Gothamist: The Weatherman Townhouse Revisited

chris lee

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:01:01 -0500

They felt the US Government had declared war on it's own people by forcefully drafting young people to kill and be killed in an undeclared war.

fleshtone

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:24:26 -0500

@Mr Mel Those aren't "kills". Killing yourself by accident and killing someone else intentionally are two very different things. I see what you're saying, but those deaths are not the same as if people had been killed by the bombs they placed to protest the war. At stake is the context of what the group was about, which, for all its faults, was not killing.

Mr Mel

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:40:24 -0500

Sorry jacque, I didn't know what j/k meant, I just looked it up.

Larry

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:38:09 -0500

BUY AND FLIP!

JacqueMehoff

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:24:18 -0500

I was joking mr. mel see my J/K below. I'm just wondering does the flyover states know that ayers is not black, and does not have an Afro or a black upraised fist. I was surprised that some thought it could be Lou reed's band.

Mr Mel

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:20:54 -0500

how could a black terrorist org afford a place like that? They weren't a black orginization. They were in fact a spin- off of the SDS. The town house was owned by an advertising executive one of whose offspring was a member. From what I remember they were upper middle class rich kids.

Mr Mel

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:14:35 -0500

"The weathermen never killed anybody" What about the 3 people in the house. Members or not they;re just as dead.

fleshtone

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:11:44 -0500

Why the stigma? The weathermen never killed anybody. They even made sure their target buildings were evacuated. I don't advocate violence, but this group (Ayers especially) is not worth talking about, at least in this context. It's still OK to oppose illegal wars, right?

doo

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:04:15 -0500

The Columbia thing was pretty much personally motivated. That's where a large portion of the Weatherman kids became radicals in the first place. Much of their original radicalization had to do with their small-time beefs with the Columbia administration.

spnder

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:53:32 -0500

I remember the first time I walked down that block. My friend and I had heard the Weathermen house was on that block and we were wondering aloud how we'd know which one it was when we saw #18. Yeah, pretty easy to pick out.

JacqueMehoff

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:52:04 -0500

how could a black terrorist org afford a place like that? J/k.

Pull My Finger

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:47:42 -0500

Nice to see where Obamas friends live.

ThisCharmingMan

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:03 -0500

A nice lady from Alaska told me Obama lives here.

bagelman

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:35:16 -0500

why would they want to hit the butler library? there must be better targets than books, even if they're evil imperialist books for inheritors of the ruling class...

quoo

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:31:40 -0500

Since when is 11th street in Soho?