{"id":27746,"date":"2020-09-07T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27746"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:50:40","slug":"the-weather-underground-terrorists-are-finally-winning-the-ongoing-communist-revolution-or-have-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27746","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Underground terrorists are finally winning the ongoing communist revolution…or have they?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Revolution Is Winning<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Demonstrators march during a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, San Francisco, Calif., June 6, 2020. (Kate Munsch\/Reuters)<\/p><\/div>\n

By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY<\/p>\n

Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s now hold powerful positions in government and academia<\/h3>\n

This<\/span>\u00a0is what the revolution looks like.<\/p>\n

Weather Underground terrorists, who made no secret of being anti-AmeriKKKan \u201csmall-c\u201d communists, are having more success than they could have dreamed of in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

They are dominating the language. You know that whole \u201cwhite privilege\u201d nostrum that we\u2019re paying universities $60K per year to drum into our children\u2019s brains? It is derived from their lamentation of \u201cwhite skin privilege.\u201d In their ideology, the revolution to overthrow the capitalist, racist, imperialist system summoned them \u2014 lily white radicals \u2014 to abandon their privilege and embrace the armed struggle.<\/p>\n

Among their most influential thinkers was Bill Ayers. He got a windfall from the government\u2019s failure to prosecute him for the bombings he carried out and the mass murders he planned but was insufficiently competent to execute. It was a second career as a \u201cDistinguished Professor of Education\u201d at the University of Illinois. As Sol Stern relates in a 2006\u00a0City Journal<\/em>\u00a0essay<\/a>\u00a0that should be required reading today, this entailed designing curricula used by today\u2019s hard-Left academics, based on what Ayers saw as a moral imperative to convert schools into social-justice indoctrination labs.<\/p>\n

It worked.<\/p>\n

Of course, in the days before they brought the revolution into the classroom, they pursued it on urban streets, prioritizing war on cops. To the avant-garde, the police are the pointy end of the oppressive government spear, enforcing its laws and imposing the racist society\u2019s caste system. For the revolution to succeed, the police have to be discredited, defunded, and defanged. For the Weather Underground, that meant branching into such radical offshoots as the\u00a0May 19 Communist Organization<\/a> and conspiring with black separatists.<\/p>\n

So it was that such Weather confederates as Susan Rosenberg, Kathy Boudin, and David Gilbert, among others, teamed with the Black Liberation Army to carry out the infamous 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck at the Nanuet Mall near Nyack, N.Y. At the time, Rosenberg was already a suspect in the 1979 New Jersey jailbreak of Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army leader who had been convicted of murdering New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster. Chesimard fled the country and was given asylum by Fidel Castro\u2019s Communist regime in Cuba, where she has lived ever since.<\/p>\n

In robbing the Brinks truck, the terrorists shot at the security guards, murdering one of them, Peter Paige. In a firefight with Nyack police while trying to escape, they killed Sergeant Edward O\u2019Grady and Officer Waverly Brown \u2014 the latter a Korean War veteran who had joined the force in 1966, the first African American to serve in Nyack\u2019s police department. Rosenberg went on the lam, finally captured three years later in possession of over 700 pounds of explosives she and her fellow radicals were planning to use in additional mayhem. A federal judge in New Jersey sentenced her to 58 years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Boudin and Gilbert had left their 14-month-old son, Chesa, with a sitter in order to participate in the Brinks heist. But unlike Rosenberg, they were captured right after the bloody shootouts. Boudin was sentenced to a minimum 20 years\u2019 imprisonment (with a maximum life sentence), and Gilbert to 75 years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n

With his parents in custody, young Chesa Boudin was raised by their confederates, Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Like Ayers, Dohrn was a Weather Underground leader who became an academic after eluding significant prosecution for their bombings and mass-murder conspiracies \u2014 though she did do a short stint of jail time for contempt after defying a grand-jury subpoena to testify about Rosenberg.<\/p>\n

In addition to his American academic work, Ayers became a supporter of the late Communist dictator Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s education programs in Venezuela. There, in a 2006 speech with the strongman looking on, Ayers proclaimed, \u201cTeaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions small and large.\u00a0La educaci\u00f3n es revoluci\u00f3n!<\/em>\u201d Later, Chesa Boudin would follow in Ayers\u2019s footsteps, working as a translator and think-tank researcher for Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Chicago, Ayers and Dohrn seamlessly became prominent in Democratic Party politics. At their Hyde Park home in 1995, they held a coming-out party for an ambitious political unknown, a community organizer named Barack Obama. Two years later,\u00a0the future president breathlessly endorsed Ayers\u2019s polemic,\u00a0A Kind and Just Parent?<\/em><\/a>, as a \u201csearing and timely account.\u201d The book is an indictment of the U.S. criminal-justice system, which Ayers likens to South Africa under apartheid.\u00a0As Stanley Kurtz has recounted<\/a>, Ayers helped pave Obama\u2019s way into the radical Left\u2019s extensive fundraising networks; the two collaborated as board members of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, doling out more than $100 million to community organizers and education \u201creformers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Susan Rosenberg\u2019s terrorism sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton in 2001, part of the scandalous array of clemency grants on his last day in office. (I was then a senior federal prosecutor and had just spent months\u00a0successfully arguing against her release<\/a>.) Instantly, she was offered teaching positions at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and, later, Hamilton College, though protests by parents and alumni forced the first to be short-lived and the second declined.<\/p>\n

