Bernardine Dohrn
Leader of the domestic terrorist group the Weathermen
Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
Referring to the Tate-LaBianca murders, stated, "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"
Director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University
Professor at Northwestern University Law School
Bernardine Dohrn, along with her husband Bill Ayers, was a 1960s anti-American militant and leader of the homegrown terrorist group the Weathermen , a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The Weathermen's hatred of the United States manifested itself in the bombings of the U.S. Capitol building, New York City Police Headquarters, the Pentagon, and the National Guard offices in Washington, D.C. Ayers summed up the Weathermen's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents."
At a 1969 meeting to form a terrorist underground in Flint, Michigan -- a meeting which the Weathermen called the "War Council" -- Dohrn held her fingers up in a fork salute and said of the murders committed by Charles Manson and his gang: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!" Dohrn is currently the director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University, and is on important committees and boards of the American Bar Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. She is also a clinical associate professor at Northwestern University Law School.
The Weathermen, named from a Bob Dylan song lyric, later known as the Weather Underground, has been described by Ayers as "an American Red Army." The group took over Students for a Democratic Society, the largest leftwing students' organization of its day, in 1968 and closed the organization down, saying that it had "Smashed the Pig," The Weathermen thought SDS was too reformist and wanted to launch a race war in American, in order to hasten an Armageddon in which the Third World would wreak its revenge on the "Amerikkkan" beast. The Weather Underground was a terrorist organization which issued "War Communiques" and set out to "bring the monster [the United States] down."
The beginning of the Weathermen's violent track-record can be traced back to a 1969 trip the group made to Havana, Cuba, where its members planned their strategy for an assault on America. At this time in Havana, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare. Upon their return to the U.S., the Weathermen unleashed what they called the "Days of Rage" riots in Chicago, using their guerilla-style tactics to viciously attack police officers and civilians alike, in the process destroying massive amounts of property with handmade explosives - all in the name of their anti-war, anti-American message. Dohrn was arrested during the riots for assaulting a police officer.
Dohrn has said of her radical past, "We rejected terrorism. We were careful not to hurt anybody." This is not true. A Chicago district attorney was paralyzed during the Days of Rage, and police are currently investigating a bombing in San Francisco that killed a policeman and for which the Weathermen are believed responsible. Moreover, the famous townhouse explosion in which three Weathermen were killed was set off by a bomb that was intended for a social dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. In 1970, Weather Underground members Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins, and Ted Gold died when the bomb they were constructing unexpectedly exploded. That bomb had been intended for detonation at the Fort Dix dance, which was to be attended by army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plan been successfully executed.
Dohrn has also stated, "We were completely self-restrained as a movement compared to other world movements." Regardless of her current whitewashing, Dohrn was in fact complicit in a number of terrorist bombings intended to destroy key parts of America's defense and security infrastructure, and to cause mass chaos among the population at large. These bombings included: the National Guard offices in Washington, D.C.; the U.S. Capitol building; New York City Police Headquarters; and the Pentagon.
After their bombing spree, Dohrn and her now-husband, Bill Ayers, spent the 1970s as fugitives running from the FBI, which placed Dohrn on its "Ten Most Wanted List." In 1980 the two surrendered, but all charges against them were dropped due to "improper surveillance."
Justifying her past actions, Dohrn has said, " We organized both against war and racism. We also taught that all human life is equally valid, not just the body count of the United States." As evidenced by her participation in the aforementioned acts of sadistic violence, nothing could be further from the truth.
Today Dohrn is a clinical associate professor at Northwestern University Law School. "During your student years here," Dohrn said to her students, "the cruelly brutal, criminal attacks of September 11, 2001, the shredded economy and loss of jobs, the consequences of deregulation and devolution that bankrupted state and local governments, the relentless punishment and imprisoning of over two million people in America, flagrant corporate plunder and criminality, rolling blackouts, the apparently permanent war on terrorism, the shock and awe occupation of Iraq, systematic and degrading detention without trial, torture and extra-judicial assassinations, and the establishment of a crescent of new U.S. military bases across the Middle East and South Asia - all have transformed whatever blissful illusions were harbored as you entered college."
