[lbo-talk] Defend Bill Ayers

[Dennis Perrin]

> Bill (and Bernardine) have been friends and good comrades of my work in 
> the Red Balloon Collective, in the Greens, and in life. Thank Marx they're 
> not apologetic for trying to stop the U.S. war on Vietnam and the murder 
> of 2 million people there! Thank Emma that many people, including Bill and 
> Bernardine, took the risks needed to defend humanity in an era of 
> murderers and robots.

While I understand their anger and remain weirdly fascinated with Weather as 
a Dadaist concept, what they did was strategically stupid. There was no mass 
support for their violence, no means to an end. Weather was narcissistic 
white privilege guilt posing as a "guerrilla" force. Fred Hampton denounced 
them before he was murdered in his bed. And of course, Weather helped the 
police state immensely. At least Mark Rudd and Brian Flanagan show some 
remorse for their participation.

Dennis