Not politics - Pynchon (bombs)

[Michael Bailey]

there are a lot of good books reviewing the Weather Underground
and a couple of videos

what I came away with from looking at a few of them was

they managed to not kill a lot of people (I'm thinking zero, but that
could be wrong)

they got some impressive targets

their statements indicate they were reacting from understandable
outrage at the unimaginably
evil bombing of Cambodia

they didn't accomplish a whole heck of a lot

they could easily have been provocateurs, in that their actions justified
draconian enforcement AND took attention away from Amerikka's SE Asia murders

oh, a-and that Mark Rudd went on to become a community college math teacher!



On 10/7/08, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From a political email...
>
>  During The Time Obama And Ayers Served Together On The Woods Fund, Ayers Was
>  Quoted Saying "I Don't Regret Setting Bombs ... I Feel We Didn't Do Enough." "'I
>  don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers said. 'I feel we didn't do enough.' Mr.
>  Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was
>  sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the
>  Hyde Park district of Chicago." (Dinitia Smith, "No Regrets For A Love Of
>  Explosives," The New York Times, 9/11/01)
>   -- file://PastedText/854250
>
>  ==========
>
>  BTW, a hiatus in my help(?) on the TMoP read:
>
>  I got a local apt w/o web access yet;
>  I fled work when the wife showed up.
>
>  I'm in a small town that is sooo cool!
>
>  I saw a town parade, and knew two people in it.
>
>  I dropped in at a van there to give blood for the
>  first time (although postponed due to anitbiotics).
>
>  I'm walking around in a relaxed, loving spirit,
>  and people are very cordial.
>
>  A scary looking bulked ethnic flashed me "peace".
>
>  I got my first real cheeseburger at a local joint.
>  "I've been victimized by McDonalds all these years."
>
>  A local emporium--not Walmart--has everything.
>  I even saw a pair of welding googles.
>  I got a wine bottle opener, and other needful things.
>
>  Some friends with a business set me up in a spare office with Internet.
>
>  A man gave me a guava off his tree this morning.
>
>  I'm checking out Toastmasters tomorrow evening.
>
>  Yours truly,
>  Glenn Scheper
>  http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
>
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
>  Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
>


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