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.

[skimask]

Shouldn’t Dorn be arrested for leaving the scene of a traffic accident?

[ETL]

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn ("intellectual"), referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers ("intellectual") (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#

[ETL]

Shouldn’t Dorn be arrested for leaving the scene of a traffic accident?

Bill Ayers himself actually implicated her (Bernardine Dohrn) in the bombing of a San Fran police station which killed and maimed some police officers. The wiretap evidence was not allowed on the grounds that it was 'illegally obtained'.

From November 10, 2003:

30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen
[Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn]

BAY AREA (KRON) -- The unsolved murder of two San Francisco police officers has languished as cold cases for 30 years until now. A federal grand jury has been looking into the murders. Many of the people now under investigation both as potential targets and witnesses in this case are scattered across the country. Many of them are now in their 50s and 60s. Investigators believe the crimes were politically motivated and committed by militant radical groups.

On August 29, 1971, sergeant John Young is killed in a barrage of gunfire when two men walk into the Ingleside police station and begin shooting at officers sitting behind the glass partition. It is the second unsolved police killing in 18 months.

On February 16, 1970, officer Brian McDonnell is killed when a bomb explodes at Park Police Station. Attorney Joe O'Sullivan, at the time was a young police officer. "It was just bedlam. I don't think we were able to get into the station. I think it was cordoned off. Nobody really knew the exact nature of the devastation," he says.

For three decades, the police murders remained unsolved. Evidence from the two crime scenes sat in the police property room.

KRON 4 News has learned that three years ago, San Francisco police secretly re-opened the case. Armed with new forensic technology and with State and Federal agencies helping, SFPD investigators began to work full-time on the murders.

And now, sources tell us, those investigators have identified potential suspects: former members of two militant groups in the '60s and '70s -- the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, people who've been out of the spotlight for decades. The most prominent among them is Bernadine Dohrn, a former leader of the Weather Underground and now a law professor at Northwestern University in Illinois.

30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen [part 1 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1519460

Patriot Act Used to Reopen Murder Case? [part 2 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1521312

Survivor of Old Murder Case Speaks Out [part 3 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1523015&nav=5D7lJ5fb

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The following is from wikipedia but is well documented.

Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell

"In a bombing that took place on February 16, 1970, and that was credited to the Weathermen at the time,[19][20] a pipe bomb filled with heavy metal staples and lead bullet projectiles was set off on the ledge of a window at the Park Station of the San Francisco Police Department. In the blast, Brian V. McDonnell, a police sergeant, was fatally wounded while Robert Fogarty, another police officer, received severe wounds to his face and legs and was partially blinded.[21]

Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn has been suspected of involvement in the February 16, 1970, bombing of the Park Police Station in San Francisco. At the time, Dohrn was said to be living with a Weatherman cell in a houseboat in Sausalito, California, unnamed law enforcement sources later told KRON-TV.[22]

An investigation into the case was reopened in 1999,[23] and a San Francisco grand jury looked into the incident, but no indictments followed,[22] and no one was ever arrested for the bombing.[23]

An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Bill Ayers, then a high-ranking member of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn's husband), had said Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb. Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had heard about it from someone who was there.[24]

In a book about his experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself.[25] In 2008, author David Freddoso commented that "Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them", Freddoso wrote.[24][26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Anti-personnel_bomb_set_on_window-ledge_in_San_Francisco

SOURCES:

[19] http://www.lapismagazine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=59

[20] Former Weatherman Larry Grathwohl's October 18, 1974 testimony to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

[21] http://www.sfpoa.org/journal/journals/20070201.pdf
(SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION)

[22] http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1519460

[23] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/17/BAGPRO6J7J1.DTL&type=printable

[24] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Barack_Obama

[25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0870003350

[26] http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ODVlZTZlM2M5NTMxMzllMjJkODVkNzQ3YTFjMTY0NzE=

[achilles2000]

She couldn’t get any sort of law job based on merit (even assuming that she were a member of the bar). This position is pure political payola from a group of leftists to another leftist.