Not to worry, though. By 2020, she was recruited to become vice-chair of the Board of Directors at Thousand Currents, after years as an \u201cactivist\u201d in the thriving fields of criminal-justice \u201creform\u201d and prisoners\u2019 rights. (In the media-Democrat complex and on the campus, former terrorists who\u2019ve found new ways to march the revolution through our institutions are transmogrified into \u201csocial-justice activists\u201d). Like the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Thousand Currents is a grant-making foundation of the radical Left, similarly tapped into its fundraising networks \u2014 such groups as the\u00a0W. K. Kellogg Foundation<\/a>\u00a0(a deep-pocketed non-profit that promotes racial causes and also supports the Tides Foundation and George Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundations, among other heavyweight donor organizations) and the\u00a0NoVo Foundation<\/a>\u00a0(funded and controlled by the Buffett family).<\/p>\n

Currently, Thousand Currents\u2019 signal project is Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n

The principal organizational framework for BLM is the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, run by three women: Opal Tometti, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors \u2014 the last of whom, in a 2015 interview,\u00a0observed<\/a>, \u201cMyself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since George Floyd\u2019s killing by Minneapolis police in late May, BLM has been flooded with donations. Its operations are opaque, however, and it has not qualified for non-profit status. To navigate around this inconvenience, the BLM Global Network Foundation is sponsored by Thousand Currents, which has non-profit status \u2014 meaning donors can make tax-deductible contributions to Thousand Currents, which, in turn, supports BLM. The arrangement appears to trace back to 2016, when the Kellogg Foundation provided Thousand Currents with $900,000 for \u201cbuilding the\u00a0infrastructure and capacity of the national #BlackLivesMatter<\/a>\u00a0to support and strengthen their local chapters\u2019 organizing capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Rosenberg, Kathy Boudin has landed on her feet. David Gilbert remains in custody serving his murder sentences (though, as his\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0bio indicates, he has achieved the coveted \u201cactivist\u201d status), but Boudin was granted parole in 2003. I know you\u2019ll be stunned to learn that Columbia University quickly rolled out the red carpet for her to pursue a doctorate at Teachers College. She is now not only an adjunct professor at Columbia\u2019s School of Social Work, but also a co-founder and co-director of its, yes, \u201cCenter for Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chesa Boudin, the son of Boudin and Gilbert raised by Ayers and Dohrn, is a rising political star. Just 39, he has authored the memoir\u00a0Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America<\/em>, studied at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, gotten a law degree from Yale, completed a stint in a big-city public defender\u2019s office, and, just last year, been elected that city\u2019s chief prosecutor \u2014\u00a0\u00a0district attorney<\/a>\u00a0for San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Boudin\u2019s candidacy was backed by the Left\u2019s financial network, BLM, and such luminaries as Communist icon Angela Davis and Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), the avowed socialist, who appears to be the most influential supporter of the Joe Biden presidential campaign. At the victory party the night of Boudin\u2019s election, ecstatic supporters chanted \u201cF*** POA!\u201d (i.e., the Police Officers Association). He had run on a platform of ending what he sees as undue law-enforcement focus on people of color, thwarting federal action against \u201cundocumented\u201d immigrants, and prioritizing investigations\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 not\u00a0by<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the police.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s making good on these promises. For example, he has stopped bringing charges that include a sentencing enhancement California\u2019s legislature enacted to curb gang violence, fretting that it is disproportionately applied to people of color.<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks ago, moreover, he announced a\u00a0new initiative<\/a>: The district attorney\u2019s office will no longer charge cases that rely on information from police officers said to have engaged in misconduct \u2014 including excessive force or racial bias. Of course, while police must on occasion use superior force in order to subdue criminals, we\u2019ve seen in recent months that\u00a0any<\/em>\u00a0law-enforcement use of force is now liable to be condemned as excessive. And racial bias, even in the absence of proof of conscious discrimination, is claimed to be \u201cunconscious\u201d; it is derived from statistical voodoo that scrutinizes the race and ethnicity of suspects in police encounters while studiously ignoring the offensive behavior that may have prompted police action. Boudin explained that his office has established a \u201cTrial Integrity Unit,\u201d which is compiling a list of cops as to whom there have been misconduct claims. The list is to be updated regularly.<\/p>\n

That is, it is an ongoing, open-ended investigation of the police department, for the benefit of criminals.<\/p>\n

The goals of the revolution have never changed. It has simply airbrushed its terrorist leaders into prominent public scholars and \u201cactivists\u201d with a passion for \u201cchange\u201d and \u201cjustice.\u201d The revolution has lots of money, organization, control of the schools, support from one of the nation\u2019s two major political parties, and the media megaphone. That is why the revolution is winning. The 1960s never ended, they just paved the way for today.<\/p>\n

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