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Dhimwit of the Month
Also it is time for the Religion of Peace’s Dhimwit of the Month
Dhim·mi
(dîm-mî
or zîm-mî) – An Islamic term that refers to a subjugated non-Muslim
person living in a Muslim society. Second-class status is confirmed by the
legal system and dhimmis do not share the rights of their Muslim rulers.
(ex. of use:
"Hey Jimmy, if you want to be a dhimmi, then you’d better learn how to
shimmy.")
Dhim·wit (dïm-wît)
- A non-Muslim member of a free society that abets the stated cause of Islamic
domination with remarkable gullibility. A dhimwit is always quick to
extend sympathy to the very enemy that would take away his or her own freedom
(or life) if given the opportunity.
April 2008 Dhimwit:
John Esposito
Show me the money!"
John
Esposito is a name unfamiliar to many, but there are few people on the planet
more deserving of general Dhimwit honors than this Catholic apologist for Islam,
who is currently on the Saudi payroll at Georgetown University.Just
two years before 9/11, the second edition of Esposito’s book “The Islamic
Threat: Myth or Reality?” was published. In it, the professor told a
primarily American audience that the threat of Islamic extremism is overblown
and that they actually have nothing to fear from the Religion of Peace.Only in
academia can being so fantastically wrong about something of such tragic
significance actually be a boost to one’s career. Inexplicabley, John Esposito
found his profile enhanced by the loss of thousands of innocent lives and has
since devoted himself to trying to convince Americans that they are the
real bigots. (This evidently delights his Muslim handlers, who find in his
writings yet another excuse to put off introspection and reform).This month,
Esposito is promoting his new book “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion
Muslims Really Think.” Not surprisingly, it is Esposito himself who speaks
for Islam and, as such, the voice of a ‘billion Muslims’ sounds remarkably
similar to his own. In fact, when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, Western
values and the superiority of Islam, the resemblance between Esposito’s personal
views and that of a “billion Muslims’ is downright uncanny.Esposito
bases his new book on Gallup polling, which has an objective ring to it at first
– up until one discovers that the “Senior Scientist” on the cited Gallup project
is none other than Esposito himself. Having the ability to influence the
wording of survey questions yields some rather curious findings, such as the
claim that Americans are three times more likely to support the killing
of innocent people than are Iranians, whose country pioneered suicide bombings
and whose religion fuels over a thousand deadly attacks on civilians each year.As with his
earlier (pre-9/11) effort, “What a Billion Muslims Really Think” is
designed to play on Western tastes and convince readers that they have no reason
to be concerned about an ideology with an explicit agenda of political and
cultural dominance. Toward this end, Esposito either glosses over or ignores
inconvenient details that might otherwise alarm anyone who is mindful of Islam’s
irreversible creep into the West.For
example, the professor makes much of the finding that two out of three Muslims
believe that the 9/11 attacks are “morally unjustifiable.” That a third of all
Muslims (almost a half billion people) say they agree to some extent with the
carnage seems to be of trivial concern to him. Esposito also fails to mention
the rather critical detail that only 18% of all Muslims believe Muslims were
really responsible for 9/11! Who or what then, are they really condemning?Many other
natural questions go unanswered in the book. Why do more Muslims oppose the
U.S. action in Afghanistan, for example, than they did the brutal attack on New
Yorkers and others which prompted it? If Muslims are so opposed to religious
extremism, then why do less than 1 in 10 support the overthrow of the Taliban?
If Muslims place such a high value on the lives of others, then where is the
outrage when such attacks occur? Why hasn’t Osama bin Laden been burned in
effigy?At the end
of the day, “What a Billion Muslims Really Think” is really just an
exercise in illusion – a parlor trick to fool readers into thinking that they do
not see what they see.
By stacking survey
questions so as to yield preferred results, Esposito
has the advantage of creating
the very data to which he then refers.Even the
overall sampling is somewhat suspect. Esposito claims that his modeling method
represents “90% of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims,” which is both patently
absurd and a glaring indication of the manipulation taking place behind the
scenes. How is it possible to “include” 1.2 billion people while “excluding”
130 million others? Who is really being “excluded” when a contrived survey
sample of a few thousand is said to be representative of over a billion other
people?Each day,
dozens of innocents are murdered explicitly in the name of Islam somewhere in
the world, yet in all of the forty countries that lost citizens on 9/11, only
one Muslim was killed by one person in revenge for the slaughter on that day.