That “weaker department” that her “creepy husband” is a part of is “education”. Some would say that it is not a discipline at all. In fact, many would say that schools of education are a disease.

[ETL]

Campaign for Justice for Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism

Sponsored by America's Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org

March 12 [2009] National Press Club / First Amendment Lounge 12:30 – 2:30*

 

Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell: 
Victim of Weather Underground anti-personnel shrapnel bomb allegedly planted by Bernardine Dohrn (the wife of Bill Ayers) at San Francisco Park Police Station, February 16, 1970.

Speakers:

• Larry Grathwohl, former FBI informant in the Weather Underground, on how the Weather Underground targeted police for murder and how evidence in the bombing murder of Sgt. McDonnell points to Weather Underground member and now “Professor” Bernardine Dohrn.  
• Jim Pera, retired San Francisco Police Sergeant, one of the first on the scene of the Park Station bombing, on the impact of the Weather Underground bombing campaign and the search for justice in the McDonnell case.
• Herbert Romerstein, former Congressional investigator, on the violent history of the Weather Underground and its links to other terrorist groups, including the Puerto Rican FALN.
• Trevor Loudon, anti-communist researcher and international blogger, on how members of the SDS and Weather Underground are active politically and creating a new “student movement” on college campuses. 
• Cliff Kincaid, veteran journalist and president of America’s Survival, Inc., on the need for the media to tell the complete truth about the origins, foreign influence and direction, and present plans of the SDS and Weather Underground. 

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck02.27.09.html

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March 12, 2009, conference on Justice for Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism [VIDEO]
USA Survival.org ^ | March 2009 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:19:54 PM by ETL

Videos of Press Conference 

Video One: Cliff Kincaid, Larry Grathwohl

Video Two: Larry Grathwohl,

Video Three: Larry Grathwohl

Video Four: Jim Pera

Video Five: Jim Pera, Cliff Kincaid

Video Six: Herbert Romerstein

Video Seven: Herbert Romerstein

Video Eight: Trevor Loudon

Video Nine: Trevor Loudon, Cliff Kincaid

Special Report: The Park Police Station Bombing Case (4.94 MB PDF):
http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/bombing.case.pdf

[pissant]

Was it a hit and run?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

It’ll be OK, for the biOtch. Comrade Obama will get her off......as usual.

[STARWISE]

~~Ping ! (Bernardine Dohrn)

[healy61]

Thank you for the reminder that Dohrn is a vile old whore. Have at it Ayers.

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, folks.

[hoosiermama]

Was her alcohol level tested? Be ironic if she did time for a “minor” offense...

[tanknetter]

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

The article says "More than $50,000".

The "$50k" is probably the local threshold to differentiate types of claims from each other and determine which path it takes through the civil court system. The true amount could really be in the millions, depending on how the thresholds work.

Growing up the local threshold for small claims, for instance, was <=$1,500. There was one case that we knew was for a half million, but the local paper still described the initial filing as being for "greater than $1,500"

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

You’re welcome but it upsets my stomach to even post about it.

She’s a murderess,

and teaches at a public school, gloats, sneers, smirks;

God save us all from such people.

[TornadoAlley3]

Was it a hit and run?

No, woman was in the crosswalk, Bernadine was speeding, driving reckless, according to the lawsuit.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[television is just wrong]

yes hit and run is a serious offence. In this country today, there are people exempt from these serious crimes.

[SunkenCiv]

Prediction -- a follicle test on the bitch would help put her away for life.

A woman is suing Bernardine Dohrn, saying the 1960s radical drove into her as she walked home from church... Attorney Frank Marino said Canuto suffered a broken pelvis and stayed overnight in a hospital.

Not sure I'd hire the guy from Mahoghany Rush for my attorney, but maybe that's just me. Thanks grey_whiskers.

[April Lexington]

Why is it that nobody in a Buick ever seems to be able to slam into Bernardine Dohrn? Where is the SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THAT??????

[April Lexington]

Picture of beady-eyed little sh*t...A sociopath's sociopath who belongs in Leavenworth.