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Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[Revolution|revolutionary]].  In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV &ndash; Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground]  </ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]],

Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[Revolution|revolutionary]].  In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV &ndash; Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground]  </ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]],

survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003. </ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV &ndash; Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981]  </ref>  

survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003. </ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV &ndash; Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981]  </ref>  

[[Image:Deathpigs.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The words "Death to Pigs" were written on a wall in the blood of Manson Family victims; the WUO and Manson Family had a shared politcal vocabulary<ref>For more on the Marxist concept of a "shared politcal vocabulary" see [http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf  ''Reclaiming Revolution]: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)'', Spring 2004, Edited by [[Van Jones]] ''et al'', p.9 pdf.</ref> as well as advocacy of illegal drug use, violence, and killing.]]

[[Image:Deathpigs.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The words "Death to Pigs" were written on a wall in the blood of Manson Family victims; the WUO and Manson Family had a shared politcal vocabulary<ref>For more on the Marxist concept of a "shared politcal vocabulary" see ''Reclaiming Revolution]: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)'', Spring 2004, Edited by [[Van Jones]] ''et al'', [http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf p.9 pdf].</ref> as well as advocacy of illegal drug use, violence, and killing.]]

At a 1969 "War Council" in [[Flint]], [[Michigan]], spokeswoman [[Bernardine Dohrn]] gave her most memorable and notorious speech. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the [[Charles Manson|Manson Family]] in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death,<ref>[http://www.crimeshots.com/Carnage69.html Manson Family Carnage]</ref>

At a 1969 "War Council" in [[Flint]], [[Michigan]], spokeswoman [[Bernardine Dohrn]] gave her most memorable and notorious speech. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the [[Charles Manson|Manson Family]] in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death,<ref>[http://www.crimeshots.com/Carnage69.html Manson Family Carnage]</ref>