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Edwird -> RE: Just what is the alt left? (3/14/2017 2:41:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
It is likely true that there is no alt-left. Just the left with its violence as usual. They want a repeat of the violence of the 70's. It is sad really.
https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
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Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about.
One thing that Burrough returns to in Days of Rage, over and over and over, is how forgotten so much of this stuff is. Puerto Rican separatists bombed NYC like 300 times, killed people, shot up Congress, tried to kill POTUS (Truman). Nobody remembers it.
Also, people don’t want to remember how much leftist violence was actively supported by mainstream leftist infrastructure. I’ll say this much for righty terrorist Eric Rudolph: the sonofabitch was caught dumpster-diving in a rare break from hiding in the woods. During his fugitive days, Weatherman’s Bill Ayers was on a nice houseboat paid for by radical lawyers.
And then of course he helped a fellow leftist take the Whitehouse.
A soon as you recognize the FACT that the FBI 'informant' Larry Grathwohl taught the Weather Underground how to make bombs and encouraged them to go that route in the first place and then supplied them guns when there was not one among them who'd have had a clue in that venture otherwise, and that the FACT that that another FBI 'informant' planted a bomb in Judi Bari's car and then the former had the audacity to charge her with felony offense of blowing herself up, which after she won an $11 million settlement, . . .
I agree that Noam Chomsky has no chance in hell of understanding his own words, forget anybody else. And how come HE's never been shot?
That should tell us something right there.
Whom they let live vs. whom they don't. The academic impotent vs, those who have done the ground work and seen the reality. Even the privileged (but some war experienced) Kennedy had the perception to see it. MLK (him especially) and others in the '60s who had "perception" didn't live long enough to see it through, there's a fact.
Let's not kid ourselves, here; the world today is nowhere near what it could have been nor what it should be.
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