The Weather Underground (full doc)

*Now that the 2008 Election is really really over (excluding the ever irritating Minnesota Senate debacle) I thought it wise to explore this ominous education professor, Bill Ayers, and the militant leftist organization of which he was once a member, "The Weathermen." We know The Weatherman bombed government buildings and police stations. Most of us no little else about them.

Like many of those who came of age in the 90's, I extrapolated my own warped time-line of events from that glorious and glorified era known affectionately as, "The Sixties." -------It was apparently so groovy, they decided it was worth spelling out instead of the old apostrophe-and-last-two-digits kind of linear thinking, which was so utterly '57.------- When first hearing about The Weathermen circa 1996, my keenly warped sense of assumptive chronology told me they were burnt out hippies who after too much Brown Acid (and a crippled barter economy due to the free love default swap scandal of' '72) became angry and disheartened enough to start blowing shit up.

As a man now in my 30's I attempt the occasional spackle-ing of the gaping holes in that assumed time-line. After watching The Weather Underground I realized 4 essential things: A) These people were smarter, and better organized than our current government. B) They genuinely believed there was a full scale revolution in progress. C) The only person killed or even injured in the multiple bombings was a Weathermen member in his home, an accident. And D) Their belief in this revolution was not entirely unfounded, and although deplorable, their means were not entirely unjustified.