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'60s and '70s radicals get a fresh look in 'Days of Rage'(Flashback!!)
LA Times ^
| 04/03/2018
| J. Hoberman
Posted on 10/28/2018 2:14:25 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Once upon a time, as a college senior in autumn 1970, I organized a committee to block a politician from making a campaign appearance on campus and sought support from a not-unsympathetic faculty member: Students were the target de jour, I explained, the candidate was cynically using the university as a prop. My professor begged to differ: "This," meaning America in the '60s, "is all you know, but I can remember when things were different." What he saw as academic freedom, I thought absurdly naïve. ---SNIP--- The FBI reported more than 2,500 domestic bombings during an 18-month period between 1971 and 1972 and this terrorism far more destructive of property than life came to seem the new normal
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To: Huaynero
"...Those that allowed such a travesty to occur are guilty of greater offense..." I agree completely.
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10/28/2018 6:47:30 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: Kid Shelleen
"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough" -- William Ayers For 20 bonus points tell us exactly where that quote's from and exactly when it appeared.
My hunch is that you know the answer
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10/28/2018 7:01:52 PM PDT
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Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
To: Kid Shelleen
I just read recently that there's a new person of authority in San Francisco (Police Chief,prosecutor...can't recall exactly who) who has rekindled the bombing of a San Francisco Police station that killed an SFPD Sergeant.Bill Ayers and his lovely bride have,IIRC,always been the prime suspects in that crime.
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10/28/2018 7:05:50 PM PDT
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Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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