Posted on 11/14/2007 9:16:36 PM PST by neverdem
How long until a group of todays radicals build and deploy pipe bombs at a military facility?
The day after a Democrat occupies the Oval Office. That's the day they'll be able to pull it off without getting caught.
I knew a bunch of those guys when I was in college in the late 60s and early 70s.
Their “bible” was “The Thoughts of Chairman Mao”.
Bump
Probably Hillary's idea. I can see her standing there, her arm cocked back with a heavy ashtray..."Bill! Release my sisters!"
The Moonbats in WI have pestered one of our Navy facilities sine 1985. We had the Sterling Hall bombing in 1971 (I think) killing one scientist in 'The People's Republik of Madistan.' I was 11. Dad took us there to show us how NOT to live our lives as Hippie-losers. Three were caught, and when released from prison were welcomed back "Home" to Madistan with open arms. And:
Twelve peace activists were arrested for trespassing at the U.S. Navy's "Project ELF" submarine transmitter near Clam Lake Wisconsin Aug. 8 during a demonstration marking the 54th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
About 65 demonstrators gathered at the secluded Navy facility that sends Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) messages to submerged nuclear-powered British and US Trident and Fast-Attack submarines around the world. The cold war ELF system was designed to "survive" the electromagnetic pulses (EMP) of nuclear bomb blasts in order to maintain communications for submarine-based nuclear warfare.
The rally Sunday came at the end of a four-day, 53-mile long peace walk that began at the county courthouse in Ashland, WI. The courthouse has been the site of dozens of hearings, trials and jail sentences endured by demonstrators who have defied local ordinances by conducting sit-ins, Citizen Inspections, blockades and disarmament actions at the transmitter site. Civil resistance at the Navy ELF transmitter just since November 1991 (when Nukewatch began keeping records) has resulted in 495 arrests at the remote facility, which is secluded in the Chequamegon National Forest. More than five years of accumulated jail time have been served in Ashland County jail by ELF resisters who have refused to pay fines. The system has also been the focus of four Ploughshares actions since 1985.
Those arrested Aug. 8 were told to appear Sept. 9, 1999 in Ashland County for arraignment, to pay the $209 fine, or risk nine days in jail and/or suspension of their driving privileges for up to five years.
After the pardon, life got even better for Linda Evans. In 2001, she received a grant from the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute in recognition of her inspiring work in the field of political organizing.
Thanks for the links!
...in an interview, and in the book, Ms. Wilkerson, now 62, a math teacher and the mother of a grown daughter, describes her own acquiescence to violence as a slow-motion personal collapse, taking place in a wider cast of people who had lost their bearings in anger at United States policies in Vietnam and elsewhere.
Her father’s house was being used as a factory for pipe bombs, with the first one to be planted in an officer’s club at Fort Dix, N.J.
“The political point of the town house was that we had to take on the U.S. military, like we were a third world country,” she said. “The accident at the town house showed the absurdity of our approach.”
As a girl growing up in Connecticut, Ms. Wilkerson had attended Quaker meetings. At Swarthmore College, moved by the triumphs of people fighting for civil rights in the South, she joined the Students for a Democratic Society....
But those protests did not change foreign policy.
A cadre of individuals, prepared to use physical force not only to stop the war but also to topple the government behind it, broke out of the SDS.... They called themselves the Weathermen.... Many in the ranks slept on floors and survived on pennies, but the leadership enjoyed opulent creature comforts.....
In the interests of creating “new men and new women,” she writes, the leadership pushed an antimonogamy policy, giving joyless parties where virtual strangers had public sex....sacrificing our own humanity,” she wrote.
Smoke-free drinkers, now they’re coming for you
'Get tough' call on public health 1984? I thought the UK was supposed to be a free country. Thought made a fool of me.
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“Sure, Pumpkin. Just don’t blow the place up, ok?”
Great line!
As Linda might say, "I was a naive kid, thinking I could transform the world with pipe bombs. Now I know better, so I'm helping to get hillary into the White House. Same end, different means."
She helped in “symbolic” bombings in the early 1970s, including a courthouse in California. By 1976, the war was over, and the group had dissolved. “I was profoundly messed up,” she said, but a new daughter and three years of minimum-wage jobs helped her to reflect. She turned herself in, came out of prison and began to teach math.
Ah, hiring a “former” terrorist. Ain’t gub’mint schools wonderful?
In February 1970, Ms. Wilkerson was ordered to go to New York, reuniting her with Terry Robbins, a leader of the group with whom she had defied the antimonogamy policy.
Anti-monogamy policy? I don’t know whether to laugh or barf. Well, at least she “defied” the policy.
Fascinating thread. Thanks for posting and thanks for the ping. Thanks to all contributors/linkers/researchers. BTTT!
Thanks for the ping!
From Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, which was the alleged inspiration for the Weathermen’s name.
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the bomb blows...
Boy, that was some ruse that killer pulled off there.
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