Posted on 08/27/2004 8:46:09 PM PDT by Royal Guardsman
Newburyport, Ma is my hometown.
I lived there 12 years. HS grad in 1980.
I knew a few people in your class.
Picariello has been identified by police as a member of ANSWER
A militant bomber is a member of John Kerry's ANSWER group.
Expect some trouble in NYC. John Kerry's minions are raging.
It has nothing to do with Bush. It's a national security issue, but we'll find out who's right next week, won't we?
I hope they're on this (TERRORIST, not "militant") POS like white on rice, as well as on the rest of those ANSWER freaks.
New York City police say Richard J. Picariello, 55, is among 50 activists whose criminal histories will earn them extra attention next week. In 1977, Picariello was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in federal prison for his role in 13 bombings carried out in the summer of 1976. Picariello and his underground militant group targeted the Newburyport Superior Courthouse on Bartlet Mall, a post office in Seabrook, a prop-jet airliner at Logan Airport and a National Guard Armory truck in Dorchester. No one was killed in the bombings....
...Picariello has been identified by police as a member of ANSWER (Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism). ANSWER spokesman Bill Hackwell said yesterday he did not know whether Picariello will participate in the group's protests at next week's Republican National Convention in New York City. ...(/snip)
Maybe I need to read this again but I didn't catch the name of Picariello's old "militant group." Does anyone see where it is named? ANSWER is new, so what's the old group's name? I did notice his last known address referenced a home for homeless vets. So... makes me wonder, any ties to VVAW?
Its not mentioned in the article. The group he was with at the time of the bombing was allegedly the Weather Underground.
A member of the radical underground Fred Hampton Unit who was on the FBI Most Wanted List, Picariello briefly fled to Canada. When the would-be GOP convention disrupter returned, he bombed a power plant in Maine and robbed a bank before he was apprehended. He has spent nearly half of his life, 25 years, in prison.
(snip) Today's Daily News report trumpeted "police intelligence sources" who claim that 5O of the "country's leading anarchists" are headed this way, including a handful of "hard-core extremists with histories of violent and disruptive tactics." Among them, the paper wrote, are former members of the Black Panthers and even a "one-time member of the Fred Hampton Unit of the Peoples Army"a group that hasnt operated since the 1970s. (/snip)
Amazingly, this is not the first time Newburyport has had a run-in with some nasty left-wing terrorists. Remember Kathryn Ann Power? She was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for over 20 years for her involvement with a violent antiwar group that ended up killing a Boston police officer. In September 1970 Kathryn and 4 accomplices broke into and firebombed the Newburyport Armory and made off with some SERIOUS military weaponry. A couple weeks later they attempted a robbery at State Street Bank in Boston, which resulted in a shootout and the death of the officer. The officer killed--William Schroeder--is the namesake of the Boston Police headquarters (Schroeder Place). Pretty amazing for a city of only 17,000 people.
Thanks for the info- whatever became of dear little Kathryn?
She turned herself in to the feds in 1993, confessed, and served a measly 6 years in the slammer before being released. At the time of her arrest, I believe she had been on the most wanted list longer than anyone in history.
Fred Hampton (1948 December 4, 1969) was a black American activist. He was a rising leader of the Black Panther Party (BPP) when he was shot by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in a violent raid of his home organized by the FBI.
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At about the same time that Hampton was successfully organizing young African Americans for the NAACP, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (as it was originally called) started rising to national prominence. Hampton was quickly attracted to the Black Panther's approach, which was based on a ten-point program of black self-determination. Hampton joined the Party and relocated to downtown Chicago, and in November of 1968 he joined the Party's nascent Illinois chapter founded by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer Bob Brown in late 1967.
Over the next year, Hampton and his associates made a number of significant achievements in Chicago. Perhaps his most important accomplishment was his brokering of a nonaggression pact between Chicago's most powerful street gangs. By emphasizing that racial and ethnic conflict between gangs would only keep its members entrenched in poverty, Hampton strove to forge a class-conscious, multiracial albeit tenuous alliance between the BPP, SDS (a white political action group), the Blackstone Rangers, the Young Lords (a Puerto Rican organization), and the Young Patriots (a white group). In May of 1969, Hampton called a press conference to announce that a truce had been declared among this "rainbow coalition," a phrase coined by Hampton and made popular over the years by Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Due to his organizing skills, oratorical gifts, and personal charisma, he rose quickly in the organization, becoming leader of the Chicago chapter of the party. He organized weekly rallies, worked with a People's Clinic, taught political education classes every morning at 6am, and launched a project for community supervision of the police. Hampton was also instrumental in the BPP's Free Breakfast Program. When Brown left the Party with Stokely Carmichael in the FBI fomented SNCC/Panther split, Hampton assumed chairmanship of the Illinois state BPP, automatically making him a national BPP deputy chairman. As the panther leadership across the country began to be decimated by the impact of the FBI's COINTELPRO, Hampton's prominence in the national hierarchy increased rapidly and dramatically. Hampton was in line to be appointed to the Party's Central Committee's Chief of Staff was it not for his untimely death on the night of December 4, 1969.
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The FBI opened a file on Hampton in 1967 that over the next two years expanded to twelve volumes containing over four-thousand pages. A wire tap was placed on Hampton's mother's phone in February of 1968. By May of that year, the young Panther's name was placed on the "Agitator Index" and he would be designated a "key militant leader for Bureau reporting purposes."
The Panther-SDS alliance mentioned here was characteristic of the SDS faction aligned with the Weathermen that split from a PLP-dominated faction in 1969. The VVAW's Al Hubbard was linked to this faction, though not necessarily to this particular group.
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