If you live in world in which Sarah Palin is a great leader, the you might be a redneck...or you just may be one of the many voters who allowed wild stories about Bill Ayers scare you away from voting for Obama.
In reading from what the man himself has to say, any thinking person has to realize how absurd this fear really was. And lets be grateful that in the end it didn't work.
The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our effectiveness can be — and still is being — debated. We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war.
Peaceful protests had failed to stop the war. So we issued a screaming response. But it was not terrorism; we were not engaged in a campaign to kill and injure people indiscriminately, spreading fear and suffering for political ends.
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