This is regarding “The calm after the storm” (Tribune Magazine, Sept. 16). After the horrific events of Sept. 11, the Tribune glorifies a terrorist. Shame on you for giving this person a forum for profiting from the pain he caused.
Shame again for giving this person a reason to think that somehow he was justified or that he had serious motives and wasn’t in it for all the wrong reasons, namely his own aggrandizement.
I was only a small boy when these people committed their crimes. But I remember 1968 vividly–at the ripe old age of 7 I thought the world was coming to an end. But until today I did not even know who the Weathermen were. Thanks to the Tribune I not only know who they were but am expected to think they weren’t so bad after all. (Doesn’t he look harmless on the cover of your magazine?)
I thought there was a law against profiting from a crime. But apparently Mr. William Ayers can profit from his notoriety and criminality by writing a book about it. Ayers claims in the article that he was not a terrorist. Yet he claims that, “We wanted the people in the government waging the war to feel a sense of fear, a sense of consequences. Not personal fear, but fear that they were unleashing something that could rise up and overwhelm them.”
Excuse me but that is the definition of terrorism. I’m sure the people who attacked America used similar self-serving logic.