What explains Islam’s violent temper? In the Sudan, over a million Christians
have lost their lives to a Jihad-minded government that has also displaced
millions more from their homes – yet sympathy in the Muslim world is reserved
only for Palestinians. What explains Islam’s astonishing self-absorption and
lack of human empathy?Hundreds of
Westerners have lost their lives on their own soil to Islamic terror in the
years since 9/11. Millions of Muslims overseas celebrated the attacks that day
and continue to openly support the thousands of other Muslims who are as
determined as ever to commit mass murder in accordance with Qur’an’s expressed
hatred for those outside the faith, even as the West sacrifices cherished values
to accommodate mass numbers of Muslim immigrants whose gratitude is as weak as
their sense of entitlement is conspicuous.Yet, along
comes Professor John Esposito to tell us that it is Westerners who have the
tolerance problem.The Saudis
have definitely bought their man.
Porker of the Month
It is that time again for the Porker of the Month form CAGW
Porker of the Month is
a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political
candidates who have shown a blatant disregard for the interests of
taxpayers.CAGW Names Reps. Dicks and Tiahrt Porkers of the Month
Washington
,
D.C.
–
Citizens Against Government Waste
(CAGW) today named Reps. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) April Porkers of the Month for threatening to reverse a $35 billion Air Force refueling tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman. The losing bidder, the Boeing Company, has large facilities in their states.
Rep. Dicks said, “We’re going to try to eliminate the funding,” according to The Wall Street Journal, and called the decision “one of the worst … in modern history.” The
Chicago Tribune
reported that Rep. Tiahrt said, “I don’t think the current contract can go forward.” These
members of Congress and others promoting parochial interests are
meddling with the defense procurement process to the detriment of
taxpayers across the country.Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics John Young told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on April 18 that it is “dangerous to set aside valid source selections on a political basis. Do we have the
California
delegation kill a program because the
Georgia
delegation won? I don’t know where this stops. If
I am going to demand that certain companies or proposals must win
regardless of what they cost, I am going to disadvantage the taxpayer
and war fighter. I am going to deliver (a weapon with) less capability for more cost.”At a rally supporting Boeing on April 17, Rep. Tiahrt’s office distributed a list of
opportunities to disrupt the deal including the “War Supplemental,”
even though the bill “is the wrong venue for a tanker decision.” However, on April 18, CQ Today reported
that Rep. Tiahrt “intends to offer an amendment to the supplemental
bill to halt a $35 billion Air Force contract for aerial refueling
tankers.” The amendment would be the largest earmark ever.The Tiahrt memo
also suggests that members “[f]ollow” the lead of House Defense
Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha (D-Pa.), who declared,
“All this committee has to do is stop the money, and this program is not going forward.” Instead,
members of Congress should stand aside and wait for the “plane truth”
from the Government Accountability Office, which will issue its ruling
on Boeing’s protest of the contract on June 19. Reps.
Dicks and Tiahrt are planning to pre-empt that decision, setting a
costly and extreme precedent for other members of Congress who are
“disappointed” with the outcome of competitively bid contracts.The whole episode
started with a no-bid earmark in the fiscal year 2003 Defense
Appropriations Act conference report, directing the Air Force to lease
100 refueling tankers from Boeing. Subsequent investigations stopped the deal and uncovered a scandal. When
all was said and done, the Air Force’s chief negotiator on the tanker
contract and Boeing’s number-two corporate officer went to jail and
Boeing was fined a record $615 million.For
their efforts to de-fund what appears to be a competitively awarded
contract, undermine the integrity of the procurement process, and abuse
the appropriations process with a massive earmark because their favored
company lost, CAGW names Reps. Norm Dicks and Todd Tiahrt its April
2008 Porkers of the Month.
Citizens Against Government Waste
is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated
to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. Porker
of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government
officials, and political candidates who have shown a blatant disregard
for the interests of taxpayers.
