{"id":2655,"date":"2008-03-02T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2018-08-14T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:45:49","slug":"the-weather-underground-green-siegel-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"(Green <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> Siegel 2003) The Weather Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I\u2019m far too irri\u00adtat\u00aded by this sil\u00adly doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary to ana\u00adlyze it dis\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adate\u00adly.&nbsp;It fool\u00adish\u00adly roman\u00adti\u00adcizes the Weath\u00ader Under\u00adground.&nbsp;Those pompous, arro\u00adgant ass\u00adholes were typ\u00adi\u00adcal exam\u00adples of spoiled-brat rich kids align\u00ading them\u00adselves with evil and mas\u00adquerad\u00ading as \u201coppo\u00adnents\u201d of the Viet\u00adnam War.&nbsp;These were <span class=\"caps\">NOT<\/span> rad\u00adi\u00adcals in any sense.&nbsp;Their ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy was ultra-ortho\u00addox, ultra-con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive, pro-slav\u00adery, and total\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan. <\/span>Today, part\u00adly because of the activ\u00adi\u00adties of these fake \u201crev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adar\u00adies\u201d, the tru\u00adly evil nature of the Viet\u00adnam War has been suc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly obfus\u00adcat\u00aded by its per\u00adpe\u00adtra\u00adtors.&nbsp;These clowns were <span class=\"caps\">NOT<\/span> the oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion to that evil war.&nbsp;Far from it.&nbsp;As the six\u00adties say\u00ading went, you are either part of the prob\u00adlem or you\u2019re part of the solu\u00adtion.&nbsp;Hyp\u00ado\u00adcrit\u00adi\u00adcal poseurs like the Weath\u00ader\u00admen were part of the prob\u00adlem.&nbsp;They should be firm\u00adly clas\u00adsi\u00adfied where they belong:&nbsp;sym\u00adbi\u00adot\u00adic part\u00adners with the mon\u00adsters who pro\u00admot\u00aded and exe\u00adcut\u00aded the Viet\u00adnam War.&nbsp;Mean\u00adwhile, all the courage of the gen\u00aduine oppo\u00adnents of the war has been for\u00adgot\u00adten. Let us hear no more non\u00adsense about these pho\u00adny creeps.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m far too irri\u00adtat\u00aded by this sil\u00adly doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary to ana\u00adlyze it dis\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adate\u00adly.&nbsp;It fool\u00adish\u00adly roman\u00adti\u00adcizes the Weath\u00ader Under\u00adground.&nbsp;Those pompous, arro\u00adgant ass\u00adholes were typ\u00adi\u00adcal exam\u00adples of spoiled-brat rich kids align\u00ading them\u00adselves with evil and mas\u00adquerad\u00ading as \u201coppo\u00adnents\u201d of the Viet\u00adnam War.&nbsp;These were&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2655\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-ds-viewing-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8613,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/8613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}