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{{Cquote|It is the oppressed peoples of the world who have created the wealth of this empire and it is to them that it belongs; the goal of the revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interests of the oppressed peoples of the world.  It is in this context that we must examine the revolutionary struggles in the United States.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976,  

{{Cquote|It is the oppressed peoples of the world who have created the wealth of this empire and it is to them that it belongs; the goal of the revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interests of the oppressed peoples of the world.  It is in this context that we must examine the revolutionary struggles in the United States.<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976,  

[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Page 143 in original (p. 31 pdf).</ref>}}

[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1c.pdf ''Influence of China''], Page 143 in original (p. 31 pdf).</ref>}}

In 2002, Sam Green and Bill Siegel produced a documentary about the Weather Underground.<ref>[http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2008/10/07/weather-underground-documentary-counters-msm-claim-ayers-merely Weather Underground Documentary Counters MSM Claim That Ayers Merely a Benign '60s Radical']</ref>

In 2002, Sam Green and Bill Siegel produced a documentary about the Weather Underground.<ref>[https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2008/10/07/weather-underground-documentary-counters-msm-claim-ayers-merely Weather Underground Documentary Counters MSM Claim That Ayers Merely a Benign '60s Radical']</ref>

==History==

==History==

===Creation===

===Creation===

Within SDS, the Weathermen grew out of a faction called the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zQHMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT580 CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States]</ref>  At SDS' Chicago convention in June, 1969, the society found itself split three ways and collapsed shortly after.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MrPyPP7gkHYC&pg=PA50 Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons]</ref>  The Weatherman group took its name and the name for their manifesto from a lyric of a [[Bob Dylan]] song ''Subterranean Homesick Blues'', <ref>[http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html Independent Lens], [[PBS]]</ref> which was published in the June 18, 1969 edition of ''New Left Notes''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&pg=PA320 Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

Within SDS, the Weathermen grew out of a faction called the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zQHMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT580 CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States]</ref>  At SDS' Chicago convention in June, 1969, the society found itself split three ways and collapsed shortly after.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MrPyPP7gkHYC&pg=PA50 Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons]</ref>  The Weatherman group took its name and the name for their manifesto from a lyric of a [[Bob Dylan]] song ''Subterranean Homesick Blues'',<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html Independent Lens], [[PBS]]</ref> which was published in the June 18, 1969 edition of ''New Left Notes''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&pg=PA320 Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

What was left of SDS fell to the control of the ''Progressive Labor Party'' (PLP), the oldest Maoist group in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YSmiFins9sC&pg=PA87 Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today]</ref>

What was left of SDS fell to the control of the ''Progressive Labor Party'' (PLP), the oldest Maoist group in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YSmiFins9sC&pg=PA87 Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today]</ref>

==Revolution==

==Revolution==

According to the traditional [[Soviet]] sponsored [[Lenin]]ist model, the [[proletariat]] is the main revolutionary force, and [[national liberation movement]]s become its allies. According to [[Maoist]] inspired Weathermen, however, the revolutionary national movements were proletarian revolutions in their own right against the world imperialist class, and provided the leadership in the worldwide anti-imperialist revolution.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/TheWayTheWindBlewAHistoryOfTheWeatherUnderground ''The Way The Wind Blew: A History Of The Weather Underground,''] Ron Jacobs, Verso, 1997, p. 81 ISBN 1-85984-167-8</ref>  Many WUO members believed that revolution was happening and they could unite all the [[Third World]] revolutionaries into one world-wide communist utopia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X2OJhrWo6PcC&pg=PT148 Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225989/unearthing-weather-underground-joseph-morrison-skelly Unearthing the Weather Underground], [[National Review]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&q=utopia Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

According to the traditional [[Soviet]] sponsored [[Lenin]]ist model, the [[proletariat]] is the main revolutionary force, and [[national liberation movement]]s become its allies. According to [[Maoist]] inspired Weathermen, however, the revolutionary national movements were proletarian revolutions in their own right against the world imperialist class, and provided the leadership in the worldwide anti-imperialist revolution.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/TheWayTheWindBlewAHistoryOfTheWeatherUnderground ''The Way The Wind Blew: A History Of The Weather Underground,''] Ron Jacobs, Verso, 1997, p. 81 ISBN 1-85984-167-8</ref>  Many WUO members believed that they were a [[Proletarian vanguard]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XUikrTLOJPQC&pg=PA91 Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism]</ref> of a revolution that was underway, and they believed they could unite all the [[Third World]] revolutionaries into one worldwide communist utopia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X2OJhrWo6PcC&pg=PT148 Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974]</ref><ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/article/225989/unearthing-weather-underground-joseph-morrison-skelly Unearthing the Weather Underground], [[National Review]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O34F9hWb5UcC&q=utopia Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies]</ref>

