(image via freerepublic, with lotsa pics of the eeeevil cops Ayers and pals murdered)

WHEN YOU SAY WE LOVE TERRORISTS, IT'S BAD.
WHEN WE SAY WE LOVE TERRORISTS, IT'S GOOD.

From the NYTimes, no less, by the author of a book on "The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies":

“The bombings that year were an expression, an act of, if not foolhardy, optimism. They were desperadoes. They had the belief that they could bomb old ideologies out of existence.”

Professor Varon said that the movements out of which groups like Mr. Melville’s emerged will always have a degree of romantic resonance with young activists.

“It’s the nature of young people,” he said. “They will always be inspired by people of intense principles. The bombers represent the extreme edge of the commitment. They will for a long time be regarded for their generational mobilization. It’s impressive to most people.”

Jonah Goldberg responds:

Um, no, no it's really not "impressive to most people." And the "romantic resonance" is overwhelmingly with young left-wing and liberal activists, despite the fact I keep hearing how mainstream liberals and Democrats don't have any affinity whatsoever with the Weather Underground and similar groups. When conservatives say (as I did in my book) that liberals, broadly speaking, have a romantic attachment to this stuff it's an outrageous slander. But when the New York Times essentially reports it as fact, it's interesting social commentary.

Oh and on that point, bonus prize for anyone who can guess whose name does not appear in the article. I'll give you a hint, he worked with the man who's currently the president of the United States.

Meanwhile, let's get back to talking about how protestors at town-hall meetings are "political terrorists."

Those beautiful, bomb-throwing, murderous flower-children! Why, they were sorta like the founding fathers of our new Totalitarian Marxist state, weren't they!? Garsh, I can't wait till there's a monument to Bill Ayers to replace the one to that evil, capitolist pig Jefferson!

Some background on our NEW CHOPE-Y founding fathers, from Hannity: