Posted on 03/30/2009 6:45:42 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
A memorial service is planned for May 16 for Steve Hamilton, a prominent Bay Area anti-war activist and member of the Oakland 7 who was acquitted in a notorious conspiracy trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Will Obama send a representative to the funeral?
Bwaney Fwank
((Shrug))
120 million dead (and counting) and this scumbag Stalinist get a glowing obituary. David Duke should be so lucky!
An anti-war activist is gay? I’m shocked.
That’s alright. He’s burning in hell as we speak.
Was he ‘hoist with his own petard?’ ;)
A communist is dead? Good
My blood boils! David Duke and the white trash clowns dressing in old German uniforms are harmless, yes, HARMLESS, Nazism is long dead, while these scumbags have brought the world Pol Pot, Castro, Mugabe!
I bet it sucks to be dead - especially after having spent a lifetime working for the devil.
member of the Oakland 7...and gay commie.
The name Steve Hamilton instantly reminds me of the former Yankee pitcher who made famous the ‘folly floater’ pitch.
Check out the video of him throwing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvp7kMraAw
Notorious????
Biased??? Who - the innocent press?
VietVet
Probably harder. But his dream has not (yet) come true, an American society where nonconformists are sent to concentration camps or worse. If and when it comes to pass it's a pretty safe bet who will be rounded up first, and it's not gonna be we conservatives, people with guns, or even the Jews.
In 1963, the crew-cut sophomore transferred to UC Berkeley as a divinity student. Some time later, his family saw televised reports of protests there showing a “rather scruffy-looking guy with long hair,” recalled his sister, Shirley Metcalf.
His family was sure he never would participate in such activities, she said, and was shocked when on school break “in walked the scruffy-looking man.”
Mr. Hamilton later helped found the Marxist Revolutionary Union and organized at work in Richmond’s Bethlehem Steel factory.
He became a therapist trying to better the mental health system
Steve was a radical political activist who remained committed to core progressive ideals for his entire life.
, Steve initially considered becoming a Christian minister, but soon got caught up in the political ferment that was Berkeley in the 1960s. He joined SLATE, the Free Speech Movement (FSM) the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and the Revolutionary Union (RU).
By the mid 70’s Steve was a member of BASOC (Bay Area Socialists of California).
His last job was with MHN, a mental and behavior health network, where he focused on occupational stress issues. In his final year, suffering from congestive heart failure, Steve moved to Louisville KY with his friends Tank and Roman, where he died in his sleep.
EEEEPHUS
From the New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."
Source: New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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