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[[Image:Wuodec3.jpg|right|thumb|350px|First page of WUO Declaration of a State of War with Amerika issued by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], May 21 1970.<ref>FBI file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_Declaration_of_a_State_of_War Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War]</ref> Dohrn was instrumental in launching the career of Chicago City Alderman [[Barack Obama]], later elected President of the United States.]]

[[Image:Wuodec3.jpg|right|thumb|350px|First page of WUO Declaration of a State of War with Amerika issued by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], May 21 1970.<ref>FBI file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_Declaration_of_a_State_of_War Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War]</ref> Dohrn was instrumental in launching the career of Chicago City Alderman [[Barack Obama]], later elected President of the United States.]]

The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' is a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization now possibly inactive. <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref> Since its inception the Weather Underground identified its fundemental strategic thesis with the [[Maoist]] Chinese.  In its initial ideological statement, ''You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,'' the objective of wealth redistribution was put forward to justify revolutionary violence:

The '''Weather Underground Organization''' (('''WUO'''), or '''Weathermen''' is a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization now possibly inactive. <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref> Since its inception the Weather Underground identified its fundemental strategic thesis with the [[Maoist]] Chinese.  In its initial ideological statement, ''You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,'' the objective of wealth redistribution was put forward to justify revolutionary violence:

:"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>}}

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==Greenwich Village bomb factory==

==Greenwich Village bomb factory==

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 three 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 ''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.]]

[[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>

{{cquote|'''Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"'''}}

{{cquote|'''Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"'''}}