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Graying ‘60s radicals like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are seeing promise in the Occupy Wall Street movement and have come out of retirement to lend their support and advice.
Ayers, whose Weather Underground waged a terrorist campaign across the country during the late 1960s and early 1970s, was spotted in Chicago last week lending his revolutionary support to Occupy Chicago.
The gray-haired Marxist revolutionary went on to tell the protesters that they didn’t need to worry about following the law after being asked about the mayor of Atlanta’s decree that the Occupy movement protesters could stay for three more weeks as long as “it’s lawful.”
The Occupy Wall Street movement has already shown flagrant disregard for the law in places such as the nation’s capital where protesters have setup camps in McPherson Square and in Freedom Square in violation of the law, according to veteran investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid.
“What I envision is a real revolution with the masses really transforming themselves,” Ayers said, responding to a question from a protester whether the Occupy movement should turn to violence. “That’s going to require a hell of a lot more than turning your gun against some other guy’s gun.
“It’s really about transformation in the head, transformation in the heart and transformation in the street.”
And Ayers’s former wife Bernardine Dohrn, who was responsible for a 1970 bombing that killed a San Francisco police officer, has similarly praised the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“Smart, savvy, horizontal, participatory, resisting leaders, spokespeople, and demands, growing, listening, innovative and zesty. I’m in!” Dohrn is quoted as having said in an interview posted on Ayers’s website.
Former Weather Underground FBI informant Larry Grathwohl sees a potentially sinister perfect storm coalescing between Ayers’s organizing abilities and the billions of dollars that George Soros has poured into the groups supporting the movement.
Grathwohl warns the Occupy Wall Street movement is better organized and better funded than the ‘60s radicals were. Plus they enjoy the backing of the president of the United States in the pursuit of their radical aims which makes them even more dangerous.
Occupy Wall Street has the same goal as every previous radical communist movement - collapsing the capitalist system and placing choices over who wins and who loses into the hands of unelected bureaucrats who will pick the winners and the losers while disenfranchising everyone else.
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