When he has pals like Bill Ayers and keeps his records secret that tells me volumes, not paranoid, just concerned. If you love your country you have to be concerned or shit sneaks up on you.
This Bill Ayers?
In 1997 Chicago awarded him its Citizen of the Year award for his work on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge project.[48]
William C. Ibershof, formerly the lead federal prosecutor in the Weather Underground case, wrote in 2008: "Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen."[68]
Ayers was elected Vice President for Curriculum Studies by the American Educational Research Association in 2008.[69] William H. Schubert, a fellow professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wrote that his election was "a testimony of [Ayers'] stature and [the] high esteem he holds in the field of education locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally."[70]
Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank praised Ayers as a "model citizen" and a scholar whose "work is esteemed by colleagues of different political viewpoints."[71]