150 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography“Dig it, first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they
even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!” said Bernardine Dohrn.
This statement by Bernardine marks the maximum in subhuman degradation and degeneracy, a
level of despicable anti-human animus which can match the decadence of any World War II fascist.
Bernardine has lamely attempted to explain that this was all a metaphor, a joke. The Liberation
News correspondent of 1969 took it quite seriously, and so must we today as we look forward to
Bernardine Dohrn’s possible role in a future Obama administration.
WEATHERMAN: THE ‘WHITE DEVIL’ THEORY OF WORLD HISTORY
Bernardine functioned to all intents and purposes as the keynote speaker who set the exalted
moral tone for the rest of the speeches.
Women members of Weatherman held a panel discussion on women’s liberation. The fighting
women, “the women who can carry bombs under their dresses like in “The Battle of Algiers,”
were put forward as the only valid model for women’s liberation. Women’s liberation comes
not only with taking leadership roles and with asserting yourself politically, they said, but also
with overcoming hang-ups about violence.
In between the women’s raps, the people sang a medley of Weatherman songs, high camp
numbers such as, “I’m Dreaming of a White Riot,” “Communism Is What We Do,” and “We
Need a Red Party.” Spirited chants broke out, too: “Women power!” “Struggling power!” “Red
Army power!” “Sirhan Sirhan power!” “Charlie Manson power!” “Power to the People!” “Off
the pig!” [...]
Another speaker referred to the white women’s role as reproduced and characterized white
women who bring up children in white America as “pig mothers.”
The “crazy violent ----------” theme was picked up in a long address by “Weather Bureau”
member John Jacobs, who laid out the “White Devil” theory of all world history and traced the
history of today’s youth from the Beat Generation of the 1950s. [Here Jeremiah Wright, Father
Pfleger, Dwight Hopkins, and Otis Moss III might have felt at home.]
“We’re against everything that’s ‘good and decent,’” Jacobs declared. That notion, coupled
with the White Devil theory, formed the basis of what they call “Serve the People --------.”
Serving the people, relating to people’s needs, is a crucial factor in many people’s minds of
organizing white working people in America, so that the revolution will come as class war and
end in socialism, rather than come as race war and end in fascism. (“Weatherman Conducts a
‘War Council,’” Liberation News Service, Flint, Michigan, Dec. 31, 1969)^49
But the Weatherman perspective was precisely that there was no hope of revolution against the
financier ruling class, and that in any case race war against white blue collar workers was the thing
that was to be desired and provoked.
OBAMA’S WEATHERMAN CONNECTION: HARBINGER OF SWIFT BOATING
By spring 2008, it has been obvious for months that Obama’s close affinity with and friendship
for some of the most celebrated terrorists and murderers of recent US history was going to cause
him political problems, to say the least. As former CIA and State Department official Larry Johnson
commented, Obama was damaged goods from the moment that the average American heard about
his penchant for associating with known criminals: