Posted on 10/27/2008 3:27:51 AM PDT by Alia
Some years ago I was involved with a radical anti-abortion group that was frustrated with efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade. We targeted two abortion clinics – one in Birmingham and the other in Atlanta - for bombings. We successfully carried out both of those bombings without killing anyone on the premises. We wanted to send our message – at least initially – without any unnecessary bloodshed.
After we carried out the bombings in Birmingham and Atlanta we gathered together in Charlotte, North Carolina for the express purpose of making a number of bombs that would be used in additional attacks on abortion clinics throughout the Southeast. Regrettably, an accident occurred during the construction of those additional bombs. Several members of our group died during the unexpected blast. Shortly thereafter, I left the group and decided to enter the field of higher education.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I do not regret my decision to engage in the bombings of those abortion clinics. In fact, I regret that we did not do more.
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Sometimes satire is not funny: this is an example.
I agree.
Is that you Bill???
..............Bill???................
Ohhhhhh, Billlllllll...
Demonstrating absurdity by being absurd bump.
This is not meant to be funny. It is written to make a major point. The people of the Left in academia and government would not be accepting the presence of an abortion clinic pomber, as they do accept an anti-Vietnam war bomber.
It’s far too heavy handed and obvious initially.
The fault though, may lie in the fact that the Left is this country is already beyong parody. Any attempt at parody is tomorrow’s headline.
Perhaps, but this has “bite”. Heads will be exploding at UNCW over this.
I suspect that sometimes it’s not meant to be funny.
Put the SOB in jail! I hope the souls of his fellow terrorist friends haunt him forever.
The Weather Underground were not anti-Vietnam War. They were PRO-North Vietnamese Communist victory. They’d met with the North Vietnamese military. They declared a war on the United States (formally). They were traitors and should have been tried and executed for their crimes.
It was NOT an anti-war movement. Jane Fonda was also decidedly pro-Communist VICTORY. She even expressed that she wanted the US to junk our constitutional form of government for Communism.
It is a big lie that the Red Dupes hold to that they were “against the war”. They had a side in the war. It wasn’t U.S.
The same is true of the communist anti-American war movements today. And of the initial movement to NOT go to war against Hitler (until he betrayed their beloved Joe Stalin).
This is not "Ha-Ha" satire; it is a satire like Swift's A Modest Proposal.
Cheers!
I sincerely doubt that anyone here is more troubled by this than Ayers, but if you choose to stir the pot that way, go right ahead without my support. They are both terrorism and horrendous.
Not Ha-Ha funny -- but people are still using it as an example of biting satire centuries later.
Cheers!
The left has succeeded in demonizing and shaming the Vietnam veteran. - A DEMOCRAT President, Kennedy, got the U.S. entangled in Vietnam. A DEMOCRAT President, Lyndon Johnson, escalated the Vietnam War to a crescendo. A Republican President, Nixon, inherited the Vietnam War and had to, finally, end it. Now, the DEMOCRATS have written the history of that war to suit themselves - just like they will with Iraq, if they get the chance.
Why is this posted on FR? This is the age of spin, exploiting (to the negative benefit of our side) twist and misinterpret.
Looks like some of you either did not read the whole column or didn’t understand it.
Hence his capitalization of the word "swift" in a later paragraph.
I’m trying to figure out why you’re treating this as if Adams is being soft on ANY kind of terrorism. He is clearly m aking the opposite argument, that a killer is a killer.
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