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This week in San Francisco, a small group of activists staged an action of civil disobedience in reaction to the shooting deaths of Charles Blair Hill and Oscar Grant by BART police. They disrupted commuter traffic on the transit system and prompted police to temporarily shut down some stations. This might be considered an act of terrorism, but the greatest fear it instilled was the fear that one of the activists might get hurt or the fear of being late for dinner. The arrest count was astonishing.

Leftist activism today is a very different animal than activism in the late sixties and early seventies. In those days, vandalism was a primary feature of action. The nature of the vandalism became more severe as the activists spiraled into an abyss of frustration and despair. It reached its greatest depth with bank robberies, hijackings, kidnappings, bombings and assassinations. The Left at its worst was a mere shadow of the Right at its greatest glory.

Protesters make me late for dinner.

Discussion of leftist terrorism during the early seventies prompted the question of whether or not neural wave weaponry was used at the time. One of our military participants sternly insisted that it was not possible because the recent timing of the research upon which the weapons technology is based. Another participant pointed out that the current weaponry is a refinement of pre-existing technology. The recent research allows for a greater degree of motor control. The older technology was limited to inducing muscle spasms. This could easily have been developed during the fifties and sixties given the level of radar technology of the times. The more evidence that was put forward for the use of neural wave interference on leftist activists, the more adamant the assertions to the contrary on the part of the military representative. Me thinks ye doth protest too much.

The violence of leftist extremists during the seventies did not promote the cause of progress. Instead, it fed the beast that it purported to oppose. It inspired a resurgence in retrograde thought and activity. It turned people off to the idea of moving forward and promoted a bunker brain mindset in the rank and file of society. One could argue that leftist violence is actually a manifestation of right wing pollution in the minds of progressive thinkers.

As for the more recent BART police atrocity, the perpetrator was clearly poorly trained, inept and cowardly. He used deadly force in a scenario that called for a cooler head. I did not participate in the protest action, but I agree with their moral outrage.

What do you think? Does leftist terrorism exist, or is it reactionary?

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Yes, these days the only really violent ones are the eco-terrorists who do things like hostage-taking and firebombing research labs. 1991 pretty much killed communism dead, though in 30 years we'll probably see commie relics like the periodic busts of latter-day fascist terrorists before they kill people in great numbers.

Domestic terrorism if anything in the USA has been a bipartisan thing. Right-Wingers just happen to be the ones who intend to kill people as opposed to blowing shit up. The worst acts of domestic terrorism, at Harper's Ferry, in Times Square, they have been left-wing. Domestic terrorism is not something either side has a monopoly on. There will always be murderous sonsobitches who try to make names for themselves in the OBL fashion, some of whom are US citizens doing that to other US citizens.

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