]
In 1974, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other members of the Weather Underground wrote the book, ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism''. In this book, William Ayers admits that he is a communist,
:"We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years."
[[Image:Dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan.jpg|thumb|right|Prairie Fire is dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy's assassin.]]
Interestingly, the book lists Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, among many other now-obscure '60s-era radicals, criminals and revolutionaries on the dedication page.
[[Image:Weather Underground bombings.jpg|thumb|right|Ayers and his fellow co-authors brag about their numerous acts of domestic terrorism.]]
Ayers and his fellow co-authors brag about their numerous acts of domestic terrorism, and provide a handy list detailing not only each crime but in most cases the justification for each crime as well.
Among the bombings by Ayers' group listed in the book:
*Haymarket police statue, Chicago
*Chicago police cars
*New York City police headquarters
*Marin County Courthouse
*Long Island City Courthouse
*Department of Corrections, San Francisco
*Office of California Prisons, Sacramento
*Department of Corrections, Albany NY
*103rd Precinct of New York City police
*Harvard Center for International Affairs
*U.S. Capitol
*MIT research center
*The Pentagon
*Draft and recruiting centers
*ROTC buildings
*ITT Latin America Headquarters
*National Guard Headquarters, Washington D.C.
*Presidio Army Base and MP Station, San Francisco
*Federal Offices of Health, Education and Welfare, San Francisco <ref>[http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/ William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire], zombietime.com, October 22, 2008</ref> <ref>[http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/10/forgotten-terrorist-manifesto-prairie.html Forgotten Terrorist Manifesto: Prairie Fire], Bob Ellis, Dakota Voice, October 24, 2008</ref> <ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/reading-bill-ayers/ Reading Bill Ayers], Michelle Malkin, MichelleMalkin.com, October 23, 2008</ref>
==Relationship with Barack Obama==
==Relationship with Barack Obama==