During the 1960s and 1970s the NLG experienced considerable growth with the rise of the radical student movement. Several NLG figures were violent revolutionaries, including Bernardine Dohrn, the NLG student organizer in 1967 and fixture on the FBls "most wanted list" for several years. Another was Judith Clark, now serving a long sentence for murder in the 1981 Brinks armored car robbery undertaken to fund radical leftist activities. According to Prof. Gunter Lewy of the University of Massachusetts:
By the early 1970s old and new left elements in the Guild had come to terms, for they shared basic goals, the most immediate of which was the victory of the Vietnamese Communists.............. Marxist-Leninist terminology, previously shunned, now was used openly in Guild proceedings and publications.
An article in a 1981 issue of Military Police journal detailed the criminal careers of several National Lawyers Guild members as follows:
...Carlos Zapata who was killed in Denver by a bomb he was planting at a VFW hall on 22 March 1978. He was...involved in the National Lawyers Guild-sponsored 'Police Crimes Task Force.'
Bernardine Dohrn, the much sought Weather Underground fugitive, was named student director for the National Lawyers' Guild in 1967.
NLG member, Stephen Mitchell Bingham, is being sought by the state of California and the FBI for smuggling a .380 automatic pistol to George Jackson in prison...
...Guild member Frank Eugenio Martinez...was a Loyola law student who was active in NLG projects at the college and on the streets. Suspiciously, Frank's fingerprints ended up on several of the eight letter-bombs mailed to Denver police officers in 1973...
The article by Detective Arleigh McCree, a former military police officer who became Officer in Charge, Firearms and Explosives Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, observes that "The NLG continues to act as a clearinghouse and, as an apologist and defender for terrorists and terrorism."
The PFOC, formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), the terrorist spin-off from Students For a Democratic Society (~DS). Its first pamphlet was Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism, written by Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones. According to Harvey Klehr:
It announced that "we are communist men and women" and urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.los
The PFOC also published iJreakthrough, a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article- praising third-world single party Marxist-Leninist dictatorships.
Gunter Lewy, The Cause That Failed: Communism in American Political Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990),285.
Klehr, Harvey (1988). Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. ISBN 0-88738-217-7
Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
Referring to the Tate-LaBianca murders, stated, "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"
Director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University
Professor at Northwestern University Law School
Bernardine Dohrn, along with her husband Bill Ayers, was a 1960s anti-American militant and leader of the homegrown terrorist group the Weathermen , a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The Weathermen's hatred of the United States manifested itself in the bombings of the U.S. Capitol building, New York City Police Headquarters, the Pentagon, and the National Guard offices in Washington, D.C. Ayers summed up the Weathermen's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents."
At a 1969 meeting to form a terrorist underground in Flint, Michigan -- a meeting which the Weathermen called the "War Council" -- Dohrn held her fingers up in a fork salute and said of the murders committed by Charles Manson and his gang: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!" Dohrn is currently the director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University, and is on important committees and boards of the American Bar Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. She is also a clinical associate professor at Northwestern University Law School.
The Weathermen, named from a Bob Dylan song lyric, later known as the Weather Underground, has been described by Ayers as "an American Red Army." The group took over Students for a Democratic Society, the largest leftwing students' organization of its day, in 1968 and closed the organization down, saying that it had "Smashed the Pig," The Weathermen thought SDS was too reformist and wanted to launch a race war in American, in order to hasten an Armageddon in which the Third World would wreak its revenge on the "Amerikkkan" beast. The Weather Underground was a terrorist organization which issued "War Communiques" and set out to "bring the monster [the United States] down."
The beginning of the Weathermen's violent track-record can be traced back to a 1969 trip the group made to Havana, Cuba, where its members planned their strategy for an assault on America. At this time in Havana, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare. Upon their return to the U.S., the Weathermen unleashed what they called the "Days of Rage" riots in Chicago, using their guerilla-style tactics to viciously attack police officers and civilians alike, in the process destroying massive amounts of property with handmade explosives - all in the name of their anti-war, anti-American message. Dohrn was arrested during the riots for assaulting a police officer.