####
For more information, contact: Alexa Moutevelis
202-467-5318
amoutevelis@cagw.org
Days of Rage in Chicago – Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen
Cross psted at Grizzly Groundswell
In my last post I referenced the Days of Rage – put on by the Weathermen AKA Weather Underground in Chicago, October, 1969. I was in Chicago a few days later with my 2 little kids to get visas to travel to Korea for a year with the US Army. This was not fun & games like Woodstock. It was scarey as hell. This is Barak Obama’s buddy Ayer’s group. His lovely wife Bernadine Dohrn was also a part of it. They were rich, white kids playing revolutionaries. Whether Barak was 8 or not back then, does not take away from the awfulness of what was involved and never repented.
Days of Rage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
The riot began following a three-hour rally in the city’s Lincoln Park, a meeting that had begun with the construction of a bonfire. During the course of the rally, at least a dozen park benches were destroyed to keep the flames alive, with Weathermen members closing by urging the 600 attendees to "tear down the Drake Hotel and get Hoffman," a reference to trial judge Julius Hoffman.
Heading both north and south on Clark Street, the rampaging mob broke windows and damaged cars along the way. This continued for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the Weathermen members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots; some only resurfaced decades later.
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And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage. The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 – how sweet. This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets
marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows. Thus began the “Days of Rage,” the first demonstration of the Weathermen, later known as the Weather Underground. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, this group of former student radicals waged a low-level war against the United States government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Weathermen including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and David Gilbert speak frankly about the idealist passions and trajectories that transformed them from college activists into the FBI’s Most Wanted.
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the
Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”—“you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country that it considered emblematic of the worldwide violence sanctioned by the U.S. government. [the photo is from a video made in connection with Dylan's song]
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts. Fueled by righteous anger, these white,
middle-class students were also widely criticized for their controversial—some say misguided—politics. As former SDS president Todd Gitlin says: ”Like Bonnie and Clyde, many of them were attractive personally. They were into youth, exuberance, sex, drugs. They wanted action.” Ultimately, the Weathermen’s carefully organized, clandestine network managed to successfully dodge the FBI for years, although the group’s members would eventually reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire.
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
Go to the source to see a 4 minute video of Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers, Obama’s friends and neighbors, along with newsreel footage of what these fools did. They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Soscelito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers. How charming. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here’s part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors? The caption says the photo is them with their kids in the 60s – can that be right. Were they playing at revolution and endangering their own kids??? 
Listen to John Lenon’s song "Revolution" – he’ decrying just the idiocy these people were perpetrating.
What led the Weathermen to violent action—and given the chance, would they do it again? Former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talked to members of the press about regret, the Sixties and student activism at the Television Critics’ Association Press Tour in January 2004 in Hollywood, California.
In the film, Mark Rudd talks about his qualms and his very divided feelings about what he did. You don’t make any equivalent statement, and I wondered why not… How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?
Bill Ayers: I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful?… I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war… This was what was going on in our names. So we tried to resist it, tried to fight it. Built a huge mass movement, built a huge organization, and still the war went on and escalated. And every day we didn’t stop the war, two thousand people would be killed. I don’t think what we did was extreme…. We didn’t cross lines that were completely unacceptable. I don’t think so. We destroyed property in a fairly restrained level, given what we were up against.
Dohrn: I can iterate four or five things that I have profoundly complex feelings about. I wish that we hadn’t been hierarchical, and had a concept of leadership. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. I wish that we hadn’t used the language of war. You heard me saying a declaration of war. I wish we had used the language of resistance.
Obviously, we didn’t stop the war. We were part of an authentic, aroused opposition to the U.S. empire and to racism at home. Those were two issues we had a grip on…. Of course, I wish we had done better, and I wish we had stopped the war earlier, and I wish we had been more effective, and I wish we had been more unifying. Or at least fought for unity even when we couldn’t achieve it.
At the end of the day, I feel like we were lucky to be in that history. We were lucky to be in that history. We were lucky to be in that moment where there was hope and a sense of libratory possibility.
The last pictures are of them in court in 1970 and at the time of the interview in 2004. Did you notice that she doesn’t address the violence. She’s more into social structures and feminism. Useless idiots. Why is nobody playing this film on TV? Does FOX know about this film? The younger folks have got to see this to understand the enormity of what these people did and still have no serious regrets. Go to the PBS site link and look around – that’s lots more to see and I think a few more clips.
