2/ Hypothetical on what it would be like if the terror campaign happened today:
3/ In 1971 and 1972, there were nearly 5 bombings a day, however the vast majority were non fatal. People just viewed it as a nuisance:
4/ The radical violence was not about the Vietnam war. It was primarily about race:
5/ Description of civil rights movement turning violent:
6/ Black radical Eldridge Cleaver rapes white women as a form of revenge:
7/ Rise in attacks on police officers:
8/ The weathermen were a small group of people, and they were not particularly poor:
9/ Many Jews got into the radical movement because they were worried about another Holocaust:
10/ On the sexual depravity of the Weathermen:
11/ In one gathering, the Weathermen debated on whether or not it would be ethical to kill white babies:
12/ Some Weatherman were angry a policeman survived after a bombing, contrary to what some claim, their intentions were to kill people.
13/ They were supported by the National Lawyers Guild:
14/ Interestingly enough, the NLG still exists today, many rioters write their number on their arms and call them in jail for legal support: amgreatness.com/2020/03/08/ant…
15/ College students were more unfavorable the weathermen than the John Birch society:
16/ By 1971 AP estimated their were 3000 communes that took in 3 million people:
17/ Brutal murder of NY cops by Black liberation Army: Shot in the balls, danced a jig over dead body
18/ Seven police officers killed by BLA in few month span:
19/Around the same time black radical Mark Essex killed nine in New Orleans:
20/ Many in radical scene saw prison inmates as key to America's radical future. Blacks opportunistically spouted marxist rhetoric.
21/ Paragraph about the radical attorney Fay Stender:
22/ Stender later had a falling out with George Jackson. She killed herself after being shot and paralyzed and put in constant pain by a Black Guerrilla Family member:
23/ Weather underground torn apart by "identity politics"
24/ On the Puerto Rican independence movement, the most violent:
25/ More about their history of attacks:
26/ State of the South Bronx in late 70s. By some estimates 40% of buildings were burned out:
3. DeAndre Harris clubs a UTR rally attendee in the back of the head, and famously gets beat down. He gets off free while some of the people who reacted got years in prison:
The victories Richard mentions here seem pretty minor. Abortion went from being illegal everywhere in the 60s to being legal everywhere the next decade.
Now the right's "victory" is that they merely get to control what happens in their own states and abortion is down about 6%. And of course as Richard has mentioned, abortion bans are so unpopular that even many red states don't vote for them. axios.com/2022/11/06/ame…
On guns there have been many states to liberalize their laws surrounding concealed carry, but national laws have enacted background checks and banned fully automatic weapons, and guns are still a heavily contentious issue unlike the ones where the left has won.
3/ Wanted to see how many important 20th century cases there were where if only white protestants voted, the result would be different. This was true for Miranda v AZ which I have discussed here: