But the demonstrations, riots, and crimes/bombings/attacks on the left are usually remembered through the mist of nostalgia.
Here is an article by a friend/mentor (and ghostwriter of his biography?) of President Obama that sort of disappeared into the memory hole.
New York Times fluffy article about his time as a student radical.
''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.''
italics mine.
Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.
sounds like he made a lot of money somewhere. Crime pays for rich radicals (but not so much for the poor guys who end up in jail).
The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner, the apparently intense interest in other people, that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement.
Ah yes. Charismatic. Lots of sociopaths and narcissists are charming.
But that puff piece article in the NYTimes and other big shot media doted on his stories.
And when was that article published?
In the NYTimes early morning ediction, on Sept 11 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks.
he claims he never killed anyone, but the San Francisco police union. begs to differ
and a lot of other radicals from those days are presented as heroes in stories and the innocent Ayers and his cohorts in revolution usually minimize the stories of those they harm.
Ayers was never charge in the bank robbery by his fellow travelers, that resulted in the death of Peter Paige who was driving the bank truck, and it is almost hard to find the names of the two police officers they killed escsaping... Officer O'Grady and Waverly Brown, were merciful when the apprehended the suspects, and didn't shoot the nice lady on sight when they stopped her, and this hesitation resulted in her hidden collegues to murder them after they had lowered their guns....
And I was living in Minnesota at the time and remember when the left lamented the jailing of another radical lady who was peacefully living in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis so they implied she shouldn't be prosecuted for crimes many years earlier because she was a good person.
Well, as Jesse Ventura sarcastically pointed out: she was not a good person, because she robbed a bank and murdered an innocent nurse who was merely standing there waiting to deposit money.
The group almost got away with it, but Mrs. Opsahl's son kept the case alive, .
notice they never felt guilty when they thought they got away with it, but after they were caught, they said they were sorry.
Well, duh.
Just wait awhile, and the political assassin and those who helped him murder Mr. Kirk will be seen as heroes.
Sigh.
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