On September 13th, 1970, the weathermen helped [[Timothy Leary]] escape from a prison in San Luis Obispo.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jtVeR1boA1MC&q=timothy+leary+jailbreak+weathermen+september+13 Disorders and Terrorism: Report of the Task Force on Disorders and Terrorism]</ref>

 

On September 13, 1970, the weathermen helped [[Timothy Leary]] escape from a prison in San Luis Obispo.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jtVeR1boA1MC&q=timothy+leary+jailbreak+weathermen+september+13 Disorders and Terrorism: Report of the Task Force on Disorders and Terrorism]</ref>

===High School Jailbreaks===

===High School Jailbreaks===

===Days of Rage===

===Days of Rage===

In 1969, the Weathermen held a series of protests known as the "''Days of Rage''".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pXfNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 Homeland Security: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, Second Edition]</ref>  Following the events, the FBI arrested activists including [[Linda Evans]] and Dianne Donghi.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 Chronologies of Modern Terrorism]</ref>

In 1969, the Weathermen held a series of protests known as the "''Days of Rage''"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pXfNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 Homeland Security: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, Second Edition]</ref> which was timed to coincide with the [[Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=APjtGBMiSG8C&pg=PA123 FBI 100 Years]</ref>  Following the events, the FBI arrested activists including [[Linda Evans]] and Dianne Donghi.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 Chronologies of Modern Terrorism]</ref>

The use of the moniker ''Days of Rage'' would be used by future revolutionary groups and movements, including [[Occupy Wall Street]], [[Anonymous]], and during the [[Arab Spring]].

The use of the moniker ''Days of Rage'' would be used by future revolutionary groups and movements, including [[Occupy Wall Street]], [[Anonymous]], and during the [[Arab Spring]].

==Bombing activities==

==Bombing activities==

Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[revolution]]ary.  After issuing a formal "Declaration of War on AmeriKKKa"(which they always spelled with three capital "K's") the underground went on a bombing spree.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1yL7y9H-YHcC&pg=PA1948 The Professors: The 101 Most  Dangerous Academics in America], [[David Horowitz]]</ref>

Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[revolution]]ary.  After issuing a formal "Declaration of War on AmeriKKKa"(which they always spelled with three capital "K's") the underground went on a bombing spree.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1yL7y9H-YHcC&pg=PA1948 The Professors: The 101 Most  Dangerous Academics in America], [[David Horowitz]]</ref>

Ron Fliegelman was the chief architect for bomb devices inside the WUO.<ref>[http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/29/book-weather-underground-bomb-guru-taught-at-nyc-schools-for-25-years/ Book: Weather Underground ‘Bomb Guru’ Taught At NYC Schools For 25 Years], [[The Daily Caller]]</ref>  In the 1970's, the organization was successfully infiltrated by an informant for the [[FBI]], [[Larry Grathwohl]].<ref>[https://spectator.org/55174_rip-larry-grathwohl-weather-underground-infiltrator/ RIP Larry Grathwohl, Weather Underground Infiltrator], [[American Spectator]]</ref>  Grathwohl wrote about what he had learned in a book he wrote, ''BRINGING DOWN AMERICA: An FBI Informant with the Weathermen''.<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/04/bringing_down_america_a_review.html Bringing Down America: A Review], [[American Thinker]]</ref>

