Urban Guerilla warfare

He had not come to San Francisco just to become a floating hippie. He had an explicit political goal, and a congressional report described it accurately when it referred to Weatherman's "intention to build a small, tough, paramilitary organization designed to carry out urban guerilla warfare to bring about the revolution."



-- Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience, pp. 215.



"He" is Jeff Jones and we've noted Thai's amazing book here before (first back in May 2005,
"Books: Five Books, Five Minutes"). As Bill Ayers embarrasses himself attempting to interest a studio in Fugitive Days, we'd suggest Jones actually has a story worth filming. It's certainly a book worth reading (we also think Ayers' book is worth reading -- but there's no movie in his cerebral passages -- deep on philosophy and short on action).



The excerpt above was chosen because it is the missing element in the garbage that passes for a discussion of Weather.