Posted on 10/07/2008 6:44:02 AM PDT by STARWISE
On Oct. 6, Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists." She was referring to Obama's occasional association with Bill Ayers, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor who co-founded the militant group, the Weathermen.
Palin was not the first to mention the Obama-Ayers connection. The Obama campaign regularly points out that Ayers committed his crimes when Obama was only eight.
The Weathermen formed as a radical offshoot of the 1960s student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
A manifesto, which circulated around a June 1969 SDS convention, took its title from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," it read, and thus became known as the Weatherman statement.
While SDS promoted nonviolent protests, the Weathermen aligned themselves with violent groups like the Black Panthers. "There is no example of a peaceful road to fundamental social change," wrote Weatherman-founder David Dilbert.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
By October 1969, the group was ready for its first major attack: four "Days of Rage," in Chicago's affluent Gold Coast neighborhood. The Weatherman boasted that thousands of student warriors would flood city streets with violence and destruction, but only a few hundred people showed up.
Six Weathermen were shot and 287 arrested. The riots were deemed a failure.
And Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba around the time I was born. That doesn't mean I would ever want to be associated with him.
MSM...nuff said!
Would you, had you been only 8 years old when Hitler or Stalin committed their acts, later at age 41 associated with them, if alive, to ‘break into neighborhood politics’?
Is there any relation to www.weatherunderground.com?
Sure, the bombings stopped and the hundreds of planned assassinations never occurred, but Mr. Ayers still promotes and defends those actions to this day, and even reiterated those beliefs on September 11. Completely disgusting.
lol I don’t think so. That’s a good weather site.
Don’t believe so .... that link converts to
www.wunderground.com, the well done weather site.
NO
And he’s still filling young minds with radical
anti-American poison as a ‘professor.’ More
than disgusting and despicable .... Chicago.
The Weather Underground - The Film
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows.
Thus began the “Days of Rage,” the first demonstration of the Weathermen, later known as the Weather Underground. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, this group of former student radicals waged a low-level war against the United States government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding.
In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Weathermen including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and David Gilbert speak frankly about the idealist passions and trajectories that transformed them from college activists into the FBI’s Most Wanted.
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War.
Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”—“you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country that it considered emblematic of the worldwide violence sanctioned by the U.S. government.
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts.
Fueled by righteous anger, these white, middle-class students were also widely criticized for their controversial—some say misguided—politics.
As former SDS president Todd Gitlin says: ‘’Like Bonnie and Clyde, many of them were attractive personally. They were into youth, exuberance, sex, drugs. They wanted action.”
Ultimately, the Weathermen’s carefully organized, clandestine network managed to successfully dodge the FBI for years, although the group’s members would eventually reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire.
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s.
Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
I couldn’t link to the article.
Did it mention the armored car robbery in which two uniformed police officers were executed and the uniformed driver was also executed leaving a total of five children behind?
Or the police officers wounded in the NYC police station bombing?
And I wouldn't say the Days of Rage were a "failure". I remember what these maggots did to the Stores in 'The Loop'. > And Richard Elrod remembered -- forever. He was injured and paralyzed from the neck down because of these pukes.
btw, the Wiki entry is full of shit.
Dipstick Time mag, that David GILBERT, not DIlbert and Gilbert is still in Attica serving life for killing a policeman.
Do you know if it was the Weathermen that murdered the physics student at the University of Wisconsin?
Definitely a puff piece.
Don’t know ... do a search.
Dr. Jeff Masters is a raging, rabid, Leftist moonbat. Every click at his site are $ in a Marxist pocket.
I cannot provide a link to his rant, which I viewed only once and for the last time about the time of hurricane Ivan a few years ago. It was worthy of the code pinkos or moveon.
I live on the Gulf coast and was one of his biggest fans. I since get my hurricane info from accuweather or a local TV affiliate.
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