Weather Underground Bombs the Capitol, Pentagon, and State Department

On March 1, 1971 a bomb exploded in the Capitol building in Washington D.C. Members of the Weather Underground claimed responsibility for the terrorist act. The group claimed it was in protest of the government's involvement in the country of Laos.

On May 19, 1972 a bomb went off in the Pentagon . The Weathermen said it was in celebration of Ho Chi Minh's birthday (a North Vietnamese communist revolutionary).

On January 29, 1975 the Weathermen set off a bomb in the Department of State's building. The bombing was supposedly in protest of America's support for South Vietnam and Cambodia. On the same day another bomb was set to go off in a federal building in Oakland, California.

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[arttoegemann]

Ninnies crying Communism did not read the caption to the video: these bombings were in protest, opposition and objection to the US war with Vietnam. Any and all discourse on this subject must be adjusted accordingly.

And that protest, opposition, objection PREVAILED: don't forget that, even though there were no "Nuremburg" trials.

Any and all witless whores trying to do here what they tried to do in Vietnam should paraded thru the media, tried, convicted and incarcerated for life, no appeal.

[BradNC11175]

@nocturnezero Any unneccessary death by unneccessary acts of violence are tragic which is why groups such as the Weathermen, RNA, Ku Klux Klan, ELF, Bloods, Crips, MS13 &Mafia should all be treated as criminal threats and/or terrorists and all out war by government & law enforcement upon them should be waged. One is no better than the other there.

[nocturnezero]

@BradNC11175 Tragic deaths.

[BradNC11175]

@nocturnezero They aided & abetted black militants in Republic of New Afrika in robbing banks to secure funds to support their cause. RNA (a seditious organization according to the FBI) was trying to form a nation within US borders: S. Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana. Weathermen drove get away cars for RNA bank robbers where in one case 2 police officers were killed by RNA members. Weathermen were violent radicals intent on over throw of the US government.

[nocturnezero]

@BradNC11175 What would give you the idea that I think killing cops is justifiable? I never said anything even remotely of the sort. I said they're not civilians, which is just true. It's also useful to remember they are only accused of killing one cop, a charge which has never been confirmed.

[nocturnezero]

@BradNC11175 What does the legality have to do with the danger to human life? The Weatherman took very impressive measures to empty the Pentagon before the bomb went off. Besides the fact that the bomb was designed to detonate after it hadn't detected motion for a certain amount of time, they called in a bomb threat to empty the building. When did I say killing cops was justifiable? I think it's very much immoral.

[BradNC11175]

@nocturnezero First off dip shit demolitions workers are professionals experts that know exactly what they are doing. Second, what demolition workers do is 100% legal. Third when they demolish a building it is a vacant & empty building and they employ every measure possible to make sure a building is emptied and clear before they demolish it. None of the above can be said about your sorry ass pinko nutjob heros of the Weather Underground. If these pieces of shit kill cops it's 100% justifiable?

[nocturnezero]

@BradNC11175 Demolition workers blow things up. Is that overtly dangerous to human life?

Police officers hardly qualify as civilians, no more than soldiers.

[BradNC11175]

@nocturnezero I wouldn't care if they tried the Weathermen in the 1970s it lead to hangings. They were communists actively advocating the over throw of the US government. The Weathermen actively engaged in criminal activities with militant black groups such as the Black Panthers & Republic of New Afrika and yes they did kill police officers or were involved with groups that did. Your full of shit, the only fool proof way of avoiding killing people in a bombing is to not blow things up.

[nocturnezero]

@BradNC11175 We're not in the 1970s. We're using the term in the 21st century. We could use other US legal definitions, but most of them are much the same. Would you rather we use a more recent definition or one applied before 1971? I've already explained why the Weathermen actions were not overtly dangerous to human life. They took serious precautions and none of their attacks killed or injured anybody.