Dohrn: Seeing the... the eye of the sensationalism around the election campaign was very strangeInterviewer: Must have also been unpleasant.
Dohrn: You know, it's unpleasant, because as you know, US society has... increasingly been polarized in the last three years, very quickly, really, ahhm... not unlike Europe I guess, in many ways, but, ahh... a "hard right" emerging, an armed, new "hard right" emerging, ah... with massive control of media, and ahh... an instant, 24 hour news of it's own, and so, the ability to kind of feed... you know, seize on a "sound-byte sentence;" "pal-ing around with terrorists," for example, and then repeat it, endlessly, ahh... is very strange and very odd. "Give me a left, I have a right," I mean, you can almost feel Obama saying that, and he surely does have a right, and it's racist, it's armed, it's hostile, it's unspeakable. If it had been... you know, if the left had had a demonstration against Bush, armed... armed, openly armed demonstration of black people in Washington, demanding an end to this, you know, "statist government," imagine... i-mag-ine, there would have been massive skirm... bloodbath, right? And so, the idea that now it's flipped and you have...white people armed, demanding an end to this President; very "crazy producing," really, very ominous...
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Dohrn: We're a little wrong (laughs) about a lot of things heh..., including the immediate possibility of revolution in the United States (laughs), but we wanted to be on "that side," and we felt really strongly that, ahmm... trying to, you know, "open a front," as we thought of it, inside the heartland, inside the "belly of the beast," ahhm... ahh... and... you know, show that you could not be caught, that you could, ahh... "take them by surprise," that you could still have a public voice, ah... we thought we'd do it.
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Dohrn: We are radicals today, we ... ahm... you know, think that the real terrorist is the American Government, state terrorism, unleashed against the world.
Just remember, folks the lady is supposedly a law professor!