coms 573 weatherrhetoric - speaking to extremes in support of a “righteous” cause

7/25/2019 Coms 573 Weatherrhetoric - Speaking to Extremes in Support of a Righteous Cause

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weatherrhetoricspeaking to extremes in support of a righteous cause

robert e g black


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weatherrhetoricspeaking to extremes in support of a righteous cause

robert e g black


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structure of paper

part one : same rhetoric, different dayWhenever there are guns and bombs, the line narrows between politics and terror,

between rebellion and gangsterism. Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days(p. 2!"

part two : the ego-function of mind bombsWe were in communication. Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days (p. 227)

part three : what historians wont talk aboutemory is a mot!er"uc#er. Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days(p. 7)

part four : the int war council as it was...t!e e$cessive r!etoric o" revolution%two parts intellectual e$ercise, one partarmor&piercing !umor. & Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days(p. ')

part ve : from violent rhetoric to rhetorical violence*!ere+s somet!ing aout a goo- om. & Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days(p. '7)

part six : penses -on+t regret setting oms... "eel we -i-n+t -o enoug!. & Bill Ayers to /mit! (200', 1')

part seven : references ac#nowle-ge a loo- -et to all t!ose w!o travele- t!ese "ugitive roa-s wit!me an- w!ose stories +ve interprete- !ere. & Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days(p. 0)

thesis:

Weathermans rhetoric

and Weathermansbombs served the

same purpose


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DWeatherman !imeline"anuary #$%& ' D formed

"une #$%( '#ort $uron %tatement

)y December #$%( ' ##*+&& , military personnel in -ietnam

.ovember #$%+ ' "ohn /ennedy assassinated)y December #$%+ ' #%*+&& , military personnel in -ietnam

0ugust #$%1 ' 2ulf of !onkin 3esolution

)y December #$%1 ' (+*+&& , military personnel in -ietnam* (%& killed

(# February #$%4 ' 5alcolm 6 assassinated

##7#% 0ugust #$%4 ' Watts uprising

)y December #$%4 ' #81*&&& , military personnel in -ietnam* #*+&& killed

December #$%% ' D adopts slogan from protest to resistance

)y December #$%% ' +84*&&& , military personnel in -ietnam* 4*&&& killed

#% 9ctober #$% ' %top the &ra't Wee* police beat demonstrators in 9akland

(( 9ctober #$% ' 4&*&&&; protesters ring the uther /ing* "r? assassinated

% 0pril #$%8 ' #%7year7old )obby @utton Ayoungest )lack


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Weatherman took its name from a line in

)ob Dylans ubterranean @omesick )lues


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aim of my research

demonstrate that Weathermans bombs and

Weathermans words were one and the same

outwardly

De>ucas A#$$$B image event E mind

bomb

inwardly

>akes A#$8+B constitutive function and

2reggs A#$#B ego7function of protest

rhetoric


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aim of my research



outwardly

De>ucas A#$$$B image event E mindbomb

inwardly



rhetoric


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aim of my research



outwardly

De>ucas A#$$$B image event E mindbomb

inwardly



rhetoric ego7formation

ego7denial

ego7maintenance


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8-11 October 1969 Days of Rage protest in Chicago

1 December #$%$ ' Fred @ampton and 5ark =lark assassinated

(7+& December #$%$ ' Flint War ouncil

)y December #$%$ ' 14*&&& , military personnel in -ietnam* $*1&& killed in #$%$ alone


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8-11 October 1969 Days of Rage protest in Chicago


(7+& December #$%$ ' Flint War ouncil



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87## 9ctober #$%$ '&ays o' )ageprotest in =hicago


27-3 !ecember 1969 "#int War Council


Dig itG First they killed those

pigs* then they ate dinner in

the same room with them?

!hey even shoved a fork into

the victims stomachG WildG


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Former undercover F)C 0gent >arry 2rathwohl

on Weatherman at its most extreme:

BLOOD

TO THE

HORSESBROW,

AND WOE

TO


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% 5arch #$&


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!hree of its membersdeadHthis was

Weathermans

gutcheck


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(# 5ay #$& '

Weatherman issues its

first communi/u0'

0 Declaration of a tate

of War


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10 May 1970 ! February1977 Weatherman isresponsible "or any#here

"rom 1$ to %$ bombings& noone is 'illed


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example of communiIuJEbombing pairing:

capitol building* (8 February #$#

!he .ixon regime is now attempting the

brutal conIuest of yet another nation in

Cndochina? >ies about the war winding

down cannot hide the criminal invasionof >aosK

We have attacked the =apitol because it

is* along with the White @ouse and the


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