Once Richard Nixon was elected president and was inaugurated in January 1969, we were targeted, bam, bam, bam, by a very sophisticated, advanced, counterintelligence program, at the same time, by very crude and violent police. ibid. Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party
This pattern of harassment is going on against the Black Panther Party across the country. On Friday, the Watts office of the Black Panther Party was bombed and demolished. Last week the Des Moines office was bombed. They can’t stop anything we’re doing as a legitimate political organization so they come in and shoot us and shoot tear-gas in our office and drag people off to jail like they’ve lost their minds. ibid.
December 1969: the month Brad Hampton was killed was a moment of intense violence and despair in America. ibid.
All guilty. All Americans were legitimate targets for attack. We wanted this country to taste a little bit of what it had been dishing out ... I cherished my hate as a badge of moral superiority. ibid. Weatherwoman
During the early 1970s there was a strong radical prison movement in the United States. ibid.
The Underground Weatherman organisation claimed responsibility for the San Francisco and the Sacramento bombings. ibid.
One of the group’s most high-profile actions was helping the counter-culture hero Timothy Leary escape from a Californian prison. ibid.
The Third World War has begun. Join us in the fight for freedom. ibid. Timothy Leary
Weather Underground Splits Up Over Plan to Come into the Open. ibid. The New York Times article
I think that part of the Weatherman phenomenon that was right was our understanding of what the position of the United States is in the world. It was this knowledge that we just couldn’t handle; it was too big. We didn’t know what to do. In a way I still don’t know what to do with this knowledge. I don’t know what needs to be done now, and it’s still eating away at me just as it did thirty years ago. ibid. Mark Rudd
But at 1.28 p.m. on that March 12th, a new and most sinister element joined the merry pandemonium: the roar of half a ton of the world’s most powerful explosive. RDX, ripping up from the underground garage of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), and into the pit where traders were just preparing for the lunch bell. Misha Glenny, McMafia
Over the next two hours, a further seven bombs went off at crowded locations throughout the city, while grenades were thrown in another two places by men on motorcycles. ibid.
Even a legend can go too far … A man in his position has to worry as much about his friends as his enemies. Nighthawks 1981 starring Sylvester Stallone & Billy Dee Williams & Lindsay Wagner & Persis Khambatta & Nigel Davenport & Hilarie Thompson & Rutger Hauer & et al, director, English rozzer
I do not enjoy killing. But it’s my job. Someone has to do it … I’m a liberator. ibid. terrorist to Stalone
It’s a great gambit to tell the people you have an external enemy. The external enemy is terrorism. We have a war that will go on for centuries. Erica Jong, author Seducing the Demon
On a July afternoon in 1964 John Harris walked into Johannesburg airport, placed a suitcase packed with dynamite and petrol on the concourse and then left. Until that moment he was viewed as a prominent and peaceful opponent of Apartheid ... It led to his own execution. Secret History s16e9: The Good Terrorist, Channel 4 2016
The state’s continuing brutality inspired a group of white South Africans to adopt violence. Their organisation became known as the Africa Resistance Movement, or ARM. ibid.
