Law prof owes explanation (Terrorist Prof. Bernadine Dohrn of Northwestern)

Daily Northwestern ^ | 4/5/05 | Guy Benson

[LauraleeBraswell]

My God. The 60s and 70s were crazy! Now, I'm not saying any of you were weathermen liberals. But how many people here were idealistic liberals in the 60s and 70s?

[jalisco555]

Here is Bernadine Dohrn's response to the above editorial:

The tone of Guy Benson's April 5 guest column, "Law Prof Owes Explanation," is the kind of poorly researched "new McCarthyism" so suddenly fashionable. The reporter says he is denied "both sides of the story," unable to get a "balanced assessment." He quotes my "assistant" and The New York Times quoting my "husband" and asks me to clarify his alleged comments.

Since I speak publicly about the war in Iraq, racism, children's rights, international law and human rights, Benson and all NU students are welcome to be part of the regular give-and-take I enjoy with students, audiences and activists. To clarify, I have never endorsed terrorism, the use of violence to intimidate or coerce a civilian (or any other) population.

I fought the illegal, immoral war against Vietnam and the organized terrorism of my government -- and I unequivocally oppose the terrorism of governments, individuals, and religious, political and irregular organizations. I believe we all have an obligation to speak up about what is being done in our name.

-- Bernardine Dohrn,

professor, School of Law

http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/08/425630d5d4b5e?in_archive=1

[jalisco555]

But how many people here were idealistic liberals in the 60s and 70s?

Being an idealistic liberal is one thing. Plotting to murder policeman is another thing altogether.

[FreedomSurge]

Maybe so, but Dohrn has not changed her stripes and is instrumental in fomulating Illinois family law. She needs to answer the questions.

[RightWingAtheist]

Dohrn needs one of these:

[jalisco555]

Ping

[joylyn]

Hey, I was a member of SDS in 1964 and even knew some of the people who became Weathermen. We had our delusions, but beleive me, this was a small group of crazies who got even crazier over time because they only listened to one another. A cult, not a political movement. What is really disgraceful is the way the liberal establishment, to this day, idolizes and promotes the careers of people who behaved disgracefully.

[elbucko]

But how many people here were idealistic liberals in the 60s and 70s?

Me? Never! I was a "Youth for Goldwater" in high school and still have the memorabilia to prove it.

Most of these people in the "Weathermen" of the 60's and 70's were in their 20's and either Red Diaper Babies, or "intellectual" thugs influenced by the communist university enclaves of the North East, socialist Texas and Berkeley.

[ThreeYearLurker]

beleive me, this was a small group of crazies who got even crazier over time because they only listened to one another.

An apt description of the DUmpster.

[lilylangtree]

She's a professor now with access to the minds and hearts of our young adults without any penance or doing any time behind bars for her terrorist activities? Amazing! Where's the Homeland Security people when you need them?

[ikka]

I fought the illegal, immoral war against Vietnam and the organized terrorism of my government

USA drops bombs on Commies - illegal and immoral. Bernadine Dohrn dropping bombs on fellow citizens - completely acceptable and moral.

[PLK]

the kind of poorly researched "new McCarthyism" so suddenly fashionable.

Name-calling and personal attack - then no examples to back up the "poorly researched" claim. She is a classic leftist. My kid would not attend the NW law school if it was given to him on a silver platter. Craziness ....

[spanalot]

"USA drops bombs on Commies - illegal and immoral. Bernadine Dohrn dropping bombs on fellow citizens - completely acceptable and moral.'

Leftist cultural values still permeate groupthink but we are still makin progress.

This Berbadine is a marxist and she and her ilk should stand trial for the communist genocide of 100 million in the past century.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Goldwater! I look at that and I think that the Republicans were a little crazy too! He was a crazy liberatarian, not a conservative! Haha.

[GMMAC]

Aside from the fact she's now infesting a law school - with all the negative anti-majority activism that implies - note her claimed work in the area of alleged "children's law".

Once it became "unfashionable" to openly espouse the communist cause, it's not as if many of its cadres renouced same, admitted their error, and proceeded to join local Rotary Clubs.
Instead they merely redirected their seditious efforts into three principal areas:
Environmental (read: anti-capitalist) causes, sadly our Churches and, like Dohrn, radical feminist - anti conventional families activites.

Given that Dohrn's choice is the same as Hillary Rodham Clinton's - another "former" 60's radical, this pretty much tells us which one represents the most primary threat.

[LauraleeBraswell]

I'm 18.

Anyway, young people can always be counted on to be niave and idealistic no matter what decade it is. It's actually because of brain chemicals. That may sound like a stretch, but the brain is still experiancing chemical changes up until the age of 18-22ish.

Which is why young people are so stupid.

[elbucko]

Goldwater! I look at that and I think that the Republicans were a little crazy too!

Oh really! That only shows how ignorant you are about Barry Goldwater. The "Libertarian" stamp is a recent deconstruction of Goldwater by groups that did not agree some of his, "live and let live" philosophies. Be-that-a-as-it-may, Goldwater ended the draft, reformed the Joint Chiefs of Staff and paved the way for Reagan. If that's crazy, than I'm crazy too. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

[nothingnew]

Which is why young people are so stupid.

Don't know about that, but a lot of them can't spell.

I was a stupid member of the SDS until the Seale trial (Black Panther) in New Haven CT.,,, Opened my eyes at age 18, and never went back.

FMCDH(BITS)