Interpreting the past

[Richard Fiero]

KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
>I have a question to the US P-listers here: in the context of the past of our
>foreign Minister Joschka Fischer who was in the seventies a militant street
>fighter during the so called Frankfurt "house riots" (Westend) - he hit a
>. . .

>  My question is now: is there any similar discussion in
>the US about the "militant" past of several people, is there, for example, a
>debate about the "Weathermen", the "American RAF"?
>Best
>Kurt-Werner Poertner

No, man. There is nothing. Well, there is something but it is 
bubbling below the surface in WTO demonstrations and such.
SDS had a flat hierarchy or no hierarchy and the Weathermen 
were just loosely allied.
It's not acceptable to spout anti-war sentiment now just as 
then. SDS is a far more interesting topic than the Weather 
Underground unless of course one is action-oriented. Elements 
of the Right have co-opted all the fun. See Ruby Ridge, Waco and Oklahoma City.

With respect to Dave Monroe's paranoia, one might note that a 
number of 'difficult' people managed to die: Malcom X, Martin 
Luther King, the Kennedy boys (Bay of Pigs, 22 failed 
assassination attempts against Fidel), their friend Marilyn 
Monroe and later a few Black Panthers. Let's see . . . what 
were the Kennedys up to? In bed with the Mafia to recoup their 
Cuban losses, screwing with Vietnam and oh yes, the Peace 
Corps. Right. US road engineers touring Brazil seeking Che. How 
helpful! DIA surveilled your local bookstore. Moles, diffusers 
and agents provocateur everywhere. Recall that Kennedy took 
Vietnam black ops away from CIA and gave them to DIA because 
CIA seemed slow, ineffectual and lacked a certain plausible deniability.