Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
There's a crazy homeless guy who hangs out in front of my post office. I'm not sure, exactly, what his story is, but I know he's telling it all day, to anyone who'll listen. It's the same story every day, and sometimes it's fun for me to time my arrival -- I go to the post office every couple of days; it's where I get my mail -- to a certain part or phrase in his daily monologue. He's that consistent.
At around 11:15AM, if I time it right, I'll hear: "....that's right that's right, people don't understand the way you make the cars, you make the cars, then you say to me, what do you say to me....."
If I get there late, at 5PM or so, I'll hear: "....he doesn't want the children around the place because it's the TV man, see, the TV man, are you listening to me because I only want to say this once...."
It isn't funny, of course. It's sad. Tragic. But when I saw the following clip -- hat tip to Gateway Pundit, via Verum Serum -- of unrepentant terrorist, armed robber, and Obama pal Bernadine Dohrn I thought two things. First: this has got to be the best example of the left-wing double standard ever. Crazies on the right get pilloried and shunned. Crazies on the left get tenured positions at Northwestern. And second, wow, does she ever remind me of the crazy homeless guy at the post office: same story all day.
This has to be seen to be believed:
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Oct '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
This is a perfect example of the narrative of the left, spoken of by Andrew in a previous post. Their "truth" is "the truth". Through their narrative they put into practice the idea that a lie often repeated gains credibility.
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Absolutely jaw-dropping. Delusional. Watching this woman is like falling into the rabbit hole. The Tea Party is an armed and dangerous group that wants to take over the country...no that was the Weathermen. The media is all controlled by the right...no that's the left. The woman got off on charges that would have gotten her executed in 9/10ths of the rest of the world. She makes comfortable living doing what she loves - in this case espousing violent overthrow of the government - and she still hates the very country that gives her that freedom. I'm dizzy.
May '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
And yet Denise, I'm guessing that you and Rob know, like and work alongside people in your industry that would find this narrative all perfectly plausible and even likely. Am I wrong?
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
She reminds me of the divination professor, Professor Trelawney, in the Harry Potter movies.
Jun '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Bernadine Dohrn, the woman who gleefully applauded the Tate-La Bianca murders by the Manson clan. Ah yes, I remember her now. She also served as hostess to a budding young community organizer who was running for the Illinois state senate...let's see...what was his name?....hmmm....
Aug '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
She's the Gorgon; madness personified; projection and Delusional Cognitive Disconnect right before your eyes.
What a fascinating specimen of mental illness.
This is a magnificent sign of the times, and more proof that a fault line can exist in human consciousness - two entirely separate worlds - which is unbridgeable, like matter and anti-matter.
Something very big is going to happen.
Aug '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
My political science professor in college (a Brown graduate from the 60s) once said that every revolution eventually has a civil war between the right and left factions of the revolutionaries. Thus, the revolution of 1776 led to the Fort Sumter and the recent unpleasantness.
Fair enough and probably true. It is seems also true then that the revolution of the 1960s, and I doubt anyone here would deny that there was one, is leading now to another civil war. It may be a while yet but I can't help but think it will happen.
River, I think what you describe is tangible and real. Not simply a psychological manifestation. We often suffer under the delusion that "peace" is possible. Peace is only possible after one side has been defeated. That has not happened, yet...
Oct '10
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I am embarassed that my Indian friends were subjected to her. Fortunately, though, what she said was so far removed from reality that the overwhelming majority of Indians who see this will be unable to understand any of it and will rightly conclude that it's delusional nonsense.
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
A "new hard right" with "massive control of media"--for a minute I thought Dohrn was talking about Ricochet. But then she started in on armed racists and I realized she must be talking about this guy.
With most news outlets strategically cropping the image of the Arizona protestor with the unloaded rifle slung over his shoulder, Dohrn may have inadvertently presumed racial animus.
Or perhaps her timing is just off by a decade or so. Dohrn may have had this right-wing armed incident in mind:
Jun '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Good clip to show for Parent's Weekend at Northwestern -- they'd grab their kid and run for the car.
Aug '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
This woman is exhibit #3,785 why the 60s was such a bad decade. It spawned thousands of people just like her who now run academia, the mainstream media, and much of our state, local and federal government.
No wonder this country is so screwed up!
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Trace Urdan
And yet Denise, I'm guessing that you and Rob know, like and work alongside people in your industry that would find this narrative all perfectly plausible and even likely. Am I wrong? · Nov 5 at 11:46am
Nope, you're not wrong.
May '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Diane Ellis, Ed.: She reminds me of the divination professor, Professor Trelawney, in the Harry Potter movies. · Nov 5 at 11:53am
Ms. Ellis, you have done a grave injustice to this fictional character.
In addition to the insanity everyone else has pointed out: how crazy is it for Dohrn to mention the phrase "palling around with terrorists" as proof of her position? Yes, ma'am, that nefarious lie resulted in so much media investigation in 2008.
This is the sort of person who looks out a window, correctly identifies a tree as a tree, and then goes out to describe in great detail a thousand other things which are not there.
Jul '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Nothing more to say. Except that I suppose when one starts life as an idealist whose very self-image is tied to absurd propositions, one either has to eventually part with those premises (a la David Horowitz) or continue to pursue them in more and more unlikely places. Until one day you find yourself down a rabbit-hole, in a land where it all makes sense again. And then the men in white coats come to take you away.
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Patrick, I think that's the hopeful outcome for Dohrn and her ilk. After all, whenever her revolutionary friends succeed, they shoot dead everyone who points out the absurdity of her propositions until everyone convincingly behaves as though she is the sane one. (à la Fidel Castro).
Edited on Nov 5, 2010 at 8:05pmMay '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
That armed "rifleman" above wasn't in Washingon. Is she referring to the 2nd amendment rally in Va. that had nothing to do with Obama, and wasn't in Washington? I guess my question is, does she not know the truth, or does she choose to ignore it?
I dated a very liberal academic for about 6 months recently, and I actually came away with the impression that she had been brainwashed while getting her doctorate... It was sad because she was incredibly smart, yet everything she knew about politics was based on this same crazy rhetoric.
Aug '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
The incredibly smart among us are often the most prone and first to fall into the "rabbit hole", as Patrick describes it. If they are identified as 'very gifted' while young, they're likely to develop an indestructible hubris, to the point of being unteachable except by others with the same lofty - and delusional - self-image.
If they're forced by circumstance or genetics to fend for themselves, without loving parents or guidance, it's likely they'll become sociopathic criminals of great notoriety.
I've been to a number of Mensa meetings where these people are on display, and it's disturbing - to say the least. Really clever and shrewd people of high IQ know how to run emotional and rhetorical rings around most of us.
Aug '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
There are a few subcategories of celebrity in our country that use their wanted posters and time in jail as starred entries in their resumes.
Let's see, that would include Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Bernadine Dohrn.
May '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
Someone pointed out recently (help me, who was it?) that IMAGINING a different, better world (in the John Lennon/Bobby Kennedy sense) is actually very easy and only requires a second-rate mind.
This needs to be repeated again and again: Demonizing the present and idealizing some non-existent world is the work of mediocre fools.
Aug '10
Re: Bernardine Dohrn, Unrepentant Terrorist, Fears the "Armed" Right
What is this "armed" group she speaks of? I wasn't aware that any of the people at Glenn Beck's rally were carrying, or that the city of Washington, D.C. had suspended its firearm regulations for a day. Had folks at the rally been wearing sidearms, I think that's about all we'd have seen in the news--nobody would be looking for signs about Hitler.