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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
No. The Weathermen planted bombs that destroyed government property. Those bombs caused precisely ZERO casualties -- nobody was killed, nobody was hurt. They made sure of that. Destruction of property is vandalism, and vandalism is exactly the word to apply to it.
It's a crime, to be sure. I don't approve of it. But it was blown entirely out of proportion by the government at the time, and it's obvious why: because it was done in opposition to the war. The same thing, done by some loony for purely personal reasons, would not have provoked the same response.
It's being blown out of proportion on this forum, too.
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Ayers and his cohorts didn't decide to avoid hurting people until after three of their members blew themselves up my mistake. Prior to that, the intention was to kill as many as they could.
So, by your logic, if Timothy McVeigh had made a conscience choice to avoid injury or death of people by issuing a warning and exploding the bomb at night, it would have been OK. Nothing serious since no one got hurt. Is that your position?