Some background(from Wikipedia)Bill Ayers was a member of a group called the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29">"Weathermen" (or "Weather Underground").
The Weathermen were a group of students whose goal was the "...destruction of U.S. imperialism..."
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http://martinrealm.org/documents/radical/sixties1.html>
They were formerly a part of RYM (the Revolutionary Youth Movement), a splinter group that left the larger group, SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).
They advocated communism.
They considered themselves the "white fighting force" working with the "Black Liberation Movement".
They have been called "militant", "radical" and "terrorists".
Their "activities" included jailbreaks, riots and bombings, one of which killed three of their own members.
Their first demonstration, however, was a rally during the 1969 trial of the Chicago Eight that turned into four days of rioting.
They virtually disappeared after the U.S. finally withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, but some members were involved in a 1981 bank robbery in which one security guard and two policemen were killed.
The name "Weathermen" came from the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean Homesick Blues", which contains the line:
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows So many college students were in "radical" groups, that the Weathermen breaking off from a group that splintered off from yet another group was not unique.
This was the 1960's, when every young person was either in college, in Vietnam or in Canada.
Why is the GOP-controlled media suddenly interested in this university professor?
Is it really because of the bank robbery?
I do not think so. I suspect it may have to do with quashing the idea of protest.
Instead of calling the group the "Weathermen" the GOP-controlled media prefer the term Weather
Underground. Certainly, the group used either name interchangeably, but the American TV-viewing public would be more fearful of an
underground than mere
men.
I fear the GOP-controlled media will try to construct a narrative surrounding the Democratic candidate that includes support from these "out-of-control". If my suspicions are correct, how can this be countered?
Earlier today, a brilliant
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5581211&mesg_id=5581211">thread was started by DUer
slinkerwink called "I'm TIRED Of Worrying About Republicans. It's TIME For Them To WORRY About US!"
While I agree wholeheartedly to the notion, I don't believe we should be ignorant of what they believe or of their plans. That's how we got in this mess in the first place.