Posted on 10/07/2008 6:31:15 AM PDT by Calpernia
Weather Underground and Other 60s Radical Groups - History - Excerpt 1 from Law Review Book
American law enforcement uncovered a plot by 1960s American radical groups to destroy several Manhattan buildings;2 that members of the Weather Underground were charged with a plot to use explosives to destroy power lines, a railroad junction, and property of Bethlehem Steel Works,3 with killing two police officers and a security guard during a robbery of an armored truck,4 and with executing an escape from San Quentin prison that resulted in the deaths of inmate George Jackson and five other persons;5 and that during the murder trial arising out of the latter incident, Jackson’s brother entered the Marin County courthouse and took the trial judge hostage.6 The judge was killed in the parking lot during a gun battle between his abductors and the police.7
Around this same time, leaders of the Black Afro Militant Movement (BAMM) organization gave instructions to a gathered group in Miami on how to assemble explosive and incendiary devices, to, in their words, prepare the members of BAMM for “the coming revolution.”8
Individual members of African-American revolutionary groups were prosecuted for murdering police officers and government informants in Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, and Cleveland.9
White radicals, in a show of solidarity with their black peers, placed dynamite at the Central Intelligence Agency offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan.10 Politically-motivated individuals in several cities—New Orleans, New York, Milwaukee, San Diego, Albuquerque, Miami, and Salt Lake City— hijacked commercial airliners, in one case ordering the pilot to fly the plane into a Tennessee nuclear reactor when it appeared their demands would not be met.11 Was the political violence of this era real or imagined?
According to figures contained in a 1972 Supreme Court brief submitted by the Attorney General, there were 1,562 bombing incidents—most of which involved government-related facilities—in the United States in the first six months of 1971.12
Putting aside the issue of how U.S. counter-terrorism enforcement efforts in the 1960s and 1970s were implemented, it cannot be said that the radical groups of this era should have been left to their own devices and allowed to operate happily unencumbered by any law-enforcement scrutiny. Their violent activities, particularly when considered in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, speak for themselves.
I’ll add you to my ping list for FR Keyword: SDS
Thanks for the link! It’s a good thing to “know the enemy”! :)
>>>That Socialism and Communism are NOT separate ideologies, AT ALL! And that today’s communists use the word “socialist” because they KNOW Americans still understand that “Communism = evil”.
Lenin references himself with the term socialism. Even Stalin didn’t see much of a difference between Nazism and Communism.
I had a hard time finding this book because it is out of print. I grabbed a used copy from eBay:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1235065/posts
EXCERPTS FROM NAKED COMMUNIST
Page 156:
The Rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism in Germany
Excerpt:
Although called by different names, Nazism and Communism were aimed at the same identical mark and were forged in very similar ideological molds.
Calpernia: Thanks! :-)
The crowd could have been staged for propaganda. Venezuela has activism groups there. Matter of fact, even ACORN has offices there.
HUGO CHAVEZ, COLUMBIAN LEFTIST REBELS, OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS, AND ROGUE URANIUM IN SOUTH AMERICA
Whenever an action/idea/thought/product needs to be sold, a crowd for hire is usually shown as being for it. So never believe the 'cheering crowds'.
You’re welcome, Kim.
Thanks, Cal.
I’ve been lost in thought reading up on the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America group and their early support of BHO.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=obama+site:chicagodsa.org&start=0&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=ayers+site%3Achicagodsa.org
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=dohrn+site%3Achicagodsa.org&btnG=Search
Calpernia has given us another must read thread, with lots of links to check/read in the comments.
So why aren’t these terrorists frog marched rather than holding offices and influencing our lives?<<<
People would rather think that communism ended with the Berlin wall.
And we have elected too many of them to hold office.
And we allowed our children to be brainwashed in their schools and now so many think that they are right.
America has allowed abortions to be ok, get one tomorrow and you will go to prison if you harm a whale [or eat one].
OK, I shall get off my soap box.
Bump.
kdwn.com on the radio news.
The Feds raided the Acorn office in Las Vegas today, for fraudulent voter registrations.
"According to figures contained in a 1972 Supreme Court brief submitted by the Attorney General, there were 1,562 bombing incidents—most of which involved government-related facilities—in the United States in the first six months of 1971.12"
The Leftists won the war on Communism with their handy Red Dupes in the US media. They proclaimed McCarthy a fraud.
They claimed that the socialist fifth column in the US was not alligned with global Communism or agents in the USSR and other enemy nations.
They LIED.
The Weather Underground travelled to Communist Cuba and Communist North Vietnam and met with military figures before waging their stateside war in the US.
The New Left IS the street radical of the 1960s. They ARE the modern face of the Democrat party.
There is no “shame” in being a “former” radical. Radical chic. Remember that? When it was an honor to have a wanted radical at your cocktail party?
A lie? This is from Texas Law and Policy. This is not an MSM article.
Whether activities spilled over into the ‘70s or not does not nullify the title. I pulled excerpts from the reference text. The material does acknowledge 70s. But it started in the 60s.
BTTT
Trying to track down a thread that references the 1969 meeting where the SDS group morphed into the Weatherman group,...sure I was reading it today..
They claimed that the socialist fifth column in the US was not alligned with global Communism or agents in the USSR and other enemy nations.
They LIED.<<<
So many do not accept the truth of the damage the communists have done to America, even now.
I do, once I read the communist manifesto, I attempted to tell people, they would not listen.
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