TIM RICHARDSON -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 TR> On 04-30-08, MIMI GALLANDT said to ALL:


 MG>> In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was
 MG>> presiding over the trial of the so-called "Panther
21," members of the
 MG>> Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and
 MG>> department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family
 MG>> slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the
 MG>> northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked
 MG>> neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we'd
 TR> call
 MG>> that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the
 MG>> remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse
 TR> the
 MG>> flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully
 TR> appreciated
 MG>> only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night.


 TR> I remember that. I was living in New York state at the time, hadn't been
 TR> out
 TR> of the Army long, and sometime around that incident there was an attempt to
 TR> blow up the federal court building in my hometown one night.


 TR> The explosion did heavy damage to the building, but the charges were set
 TR> wrong and the expected result didn't come to pass. It was thought that the
 TR> regular police patrols might have disturbed the bombers, and they didn't
 TR> get
 TR> a chance to set the charge the way they intended.

If insurrectionists gave awards for excellent bombing activities the
Weathermen wouldn't have won any. (Baruch Hashem!)

and yet the Obamites don't see anything wrong with having terrorists
hanging out with, fund raising for, etc, *THEIR* mesiah. Can you imagine
the uproar if McCain had a relationship with the Unabomber or Eric Rudolph?

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

fcpnmimi(at)cox.net


"A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard,
or reserve is someone who, at one point in his or her life,
wrote a blank check made payable to The "United States of America",
for an amount of "up to and including my life."

That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country
who no longer understand it.

- Author Unknown

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