http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4412
by James Edwards
Political Cesspool
Aaron Klein at WorldNetDaily reports that yet another “former” terrorist is http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4415. This time it’s Mark Rudd, one of the founders of the terrorist Weather Underground group:
“Among the signatories and endorsers to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4421 for the presidential candidate.
“Rudd originally was a top member of the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, leading the famed 1968 Columbia University strikes in which hundreds of students seized several university buildings. He also served as spokesman for the strikes, attracting international media attention.
“In 1968, Rudd traveled with the SDS to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4470 and by Cuban-style revolution. When he returned to the U.S., Rudd advocated for Columbia’s chapter of the SDS to carry out militant, aggressive action, but he was turned down.
“A bio published on his own website explains Rudd worked to form the Weathermen as a radical alternative to the SDS and for white Americans to eject their “white skin privilege” and begin “armed struggle” against the U.S. government.”I think Aaron Klein meant to say “reject” white skin privilege. If you go to Rudd’s own bio page, that’s what he says – the Weather Underground was formed because of the need for white people to “reject their white skin privilege” and move beyond just opposing the Viet Nam war and begin an “armed struggle” against the white establishment for a full http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4705:
“As he traveled the country, from the fall of 1968 to the summer of 1969, Mark met many other activists in SDS who were thinking along the same lines as he, that SDS could move from anti-war resistance to full scale socialist revolution. By the spring of 1969, an informal national collective, with organizing centers in New York City, Michigan-Ohio, Chicago, and Seattle, had coalesced. This grouping advocated the development of a “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3515 youth movement.” In their theory, SDS needed to move from a middle-class student base to a working-class youth base which would side with Third World people at home and around the world in their struggle against U.S. imperialism. White students would reject their “white skin privilege” and actually begin armed struggle against the U.S. government; this, in turn, would attract broad youth support as the struggle increased, following the Cuban model. This theory became fully articulated in a paper presented to the SDS National Convention in Chicago in June, 1969, authored by a collective of eleven, of which Mark was a member. Its title was “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,” from which Mark’s faction of SDS became known as The Weathermen.”
Oh, and for the record, Mark Rudd’s father was an immigrant from Eastern Europe named Jacov Schmuel Rudnitsky.
I guess Aaron Klein didn’t feel that information was relevant.
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