Julia
Days of Rage in Chicago – Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen
Cross psted at Grizzly Groundswell
In my last post I referenced the Days of Rage – put on by the Weathermen AKA Weather Underground in Chicago, October, 1969. I was in Chicago a few days later with my 2 little kids to get visas to travel to Korea for a year with the US Army. This was not fun & games like Woodstock. It was scarey as hell. This is Barak Obama’s buddy Ayer’s group. His lovely wife Bernadine Dohrn was also a part of it. They were rich, white kids playing revolutionaries. Whether Barak was 8 or not back then, does not take away from the awfulness of what was involved and never repented.
Days of Rage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
The riot began following a three-hour rally in the city’s Lincoln Park, a meeting that had begun with the construction of a bonfire. During the course of the rally, at least a dozen park benches were destroyed to keep the flames alive, with Weathermen members closing by urging the 600 attendees to "tear down the Drake Hotel and get Hoffman," a reference to trial judge Julius Hoffman.
Heading both north and south on Clark Street, the rampaging mob broke windows and damaged cars along the way. This continued for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the Weathermen members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots; some only resurfaced decades later.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage. The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 – how sweet. This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts. Fueled by righteous anger, these white,
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
Go to the source to see a 4 minute video of Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers, Obama’s friends and neighbors, along with newsreel footage of what these fools did. They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Soscelito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers. How charming. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here’s part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors? The caption says the photo is them with their kids in the 60s – can that be right. Were they playing at revolution and endangering their own kids??? Listen to John Lenon’s song "Revolution" – he’ decrying just the idiocy these people were perpetrating.
What led the Weathermen to violent action—and given the chance, would they do it again? Former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talked to members of the press about regret, the Sixties and student activism at the Television Critics’ Association Press Tour in January 2004 in Hollywood, California.
In the film, Mark Rudd talks about his qualms and his very divided feelings about what he did. You don’t make any equivalent statement, and I wondered why not… How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?
Bill Ayers: I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful?… I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war… This was what was going on in our names. So we tried to resist it, tried to fight it. Built a huge mass movement, built a huge organization, and still the war went on and escalated. And every day we didn’t stop the war, two thousand people would be killed. I don’t think what we did was extreme…. We didn’t cross lines that were completely unacceptable. I don’t think so. We destroyed property in a fairly restrained level, given what we were up against.
Dohrn: I can iterate four or five things that I have profoundly complex feelings about. I wish that we hadn’t been hierarchical, and had a concept of leadership. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. I wish that we hadn’t used the language of war. You heard me saying a declaration of war. I wish we had used the language of resistance.
Obviously, we didn’t stop the war. We were part of an authentic, aroused opposition to the U.S. empire and to racism at home. Those were two issues we had a grip on…. Of course, I wish we had done better, and I wish we had stopped the war earlier, and I wish we had been more effective, and I wish we had been more unifying. Or at least fought for unity even when we couldn’t achieve it.
The last pictures are of them in court in 1970 and at the time of the interview in 2004. Did you notice that she doesn’t address the violence. She’s more into social structures and feminism. Useless idiots. Why is nobody playing this film on TV? Does FOX know about this film? The younger folks have got to see this to understand the enormity of what these people did and still have no serious regrets. Go to the PBS site link and look around – that’s lots more to see and I think a few more clips.
Julia
Days of Rage in Chicago – Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen
Cross psted at Grizzly Groundswell
In my last post I referenced the Days of Rage – put on by the Weathermen AKA Weather Underground in Chicago, October, 1969. I was in Chicago a few days later with my 2 little kids to get visas to travel to Korea for a year with the US Army. This was not fun & games like Woodstock. It was scarey as hell. This is Barak Obama’s buddy Ayer’s group. His lovely wife Bernadine Dohrn was also a part of it. They were rich, white kids playing revolutionaries. Whether Barak was 8 or not back then, does not take away from the awfulness of what was involved and never repented.