Dohrn has said of her radical past, "We rejected terrorism. We were careful not to hurt anybody." This is not true. A Chicago district attorney was paralyzed during the Days of Rage, and police are currently investigating a bombing in San Francisco that killed a policeman and for which the Weathermen are believed responsible. Moreover, the famous townhouse explosion in which three Weathermen were killed was set off by a bomb that was intended for a social dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. In 1970, Weather Underground members Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins, and Ted Gold died when the bomb they were constructing unexpectedly exploded. That bomb had been intended for detonation at the Fort Dix dance, which was to be attended by army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plan been successfully executed.
Dohrn has also stated, "We were completely self-restrained as a movement compared to other world movements." Regardless of her current whitewashing, Dohrn was in fact complicit in a number of terrorist bombings intended to destroy key parts of America's defense and security infrastructure, and to cause mass chaos among the population at large. These bombings included: the National Guard offices in Washington, D.C.; the U.S. Capitol building; New York City Police Headquarters; and the Pentagon.
After their bombing spree, Dohrn and her now-husband, Bill Ayers, spent the 1970s as fugitives running from the FBI, which placed Dohrn on its "Ten Most Wanted List." In 1980 the two surrendered, but all charges against them were dropped due to "improper surveillance."
Justifying her past actions, Dohrn has said, " We organized both against war and racism. We also taught that all human life is equally valid, not just the body count of the United States." As evidenced by her participation in the aforementioned acts of sadistic violence, nothing could be further from the truth.
Today Dohrn is a clinical associate professor at Northwestern University Law School. "During your student years here," Dohrn said to her students, "the cruelly brutal, criminal attacks of September 11, 2001, the shredded economy and loss of jobs, the consequences of deregulation and devolution that bankrupted state and local governments, the relentless punishment and imprisoning of over two million people in America, flagrant corporate plunder and criminality, rolling blackouts, the apparently permanent war on terrorism, the shock and awe occupation of Iraq, systematic and degrading detention without trial, torture and extra-judicial assassinations, and the establishment of a crescent of new U.S. military bases across the Middle East and South Asia - all have transformed whatever blissful illusions were harbored as you entered college."
During the 1960s and 1970s the NLG experienced considerable growth with the rise of the radical student movement. Several NLG figures were violent revolutionaries, including Bernardine Dohrn, the NLG student organizer in 1967 and fixture on the FBls "most wanted list" for several years. Another was Judith Clark, now serving a long sentence for murder in the 1981 Brinks armored car robbery undertaken to fund radical leftist activities. According to Prof. Gunter Lewy of the University of Massachusetts:
By the early 1970s old and new left elements in the Guild had come to terms, for they shared basic goals, the most immediate of which was the victory of the Vietnamese Communists.............. Marxist-Leninist terminology, previously shunned, now was used openly in Guild proceedings and publications.
An article in a 1981 issue of Military Police journal detailed the criminal careers of several National Lawyers Guild members as follows:
...Carlos Zapata who was killed in Denver by a bomb he was planting at a VFW hall on 22 March 1978. He was...involved in the National Lawyers Guild-sponsored 'Police Crimes Task Force.'
Bernardine Dohrn, the much sought Weather Underground fugitive, was named student director for the National Lawyers' Guild in 1967.
NLG member, Stephen Mitchell Bingham, is being sought by the state of California and the FBI for smuggling a .380 automatic pistol to George Jackson in prison...
...Guild member Frank Eugenio Martinez...was a Loyola law student who was active in NLG projects at the college and on the streets. Suspiciously, Frank's fingerprints ended up on several of the eight letter-bombs mailed to Denver police officers in 1973...
The article by Detective Arleigh McCree, a former military police officer who became Officer in Charge, Firearms and Explosives Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, observes that "The NLG continues to act as a clearinghouse and, as an apologist and defender for terrorists and terrorism."
The PFOC, formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), the terrorist spin-off from Students For a Democratic Society (~DS). Its first pamphlet was Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism, written by Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones. According to Harvey Klehr:
It announced that "we are communist men and women" and urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.los
The PFOC also published iJreakthrough, a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article- praising third-world single party Marxist-Leninist dictatorships.
Gunter Lewy, The Cause That Failed: Communism in American Political Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990),285.
Klehr, Harvey (1988). Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. ISBN 0-88738-217-7
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