Ron Fliegelman was the chief architect for bomb devices inside the WUO.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2015/03/29/book-weather-underground-bomb-guru-taught-at-nyc-schools-for-25-years/ Book: Weather Underground ‘Bomb Guru’ Taught At NYC Schools For 25 Years], [[The Daily Caller]]</ref>  In the 1970s, the organization was successfully infiltrated by an informant for the [[FBI]], [[Larry Grathwohl]].<ref>[https://spectator.org/55174_rip-larry-grathwohl-weather-underground-infiltrator/ RIP Larry Grathwohl, Weather Underground Infiltrator], [[American Spectator]]</ref>  Grathwohl wrote about what he had learned in a book he wrote, ''BRINGING DOWN AMERICA: An FBI Informant with the Weathermen''.<ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/04/bringing_down_america_a_review.html Bringing Down America: A Review], [[American Thinker]]</ref>

 

===Haymarket Police Statue===

===Haymarket Police Statue===

Fourth Congress. First Session. Volume 6. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1976, Exhibit 68-13., cited in ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection'', Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org</ref>  The ringleaders, principally Weather Underground terrorists, received urban guerrilla warfare training in Cuba from the [[DGI]] prior to the attacks.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Cuban_DGI.pdf Final Talk to the Fourth Contingent, Julian Rizo DGI.]</ref> ]]

Fourth Congress. First Session. Volume 6. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1976, Exhibit 68-13., cited in ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection'', Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org</ref>  The ringleaders, principally Weather Underground terrorists, received urban guerrilla warfare training in Cuba from the [[DGI]] prior to the attacks.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Cuban_DGI.pdf Final Talk to the Fourth Contingent, Julian Rizo DGI.]</ref> ]]

In 1995 a cadre of like minded individuals gathered in the home of Weather Underground (WUO) [[terrorist]]s [[Bernardine Dohrn]] and [[William Ayers|William "Bill" Ayers]].  According to Dr. [[Quentin Young]], "I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that [[Alice Palmer]] was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress."  Dr. Young, a longtime friend of the Ayers' and [[President Obama]], put up the money in 1968 to pay for the office that organized a riot in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. [[Carl Davidson]] of [[Progressives for Obama]] was told by [[Fidel Castro]] in March 1968 that Castro believed the United States was ready for [[revolution]]. Several [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and WUO cadre trained in Cuba with the "Venceremos Brigades"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3GnvlvefWGcC&pg=PA180 Informing Statecraft], by Angelo Codevilla</ref> prior to the insurgency.  The FBI summarized the situation:

In 1995 a cadre of like minded individuals gathered in the home of Weather Underground (WUO) [[terrorist]]s [[Bernardine Dohrn]] and [[William Ayers|William "Bill" Ayers]].  According to Dr. [[Quentin Young]], "I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that [[Alice Palmer]] was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress."  Dr. Young, a longtime friend of the Ayers' and [[President Obama]], put up the money in 1968 to pay for the office that organized a riot in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. [[Carl Davidson]] of [[Progressives for Obama]] was told by [[Fidel Castro]] in March 1968 that Castro believed the United States was ready for [[revolution]]. Several [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and WUO cadre trained in Cuba with the "Venceremos Brigades"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3GnvlvefWGcC&pg=PA180 Informing Statecraft], by Angelo Codevilla</ref> prior to the insurgency.  The FBI summarized the situation:

{{Cquote|Rarely has any city been threatened all at one time with an invasion of 100 to 200 thousand dissidents - plots to [[assassin]]ate [[government]]al dignitaries and prominent individuals; intentions to instigate major riots in varied ways; widespread [[sabotage]] of communication, transportation and electrical systems- proposals to pour [[hallucinogen]]ic [[drugs]] into the water supply; clandestine shipments of [[arms]] and [[ammunition]] into the city for use in sniper activities - and myriad forms of [[guerrilla warfare]].<ref>Declassified U.S. Government intelligence information regarding the communist and foreign connections of the Weather Underground. Presented as evidence, on the agreement of the prosecution and defense counsel, in the trial of W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, p.10.[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Declassified_docs.pdf ]</ref>}}  

{{Cquote|Rarely has any city been threatened all at one time with an invasion of 100 to 200 thousand dissidents - plots to [[assassin]]ate [[government]]al dignitaries and prominent individuals; intentions to instigate major riots in varied ways; widespread [[sabotage]] of communication, transportation and electrical systems- proposals to pour [[hallucinogen]]ic [[drugs]] into the water supply; clandestine shipments of [[arms]] and [[ammunition]] into the city for use in sniper activities - and myriad forms of [[guerrilla warfare]].<ref>Declassified U.S. Government intelligence information regarding the communist and foreign connections of the Weather Underground. Presented as evidence, on the agreement of the prosecution and defense counsel, in the trial of W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, p.10.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120104034804/http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Declassified_docs.pdf]</ref>}}  

