Joseph Remiro - From VVAW member to 1973 SLA Assassin

Various | March 24th, 2004 | Compiled by Sabertooth

[Fiddlstix]

[Grampa Dave]

There is nothing that these street thugs from the 1960/70's wouldn't do to get their political agendas across.

VVAW members and other buddies of John F'onda al Querry from the those days were very scary people. Of course the mediots spiked/buried most of what they did. Then if they were caught in some out rageous crime, they blamed the Viet Nam Vet syndrome.

[lainde]

bttt

[Cultural Jihad]

Interesting thread and point, Saber.

[backhoe]

Cross-linked:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104239/posts
Kansas City Kerry- "The Phoenix Project"
various FR links | 03-24-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and ping, Saber !! ...

Joseph Remiro - From VVAW member to 1973 SLA Assassin

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[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you ...

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[livius]

Good information!!!

I was living in the Bay Area at the time of Foster's assasination, and I remember it quite clearly. It's remarkable to see it again in such a context. But all these things seem to be tied together, sooner or later, and the knot that unites them is the radical left. Of which Kerry was clearly a member.

[OXENinFLA]

NICE WORK!

[Dante3]

bttt

[hedgie]

"VVAW members and other buddies of John F'onda al Querry from the those days were very scary people.

Oh, I see you remember them too. See my #9.

[Barset]

The Stennis shooting was never solved.

[Sabertooth]

The Stennis shooting was never solved.

That's the conclusion I'm reaching, based on my recollections and the absence of any information that the perps were apprehended, but I haven't been able to nail it down.

Do you have a source or link for that? Thanks.

[PhilDragoo]

Clockwise from top: Nancy Ling Perry, Joseph Remiro,
Thero Wheeler, William Wolfe, Camilla Hall, William Harris,
Emily Harris, Patricia Soltysik, Angela Atwood,
Russell Little, and Donald DeFreeze

The Symbionese Liberation Army is Born

Through Venceremos, the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War), and prisoner support programs, this diverse group of people slowly came together to form the Symbionese Liberation Army. In August of 1973 Donald DeFreeze and Patricia Soltysik began to draft documents and plans for the formal structure of the organization. They were joined and trained by Joseph Remiro, a Vietnam Veteran very active in the VVAW, but unhappy with its pacifist policies. The SLA began planning its first action: the assassination of Oakland School Superintendent Marcus Foster. Not liking the direction the SLA was taking, Thero Wheeler pulled out, as did Mary Alice Siem.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for posting this. Very interesting, indeed.

nutmeg, thanks for the ping.

[VadeRetro]

Missed this thread at first. Good work!

[Doctor Stochastic]

...three armed figures ...

No doubt breaking loose from that Hindu temple caused the loss of the fourth arm.

[Fedora]

Excellent work, Sabertooth! Here's another aspect of the SLA which might be worth looking into, not directly related to what you're discussing but perhaps indirectly:

The Jonestown Report, November 2000, Volume 2

Richard Williams, an independent researcher in North Carolina, is studying the ideological, political, and possible direct connections between Peoples Temple, MOVE, and the Symbionese Liberation Army

Jonestown Audiotape Primary Project : Transcripts

Newscaster: The Peoples Temple Christian Church of Redwood Valley, led by Pastor Jim Jones, has voted to contribute $2000 to meet the demands of Patricia Hearst, who was taken hostage recently by the Symbionese Liberation Army. This morning, I asked uh, Jim Jones about this situation. . .

[SNIP]

Newscaster: Pastor Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple Church in Redwood Valley. A member of that church now telling us that Jim has made that offer because of similar circumstances which he has been personally involved with. . .have offered themselves as hostages to the Symbionese Liberation Army in exchange for kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. The offer was made to the Hearst family several days ago privately by Jones, and has since leaked out to the public. In commenting on the offer, Jones says, they were not trying to hide anything, only do that which they thought was right, and he again deplored the tactics of the SLA in the kidnapping.

To put this in context, Jim Jones had extensive political connections to the California Democratic Party on both local and state levels--for instance:

A few weeks after the massacre in Jonestown, Governor Jerry Brown ordered the Temple's records removed from San Francisco

Brown had accepted People's Temple contributions and the help of the church's children in his electoral campaigns. He had known, too, the potential votes Jones's "troops" commanded for future campaigns for higher office.

Source: Kenneth Wooden, former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times

[okie01]

"And after all, we're talking about a very small group. At the most they had around 1,000 members. But most of the time it was more like just three or four hundred or so."

Importantly, many weren't even veterans. And not all the veterans had actually done a tour in Viet Nam. Nor had all the Viet Nam veterans in the group even seen combat.

VVAW has no claim whatsoever on the consciousness of the vast majority of Viet Nam veterans. To purport that VVAW was any kind of a "representative group" is to give them (and Kerry) far more credit than they deserve.