Thursday, September 18, 2003

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Stanley Crouch in the NY Daily News opines about a 60'S terrorist who killed three men. She's about to get released. Crouch couldn't stay away from slamming the right for the Black Panthers and other insurgents:

I disagree with those who believe that extremists like Boudin rose on the wings of drugs, rock 'n' roll, birth-control pills and the anti-war demonstrations that some say tore this nation from the world of reason and did away with the respect for authority.

The problem actually started on the right, beginning with Joe McCarthy and the demagogic abuse of power in Washington. In reaction, distrust of government - a basic American attitude - took on a fresh intensity. It increased as the civil rights movement exposed local Southern government as racist, right-wing and ever willing to maintain itself through terrorism and murder.

Fighting against the South's undemocratic laws, the civil rights workers took the same position that abolitionists had during the age of slavery: Laws based in bigotry should not be respected, and anyone who broke them was a hero and a freedom fighter, not a villain.

Those reasonable roots bore mad and tragic fruit on the radical left. By the late '60s, Negro extremists caught up in Marxist fantasies called for the violent overthrow of the U.S. The most well known were the Black Panthers, who often used the slogan "off the pig," which meant "kill the police." They have since become, in the lying conventions of our time, a noble civil rights organization that fell at the hands of the FBI.



This woman is a murderer who killed a black man also. She is a terrorist with her own agenda. I suspect that civil rights were a front for greed.

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