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October 04, 2008
4 Weathermen Terrorists Declare Support for Affirmative-Action Candidate Obama
4 Weathermen terrorists declare support for Obama
By Aaron Klein
The names of four former top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization are listed as signatories on an online petition calling for an "independent grassroots effort" to help strengthen Sen. Barack Obama's campaign.
The petition was initiated by Progressives for Obama, an independent organization acting to ensure the Illinois senator's election.
Progressives includes among its ranks many former members of the 1960s radical organization Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, from which the Weathermen splintered, as well as current and former members of other radical organizations, such as the Communist Party USA and the Black Radical Congress.
"We agree that Barack Obama is our best option for president in 2008, and that an independent grassroots effort can help strengthen his campaign," states the online petition. "It can also strengthen the mandate for his programs for stopping war, promoting global justice and securing our rights, liberties, and economic well-being."
Among the names signed onto the petition are former Weathermen leaders Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, Steve Tappis and Mark Rudd.
Machtinger was a Weathermen founder and was co-author of the terror group's original mission statement, which called for "revolutionaries within the United States to wage a 'people's war' and attack from within. The government would fall and 'world communism' eventually would be instituted."
Jones, according to his own website, was "elected, along with (Weathermen terrorist) Bill Ayers and Mark Rudd, to the SDS national office. Then, in the spring of 1970, he disappeared. As a leader of the Weather Underground, Jeff evaded an intense FBI manhunt for more than a decade. In 1981, they finally got him. Twenty special agents battered down the door of the Bronx apartment where he was living with his wife and four-year-old son."
Jones' site says he traveled to Cambodia in 1966 to meet with high-level leaders of the anti-American National Liberation Front. In 1967 and 1968 he served as an SDS regional organizer for New York City.
Tappis was one of 11 people who signed the original Weathermen statement, which was infamously titled, "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows."
Rudd, a petition supporter as well as a main signatory to the Progressives for Obama group, was one of the main founders of the Weathermen terrorist organization. A biography published on his website explains Rudd worked to form the Weathermen as a radical alternative to the SDS and for white Americans to eject their "white skin privilege" and begin "armed struggle" against the U.S. government.
Rudd went underground in 1970, when a bomb exploded in a townhouse in Greenwich Village in New York City, killing three of his comrades. He lived for seven and a half years in hiding as a fugitive, finally surrendering in 1977, facing only low-level state charges after federal charges against Weathermen leaders had been dropped. He resurfaced as a teacher in New Mexico.
As late as 2005, Rudd wrote an editorial in the Los Angeles Times lamenting the state of the antiwar movement in the U.S.
"What's hard to understand – given the revelations about the rush to war, the use of torture and the loss of more than 2,000 soldiers – is why the antiwar movement isn't further along than it is," he wrote. "Given that President Bush is now talking about Iraq as only one skirmish in an unlimited struggle against a global Islamic enemy, a struggle comparable to the titanic, 40-year Cold War against communism, shouldn't a massive critique of the global war on terrorism already be underway?"
Former Weathermen member Mark Rudd
In the piece, Rudd condemned the Weathermen's decision to embark on an "armed-struggle," calling it "stupid" since the violent acts led to the group's demise. But he didn't condemn the terrorism itself, only its contribution to the downfall of the Weathermen.
All former Weathermen leaders who signed the pro-Obama petition worked closely for years with Weathermen terrorist William Ayers, whose association with Obama has generated controversy for the presidential candidate.
Trevor Louden of the New Zeal blog commented, "Clearly Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, are not the only former Weathermen backing Obama. Add their old comrades Jeff Jones, Howie Machtinger, Mark Rudd and even Steve Tappis to the mix and you are starting to get beyond coincidence. That former terrorists are working with Marxist groups to elect Barack Obama is beyond doubt."
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Wild Thing's comment..........
B. HUSSEIN Ho-bama the candidate of terrorists, dictators, communists, enviro-fascists, islamo-fascists, and pie-eyed icon worshippers everywhere.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at October 4, 2008 04:48 AM
Comments
Saul Alinsky students UNITE!!
Nice supportive "acquaintances" ya got there, O!
Posted by: yankeemom at October 4, 2008 07:29 AM
Geesh, Affirmative Action was suppose to help us, but it's a socialist program at heart. Women will never get to where they want because socialistic programs don't allow it.
Time to scrap 'em off Clare and get rid of the programs that don't work and send those who would have us under such control kicked to the curb! If they don't like America, they can go live in China, Cuba or Russia and see how far there crappy attitudes go.
Posted by: Lynn at October 4, 2008 08:42 AM
Ahhhh, friends to take home to mother!!!Hell they
can go live with IManutjob in Iran,,,
Posted by: Tincan Sailor at October 4, 2008 10:47 AM
These radicals should have been put away for life back in the 70's. An ineffective government let them get by with minor convictions. If their man Obama is elected, they will become part of the new government.
Posted by: TomR at October 4, 2008 11:43 AM
Like Tom said "If their man Obama is elected, they will become part of the new government."
TREASON - This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.
The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offence is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Now, how about a cost of ammunition bounty for the first head brought in?
Posted by: Jack at October 4, 2008 12:26 PM
This will be the new executive leadership of Homeland Security in an Obama administration.
Posted by: Les at October 4, 2008 03:48 PM
If they do Jack, then I believe there will be a lot of noise in that area of the country.. You remember the old saying, 'lets Rock and roll'.
Posted by: Mark at October 4, 2008 06:29 PM
Yankeemom, I sure hope Hannity brings Saul Alinsky up on his special.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 4, 2008 07:21 PM
Lynn, yes that is what amazes me. All the complaints about America, Obama wanting a change sheesh, If they hate America so much they should leave. It has worked great up to when the dems got their way too much ruining parts of it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 4, 2008 07:23 PM
Tincan Sailor, LOL yes Mom would love meeting these jerks and terrorists in Obama's life.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 4, 2008 07:25 PM
Tom, that is something I will never understand. Why oh why does out country not put these people away for life, and Jane Fonda etc. too. Or even a stronger punishment would be ok with me.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 4, 2008 07:27 PM
Jack I vote for that, absolutely. Why they stopped punishing for treason I will never know. But they should bring it back.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 4, 2008 07:34 PM
Les, oh my gosh, can you imagine ....terrorists among us and in our government, grrrrrrr, and then seeing them at White House dinners too and so many things etc. sheesh
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 4, 2008 07:35 PM
