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March 06, 2008
Thirty-Eight Years Ago Today
March 6, 1970 at 11:55 a.m.
Three members of the radical activist group known as the Weather Underground, Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, blew themselves straight to hell when the bomb they were building, which was intended to blow up a dance at Fort Dix, exploded in an otherwise quiet New York neighborhood.
Had they been better bomb-makers, instead of killing themselves, they would have killed an untold number of American soldiers. In the name of peace.
Luckily, the Weathermen's expertise at bomb-making left much to be desired.
The Weathermen's hatred of the United States manifested itself in the bombings of the U.S. Capitol building, New York City Police Headquarters, the Pentagon, and the National Guard offices in Washington, D.C. The Weathermen's leader, Bill Ayers summed up the Weathermen's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents."
The Weathermen were radicals. They wanted their people to get involved, demonstrate, get arrested and force change down the throat of the "establishment." They fought at the Democratic Presidential Convention in 1968 and converged in Chicago in 1969 for an event that came to be known as "Days of Rage." The more violent extremists during that era were responsible for a score of bombings in places like Harvard University, various corporate headquarters and a number of government institutions. They praised Charles Manson and freed Dr. Timothy Leary from prison. Wherever there was violence and chaos in the name of dissent, the Weathermen were there.
Meet Bernadine Dohrn, leader of the Weather Underground:
At a "War Council" in Flint, Michigan in 1969, their leader Bernardine Dohrn praised the serial murderer Charles Manson: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach. Wild." She then proclaimed that the time had come to launch the war against "Amerikkka" (the Weathermen always spelled America this way) and to form a Weather Underground to carry out terrorist activities.
The Weathermen claimed credit for 25 bombings over the next several years. They set bombs at the rebuilt Haymarket statue; a bathroom at the Pentagon; the Capitol barber shop; the New York City police headquarters; and a variety of other targets.
Dohrn's husband, Bill Ayers confessed that the bomb that killed the aforementioned Weather Underground members in New York was an anti-personnel weapon filled with nails and screws that would have killed or injured many at the Fort Dix dance. Ayers has recently, publicly acknowledged his feeling that his group should, in his opinion, have set off even more bombs.
For those of you who might be wondering where the rest of the Weathermen are, you need only look to our Universities, Bar Associations, and, the ACLU. That’s right. The ACLU. The unrepentant Dohrn is currently a law professor at Northwestern University. She also serves on the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union and committees of the American Bar Association. Her husband, and co-leader of the Weathermen Bill Ayers, is now Professor of Education at the University of Illinois. Teaching our children. Dig it.
Dohrn, Ayers and other members of the Weather Underground are currently under investigation in connection with a police officer killed by a bomb in 1970.
If they are indicted, they will likely have an easy time finding a lawyer since Ramsey Clark is no longer busy in Iraq, and Lynne Stewart, who has represented other members of the Weather Underground, received only a slap on the hand after her conviction for helping terrorists by smuggling messages of violence from one of her imprisoned clients -- the radical Egyptian sheik behind the 1993 WTC Bombing-- to his terrorist disciples on the outside.
Oh, and by the way... Weather Underground member Susan Rosenberg, implicated in the Nyack robbery, and Linda Evans, at different times wanted on a number of criminal charges, were apprehended carrying 740 pounds of explosives in 1985. Both acknowledged that the explosives were to be used to carry out additional bombings. Rosenberg was given 58 years in prison, Evans 40.
President Bill Clinton pardoned both women.
Posted by LindaSoG at March 6, 2008 01:02 AM
Comments
I work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Linda, and I just couldn't believe it -- Bill Ayers, a University of Illinois Professor of Education??? (I actually doubted your sources -- mea culpa).
It turns out that Mr. Ayers is a part of the University of Illinois - Chicago (UIC) faculty. I looked at his web site and chuckled at his diatribe of being miscast, misquoted and maligned for the last 40 years.
He was a liberal elitist in the 60's (the WU knew more and had better ideas than The Establishment back then) and he's still a liberal elitist in 2008 -- although now he hides behind the veil of tenure and academia to preach his "we are superior" mantra. He shows no remorse nor repentance because those who died 'in the struggle' were all beneath him (in his mind).
Great post, Linda. Thanks again for all that you do!
PJ
Posted by: ProphetJoe at March 6, 2008 10:58 AM
Well, considering that Hillary is a disciple of Saul Alinsky, I'm hardly surprised at the pardons. You forgot the Obama-Ayers links.
Posted by: Mike in NY at March 6, 2008 02:52 PM
BOOM go the Weathermen!
Posted by: bustoff at March 6, 2008 02:54 PM
Excellent historical perspective, especially necessary to get the word out to a misinformed and dumbed-down generation.
Posted by: DirtCrashr at March 6, 2008 03:25 PM
Great and insightful posting M'Lady. Those scumbuckets should ALL have been killed or imprisoned. The thought that Ayers is working as a Professor in the District that my Eldest swore to Protect and Serve makes me absolutely friggin' Nasu, naseseo, nauseos....ahh Eff. Sick to my stomach.
Wollf on Spring Break........
Posted by: howlsatmoon at March 6, 2008 07:01 PM
Thank you Linda, it's like the Halocaust, we should never forget. 38 years, it seems like yesterday. I have to wonder if today's NYC bombing isn't somehow related. That was how they operated.
Jorge has his lapdog Chertoff hot on the trail.
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