Michelle Malkin has the vomit-inducing details
Bleeding-heart liberal Robert Redford is already the subject of early Oscar buzz. His much-hyped new film glamorizing the lives of Weather Underground domestic terrorists, “The Company You Keep,” will be released in the U.S. next week. But peace-loving moviegoers should save their money and take a stand. […]
Tinseltown cheerleaders can’t stop gushing about Redford’s paean to gun-toting progressives, of course. Variety called the flick an “unabashedly heartfelt but competent tribute to 1960s idealism.” The entertainment daily effused: “There is something undeniably compelling, perhaps even romantic, about America’s ’60s radicals and the compromises they did or didn’t make.” One of the film executives promoting the Weather Underground movie slavered: “This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller about real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government.”
Defending their country’s ideals against their government? Are they insane? The Weather Underground, like most of the radical leftwing groups of the 60’s were avowed Communists who dismissed the legitimacy of America root and branch. Indeed, the Weathermen’s stated goal was world communism
The thesis of Weatherman theory, as expounded in its founding document, “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows”, was that “the main struggle going on in the world today is between U.S. imperialism and the national liberation struggles against it”,[23] based on Lenin’s theory of imperialism, first expounded in 1916 in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. In Weatherman theory “oppressed peoples” are the creators of the wealth of empire, “and it is to them that it belongs.” “The goal of revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interest of the oppressed peoples of the world.” “The goal is the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism”
I was only in high school at the time, but the radicalism of the SDS and the terrorism of the Weathermen was covered and discussed extensively even into high schools. To speak to anyone caught up in the cult-like religious fervor of student revolutionaries was to witness something very frightening — the complete closing of a mind coupled with an angry paranoia towards anyone who dared to question The Revolution.
It made the facts of the genocidal bloodbaths that define the success of communist revolutions, from the USSR to Mao to Pol Pot, very real.
And it is quite disturbing that these unrepentant thugs are feted, celebrated and comfortably burrowed into academia.
Enough.