Will the Boston bombers be hired by Columbia University?

[donkhater]

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.


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[KChiefer]

Stay classy NYP.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by KChiefer

Stay classy NYP.

Stay classy, KChiefer.

[blaise]

Originally Posted by KChiefer

Stay classy NYP.

Yeah, treat that convicted bomb conspirator with more respect.

[Prison Bitch]

This is a very fair question to ask of COlumbia right now. They can't simply hide from this, nor can they cry foul.

[alpha_omega]

Shhhhhhhhhh!

[WhawhaWhat]

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.

[KChiefer]

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.

[blaise]

Originally Posted by KChiefer

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.

The author of the piece circulated the photos? He must be busy.

And so many smilies. That a tribute to Frankie or something?

[KChiefer]

Originally Posted by blaise

The author of the piece circulated the photos? He must be busy.

And so many smilies. That a tribute to Frankie or something?

Did he? I don't know. But maybe his next write-up should be about how reckless his own company is...

[blaise]

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?

[blaise]

Originally Posted by KChiefer

Did he? I don't know. But maybe his next write-up should be about how reckless his own company is...

Why would he need to do that? Does that somehow influence the point he's making?

[blaise]

Every time the Times prints a story they should probably mention Jayson Blair in the article, just so KChiefer can be happy.

[KChiefer]

Originally Posted by blaise

Why would he need to do that? Does that somehow influence the point he's making?

Well here he's shining a light on something he perceives as shameful. A expose on the dumbass things the post does should be easy for him with all the inside info ya know.

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.

[KChiefer]

Originally Posted by blaise

Every time the Times prints a story they should probably mention Jayson Blair in the article, just so KChiefer can be happy.

What's the big hard-on you have for me about bro?