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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (95312)	1/30/2005 11:22:43 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

How do I put this so you will understand it? According to what I have read, and the rather long documentary I sat through, the WU was effectively over when Boudin and Gilbert decided to join other organizations to pull off an armed robbery. They decided to join other organizations because the WU really had ceased to function by that time. Telling you that is not being an "apologist" for the WU, it is being accurate (accurate to the sources I am familiar with). Boudin and Gilbert were obviously interested in becoming involved in organizations that were NOT interested in carrying out terrorist activities that minimized casualties. So Boudin and Gilbert clearly departed from the strategy of the WU by the time they worked with the Black Liberation Army. I suggest if you have any interest in this that you see the documentary, which you obviously have not seen. Not even the former members of the WU are apologists for their former organization. Your posts are simply amazing. They rise to a level of irrationality (combined with a bizarre personal attack) that I would not have believed possible. Here's a nice quote for you: "Their post-1970 bombings were symbolic in nature and happened at night when the buildings were empty. For all the vitriol heaped on the Weather Underground by other leftists -- and especially by ex-leftist neocons like David Horowitz and Ronald Radosh -- it never killed or injured anyone except its own members. (In this regard, it's striking that right-wingers routinely employ the excesses of Weatherman to paint the entire left as anti-American terrorist sympathizers, while the left is either too civil or too cowardly to use the hateful acts of Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph and James Kopp to attack conservatives in general.)"