Days of Rage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
The riot began following a three-hour rally in the city’s Lincoln Park, a meeting that had begun with the construction of a bonfire. During the course of the rally, at least a dozen park benches were destroyed to keep the flames alive, with Weathermen members closing by urging the 600 attendees to "tear down the Drake Hotel and get Hoffman," a reference to trial judge Julius Hoffman.
Heading both north and south on Clark Street, the rampaging mob broke windows and damaged cars along the way. This continued for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the Weathermen members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots; some only resurfaced decades later.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage. The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 – how sweet. This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts. Fueled by righteous anger, these white,
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
Go to the source to see a 4 minute video of Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers, Obama’s friends and neighbors, along with newsreel footage of what these fools did. They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Soscelito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers. How charming. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here’s part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors? The caption says the photo is them with their kids in the 60s – can that be right. Were they playing at revolution and endangering their own kids??? Listen to John Lenon’s song "Revolution" – he’ decrying just the idiocy these people were perpetrating.
What led the Weathermen to violent action—and given the chance, would they do it again? Former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talked to members of the press about regret, the Sixties and student activism at the Television Critics’ Association Press Tour in January 2004 in Hollywood, California.
In the film, Mark Rudd talks about his qualms and his very divided feelings about what he did. You don’t make any equivalent statement, and I wondered why not… How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?
Bill Ayers: I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful?… I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war… This was what was going on in our names. So we tried to resist it, tried to fight it. Built a huge mass movement, built a huge organization, and still the war went on and escalated. And every day we didn’t stop the war, two thousand people would be killed. I don’t think what we did was extreme…. We didn’t cross lines that were completely unacceptable. I don’t think so. We destroyed property in a fairly restrained level, given what we were up against.
Dohrn: I can iterate four or five things that I have profoundly complex feelings about. I wish that we hadn’t been hierarchical, and had a concept of leadership. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. I wish that we hadn’t used the language of war. You heard me saying a declaration of war. I wish we had used the language of resistance.
Obviously, we didn’t stop the war. We were part of an authentic, aroused opposition to the U.S. empire and to racism at home. Those were two issues we had a grip on…. Of course, I wish we had done better, and I wish we had stopped the war earlier, and I wish we had been more effective, and I wish we had been more unifying. Or at least fought for unity even when we couldn’t achieve it.
The last pictures are of them in court in 1970 and at the time of the interview in 2004. Did you notice that she doesn’t address the violence. She’s more into social structures and feminism. Useless idiots. Why is nobody playing this film on TV? Does FOX know about this film? The younger folks have got to see this to understand the enormity of what these people did and still have no serious regrets. Go to the PBS site link and look around – that’s lots more to see and I think a few more clips.
Julia
Days of Rage in Chicago – Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen
Cross psted at Grizzly Groundswell
In my last post I referenced the Days of Rage – put on by the Weathermen AKA Weather Underground in Chicago, October, 1969. I was in Chicago a few days later with my 2 little kids to get visas to travel to Korea for a year with the US Army. This was not fun & games like Woodstock. It was scarey as hell. This is Barak Obama’s buddy Ayer’s group. His lovely wife Bernadine Dohrn was also a part of it. They were rich, white kids playing revolutionaries. Whether Barak was 8 or not back then, does not take away from the awfulness of what was involved and never repented.
Days of Rage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
The riot began following a three-hour rally in the city’s Lincoln Park, a meeting that had begun with the construction of a bonfire. During the course of the rally, at least a dozen park benches were destroyed to keep the flames alive, with Weathermen members closing by urging the 600 attendees to "tear down the Drake Hotel and get Hoffman," a reference to trial judge Julius Hoffman.
Heading both north and south on Clark Street, the rampaging mob broke windows and damaged cars along the way. This continued for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the Weathermen members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots; some only resurfaced decades later.
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And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage. The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 – how sweet. This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts. Fueled by righteous anger, these white,
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
Go to the source to see a 4 minute video of Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers, Obama’s friends and neighbors, along with newsreel footage of what these fools did. They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Soscelito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers. How charming. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here’s part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors? The caption says the photo is them with their kids in the 60s – can that be right. Were they playing at revolution and endangering their own kids??? Listen to John Lenon’s song "Revolution" – he’ decrying just the idiocy these people were perpetrating.
