|
![]() |
|
Brilliant!!
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Indiana, USA
Casino cash: $14151
|
Will the Boston bombers be hired by Columbia University?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...7PwFkbO1NheqNL
Tale of two terrorists By JOHN M. MURTAGH Last Updated: 12:46 AM, April 18, 2013 Posted: 11:54 PM, April 17, 2013 Somewhere near Boston early Monday morning, he packed a bomb in a bag. It was by all accounts relatively crude — a pressure cooker, explosives, some wires, ball bearings and nails . . . nails which, hours later, doctors would struggle to remove from the flesh of bleeding victims. His motive is unclear. His intent is not: It was to maximize injury, suffering, pain, trauma and, yes, death. Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be caught, perhaps not. Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be offered a teaching job at Columbia University. Forty-three years ago last month, Kathy Boudin, now a professor at Columbia but then a member of the Weather Underground, escaped an explosion at a bomb factory operated in a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The story is familiar to people of a certain age. Three weeks earlier, Boudin’s Weathermen had firebombed a private home in Upper Manhattan with Molotov cocktails. Their target was my father, a New York state Supreme Court justice. The rest of the family, was presumably, an afterthought. I was 9 at the time, only a year older than the youngest victim in Boston. One of Boudin’s colleagues, Cathy Wilkerson, related in her memoir that the Weathermen were disappointed with the minimal effects of the bombs at my home. They decided to use dynamite the next time and bought a large quantity along with fuses, metal pipes and, yes, nails. The group designated as its next target a dance at an Officer’s Club at Fort Dix, NJ. Despite the misgivings of some, it is reported that Kathy Boudin urged the use of “anti-personnel bombs.” In other words, she wanted to kill people not just damage property. Before they could act, her fellows were killed in the townhouse explosion. The townhouse itself collapsed; Boudin fled. She reappeared over a decade later driving the getaway car for the rag tag mix of Weathermen and Black Panthers who held up a Rockland County bank in 1981, murdering three in the process. Survivors of the ambush along the New York State Thruway recount how Boudin emerged from the driver’s door, arms raised in surrender, asking the police to lower their guns. When they did, her accomplices burst from the back of the van guns blazing. As I said, people of a certain age remember this history. For those that don’t, Robert Redford is kindly about to release a movie recounting the Rockland robbery (albeit relocated to Michigan). By all accounts, the film lionizes the Weather Underground terrorists, Boudin and her accomplices. Perhaps to bring it full circle, Professor Boudin can soon guest-lecture at a film class at Columbia when the Redford movie is screened. Other than the passage of time, one can find no real distinction between the cowardly actions of last Monday’s Boston murderer and the terror carried out by Boudin and her accomplices. Yet today we live in a country where our leading educational institutions see fit to trust our children’s education to murderers and Hollywood sees fit to celebrate terrorists. The Web site of Columbia’s School of Social Work sums up Boudin’s past thus: “Dr. Kathy Boudin has been an educator and counselor with experience in program development since 1964, working within communities with limited resources to solve social problems.” “Since 1964” — that would include the bombing of my house, it would include the anti-personnel devices intended for Fort Dix and it would include the dead policeman on the side of the Thruway in 1981. Maybe, if he is caught, Monday’s bomber can explain that, like Boudin, he was merely working within the community to solve social problems. Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be caught, perhaps not. Perhaps, some day, Monday’s bomber will be offered tenure at Columbia University. Read more: Tale of two terrorists - NYPOST.com http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...#ixzz2QpfEyg7r |
Posts: 3,994
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 |
Fantastic Planeteer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Champaign, IL
Casino cash: $6821
|
Stay classy NYP.
|
Posts: 4,943
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 |
The 23rd Pillar
Join Date: Sep 2002
Casino cash: $19337
|
__________________
![]() “The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.” - Hillary Clinton |
Posts: 92,413
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Plano, TX
Casino cash: $0
|
|
Posts: 22,188
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 |
Where's my WALL?
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Lees summit
Casino cash: $60258
|
This is a very fair question to ask of COlumbia right now. They can't simply hide from this, nor can they cry foul.
|
Posts: 47,663
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#6 |
Supporter
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Liberty
Casino cash: $21451
|
Shhhhhhhhhh!
|
Posts: 11,048
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#7 |
MVP
Join Date: Feb 2013
Casino cash: $31216
|
I bet the author of the column has already heard phone conversations at Columbia that they were getting the bombers office ready as soon as possible.
|
Posts: 10,424
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#8 |
Fantastic Planeteer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Champaign, IL
Casino cash: $6821
|
![]() So today the NYP circulated photos of two guys accusing them of being the suspects when THEY AREN"T THE SUSPECTS!!!! And the NYP wants to lecture an institution about professionalism and justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Posts: 4,943
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#9 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Plano, TX
Casino cash: $0
|
Quote:
And so many smilies. That a tribute to Frankie or something? |
|
Posts: 22,188
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#10 |
Fantastic Planeteer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Champaign, IL
Casino cash: $6821
|
|
Posts: 4,943
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#11 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Plano, TX
Casino cash: $0
|
There's really nothing wrong with the point. She was part of a bombing conspiracy and she now teaches at Columbia. Exactly how would it be different if 25 years down the road they hired someone that conspired in this bombing?
|
Posts: 22,188
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#12 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Plano, TX
Casino cash: $0
|
|
Posts: 22,188
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#13 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Plano, TX
Casino cash: $0
|
Every time the Times prints a story they should probably mention Jayson Blair in the article, just so KChiefer can be happy.
|
Posts: 22,188
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#14 | |
Fantastic Planeteer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Champaign, IL
Casino cash: $6821
|
Quote:
As far as what this guys is blathering about. If the guy(s) that committed the bombing serve their time, yes they should be allowed to seek employment. However, IMO they will be seeking that employment in another life so this is a pretty stupid subject to delve into in the first place. |
|
Posts: 4,943
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#15 |
Fantastic Planeteer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Champaign, IL
Casino cash: $6821
|
|
Posts: 4,943
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|