One veteran of the guerrilla warfare training in Cuba was Obama's host, [[Bernardine Dohrn]].  Young met with Dohrn after her return,

One veteran of the guerrilla warfare training in Cuba was Obama's host, [[Bernardine Dohrn]].  Young met with Dohrn after her return,

{{Cquote|Bernardine went down there already influenced by Cuba and in a state of romantic anticipation. She was at the top of her thermometer going down. I talked to her, sort of debriefed her, when she came back."<ref>Georgie Anne Geyer and Keyes Beach "Cuba: School for U.S. Radicals", ''Chicago Daily News/Chicago Sun-Times'' five part series October 1970, excerpted in [http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/weather/weath1c.pdf FBI file Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman),] Part 1c pp. 5-7 pdf (113-115 in original). [http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/clandestine-agents-of-the-cuban-government-ayers-dohrn-myers/]</ref>}}

{{Cquote|Bernardine went down there already influenced by Cuba and in a state of romantic anticipation. She was at the top of her thermometer going down. I talked to her, sort of debriefed her, when she came back."<ref>Georgie Anne Geyer and Keyes Beach "Cuba: School for U.S. Radicals", ''Chicago Daily News/Chicago Sun-Times'' five part series October 1970, excerpted in [http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/weather/weath1c.pdf FBI file Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman),] Part 1c pp. 5-7 pdf (113-115 in original). [http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/clandestine-agents-of-the-cuban-government-ayers-dohrn-myers/]</ref>}}

Dr. Young related Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer was choosing then Chicago city councilman [[Barack Obama]] as her successor.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html Obama once visited '60s radicals.], Ben Smith, Politico, February 22, 2008.</ref> Palmer once served on the executive board of the [[U.S. Peace Council]], a [[KGB]] front organization<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_PZy-U7G2EMC&pg=PA111&dq=U.S.+Peace+Council%2Bkgb&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=%22U.S.%20Peace%20Council%22&f=false The Apocalyptic premise : Nuclear Arms Debated], By Ernest W. Lefever, E. Stephen Hunt, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 127-137.</ref> that actively opposed President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s defense program.  Palmer wrote a report on her visit to [[Moscow]] for the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) published by the CPUSA's ''[[People's Daily World]]''.  In the twilight of the Soviet regime Palmer wrote, "Like the Reagan administration, the Soviets talk of increasing productivity among workers and curbing waste...but the Soviets' do not link these issues with ruining the living standards of human beings."

Dr. Young related Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer was choosing then Chicago city councilman [[Barack Obama]] as her successor.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html Obama once visited '60s radicals.], Ben Smith, Politico, February 22, 2008.</ref> Palmer once served on the executive board of the [[U.S. Peace Council]], a [[KGB]] front organization<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_PZy-U7G2EMC&pg=PA111&dq=U.S.+Peace+Council%2Bkgb&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=%22U.S.%20Peace%20Council%22&f=false The Apocalyptic premise : Nuclear Arms Debated], By Ernest W. Lefever, E. Stephen Hunt, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 127-137.</ref> that actively opposed President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s defense program.  Palmer wrote a report on her visit to [[Moscow]] for the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) published by the CPUSA's ''[[People's Daily World]]''.  In the twilight of the Soviet regime Palmer wrote, "Like the Reagan administration, the Soviets talk of increasing productivity among workers and curbing waste...but the Soviets' do not link these issues with ruining the living standards of human beings."

[[Image:Features ayers1.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Obama served on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago with Weather Underground [[terrorist|terrorist group]] co-founder Bill Ayers'''<ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1a.pdf FBI file Weather Underground]</ref> '''at the time this photo appeared of Ayers stomping the American flag''' in ''Chicago Magazine'' in 2001. Ayers, Obama's boss at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, contributes to Obama election campaigns and hosted an important fundraiser in Obama's early career to meet and greet Ayers contacts.]]

