Bryan Burrough on the “revolutionary” terrorism of the Weather Underground:
Outside the leadership, there was widespread confusion as to what kinds of actions were authorised. There would be bombings, everyone assumed, but what kind? “There was so much macho talk, you know, like the Panthers: ‘Off the pigs,’ ‘Bomb the military back into the Stone Age,'” recalls Cathy Wilkerson of the New York cell. “But did that mean we were actually going to kill people? I never really knew.” Bill Ayers and others would always insist there were never any plans to harm people. The handful of Weathermen who crossed that line, Ayers claims, were rogues and outliers. This is a myth, pure and simple, designed to obscure what [the group] actually planned. In the middle ranks, it was widely expected that Weathermen would become revolutionary murderers. “My image of what we were going to be was undiluted terrorist action,” recalls a Weatherman named Jon Lerner. “I remember talking about putting a bomb on the [Chicago railroad] tracks at rush hour, to blow up people coming home from work. That’s what I was looking forward to.”
My husband once had a summer student job in Toronto with the Meterological Service of Canada. He naively ended up renting a cheap room at Rochdale College, not knowing what a hippie haven it was. Anyway he was a physics student and a bit of a nerd with short hair. He went to one of the communal parties and was asked about himself. He said he was a weatherman. People started to look at him a bit strangely. Later he found out his room had been searched by the RCMP.
Trash by any other name would surely smell as sweet.
The Black Panthers are Terrorists and need to be treated as terrorists
“Its alumni have crafted an image of the group as benign urban guerrillas who never intended to hurt a soul”
This is in line with the interviews I heard of Ayers – farking lying commie poltroon, at least the Bolsheviks had the balls to run a real open revolution instead of some gutless underground sham.
The real story is in what was said behind closed doors by these latter day Bolshies – according to an FBI informant who infiltrated the group, they had death camps ready for – you guessed it – conservative Christian constitutionalist gun owners – Obama’s “bitter clingers” – who are experiencing systemic oppression now.