The Weather Underground as Third Wave Terrorism

The Weather Underground as Third Wave Terrorism

Introduction

Weather underground was a united state radical left military organization. The young citizens of America used Weather underground as a sign of the anger they felt, because their presence in Vietnam was denied. The weather underground was basically known as Weather Underground Organization (WUO), this organization was well known during the 1960s and 1970s because during this period, it was very active and it had gone all over the headlines because it had brought the focus and attention of the United States. The Weather Underground Organization was established and founded in the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. This organization included the national governance of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and all those people that encouraged them and supported them in the early 1969.

The anger of the students continued getting fierce, and this resulted for in them going into the streets to demonstrate, so that their problem could be heard and also solved. A large number of the students continued in sighting their student mates, the number of people who went to demonstrate became so large. This started to interfere with the operations of the country, they started becoming aggressive with the police, and this led to street battles. The Chicago police had to undergo a tough time in maintaining the peace, so they had to use force during the street battles, which led to injuries of students. The WUO made a report that the traditional political protests were not enough and sufficient to end the battle, so they came to the conclusion that they would apply the underground guerrilla method. In 1974, the Weather Underground Organization decided to come up with a new political ambition, so they created a revolutionary party mainly to overthrow what was recognized as the American imperialism.

Weather underground

The Revolutionary Youth movement (RYM) was heavily supported by the people, and this made the Weather Underground Movement too rapidly grow, and gaining momentum to strive in overthrowing the American Imperialism. The organization derived its name from the famous lyrics of Bob Dylan, “you don’t need a weatherman to know the direction of the wind,” from the song “subterranean Homesick Blues” (1965). In the Student Democratic Society (SDS) convention, Dylan was the title of the papers that were supplied. The Weather underground, after discussing, they saw that still, it was not possible to overthrow the American Imperialism alone, so they came up with a solution which was to make allies with other movements to make it easier. The movements which they made allies included the White Fighting Force, the Black Liberation Movement, and other radical movements that are existing during that period.

The making of allies with other radical movements powered the spirits of the weather underground movement and the ability to overpower or to over through the American Imperialism. The movement’s superiority and strength started to bring fear in the United States, and therefore, the FBI recognized and classified this movement as the domestic terrorist group. The revolutionary position of the weather underground movement continued making FBI fear because they had allied with the Black power, and still, they were opposed to the Vietnam War. They started organizing domestic attacks such as breaking of jails, and they broke a prison and rescued. “Declaration of state war” was announced by the movement, under the name “Weather Underground Movement” with the government of the United States of America in 1970.

Immediately Weather Underground Movement declared a state war; the group went further in organizing more attacks. In the 1970s, the movement started a campaign that was about a bomb, and so they went further by plotting in bombing some of the government buildings, several banks, military barracks, and US Capitol. Some bombing areas were identified using the evacuation threats, along with the warnings showing specific matters why the place could be targeted. They described their movement information as clandestine revolutionary cell, for the movement to maintain secrets and important information, they used to disavowal their leaders in maintaining monogamous relationships and in order to strengthen their connection and increase the bonds they used LSD.

The United States government ensured that the Americans were aware of the places that were being targeted by the weather underground waved as terrorists and ensuring they are evacuated around those places. The movement made some failures and success; for instance, three of their members died because of a bomb that they were trying to build in Greenwich Village townhouse exploded. The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) sees that since no one from their movement has ever been killed during their terrorist attack as an achievement, without mentioning their successful jailbreak of Timothy. The never short-changing fierce debates which resulted in underpinning the strategies of Weather, they will definitely demise results as much as contradictions of its politics. The other success of the weather underground is that they have managed to make the FBI focus on them, and injecting fear to them and the whole of the country.

The weather underground was a very small movement that contained very few people, but it was feared all over the United States because of its attacks, they referred to the movement as notorious bombers and cruel revolutionaries. They organized various attacks that killed so many innocent people (Mark R., 2001), who was the former member of the weather underground, admitted that the main aim of this group was to target people prior. The San Francisco police department park station was bombed by the weather underground, using a pipe bomb that was packed with dynamites and nails. One soldier died in that explosion while eight others were wounded by shrapnel. After the investigation was done, it was concluded that a member of the black liberation movement was responsible, and the WUO was affiliated. (Kathy, Judith & David, 2001) after the dissolution of the weather underground, these three members joined a radical movement named communist organization that assisted the black liberation army robbers to still a Brinks armored track, and they run away with $ 1.6M.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the WUO held a meeting involving all the radical movements called the ‘hard times.’ This is because the organization was still disintegrating even after there was a change in the legal status, so it wanted to create a wall for the movements. The conference, however, did not turn as expected, the black liberation movement accused the WUO and prairie fire committee of reducing they work in the organization because they were black, and the conference separated them even more. In (November 1965) the WUO became disorderly because five of its members were arrested. It was known that the FBI agents (Richard J, Gianotti &William D., 1997) were working with them, this led to making the WUO beating the FBI and losing the Revolution (Eckstain, 2016) and after the supreme court, they lost their jobs. Finally, one member of the weather underground changed and educates people to stay away from such movements since he is being eaten by his mixed feelings, guilt, and shame.

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