Bomaanslag op het Capitool in Washington DC

Nooit geweten dat dit gebeurd is. Wel interessant om over te lezen:

In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol
Historian William Rosenau investigates the May 19th Communist Organization in a new book about the little-known militant group


Left, part of the U.S. Capitol's north wing after a M19 bomb damaged it in 1983. Right, an image from a sympathetic pamphlet reading "Resistance is not a Crime! Stop the Political Show Trial!" showing core members of M19 (left to right, Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Susan Rosenberg, Linda Sue Evans, Marilyn Buck, Laura Whitehorn) in prison. (Images: Courtesy of William Rosenau; Alan Berkman Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library. Photo illustration by Lila Thulin)

Artikel:
https://www.smithsonianma(...)s-capitol-180973904/

1 van de leiders van deze groep, kreeg een pardon van Bill Clinton en deze mevrouw heeft vervolgens gediend als fundraiser voor BLM:

Did a ‘Convicted Terrorist’ Sit on the Board of a BLM Funding Body?
The past crimes of Susan Rosenberg reemerged in the summer of 2020, amid a new wave of protests over racial injustice and police brutality.

Claim
Susan Rosenberg is a convicted terrorist who has sat on the board of directors of Thousand Currents, an organization which handles fundraising for the Black Lives Matter Global Network.

What's True
Susan Rosenberg has served as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents, an organization that provides fundraising and fiscal sponsorship for the Black Lives Matter Global Movement. She was an active member of revolutionary left-wing movements whose illegal activities included bombing U.S. government buildings and committing armed robberies.

What's Undetermined
In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism."

Gaat verder:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/

Clinton krijgt commentaar om zijn pardon van deze mevrouw. Artikel van de NY Times:

Officials Criticize Clinton's Pardon of an Ex-Terrorist

An unusual combination of New York political and law enforcement leaders have condemned former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and two police officers dead.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, and United States Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat, were among those who criticized the pardon, as did Bernard B. Kerik, New York City's police commissioner, and David Trois, a Rockland County police union official.
''It sickened me,'' Mr. Kerik said yesterday of the pardon, one of 140 granted Saturday, the final day of Mr. Clinton's tenure.
Ms. Rosenberg served 16 years in jail after she was found with a companion in New Jersey in 1984 unloading 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, including a submachine gun, from a car. She admitted her role in the New Jersey case, in which she had planned to supply others with explosives for politically motivated bombings.

At the time of her arrest, she was wanted on charges related to the 1981 armed robbery of a Brink's armored car in Nanuet, N.Y., a holdup that was supposed to raise money for the Weather Underground and other radical groups. But Ms. Rosenberg denied any involvement in the Brink's robbery and was never tried on those charges, because Mr. Giuliani, then the United States attorney in Manhattan, indicated that given her 58-year sentence on the New Jersey weapons charges, there was no need to proceed with that case.

She requested a pardon after federal prosecutors in 1999 cited evidence of her role in the Brink's case as a reason she should not be paroled on the New Jersey charges. Because she was never tried or convicted in the Rockland County case, it was unfair to deny her parole, her lawyer, Howard Gutman, said yesterday.

''I am confident that if each of those officials learned the true facts of the case, they would applaud the decision and would be shocked that Susan was incarcerated as long as she was,'' he said, adding that Ms. Rosenberg, who is about 45, was released from federal prison on Saturday and moved to her mother's apartment in Manhattan.
Mr. Giuliani, asked yesterday if he regretted not prosecuting Ms. Rosenberg on the Brink's charges, said he could not recall the details of the case. But even if she was not tried or convicted in the case, Ms. Rosenberg did not deserve to be freed, he said. ''She was convicted of having in her possession 740 pounds of explosives, a submachine gun, weapons,'' the mayor said. ''She admitted she had these weapons to give to someone to use in a bombing, and she had been involved in a significant number of robberies, bank robberies.''

Senator Schumer said that, even 20 years after the Rockland County robbery, the hardship continues for the families of the men killed, so Ms. Rosenberg should not have been pardoned.

David Trois, president of the Rockland County Patrolman's Benevolent Association, said he remained convinced that Ms. Rosenberg played a role in the Brink's robbery and he called the pardon an insult to all police officers.
Police Commissioner Kerik had a personal connection to Ms. Rosenberg's case. As a commander in the Passaic County Sheriff's Department in the mid-1980's, he was part of the security team that accompanied Ms. Rosenberg each day to and from her trial at the federal courthouse in Newark.

https://archive.is/M7om0#selection-519.0-557.285

quote:

Op maandag 3 mei 2021 19:36 schreef Dejannn het volgende:

Een ander kopstuk van Weather Underground was Bill Ayers. Als je diens Wikipedia pagina nu bekijkt:

Bill Ayers is toch goeie vrienden met Obama?

quote:

Vergelijk dat even met pakweg James O'Keefe van Project Veritas:
[..]

Een activistische onderwijshervormer vs. een activistische, extreemrechtse provocateur die media organisaties aanvalt met bedrieglijke bewerkingstechnieken. Als je dat leest klinkt het tweede toch een stuk meer onheilspellend .

Realiteit is dus echter dat de eerste een extreemlinkse crimineel betreft die bomaanslagen heeft gepleegd en de tweede een conservatief persoon die media outlets probeert te infiltreren om misleidende journalistiek aan de kaak te stellen. Hilarisch die dubbele standaard.

Dubbele standaard, nou en of! Dit stukje van Snopes uit de OP laat dat ook goed zien:

What's Undetermined
In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism."