http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/weatherunderground/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:02:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414195/posts NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday took a sterner stance toward the upcoming resentencing of a former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case, saying it has "serious doubts" whether her sentence of just over two years in prison was reasonable. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals added new instructions for the judge who will resentence 70-year-old Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of letting an imprisoned Egyptian terrorist client communicate with followers. The court said the judge should consider whether Stewart's sentence should be increased because of the case's terrorism connections. "We have serious... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414195/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391959/posts ... [Geraldine Davie] joined 12 other 9/11 family members at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other 9/11 planners not as enemy combatants and war criminals before a military commission, but as civilians in federal court in New York City. They brought with them more than 100,000 signatures gathered by three 9/11 and national security websites--TheBravest.com, 911Familesfor-America.org, and Keep-AmericaSafe.com (on whose board this magazine's editor serves). Holder spoke of the trials as a correction of Bush-era delays and an overdue attempt to seek justice for the victims of... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391959/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:34:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373561/posts Barack Obama visited the house of Tom and Mary Ayers, parents of former Weather Underground activist turned education professor Bill Ayers, in the mid-1980s to thank the Ayers’ for their support of his education, according to Allen Hulton, the letter carrier who delivered mail to the Ayers’ Glen Ellyn home at that time. Glen Ellyn is a suburb of Chicago, southwest of the city. Hulton spoke to King Harvest at length about his experience. The statement by Hulton is the first eyewitness account of a possible relationship between Obama and Tom Ayers and the first that dates his relationship with... KING HARVEST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373561/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:54:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371981/posts Please protest Bill Ayers speaking to the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education in Orlando Fl - Friday Oct, 30th! He will be influencing young college students who are becoming teachers!!!!!!!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371981/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:11:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367436/posts Oct. 20: President Obama shakes hands with Capt. John Poindexter in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. For Army Capt. John Poindexter, being awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for heroism Tuesday marked an "opportunity to close a chapter" in his life. "The general feeling is a pretty intense level of excitement," Poindexter told Foxnews.com just before he and 85 other Vietnam veterans were honored at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. "It will mean to me that I've filled an important duty to the men who I literally owe my life to, men who... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367436/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:24:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366935/posts The sub-headline over the September 16 article says it all: "The investigation into a cop killing in the '70s leads to a law professor who helped launch Barack Obama's political career." The law professor is former Communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground known for praising mass murderer Charles Manson. Accuracy In Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366935/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:41:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350763/posts "Hear our cry, Obama." "Deliver us, Obama." Video at link. Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350763/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:43:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352628/posts LEE COUNTY: Authorities are investigating the early-morning robbery of a Brinks armored truck at a Miami Gardens gas station Thursday. It's the third Brinks robbery in South Florida in ten days. The Brinks guard had just finished emptying a safe at the Race Trac gas station in Miami Gardens and was leaving the store. Surveillance video shows the guard walking to the truck, and two men approaching him with guns. The FBI says one of the thieves grabbed the bag of cash while the other stole the guard's gun. A third man was reportedly behind the wheel of a white... NBC-2.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352628/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:18:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349861/posts The Post & Email has received tonight a decclassified FBI report admitted in evidence in the case brought against W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller by President Jimmy Carter’s U.S. Attorney General, Mr. Griffin B. Bell. This document was obtained by an American citizen, who wished to remain anonymous, via a FOIA request. Mr. W. Mark  Felt is none other than the informant who spoke with reporters from the Washington Post, exposing the Watergate Scandal:  who went by the name “Deep Throat” a fact that points to his political neutrality in American politics.What is not know about Mr. Felt... The Post & Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349861/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:29:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349649/posts On the night of Feb. 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. The respected 44-year-old sergeant was checking results from the recent union elections, in which he was running for station representative. Steady winter rain fell outside. At 10:45 p.m., a bomb planted on the ledge outside a nearby window went off. McDonnell took the brunt of the blast to his body and face. The explosive was packed with inch-long industrial fence staples, which severed his jugular vein and lodged in his brain.... LA Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349649/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:04:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347973/posts LOS ANGELES (AP) - Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer..." Debra Tate, the slain actress's younger sister, told the parole commissioners Sept. 2 that she "will pray for (Atkins') soul when she draws her last breath, but until then I think she should remain in this controlled situation." Debra Tate noted that she would have a 40-year-old nephew if her sister had lived..." Atkins married twice while in prison.... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347973/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:56:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346931/posts In his new book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage," Best-selling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen, has blown a huge hole in the Obama genius myth without intending to do so. Relying on inside sources, quite possibly Michelle Obama herself, Andersen describes how Dreams came to be published -- just as I had envisioned it in my articles on the authorship of Dreams.  With the deadline pressing, Michelle recommended that Barack seek advice from "his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers." To flesh out his family history, Obama had taped interviews with various family members. Andersen writes, "These... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346931/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:06:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2346549/posts William “Bill” Ayers is a terrorist. Just ask him. In his memoir Fugitive Days, he admits planting bombs in federal buildings such as the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol (“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,” he writes). He was one of the founders of the radical terrorist group the Weather Underground. Escaping justice because of prosecutorial misconduct, he transformed himself into a respected academic, a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. There is perhaps no better symbol of the 1960s moral relativist than he. It is not every day that a self-described terrorist and... NetRight Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2346549/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:03:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346206/posts "...Weathermen advocated the overthrow of the government of the United States and the system of capitalism; toward that end, they carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots." --From Weather UndergroundEX-WEATHER UNDERGROUND: What Are They Doing Today?BILL AYERS, BERNADINE DORHN, ZACH POLLET, WADE RATHKE, DRUMMOND PIKE: MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM VIOLENT OVERTHROW TO TAKEOVER from WITHIN What do you do if you're a spoiled rich poser with time on your hands in the 1960s and 1970s? For some, that question was answered by joining the Weather Underground--The Weathermen. "...Weathermen advocated the overthrow of the government of the United States... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346206/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:35:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345194/posts Policymaking: If the stimulus isn't working, perhaps it's because it was largely written by a collection of leftist interest groups called the Apollo Alliance that counts among its directors a co-founder of the Weather Underground.The Labor Department reported Friday that 42 states lost more jobs than they gained in August, and that 14 plus Washington, D.C., reported unemployment rates of 10% or more. Michigan's rate rose to 15.2%, highest in the nation. Nevada, represented by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is second with 13.2%. California, home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is tied for fourth with Oregon at 12.2%. Clearly,... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345194/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:53:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341265/posts The sub-headline over the article says it all: "The investigation into a cop killing in the '70s leads to a law professor who helped launch Barack Obama's political career." The law professor is former Communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground known for praising mass murderer Charles Manson. Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341265/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:30:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338151/posts The Washington DC Tea Party appears to be a big success, but it’s not for lack of trying among the movement’s more lunatic opponents. Yesterday, the DC Metro police evacuated the offices of Freedomworks after several threats, including a bomb-threat phone call that police considered credible enough to investigate: Tens of thousands of anti-big government activists are expected in Washington on Saturday as part of a “March on Washington” being organized by FreedomWorks, a conservative group headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas. A FreedomWorks staffer told ABC News that the organization’s offices at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue were... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338151/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337165/posts Allies in War By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001: ON THE MORNING OF THE ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times including many who would never be able to read the paper again, I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. The article was headlined in an irony that could not have been more poignant, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives." The couple pictured were Bill... FrontPageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337165/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336842/posts NEW YORK – Many of the people working with President Obama are Marxists or socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party, according to a socialist Columbia University professor with strong ties to Obama's radical associates, including Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers. "What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organizer. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is," wrote Manning Marable, professor and founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. "A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336842/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:08:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325120/posts UPDATE! 8/4/09 The Apollo Alliance has now ADMITTED that they wrote the Stimulus Bill AND the Cap and Trade Bill. It will only be a matter of time before America learns THEY wrote the Healthcare Bill too! wordpress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325120/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:01:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325635/posts Note these names in particular: George Soros–Multi-billionaire funder of leftwing causes and groups, Tides Foundation’s Wade Rathke (ACORN founder), and Anna Burger–Secretary Treasurer of SEIU, with massive influence over Obama. The Alliance has boasted of writing both the stimulus bill AND Cap and Trade. And it is driving the Obama Reich’s agenda with unbelievable force. Right Soup http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325635/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335350/posts VAN Jones resigned as White House green-jobs czar after the public got a look at his history of radical activism, including his time building the so-called Apollo Alliance -- a coalition of left-wing interest groups unified around the green-jobs concept. But another, even more radical Jones (not related) is leading Apollo's New York state activities. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335350/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:03:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334425/posts This summer may wind up being called "The Age of Enlightenment.” It was and is a time when ordinary Americans from all walks of life decided to get involved in a unique American experiment, and that is getting together with others to advocate for a cause without being forced to do so. “America needs you” seems to be a recurring theme in the thousands of tea party town hall meetings being held throughout the land. The underbelly of two national legislative bodies in Washington has been exposed — exposed for not paying attention to their duty of governing a populace... The Thomasville Times-Enterprise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334425/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:27:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326357/posts Page down until you come to the video. Glenn Beck Interviews Rush Limbaugh Video WND/Glenn Beck Show/FNC/ YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326357/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:57:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2326208/posts Two big questions hang over President Obama's radical "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones. Is he still a communist? Is he a security threat? Many have assumed that Van Jones' committment to communism ended when the organization he helped to lead STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) dissolved in 2002. Yet a 2004 treatise Reclaiming Revolution: History, Summation, and Lessons from the Work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement written and endorsed by a majority of former STORM members makes it clear that most ex STORMers are still committed to the revolutionary movement; From page 49. When... New Zeal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2326208/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:11:29 GMT