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It's almost certain that Dohrn killed McDonnell, with a bomb assembled by Ayers. The Weatherman nucleus was enraged at the way the cops had fought back at their "Days of Rage" rampage a few months earlier, as well as the trouncing they received at the DNC convention the year before. How dare the "pigs" beat up on these privileged, self-centered and self-appointed saviors of the world? How dare they meet force with force?

It seems to me the original bombing campaign was targeted to kill as many policemen and soldiers as possible, but when faced with the reality of actually having murdered, and then with their fellow psychopaths dying spectacularly by their own hand, they came face to face with the very real possibility of facing a death sentence or life imprisonment for their crimes. These egotists were dilettantes playing at being revolutionaries, cowards who had no intention of sacrificing their lives or their futures for the revolution.

So they launched a bombing campaign designed to emphasize the fact that they warned their potential victims in advance, repeating that mantra for over five years, until the media robotically repeated the fact that "they never killed anyone."

But they have, and to this day, Dohrn is edgy about it, because there are people out there who know the truth. People who have as much to lose as she by talking (Ayers) or those who have been silenced by intimidation and/or the sure knowledge that the media will make their lives hell for coming forward.