Posted on 11/11/2001 12:17:11 PM PST by N2Gems
Just a quick question, figured if I can't get it answered here, there isn't an answer. Other than the unibomber, are there any other documented cases in the past 20 years or so of American left wing terrorists groups killing anyone? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Murders asssociated with Clinton's left wing thugs
How about loggers killed from tree spikes?
Were the Manson nuts left wingers?
"Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people."
----SLA slogan
One thing had quickly linked the kidnapping of Patty Hearst with the Symbionese Liberation Army. Her kidnappers had fired cyanide-laced bullets into her home---the same type of bullets used four months earlier in Oakland on Election Day to assassinate popular school superintendent Marcus Foster. The SLA had sent two letters claiming credit for the shooting and declaring war on fascists by trying to stop the issuing of student photo I.D.smeant to protect students from drug dealers.
More was learned about this terrorist group when two of their "soldiers" were arrested on January 10th, three weeks before the kidnapping, and after the police located an abandoned safe-house with all kinds of propaganda:
Patty Hearst holding a gun (Associated Press©)
Thanks, I thought so but couldn't remember. I found some more stuff on the SLA and posted it.
That would never happen with a right wingnut!
She claims the assassination was to draw attention to the misuse of the 'environment' and the felling of trees for timber.
Squeaky sounds like a PETA hero!
Yeah, I agree about the Manson family. Your stereotypical dirty dope-smoking, acid-dropping leftist jerks with a murderous bent.
I'm not sure if ELF (Earth Liberation Front) or ALF (Animale Liberation Front) have killed anyone yet.
As far as I know so far they just burn people's houses down and stuff like that.
As far as I know the only "right wing" terrorist to kill anyone was McVeigh, and nobody was associated with him at all. He was just a loner freak that everyone hated.
And, of course, there's the "Weathermen" or Weather Underground, who were as far left as you could possibly get,though I'm not certain of how many they killed.
Here's a _real_ interesting example that's still playing out today. It's not about a group doing the killing, but the _killer_ has been profoundly well supported and sheltered by global left-wingers for decades. And the aiding and abetting continues to the present at the highest levels of "society" and possibly government.
Check out the book "The Unicorn's Secret : Murder in the Age of Aquarius," by Steven Levy
Long before O. J. Simpson killed his "all American" beauty, one of the co-founders of Earth Day (!) murdered his former cheer leader, all American beauty girl and this book tells the story. It's the story of Ira Einhorn, a counterculture bigwig who hobnobbed with the likes of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin before police discovered the badly decomposed body of his girlfriend Holly Maddux in a trunk in his Philadelphia apartment in 1979. Einhorn fled, was tried and found guilty in absentia, and was sheltered by global friends for almost twenty years. He was eventually found in France, and, again _eventually_ extradited to the US. Some big judge just ruled _last week_ that he has "right" to request a new trial for some reason.
The biggest left wing terrorist organization in the world is the US "Establishment." This book is unbelievable reading.
Mark W.
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