What led the Weathermen to violent action—and given the chance, would they do it again? Former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talked to members of the press about regret, the Sixties and student activism at the Television Critics’ Association Press Tour in January 2004 in Hollywood, California.
In the film, Mark Rudd talks about his qualms and his very divided feelings about what he did. You don’t make any equivalent statement, and I wondered why not… How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?
Bill Ayers: I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful?… I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war… This was what was going on in our names. So we tried to resist it, tried to fight it. Built a huge mass movement, built a huge organization, and still the war went on and escalated. And every day we didn’t stop the war, two thousand people would be killed. I don’t think what we did was extreme…. We didn’t cross lines that were completely unacceptable. I don’t think so. We destroyed property in a fairly restrained level, given what we were up against.
Dohrn: I can iterate four or five things that I have profoundly complex feelings about. I wish that we hadn’t been hierarchical, and had a concept of leadership. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. I wish that we hadn’t used the language of war. You heard me saying a declaration of war. I wish we had used the language of resistance.
Obviously, we didn’t stop the war. We were part of an authentic, aroused opposition to the U.S. empire and to racism at home. Those were two issues we had a grip on…. Of course, I wish we had done better, and I wish we had stopped the war earlier, and I wish we had been more effective, and I wish we had been more unifying. Or at least fought for unity even when we couldn’t achieve it.
The last pictures are of them in court in 1970 and at the time of the interview in 2004. Did you notice that she doesn’t address the violence. She’s more into social structures and feminism. Useless idiots. Why is nobody playing this film on TV? Does FOX know about this film? The younger folks have got to see this to understand the enormity of what these people did and still have no serious regrets. Go to the PBS site link and look around – that’s lots more to see and I think a few more clips.
Julia
Days of Rage in Chicago – Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen
Cross psted at Grizzly Groundswell
In my last post I referenced the Days of Rage – put on by the Weathermen AKA Weather Underground in Chicago, October, 1969. I was in Chicago a few days later with my 2 little kids to get visas to travel to Korea for a year with the US Army. This was not fun & games like Woodstock. It was scarey as hell. This is Barak Obama’s buddy Ayer’s group. His lovely wife Bernadine Dohrn was also a part of it. They were rich, white kids playing revolutionaries. Whether Barak was 8 or not back then, does not take away from the awfulness of what was involved and never repented.
Days of Rage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
The riot began following a three-hour rally in the city’s Lincoln Park, a meeting that had begun with the construction of a bonfire. During the course of the rally, at least a dozen park benches were destroyed to keep the flames alive, with Weathermen members closing by urging the 600 attendees to "tear down the Drake Hotel and get Hoffman," a reference to trial judge Julius Hoffman.
Heading both north and south on Clark Street, the rampaging mob broke windows and damaged cars along the way. This continued for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the Weathermen members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots; some only resurfaced decades later.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage. The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 – how sweet. This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts. Fueled by righteous anger, these white,
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
Go to the source to see a 4 minute video of Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers, Obama’s friends and neighbors, along with newsreel footage of what these fools did. They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Soscelito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers. How charming. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here’s part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors? The caption says the photo is them with their kids in the 60s – can that be right. Were they playing at revolution and endangering their own kids??? Listen to John Lenon’s song "Revolution" – he’ decrying just the idiocy these people were perpetrating.
What led the Weathermen to violent action—and given the chance, would they do it again? Former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talked to members of the press about regret, the Sixties and student activism at the Television Critics’ Association Press Tour in January 2004 in Hollywood, California.
In the film, Mark Rudd talks about his qualms and his very divided feelings about what he did. You don’t make any equivalent statement, and I wondered why not… How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?
Bill Ayers: I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful?… I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war… This was what was going on in our names. So we tried to resist it, tried to fight it. Built a huge mass movement, built a huge organization, and still the war went on and escalated. And every day we didn’t stop the war, two thousand people would be killed. I don’t think what we did was extreme…. We didn’t cross lines that were completely unacceptable. I don’t think so. We destroyed property in a fairly restrained level, given what we were up against.
