Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: 9/2/70: This Week in History...
From: bpharmon@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:34:05 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1296500333@igc.apc.org>, New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org> writes:
> 
> "OUR ACTIONS WERE DEEMED NECESSARY" -- A CLOSER LOOK AT THE
> MADISON BOMBING"

	Oh joy. Please don't let this be some twisted justification for
violence and bloodshed to "set us free" from the chains of imperialism.


> 
> 	(Editor's note: On Aug. 24, a massive pre-dawn
> explosion destroyed the Army Mathematics Research Center
> [ARMC] on the University of Wisconsin campus, doing an
> estimated $6 million damage. Despite a telephone warning to
> the police, one man was killed in the blast. The AMRC,
> entirely funded by the Army, does the "pure" and "neutral"
> research so important for the deadly work of imperialism.

	Yep. looks like it.

> The following article counters AMRC's claim to the mass
> media that they are not engaged in any "defense" work. It
> also shows how the bombing was no isolated incident but grew
> out of a lengthy campus struggle. A statement released to
> Madison's undergroung paper, _Kaleidoscope_, by the New
> Year's Gang, who claimed responsibility for the bombing,
> points out the clear political nature of the sabatoge.)

	Which of course, justifies the bombing. (not)

 
> 	Due to this secrecy it is impossible to obtain accurate
> and complete information on the nature of AMRC research.
> Nevertheless, the information unearthed indicates that the
> AMRC has played a crucial role in the maintenance and
> protection of the American empire.

	SO you really don't know WHAT research was being done there, eh?



> 	Within a single week during the Christmas holidays, an
> unidentified group, now called the New Year's Gang,
> firebombed an armory housing ROTC offices, attempted to bomb
> ROTC classrooms, ransacked the local draft board, bombed a
> monkey lab suspected of doing nerve gas research, and
> attempted an arial bombing of the nearby Baraboo munitions
> plant with a stolen ROTC plane. The later attempt failed
> when the bombs failed to explode.
> 	The bombers gave ample warning and took credit for the
> acts in messages which declared their supprt for the campus
> anti-imperialist demands.

	....Which of course makes it all perfectly fine, because anyone
connected with the army is a SlObbering g of ImpeRialiSt Hell.



> 	During the second semester, demonstrations against
> General Electric recruiters, the Conspiracy 7 convictions
> and in support of the Spring Moratorium were all linked to
> the attack on AMRC and were accompanied by window-smashing
> and attempts to set fire to the building. By then, newly
> installed plexiglass windows bounced small boulders back at
> the attackers.....

	...Which injured the attackers, therefore all plexiglass manufacturers
should have their houses bombed too.

> 	Several departments, including English, Zoology and
> Genetics, voted for an end to AMRC, and a number of
> biological sciences voluntarily cancelled their own defense
> contracts. At no point did the university respond to the
> demands with anyhting but brutal repression.

	Which, of course, makes any violent acts by the students (or anyone
else) a Moral RIght(tm)

> 
> 	"Today, (24 August) the battle cry against imperialism
> was raised once again, as the mathematics research center of
> the U.S. army was struck by revolutionary cadres of the New
> Years Gang.

	Hooray, no more theoretical calculus!


> 	"The AMRC, a think-tank of Amerikan militarism, was a
> fitting target for such revolutionary violence. As the major
> U.S. army center for solving military mathematical problems,
> it bears full responsibility for amerikan military genocide
> throughout the world. While hiding behind a facade of
> academic "neutrality," the AMRC plays a vital role in doing
> the basic research necessary for the development of heavy
> artillery, conventional and nuclear bombs and missles, guns
> and mobile weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons,
> and much more.

	blah blah -- OUR KILLING IS GOOD BECAUSE THEY WERE KILLERS FIRST!

> 	"Today's (24 August) explosion was the culmination of
> over a year's effort to remove AMRC ominous presence from
> the Wisconsin campus. Previous efforts to even negotiate
> were met with indifference. Such is the response of
> imperialistic authority to public sentiment. Our actions,
> therefore, were deemed necessary, for with every passing
> day, the AMRC takes its toll in mutilated bodies.

	Ergo, we are not murderers?

> 	"We see our achievement as more than just the
> destruction of one building. We see it as part of a world
> wide struggle to defeat amerikan imperialism, that monster
> which is responsible for the starvation and oppression of
> millions over the globe, that monster which is a direct
> outgrowth of corporate capitalism.

	Therefore, we are not murderers and are really nice guys and gals, if,
that is, you are not an Imperialist Pig-Dog of AMerikan Captialism(tm).


> 	"The Vanguard of the Revolution demands the immediate
> release of the Miwaukee 3, the abolition of ROTC, and the
> elimination of male supremacist women's hours on the
> Wisconsin campus. If these demands are not met by October
> 30th, revolutionary measures of an intensity never before
> seen in this country will be taken by our cadres. Open
> warfare, kidnapping of important officials, and even
> assassination will not be ruled out. Although we have sought
> to prevent any physical harm to all people in the past, we
> cannot be responsible for the safety of pigs if our demands
> are not met.			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^	
> 	"Power to the People!"

	Safety of PIgs.  not people, but nasty, smelly, imperialist pigs that
look like people. Therefore we can kill them, torture them, threaten them, ruin
their lives, and cause them and all around them no end of misery, without fear
of reprisal.


> 
> 	The movement has circulated a wallposter at
> supermarkets and near workplaces attempting to explain the
> bombing and pointing out distortions in the mass media. But
> university and government officials have branded the
> saboteurs as insane, deranged anarchists, and newspaper
> headlines have flaunted the word "murderer"--managing to

	Because they ARE murderers! and whether they're insane or just twisted
one cannot tell.


	PLease don't post this cheap, clumsy apology for a bunch of
70's terrorist who are as bad as any IMperialist Pig-Dog(tm).
	
	The solution for violence is more violence.

	BTW,that IS sarcasm you smell!

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