Days of Rage -> Years of Hiding -> Decades of Tenure
Posted on 03/08/2017 4:38:15 PM PST by RightGeek
“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.)
Recently, I had my head torn off by a book: Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage, about the 1970s underground. It’s the most important book I’ve read in a year. So I did a series of running tweetstorms about it, and Clark asked me if he could collect them for posterity. I’ve edited them slightly for editorial coherence.
Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about.
One thing that Burrough returns to in Days of Rage, over and over and over, is how forgotten so much of this stuff is. Puerto Rican separatists bombed NYC like 300 times, killed people, shot up Congress, tried to kill POTUS (Truman). Nobody remembers it.
Also, people don’t want to remember how much leftist violence was actively supported by mainstream leftist infrastructure. I’ll say this much for righty terrorist Eric Rudolph: the sonofabitch was caught dumpster-diving in a rare break from hiding in the woods. During his fugitive days, Weatherman’s Bill Ayers was on a nice houseboat paid for by radical lawyers.
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This is where radical professor Angela Davis comes in. Davis, if you don’t know, is so dedicated to communism that she literally got her Ph.D. behind the Iron Curtain. From a moral perspective, that’s a little like somebody getting a Ph.D. in old South Africa specifically because they dig apartheid.
On August 5, 1970, Davis had a long meeting with George Jackson in prison. After her meeting with George Jackson, Davis bought Jackson’s little brother Jonathan, still in high school, a shotgun. Two days later, Jonathan took hostages in a courtroom and demanded the release of the Soledad Three.
Jonathan killed the judge before being killed himself. Two other hostages were badly wounded. As for George, on August 21, 1971, somebody — prison officials held it was Jackson’s lawyer — gave him a gun. Jackson took seven hostages before he was killed by snipers while trying to escape prison. Five of the hostages were found dead in his cell.
Jackson wasn’t the only black radical of the period to meet a violent end. The contrast in the fates of 70’s black radicals and white radicals is pretty stark. A lot of white radicals came out okay. A lot of black radicals came out dead.
But Angela Davis did great. She’s had a successful career and remains celebrated. Arrested for her part in Jonathan’s plot, Davis was acquitted, and became a radical icon.
I think an underappreciated factor in Angela Davis doing so well afterward is her position as part of the credentialed class. Like the Weathermen — and unlike most black radicals — Angela Davis had access to Institutions.
Institutions are one of two major assets that the Left has and the Right lacks. The other is Shock Troops.
Institutions are organizations the Left controls that operate for the benefit of the Left’s people. The Right doesn’t really have these. As an example, there are occasional hard right lawyers, but so far as I know there is no such thing as the Reactionary Lawyers’ Guild.
The other thing that the Left has that the Right doesn’t are Shock Troops: unshameable actors.
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Days of Rage -> Years of Hiding -> Decades of Tenure
We now see their babies, heirs, and indoctrinated students still belonging to noble sounding organizations that are actually socialist, communist, and anarchist organizations. Each organization dedicated to the destruction of our Republic. They never tire, and view Shariah Law as their ally.
We tend to forget that even Saddam was a socialist, Assad is a socialist, China is still communist, North Korea is still communist, Russia is socialist, and most of the EU states are socialist states. There are very few republics that are actually republics in name and structure in the world.
The biggest problem currently is the MSM has a decisive socialist agenda, and most have investors who are anti-American. This along with the current Democrat Party calling itself “democrat”, but in fact is the Socialist Democrat Party USA.
They always wear masks and talk peace while planning to shut down, censor, and destroy all who oppose them.
Daley also said policemen weren’t there to create disorder, they’re there to preserve disorder.
The DOR were in early October of that year. The theme was bring the war home. The Weathermen cadre had just returned from training in Cuba. And later that week in a tactical meeting in Evanston, I heard the 20-25 million quote of how many would need to be liquidated, post revolution.
thanks. am i reading you right about Evanston ?
In 1968 I was workin nights for Monkey Wards - state & adams.
MLK gets shot and we basically stayed til morning based on recommendations as madison ave goes up in flames, block by block west of downtown.
We ran across the same issue during the Convention in August except it’s east - grant park - yet the convention is miles away at the Amphitheatre. The protesters made it to downtown and innocent bystanders were in more danger from the cops\national guard than we were when the west side went up in flames.
we thought then, we lived in interesting times...today has that beat all to hell.
If you read that I was a useful idiot at 17, yes.
And parallels to those times abound today.
Ping.
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