Dohrn: I can iterate four or five things that I have profoundly complex feelings about. I wish that we hadn’t been hierarchical, and had a concept of leadership. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. I wish that we hadn’t used the language of war. You heard me saying a declaration of war. I wish we had used the language of resistance.
Obviously, we didn’t stop the war. We were part of an authentic, aroused opposition to the U.S. empire and to racism at home. Those were two issues we had a grip on…. Of course, I wish we had done better, and I wish we had stopped the war earlier, and I wish we had been more effective, and I wish we had been more unifying. Or at least fought for unity even when we couldn’t achieve it.
The last pictures are of them in court in 1970 and at the time of the interview in 2004. Did you notice that she doesn’t address the violence. She’s more into social structures and feminism. Useless idiots. Why is nobody playing this film on TV? Does FOX know about this film? The younger folks have got to see this to understand the enormity of what these people did and still have no serious regrets. Go to the PBS site link and look around – that’s lots more to see and I think a few more clips.
Julia
Days of Rage in Chicago – Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen
Cross psted at Grizzly Groundswell
In my last post I referenced the Days of Rage – put on by the Weathermen AKA Weather Underground in Chicago, October, 1969. I was in Chicago a few days later with my 2 little kids to get visas to travel to Korea for a year with the US Army. This was not fun & games like Woodstock. It was scarey as hell. This is Barak Obama’s buddy Ayer’s group. His lovely wife Bernadine Dohrn was also a part of it. They were rich, white kids playing revolutionaries. Whether Barak was 8 or not back then, does not take away from the awfulness of what was involved and never repented.
Days of Rage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
The riot began following a three-hour rally in the city’s Lincoln Park, a meeting that had begun with the construction of a bonfire. During the course of the rally, at least a dozen park benches were destroyed to keep the flames alive, with Weathermen members closing by urging the 600 attendees to "tear down the Drake Hotel and get Hoffman," a reference to trial judge Julius Hoffman.
Heading both north and south on Clark Street, the rampaging mob broke windows and damaged cars along the way. This continued for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the Weathermen members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots; some only resurfaced decades later.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage. The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 – how sweet. This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts. Fueled by righteous anger, these white,
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
Go to the source to see a 4 minute video of Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers, Obama’s friends and neighbors, along with newsreel footage of what these fools did. They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Soscelito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers. How charming. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here’s part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors? The caption says the photo is them with their kids in the 60s – can that be right. Were they playing at revolution and endangering their own kids??? Listen to John Lenon’s song "Revolution" – he’ decrying just the idiocy these people were perpetrating.
What led the Weathermen to violent action—and given the chance, would they do it again? Former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talked to members of the press about regret, the Sixties and student activism at the Television Critics’ Association Press Tour in January 2004 in Hollywood, California.
In the film, Mark Rudd talks about his qualms and his very divided feelings about what he did. You don’t make any equivalent statement, and I wondered why not… How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?
Bill Ayers: I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful?… I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war… This was what was going on in our names. So we tried to resist it, tried to fight it. Built a huge mass movement, built a huge organization, and still the war went on and escalated. And every day we didn’t stop the war, two thousand people would be killed. I don’t think what we did was extreme…. We didn’t cross lines that were completely unacceptable. I don’t think so. We destroyed property in a fairly restrained level, given what we were up against.
Dohrn: I can iterate four or five things that I have profoundly complex feelings about. I wish that we hadn’t been hierarchical, and had a concept of leadership. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. I wish that we hadn’t used the language of war. You heard me saying a declaration of war. I wish we had used the language of resistance.
Obviously, we didn’t stop the war. We were part of an authentic, aroused opposition to the U.S. empire and to racism at home. Those were two issues we had a grip on…. Of course, I wish we had done better, and I wish we had stopped the war earlier, and I wish we had been more effective, and I wish we had been more unifying. Or at least fought for unity even when we couldn’t achieve it.
The last pictures are of them in court in 1970 and at the time of the interview in 2004. Did you notice that she doesn’t address the violence. She’s more into social structures and feminism. Useless idiots. Why is nobody playing this film on TV? Does FOX know about this film? The younger folks have got to see this to understand the enormity of what these people did and still have no serious regrets. Go to the PBS site link and look around – that’s lots more to see and I think a few more clips.
