Suit claims 1960s anti-war activist drove into woman

chicagobreakingnews.com ^ | 05/22/10 | Duaa Eldeib

[TornadoAlley3]

A woman is suing Bernardine Dohrn, saying the 1960s radical drove into her as she walked home from church.

Maricela Canuto said she was struck by Dohrn's 2005 Buick LaCrosse as she tried to cross 55th Street at Christiana Avenue around 7:50 p.m. Feb. 28.

Attorney Frank Marino said Canuto suffered a broken pelvis and stayed overnight in a hospital.

"There is a lot of pain and suffering and bills (with that)," Marino said.

Dohrn, a Northwestern University law professor, declined comment Saturday. She's the wife of Bill Ayers, and the two former members of the Weather Underground spent much of the 1970s on the run.

The radical group was responsible for at least four bombings, one in a Pentagon bathroom. Ayers' Chicago ties to then-Sen. Barack Obama became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Canuto is seeking more than $50,000 in damages in the suit filed Friday.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Good luck to her and I hope she wins her lawsuit!

[Dinah Lord]

The revolutionary is driving a BUICK these days?

Hah!

(That said I hope the vic sues the pants off Ms. Dohrn)

[mlocher]

Canuto is seeking more than $50,000 in damages in the suit filed Friday.

I wonder who is giving Canuto advice. $50,000 seems extremely low, especially when the defendant is a lib that likes lawyers and big lawsuit payouts.

[DB]

Jeeze, $50k isn’t even close to enough.

[SpaceBar]

Any prosecuter that reopened Weather Underground cases and put Dohrn and Ayers behind bars would be a national hero.

[listenhillary]

The headline brought forth interesting images.

[proudofthesouth]

I hope she wins but I question the broken pelvis and only an overnight stay.

[Libloather]

2005 Buick LaCrosse

Wouldn't have happened if she was on a 'green' bicycle.

[Regulator]

Gosh, Bernardine Rae Dohrn once again shows her psychopathic disregard for human life.

Maybe she'll run for it and we'll all get to see her face on post office walls again.

[whitedog57]

Like Obama, she is NOT a faculty member. She is a clinical associate professor (no tenure), comparable to an adjunct professor at many universities.

Her creepy husband is actually a professor at Univ of Illinois at Chicago in one of their weaker departments.

[TribalPrincess2U]

The radical group was responsible for at least four bombings, one in a Pentagon bathroom. Ayers' Chicago ties to then-Sen. Barack Obama became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Wow they actually said that? I won't go to anything Chicago.

[ETL]

"1960s anti-war activist"?? The Weather Underground weren't anti-war. They were PRO-communist revolutionaries.

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[woofer]

Jeeze, $50k isn’t even close to enough.

That's just the demand from the first $100 Letter from the Lawyer.

If Dohrn refuses that settlement, the stakes rise dramatically.

[ETL]

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808
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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein, born January 12, 1942) is an American former leader of the anti-Vietnam War radical organization Weather Underground.

She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center.

She is married to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground.

[GoldwaterChick]

Bump for tomorrow

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

In a speech during the December 1969 “War Council” meeting organized by the Weathermen, attended by about 400 people in Flint, Michigan, she said about Tate (who was 8 months pregnant at the time of her murder) “Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in pig Tate’s belly. Wild!”

She said of the LaBiancas (who were repeatedly stabbed): “Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room, far out!

The Weathermen dig Charles Manson!” [13]

In greeting each other, delegates to the war council often spread their fingers to signify the fork.[14]

[bunkerhill7]

Suit claims 1960s terrorist drove into woman

[ETL]

You should always include a link to the source of your information.