When I Was a Kid... We Had The "Weather Underground" Anti-War Protesters... Why Don't We Have People Like That Today?

While Many People Protested against the Vietnam War... One extreme group felt that "Bringing the War Home" was a good plan... Bombing locations in the USA where Evil was Being Done... At the time, I thought it was a bad idea. But maybe I was wrong... 

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The Weather Underground was an American militant organization active from 1969 until 1977. It was. a faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).The group's express political goal was to create a revolutionary party to overthrow the United States government...

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The Weatherman exploded bombs at the Pentagon and Defense Contractors Offices on college campuses... In order to give them the message that what they were doing was Evil... And we're not going to take it anymore... 

They kept on bombing the buildings of evil people until one of their bombs blew up their own home... Where they made the bombs... 

I understand the basic concept because if you look at it... Monsanto made a fortune selling Napalm and Agent Orange... And Bell Helicopter sold a lot of Huey's - also known as Puff the Magic Dragon...

They took their name of the organization from the Bob Dylan song lyric... "You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2016/10/26/evading-the-fbi-the-weather-underground-organization/

Weatherman—the Weather Underground Organization—was the most famous group of young people committed to revolutionary violence to emerge out of the late 1960s. In protest of American racism and the Vietnam War, they detonated more than two dozen dynamite bombs between 1970 and 1975, and hit some spectacular targets, including the Pentagon, the State Department, and the U.S. Capitol Building. For years, leaders of the group such as Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorhn, and Mark Rudd appeared on FBI wanted posters in every post office in the country. The charges that the federal government brought against Weatherman carried scores of years in prison as penalties. Weatherman’s outlaw legend has endured to this day—surfacing, for instance, in a 2002 documentary that was nominated for an Academy Award, and in the 2012 feature The Company You Keep, starring Robert Redford as a Weatherman veteran haunted by his past and Julie Christie as a Weatherman veteran still committed to revolution...

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Firefighters battle large blaze at Chevron refinery in Southern California... 

Was it ARSON? ECO-TERRORISM?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/large-fire-erupts-chevron-refinery-southern-california/story?id=126171692

When I'm seated at the computer, I observe this crepe myrtle tree out the window... 

If you pay attention to TV news, apparently, people far away from here are behaving crazy and their lives suck because of their insane behavior... Here in California's Central Valley... Life is pretty good... 

The people next door had a new fence built to replace the old falling down fence... And we had long soaking rain in the morning... So I looked at the Cal Fire map and the only places that are burning in California are up in the Trinity Alps between Eureka and Redding... If you know your geography, that's about 20 miles from our home in Eureka... So while those wildfires are bad for Bigfoot... And bad for the Indians on the Hoopa reservation.... Victoria is not affected... 

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

And I read on the Cal Fire map page that... While the federal government is shut down, the state of California is still funding Cal Fire... In case we need to rescue the citizens of California... 

and SE Said:
Great photos of the Wild Mouse! I remember it from when I was a kid. Some time in the 70s its name changed to the Jet Star, and that's what it was called throughout the 80s, and I rode it countless times. Nowadays it's a whole new ride with a whole new name, and I've been hesitant to ride it because it looks a bit scary, and I'm not as adventurous as I was when I was younger when it comes to rides. But maybe next time I'm at the Boardwalk, I'll get up the nerve to ride it.

and I Replied:
My father and I rode the wild mouse when I was a child. After that ride he said: " I'm never riding a roller coaster ever again. Next time you get another kid to go along with you to feel the other seat." and in fact, he never did write a roller coaster ever again!

Now that I'm 71 years of age... I don't think I would ever ride a roller coaster ever again... It's just not fun... I remember one of the first times I smoked marijuana... I rode the giant Dipper... And that was an outrageous experience... Glad I did it but damn!

You Don't Need to Be A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows... American History: SDS - Weather Underground - Anti Vietnam War Protests

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Initially formed as a splinter group of the Students for a Democratic Society which believed that peaceful protests were ineffective, the Weathermen were widely criticized for their use of violence as a means of social and political change. Some accused the group of terrorism, while others accused it of giving all activists, both militant and more mainstream, a bad name.

But for the Weathermen, violent action was nothing short of necessary in a time of crisis, a last-ditch effort to grab the country’s attention. And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.

How did the Weathermen arrive at this point? Some of the group’s former members, interviewed in THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, cite the murder of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in a December 1969 Chicago police raid as a turning point. What many believed to be a government-sanctioned killing in an effort to wipe out militant groups such as the Panthers was, for the Weathermen, the final straw.

In 1960, nearly 50 percent of America’s population was under 18 years of age. This surplus of youth set the stage for a widespread revolt against the status quo: against previously upheld structures of racism, sexism and classism, against the violence of the Vietnam War and America’s interventions abroad. At college campuses throughout the country, anger against “the Establishment’s” practices turned to protest, both peaceful and violent.

As the decade continued, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr. in order to promote nonviolent protest, grew increasingly militant—as did the mostly white, middle-class “New Left,” which took cues from the civil rights movement, protested policies both home and abroad, and sparked factions like the Weathermen. By the late 1960s, activist movements had also mobilized among Asian Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, as well as a second wave of activism among women, gay and lesbians and the disabled.

1962: Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, holds its first convention in Port Huron, MI, calling for progressive alliances among activist groups. 1964: The Civil Rights Act passes, while America’s involvement in the war in Vietnam escalates. 1965: Berkeley Free Speech Movement spurs massive student protests against the Vietnam War. The first SDS anti-war march in Washington attracts 15,000 people. 1966: Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy are assassinated. Anti-war demonstrations turn violent at the Chicago Democratic Convention and shut down Columbia University. 1969: Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark die in a Chicago police raid. The Weathermen form. 1970: March: Three Weathermen are killed when bomb manufacturing goes awry. The organization becomes the Weather Underground as key players including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Kathy Boudin go into hiding. Bernardine Dohrn gives a tour of her underground hideout on the San Francisco Bay View Video June: New York City police headquarters are bombed and the Weathermen take credit, issuing a communiqué from underground. July: Thirteen Weathermen are indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to engage in acts of terrorism. A New York bank is bombed in retaliation. September: Timothy Leary issues a statement from the underground after escaping from prison with the help of the Weathermen. 1971: 50,000 anti-war protesters march on Washington, D.C. 1973: Cease-fire accord in Vietnam. 1977: Weathermen Mark Rudd and Cathy Wilkerson emerge from years of hiding and surrender to the police, receiving two years of probation and three years in prison, respectively. 1980: Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers resurface from the underground, pleading guilty to bail-jumping charges from a 1969 anti-war protest. Dohrn is fined $1,500 and given three years’ probation. 1981: The unofficial end of the Weather Underground occurs when Kathy Boudin resurfaces to participate in an armed robbery in Nanuet, New York, which results in the shooting deaths of three men. Boudin is sentenced to 22 years in prison, and is released in 2003.