[[Image:Features ayers1.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Obama served on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago with Weather Underground [[terrorist|terrorist group]] co-founder Bill Ayers'''<ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath1a.pdf FBI file Weather Underground]</ref> '''at the time this photo appeared of Ayers stomping the American flag''' in ''Chicago Magazine'' in 2001. Ayers, Obama's boss at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, contributes to Obama election campaigns and hosted an important fundraiser in Obama's early career to meet and greet Ayers contacts.]]

Ayers and Dohrn took credit, and have never denied responsibility for a series of [[terrorist]] bombings which included the [[U.S. Capitol]], the [[Pentagon]] and the [[State Department]].    The reopening of a [[cold case]] [[homicide]] investigation of a [[San Francisco]] police officer was urged by the San Francisco Police Officer's Association in March 2009.<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/BATK16DHA4.DTL&hw=ayers&sn=001&sc=1000 S.F. police union accuses Ayers in 1970 bombing], Demian Bulwa, ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' March 12, 2009.</ref>  An FBI informant who infiltrated the [[WUO]]<ref>''Bringing down America : an FBI informer with the Weathermen'', by Larry Grathwohl, Frank Reagan, 1976. [http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/810451/used/Bringing%20down%20America%20:%20an%20FBI%20informer%20with%20the%20Weathermen]</ref> and was close to Ayers reported an exchange he had with Ayers about a prospective bombing:

Ayers and Dohrn took credit, and have never denied responsibility for a series of [[terrorist]] bombings which included the [[U.S. Capitol]], the [[Pentagon]] and the [[State Department]].    The reopening of a [[cold case]] [[homicide]] investigation of a [[San Francisco]] police officer was urged by the San Francisco Police Officer's Association in March 2009.<ref>[https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/BATK16DHA4.DTL&hw=ayers&sn=001&sc=1000 S.F. police union accuses Ayers in 1970 bombing], Demian Bulwa, ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' March 12, 2009.</ref>  An FBI informant who infiltrated the [[WUO]]<ref>''Bringing down America : an FBI informer with the Weathermen'', by Larry Grathwohl, Frank Reagan, 1976. [http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/810451/used/Bringing%20down%20America%20:%20an%20FBI%20informer%20with%20the%20Weathermen]</ref> and was close to Ayers reported an exchange he had with Ayers about a prospective bombing:

{{QuoteBox|INFORMANT: We'll blow out the Red Barn restaurant.  Maybe even kill a few innocent customers — and most of them are black.<br>

{{QuoteBox|INFORMANT: We'll blow out the Red Barn restaurant.  Maybe even kill a few innocent customers — and most of them are black.<br>

AYERS: We can't protect all the innocent people in the world. Some will get killed. Some of us will get killed. We have to accept that fact.}}

AYERS: We can't protect all the innocent people in the world. Some will get killed. Some of us will get killed. We have to accept that fact.}}

Ayers and Dohrn were not prosecuted because of tainted evidence gathered by the [[FBI]].  Assistant Director of the FBI [[Mark Felt]], also known as “Deep Throat” in the [[Watergate Affair]],<ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB156/ Nixon and the FBI: The White House Tapes], National Security Archive, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.</ref> was prosecuted and convicted for civil rights violations of Jennifer Dohrn, Bernardine’s sister, while tracking the terrorist pair.  Ayers boasted in his book that he was "guilty as hell, free as a bird," and Felt was pardoned by President [[Ronald Reagan]] who noted Felt followed procedures he believed "essential to keep the Director of the FBI, the [[Attorney General]], and the [[President of the United States]] advised of the activities of hostile foreign powers and their collaborators in this country.<ref>[http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/41581d.htm Statement on Granting Pardons to W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller], April 15, 1981.</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/01/us/two-top-fbi-officials-cleared.html Two Top F.B.I. Officials Cleared], [[New York Times]], December 1, 1983.</ref>

Ayers and Dohrn were not prosecuted because of tainted evidence gathered by the [[FBI]].  Assistant Director of the FBI [[Mark Felt]], also known as “Deep Throat” in the [[Watergate Affair]],<ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB156/ Nixon and the FBI: The White House Tapes], National Security Archive, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.</ref> was prosecuted and convicted for civil rights violations of Jennifer Dohrn, Bernardine's sister, while tracking the terrorist pair.  Ayers boasted in his book that he was "guilty as hell, free as a bird," and Felt was pardoned by President [[Ronald Reagan]] who noted Felt followed procedures he believed "essential to keep the Director of the FBI, the [[Attorney General]], and the [[President of the United States]] advised of the activities of hostile foreign powers and their collaborators in this country.<ref>[http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/41581d.htm Statement on Granting Pardons to W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller], April 15, 1981.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/01/us/two-top-fbi-officials-cleared.html Two Top F.B.I. Officials Cleared], [[New York Times]], December 1, 1983.</ref>