‘Terrorism’ is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence – our violence – which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously. Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It has become a full stop, a punctuation mark, a phrase, a speech, a sermon, the be-all and end-all of everything that we must hate in order to ignore injustice and occupation and murder on a mass scale. Terror, terror, terror, terror. It is a sonata, a symphony, an orchestra tuned to every television and radio station and news agency report, the soap-opera of the Devil, served up on prime-time or distilled in wearyingly dull and mendacious form by the right-wing ‘commentators’ of the American east coast or the Jerusalem Post or the intellectuals of Europe. Strike against Terror. Victory over Terror. War on Terror. Everlasting War on Terror. Rarely in history have soldiers and journalists and presidents and kings aligned themselves in such thoughtless, unquestioning ranks. In August 1914, the soldiers thought they would be home by Christmas. Today, we are fighting for ever. The war is eternal. The enemy is eternal, his face changing on our screens. Once he lived in Cairo and sported a moustache and nationalised the Suez Canal. Then he lived in Tripoli and wore a ridiculous military uniform and helped the IRA and bombed American bars in Berlin. Then he wore a Muslim Imam’s gown and ate yoghurt in Tehran and planned Islamic revolution. Then he wore a white gown and lived in a cave in Afghanistan and then he wore another silly moustache and resided in a series of palaces around Baghdad. Terror, terror, terror. Finally, he wore a kuffiah headdress and outdated Soviet-style military fatigues, his name was Yassir Arafat, and he was the master of world terror and then a super-statesman and then again, a master of terror, linked by Israeli enemies to the terror-Meister of them all, the one who lived in the Afghan cave. Robert Fisk
Terror terror terror … you’re getting it, aren’t you? I have it written down here sixty times but you know the rest. We are in love with the word. We are seduced by it, fixated by it, attacked by it, assaulted by it, raped by it and committed to it. It is love and sadism and death in one double-vowelled word. The opening of every television symphony, the prime-time theme song, the headline of every page, a punctuation mark in our journalism, a semicolon, a comma, our most powerful full stop. Terror terror terror … Robert Fisk, cited This is Not a Movie, 2018
In September 2004 terrorists stormed a school in Beslam. Over 300 died, more than half were children. Dispatches: Beslan, Channel 4 2006
To bring Chechnya’s war to School #1. ibid.
The explosives were in the gym where most of the people were held. ibid.
With this warning, all shooting from the outside stopped. ibid.
Basayev, who else? Mastermind of the hospital siege, mastermind of the theatre siege, and again the inevitable demand. ibid.
When the government fights terror it should have just one purpose: the safety of the British people. This film will show how Tony Blair has used terror for his own political advantage. Even as the bodies were being pulled from the wreckage of the London bombings the authorities were started to spin. Dispatches: Spinning Terror, Channel 4 2006
Tony Blair and his ministers have not always told us the truth about terror. ibid.
Another Blair proposal brought even greater controversy. Tear up Habeas Corpus, Britain’s most fundamental civil right, and let the police retain terror suspects for ninety days without charging them with an offence. ibid.
The government had misled us about the very nature of the threat we face … Almost everything Colin Powell said and Tony Blair supported was wrong; no Al Qaeda factory was ever found in Iraq. ibid.
The Ricin trial provides powerful evidence of why government ministers have deceived the British people over terror. ibid.
Inside the secretive world of Britain’s far right: a plot to commit murder foiled by one man. The extremist turned informant. In court a right-wing extremist is convicted of a plot to kill, and two others are found guilty of being members of the banned terrorist group National Action. Dispatches: Plot to Kill: Britain’s Neo-Nazi Terrorists, Channel 4 2018
The insider who prevented the murder of a police officer and a politician. ibid.
National Action called for the extermination of Jews, ridding the country of non-whites and idolising the man who killed MP Jo Cox. ibid.
Unsolved, unresolved, terrible crimes from the Troubles in Northern Island. But these are no ordinary killings: this is the story of why the State is accused of standing in the way of truth and justice; it’s a story of how the State helped and protected killers, killers of innocent people. Panorama, Britain’s Secret Terror Deals, BBC 2015
There were murderers on the government’s payroll. ibid.
The police wouldn’t release crucial intelligence files; in fact, the police refused to hand over evidence to the Ombudsman in a total of sixty murders. All the killings had one thing in common: the State has been accused of involvement. ibid.
Five days ago terror came here to the heart of London killing and maiming indiscriminately. At 2.39 last Wednesday afternoon Khalid Masood was seemingly just another London motorist. Seconds later he was a killer driving his rented car on to the pavement plowing into pedestrians on one of London’s busiest bridges. Panorama, Westminster Terror Attack, BBC 2017
Around fifty people had been hit by Masood’s car. Some had catastrophic injuries. ibid.
In 2003 he was in prison again for stabbing another man in the face outside this care home in Eastbourne. ibid.