Julia
Days of Rage in Chicago – Dohrn & Ayers 1969 Weathermen
Cross psted at Grizzly Groundswell
In my last post I referenced the Days of Rage – put on by the Weathermen AKA Weather Underground in Chicago, October, 1969. I was in Chicago a few days later with my 2 little kids to get visas to travel to Korea for a year with the US Army. This was not fun & games like Woodstock. It was scarey as hell. This is Barak Obama’s buddy Ayer’s group. His lovely wife Bernadine Dohrn was also a part of it. They were rich, white kids playing revolutionaries. Whether Barak was 8 or not back then, does not take away from the awfulness of what was involved and never repented.
Days of Rage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
The riot began following a three-hour rally in the city’s Lincoln Park, a meeting that had begun with the construction of a bonfire. During the course of the rally, at least a dozen park benches were destroyed to keep the flames alive, with Weathermen members closing by urging the 600 attendees to "tear down the Drake Hotel and get Hoffman," a reference to trial judge Julius Hoffman.
Heading both north and south on Clark Street, the rampaging mob broke windows and damaged cars along the way. This continued for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the Weathermen members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots; some only resurfaced decades later.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
And the following is from the PBS website about a 2003 film about the Days of Rage. The film, DAYS OF RAGE, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 – how sweet. This is one of the posters the Weathermen hung around Chicago.
In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the
Using extensive archival material such as photographs, film footage and FBI documents, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND chronicles the Weathermen’s public rise and fall and offers a rare insider look into the group’s private conflicts. Fueled by righteous anger, these white,
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
Go to the source to see a 4 minute video of Bernadine Dohrn & Bill Ayers, Obama’s friends and neighbors, along with newsreel footage of what these fools did. They also speak on film in 2003 about what they did. Judge for yourself if you would even shake hands with people like this. The description of the film says a lot about PBS, too.
At this link, PBS has a short history and timeline of the Weather Underground along with another video of Bernadine Dohrn showing the filmmakers around her hideout in a houseboat in Soscelito on San Francisco Bay in the 70s when the FBI was after her and Ayers. How charming. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html
[I love this bit]: And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.
Here’s part of an interview of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in connection with the film. Do you think Obama was unaware of the famous film starring his neighbors? The caption says the photo is them with their kids in the 60s – can that be right. Were they playing at revolution and endangering their own kids??? Listen to John Lenon’s song "Revolution" – he’ decrying just the idiocy these people were perpetrating.
What led the Weathermen to violent action—and given the chance, would they do it again? Former Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers talked to members of the press about regret, the Sixties and student activism at the Television Critics’ Association Press Tour in January 2004 in Hollywood, California.
In the film, Mark Rudd talks about his qualms and his very divided feelings about what he did. You don’t make any equivalent statement, and I wondered why not… How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?
Bill Ayers: I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful?… I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war… This was what was going on in our names. So we tried to resist it, tried to fight it. Built a huge mass movement, built a huge organization, and still the war went on and escalated. And every day we didn’t stop the war, two thousand people would be killed. I don’t think what we did was extreme…. We didn’t cross lines that were completely unacceptable. I don’t think so. We destroyed property in a fairly restrained level, given what we were up against.
Dohrn: I can iterate four or five things that I have profoundly complex feelings about. I wish that we hadn’t been hierarchical, and had a concept of leadership. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. I wish that we hadn’t used the language of war. You heard me saying a declaration of war. I wish we had used the language of resistance.
Obviously, we didn’t stop the war. We were part of an authentic, aroused opposition to the U.S. empire and to racism at home. Those were two issues we had a grip on…. Of course, I wish we had done better, and I wish we had stopped the war earlier, and I wish we had been more effective, and I wish we had been more unifying. Or at least fought for unity even when we couldn’t achieve it.
The last pictures are of them in court in 1970 and at the time of the interview in 2004. Did you notice that she doesn’t address the violence. She’s more into social structures and feminism. Useless idiots. Why is nobody playing this film on TV? Does FOX know about this film? The younger folks have got to see this to understand the enormity of what these people did and still have no serious regrets. Go to the PBS site link and look around – that’s lots more to see and I think a few more clips.
Julia
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