In 1969, Weather Underground founders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (who were to become Pres. Obamas personal friends and associates for many years) put Charles Manson on the cover of their occasional newspaper, Fire. At what was billed as a War Council in Flint Michigan that same year, Ayers and his comrades took to greeting eachother with the fork - four fingers pointed upwards, in honor of Manson. (Google Dohrns Flint conference quote on Manson - and Sharon Tate, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time.) In 1972 Ayers dedicated the WUs manifesto, Prairie Fire, to his cultural and political heroes -- a list which included Sen. Robert Kennedys assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. Throughout their career as terrorist bombers, Ayers and Dohrn were constantly trying to break the Left free of its bourgeois commitment to any standard of justice or decency. By adopting Charles Manson as their own, by praising Manson as a hero of the counterculture, they hoped to smash the Lefts bourgeois ties to civilization and thus spark similar acts of horrific revolutionary violence against innocent people. https://youtube/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 23:03:17 +0000
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