The Weather Underground (2002)

"In the 1960s and 1970s, the polarization of the political situation of the USA was becoming acute with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being but the most obvious issues. For the youth political movement, the seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of an idealistic faction that want a more extreme approach that the Establishment could not ignore. This faction, called the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government that started with street riots and escalating to bombing government targets. Thorough archival footage and interviews of the veterans of both sides of this conflict, this film covers the resistance movement's campaign of selective violence through this period until changing times and disillusionment brought it to an end while the FBI used unethical and illegal methods to hasten it." -imdb.com
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jim
Posted 28 days ago
violence changes all u *** head look at history
Jon
Posted 30 days ago
Now it works.
mic
Posted 30 days ago
dont worh
cannibalgod70
Posted 398 days ago
Their mistake was in thinking that a little bit of violence would change a lot of people's minds. Overwhelming violence didn't even change the North Vietnamese. In order to sway ordinary citizens of boobtown USA they would have needed to develop a far more efficient system of oppression than that of the reigning oppressor. Worked wonders for Pol Pot and Kim Il Sung - removing all the people who disagree down to the third generation. But there are huge sacrifices in brains and technology that eventually pull the boat in the opposite direction. Not to say, though, that this strategy wouldn't work for the USA. Human animals are abundant and cheap and will probably persevere through any mass extermination policy.