Ayers, Dohrn and Barack Obama's relationship went back several years and they were lending their notoriety among [[radical]] [[leftist]]s to launch Obama's career as Palmer's successor. Ayers' and Dohrn's first book written with [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee|Jeff Jones]], the title ''Prairie Fire'' is taken from the sayings of [[Chairman Mao]]'s ''Little Red Book'', [http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/] "a single spark can set a prairie fire"," announces, {{cquote|we are communist men and women.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref> }}  

Ayers, Dohrn and Barack Obama's relationship went back several years and they were lending their notoriety among [[radical left]]ists to launch Obama's career as Palmer's successor. Ayers' and Dohrn's first book written with [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee|Jeff Jones]], the title ''Prairie Fire'' is taken from the sayings of [[Chairman Mao]]'s ''Little Red Book'', [http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/] "a single spark can set a prairie fire"," announces, {{cquote|we are communist men and women.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref> }}  

Co-author and co-Weather Underground founder Jeff Jones<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder] Van Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref> worked for several years with [[Obama administration]] Green Czar [[Van Jones]], another self-described communist arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot.  Like [[Frank Marshall Davis]], there is no indication Ayers, Dohrn, Jeff Jones, Dr. Young, [[Anita Dunn]], or other close associates of Obama have renounced their faith in what [[Allen Weinstein]] describes as "a murderous and discredited ideology."   

Co-author and co-Weather Underground founder Jeff Jones<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder] Van Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref> worked for several years with [[Obama administration]] Green Czar [[Van Jones]], another self-described communist arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot.  Like [[Frank Marshall Davis]], there is no indication Ayers, Dohrn, Jeff Jones, Dr. Young, [[Anita Dunn]], or other close associates of Obama have renounced their faith in what [[Allen Weinstein]] describes as "a murderous and discredited ideology."   

Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and served there for the next eight years.

Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and served there for the next eight years.

*Black Liberation Army (BLA)  

*Black Liberation Army (BLA)  

*[[John Brown Anti-Klan Committee]] (JBAKC) <ref>[http://nobsopus.blogspot.com/1983/11/armed-resistance-unit-bombs-us-capitol.html Armed Resistance Unit Bombs US Capitol], ''Death To The Klan'', Winter, 1984, No. 3.</ref>

*[[John Brown Anti-Klan Committee]] (JBAKC) <ref>[http://nobsopus.blogspot.com/1983/11/armed-resistance-unit-bombs-us-capitol.html Armed Resistance Unit Bombs US Capitol], ''Death To The Klan'', Winter, 1984, No. 3.</ref>

*[[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]] (PFOC)  

*[[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]] (PFOC)

*[[May 19th Communist Organization]] (M19CO)

*[[Symbionese Liberation Army]] (SLA)  

*[[Symbionese Liberation Army]] (SLA)  

*[[Youth International Party]] (YIP)

*[[Youth International Party]] (YIP)

* [[Bill Ayers]]

* [[Bill Ayers]]

* [[Communist front]]

* [[Communist front]]

* [[Wunderground]] - an online weather service named for the WUO organization

*[[Antifa]]

==References==

==References==

==External links==

==External links==

*[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Terrorist.html#Weathermen worldstatesman.org] Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization)

* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Terrorist.html#Weathermen worldstatesman.org] Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization)

*[https://archive.org/details/YouDontNeedAWeathermanToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows_925 You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows], Manifesto of the Weather Underground

* [https://archive.org/details/YouDontNeedAWeathermanToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows_925 You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows], Manifesto of the Weather Underground

*[https://archive.org/details/sds_papers The SDS Papers - Prairie Fire & The Port Huron Statement], Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism

* [https://archive.org/details/sds_papers The SDS Papers - Prairie Fire & The Port Huron Statement], Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism

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