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Today Is The Anniversary of the Weatherman’s “Days Of Rage”

By Uppity Woman on October 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Weather Underground

Today is a Big Day for the Weather Underground people. They are probably not working on Obama’s campaign and are taking a break to Remember Fondly.

I wonder if they have a little “celebration” with Ayers and Dohrn. A little reunion maybe, with little bombs as favors.

Excuse me for using Wiki, but I am just so sick of reading about this sociopathic stuff, I hardly can stand to learn any more about them. The more I learn, the sicker these bastages all look to me.

The Days of Rage riots in Chicago were organized by members of the Weathermen (WUO), a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society. The group planned it for October 8-11, as a “National Action” built around John Jacobs’ slogan, “bring the war home,” although by now the group probably had only about 300 total members nationwide.[1] The National Action grew out of a resolution drafted by Jacobs and introduced at the October 1968 SDS National Council meeting in Boulder, Colorado. The resolution, titled “The Elections Don’t Mean Shit—Vote Where the Power Is—Our Power Is In The Street” and adopted by the council, was prompted by the success of the DNC protests in August 1968 and reflected Jacobs’ strong advocacy of violence as a means of achieving political goals.[2]

As part of the “National Action Staff,” Jacobs was an integral part of the planning for what quickly came to be called “Four Days of Rage.”[1] For Jacobs, the goal of the “Days of Rage” was clear:

“[Weatherman would shove the war down] their dumb, fascist throats and show them, while we were at it, how much better we were than them, both tactically and strategically, as a people. In an all-out civil war over Vietnam and other fascist U.S. imperialism, we were going to bring the war home. ‘Turn the imperialists’ war into a civil war’, in Lenin’s words. And we were going to kick ass.”[3]

According to Bill Ayers:

“The Days of Rage was an attempt to break from the norms of kind of acceptable theater of ‘here are the anti-war people: containable, marginal, predictable, and here’s the little path they’re going to march down, and here’s where they can make their little statement.’ We wanted to say, “No, what we’re going to do is whatever we had to do to stop the violence in Vietnam.’”[4]

To help start the “all-out civil war”, Bill Ayers and others bombed a statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket Riot on the evening of October 6. The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below.[5]

I feel like I need a shower. You can read the rest here.

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