When is it cool to bomb a courthouse?

When is it cool to bomb a courthouse?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/when_is_it_cool_to_bomb_a_cour.html

Lona Manning
November 20, 2009

Now New Yorkers face the hugely expensive and dangerous prospect of
putting radicals on trial in the heart of Manhattan. And as many have
pointed out, the trials bring the risk of terror attacks. Yes, New
Yorkers have been here before -- and not just with the 1993 Twin
Towers bombing trial.

In an earlier wave of mass terrorism, Italian anarchists set off a
bombing campaign across the United States. In September 1920, angered
over the arrest of their compatriots Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo
Vanzetti, the anarchists set off a huge explosion on Wall Street,
killing 31 people. Sacco and Vanzetti became a cause celebre for the Left.

Intimidation and terrorism to pervert the course of justice was also
a favorite tactic of the radical left during the 1970's whenever one
of their peers was on trial.

Once upon a time, Black Panthers were an intimidating presence at
Panther trials in New York and California. (More recently, the
Department of Justice declined to prosecute the New Black Panthers
for intimidating voters in Philadelphia. And of course our current
Secretary of State helped defend Black Panthers charged with torture
and murder.)

In April 1976, the United Freedom Front dynamited the Suffolk County
courthouse, seriously injuring one Edmund Nairine. Although Nairine
is black, this bombing does not live in infamy like the Birmingham
Church Bombings, because the perpetrators were Marxists, not rednecks.

H. Rapp Brown (now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) was facing
charges of incitement to riot in March 1970 when leftist radicals
bombed the Dorchester County Maryland courthouse. The courthouse in
Bel Air was also targeted, but the leftists bringing the bomb to the
courthouse died when the bomb exploded prematurely in their car.

On October 11, 1970, the New York Times reported, "The Urban
Guerrilla Takes a Heavy Toll:"

"Between January, 1969 and April of this year [1970], 4,330 bombs
were exploded in buildings and public places in the United States --
one even in the New York City Police Department headquarters -- and
another 1,174 attempted bombings were forestalled either because the
devices were discovered and disarmed or failed to work. No one knows
how many were planted by the urban guerrillas -- groups identified by
the authorities as the Weathermen and the Black Panthers -- but
guerrilla leaders have claimed credit for many of the bombings and
other acts of terror."

It's of more than historical interest to point out that President
Obama has personal and business ties with the leading radicals from
the 1970's. Radicals who, far from being shunned for their actions,
enjoy prestigious positions in academia.

In his memoir, Fugitive Days, former Weather leader Bill Ayers
boasted of participating in some of these bombing campaigns. The
Weathermen also bombed a courthouse in Queens.

They tried to kill the judge presiding over the Panther 21 case in
New York, along with his family.

As Deroy Murdock asked during the 2008 presidential campaign:

"Obama today calls Ayers' behavior "detestable acts." But what did
Ayers and Dohrn see in Obama? What inspired these unrepentant,
hard-Left bomb throwers to hand the chairmanship of Ayers' foundation
and then share their home and friends with the charismatic
then-35-year-old whose current 95.5 percent Left-wing vote record
made him The National Journal's "Most Liberal Senator In 2007?"

The difference between Islamic Jihadists and the Weatherman is not
one of tactics, but of motivation, as I've noted before.

The 9/11 defendants would be well advised to renounce Islamic Jihad
and embrace Marxism. Then instead of being executed, they might end
up teaching at a community college, or serving on the board of the
American Civil Liberties Union. Note well the dreamy, soulful brown
eyes of one of the accused, Ramzi Binshalibh. When he gives his
testimony about the atrocities of the Bush/Cheney regime, the old
70's Marxists will find nothing much with which to disagree.

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