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anyone else have a major crush on Bernadine Dohrn?


circa 1970, that is.

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No but her sister was pretty *groovy*

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how can you not? i would of totaly joined just because of the free sex with her. although seeeing her circa 2002 does make it kinda strange...

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She looked good in a miniskirt.

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Yes, she was a doll! There was another girl back then (a blond, I believe) who was a member of the Weather Underground who was shown in the film very briefly and she was really cute herself. Does anyone know what her name is?

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"There was another girl back then (a blond, I believe) who was a member of the Weather Underground who was shown in the film very briefly and she was really cute herself. Does anyone know what her name is?"


Cathy Wilkerson.

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As a person who lived through the truly excruciating period depicted in this excellent film, I have to guffaw over the comments on this particular thread.

The Weather Underground people, including Dohrn, were engaged in an epic struggle (or so it seemed at the time) to find justice in the soul-destroying morass of capitalist exploitation. And you dolts are talking about how hot Bernadine was in 1970.

Why do I get the impression that the scribblers on this thread are mindless neo-Yuppie i-Phone huggers who think an act of revolution is returning an item to the Gap?

For the record, Bernadine Dohrn is STILL hot. And still very brainy.

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Groggo, I loved your post. I would have written the same thing only you wrote it first. These posts are shallow and sexist, especially the dude who said he would have joined for the free sex. He had no idea what was demanded of those who belonged.

For the record, Bernadine Dohrn is STILL hot. And still very brainy.


Yes.

Terry
Your soul and your body are your own, and yours to do with as you wish.

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Thanks for your comment, Victorias Secret. I had forgotten about that post. Looking back at the posts for the documentary, I found myself getting depressed. It's a new world in which we live, or so it seems.

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Hell yes. She looks great and even better when she's talking *beep*

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She used her looks and sexuality to wend her way thru the counter-culture scene. She should be in prison to this day!

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"She used her looks and sexuality to wend her way thru the counter-culture scene. She should be in prison to this day!"
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Say, what do you use your obsese, toothless trailer-trash looks for? To wind your way through the cast of extras on Cops?

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You are obviously a kid with no idea of what or whom you are speaking. It's sad because you immature kids are idolizing these 60's spoiled brats who adopted an immoral lifestyle, promoted anarchy and chaos, and then got off scott-free from any legal punishment.

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"You are obviously a kid with no idea of what or whom you are speaking. It's sad because you immature kids are idolizing these 60's spoiled brats who adopted an immoral lifestyle, promoted anarchy and chaos, and then got off scott-free from any legal punishment."
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Speaking of people who speak with great ignorance, you might try taking a look in the mirror. After that, try learning about the reasons why the WU actually got off scot-free. You'll find that our illustrious government at that time, just like now actually, was breaking their VERY OWN laws in accruing evidence against them. Ponder that a while before you blubber like an idiot about people who were supposedly "promoting anarchy," considering that our government breaks the law and lies to our faces each and every day.

Wait...let me guess. You're one of the many lemmings who's cool with that fact, right grandma?

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You need to go live in another country...
These people were terrorists, whose money and sharp lawyers got them off on a technicality. As terrorists, the govt had every right to use any means possible to investigate them.

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"You need to go live in another country...
These people were terrorists, whose money and sharp lawyers got them off on a technicality. As terrorists, the govt had every right to use any means possible to investigate them."
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Uhhh...no. You're the idiot, because you're transparently unaware that one of the cornerstone features of the United States of America is that the government does NOT have "every right to use any means possible" to investigate people. Time for you to go back to grade school.

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Technically the legality used in pursuing the Weather Underground should have been those laws established in the Reconstruction period in regards to the Confederates. The Weather Underground got off in being defined as criminals. They technically declared war on the government and citizens of the US, and actively sought to overthrow both. That makes them rebels, not criminals, so the laws and precedents governing criminal justice and civilian courts arguably shouldn't have applied but those precedents in dealing with rebels instead.

Even more so by the 70s we were signatories of the Geneva Convention, and the legal definitions therein regarding non-uniformed combatants would put them into the category of Spies and Saboteurs. Spies and Saboteurs under the Geneva Convention don't even have a right to a trial at all and may be summarily executed upon capture. Of course, I wouldn't have supported such a thing, but if you really wanted to dig into the legality of how the WU got off for their crimes, it was definitely a technicality.

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They got off because of government misconduct. That's not a technicality. If law enforcement can't obey the law, how can they expect regular citizens to obey?

Terry
Your soul and your body are your own, and yours to do with as you wish.

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