Public face isn't even vaguely new. BIll Ayers retired as a professor of education at the University of Chicago. Bernardine Dohrn taught law at Northwestern. Sidney Lumet directed Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton in a "two thumbs up" dramatization of their attempt to lead a normal life while being on the run for killing someone by blowing up the building he was cleaning. Meanwhile It isn't even misty water-colored memories. Fuckin' no less than Haskel Wexler shot a documentary about the Weather Underground while they were on the run and Tom Wolfe wrote half a book making fun of Leonard Bernstein for supporting the Panthers. Days of Rage is basically about how privileged white kids get to blow up whatever they want while black kids get murdered for writing letters to Castro.In 1969, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover described the party as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." He developed and supervised an extensive counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) of surveillance, infiltration, perjury, police harassment, and many other tactics, designed to undermine Panther leadership, incriminate and assassinate party members, discredit and criminalize the Party, and drain organizational resources and manpower. The program was responsible for the assassination of Fred Hampton, and is accused of assassinating other Black Panther members, including Mark Clark.
Cleaning? The guy was a physicist. (don't tell b_b)... blowing up the building he was cleaning.
Right you are. In the movie he was a janitor. It's annoying. The movie is pretty good. And Bernardine Dohrn will never be Christine Lahti. Fun fact: the script is by Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal's mom. Popular culture's acceptance of the Weathermen as "rascally kids" runs pretty deep.
Considerably more relatable, good call, Gyllenhalls' mom.In the movie he was a janitor.
Sure, domestic terrorism, per se, isn't new. I was talking specifically about these geniuses who at one time went by "Michigan Militia." They were an underground faction in the 90s, and really didn't like to draw attention to themselves. The swinging dick act is a new development for them.