They did pretty well afterwards. Bernardine Dohrn was a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University for more than twenty years. Another Weatherman, Eleanor Stein, was arrested on the run in 1981; she got a law degree in 1986 and became an administrative law judge. Radical attorney Michael Kennedy, who did more than any to keep Weather alive, has been special advisor to President of the UN General Assembly. And, of course, Barack Obama, twice President of the United States, started his political career in Bill Ayers’s living room.Conflict is coming, and the Left is more comfortable with violence than the Right is. Yes, the Right has more guns, but the Left has institutions on their side. A right-winger who beats down a leftie can look forward to a court-date with no ideologically-driven lawyer team on his side, followed by a lifetime of being unemployable.This is the difference between the hard Left & hard Right: you can be a violent leftist radical and go on to live a pretty kickass life. This is especially true if you’re a leftist of the credentialed class: Ph.D. or J.D.
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Institutions and Shock Troops are important resources for the Left. They work together. The Left’s Institutions accept, cater to, train, and/or employ its people, including Shock Troops. And, in the cases of several Weathermen (and Davis), give them cushy jobs in their Shock-Troop retirement.
A leftie who commits violence for the Cause will have lots of lawyers on his side, and lots of institutions willing to give him employment afterwards. Look at Bill Ayers, Angela Davis, Bernadette Dorn, and the rest of the prominent 60's radicals.