Left-wing campus embraces unapologetic, murdering peacenik bomber
Nope, not Bill Ayers.
Meet Karl Armstrong. Via the Wisconsin State Journal (hat tip-reader Gregor):
The bombing of Sterling Hall on the UW-Madison campus by anti-war radicals in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1970 has a peculiar hold on Madison even 40 years later, in part because of the many lives that were changed by the blast — most notably the lives of Robert Fassnacht, the researcher killed in the explosion, and his family.
Here’s a look at what has happened to others involved in that history-changing moment.
Bomber: Karleton Armstrong
From his juice stand on Library Mall, Karleton Armstrong will hand you a strawberry smoothie and you might never know he was responsible for bombing Sterling Hall 40 years ago.
For the past 30 years, he has lived in Madison as a respectable businessman, the proprietor of Loose Juice, and before that, the popular sandwich shop Radical Rye.
Watch this video for more praise and paeans to Armstrong as he blithely makes smoothies on campus — and brags that the murderous attack was “the right thing to do.”
Another of the left-wingers bombers that day, Leo Burt, remains on the loose. Armstrong has called for the government to grant Burt amnesty because, he says, being on the run, has been “punishment enough.”
Tell that to the surviving wife and three children of Robert Fassnacht, the 33-year-old scientist killed in the bombing.
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yaaawn….and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
It would really be news if a left-wing campus publically rejected, renounced and condemned such a person, otherwise it is, sadly, expected behavior.
Violence perpetrated by Leftists (in this case, anti-war) people is romanticized by others on the Left; these people are just “fighting the power”, “sticking it to The Man”, “speaking truth to power”, pick your cliche.
It’s nauseating but not surprising.
The sixties started the decline of a nation of laws in favor a nation of men. Most young people in the US get fed the glamourized version of events from their teachers who leavce out the part of how they were trying to overthrow our democratic republic in favor of a communist state. I have zero tolerance for these a-holes and jail is too good for them. Just as today, if you want to PEACEFULLY protest something, fine you have that constitutionally guaranteed right. As soon as the first hint of violence shows up, shut it down, hard. What they want is revolution and revolution always ends in violent purges. Since the violence can not be avoided I would rather it be them instead of us. Principles mean squat when you are facing the business end of a firing squad.
anyone who speaks to, or buys anything from, this drek is saying ‘it’s ok, do you need some money for your next project, snookums?’
I feel the same about his customers as I do him.
So let me get this straight, the US government can’t decide who to kill, but this bozo can?
Dwight Armstrong died of cancer a couple of months ago
He did more time for the meth lab he ran in Californa then for the murder he had done 4 years for meth 3 for murder. It was an outrage, a disgrace, that this nation had come to put such a cheep price for the life of a father
Message to Leo Burt:
“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”
Never forget; never surrender.
While, at the same time, teach about and deglamorize our own founding fathers and our historic national heroes as self-centered, greedy, bigoted degenerates.
That’s what I’ve been doing wrong. I have been looking for a job by submitting resumes I should have been blowing up college campuses.
The FBI should review all resumes submitted with job applications to the Obama administration that listed Ayers, Dohrn, Davis, or Cleaver as references.
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WRITE A BIGGER BOOK.
When Fox News ran down Bill Ayers on his way home and caught up with him on his doorstep, he was wearing a black t-shirt with a big, red commie star on the front. I could not believe for the life of me why not one person remarked on this…
GJ: Not so fast! You must only blow up the correct campuses and make certain that only serious scholars are hurt. You must make certain to NOT harm any minority studies programs, that the GLBT (and whatever other initial they manage to tack on to their little group) doesn’t even HEAR the explosion and, of course, the womyn’s programs must be assured their profs and students are kept safe!
With those qualifiers in place, good luck on your job-hunt!
You’re going to need a bigger boat!
Birds of a feather…..Ayers, his radical wife (Dworken?), and guys like Armstrong figure out how to get around the law by having crooked politicians get them off. Another good reason to avoid liberals and their radical ideas like the plague. I agree with Spaceycakes – don’t support this guy in any way.
In the modern spirit of reaching out to grieving family members, perhaps he should open a smoothie shop as close to Robert Fassnacht’s grave as his constitutional rights allow and call it something appropriate like “Ha Ha Bobby!”
Only bigots would try to block him.
yes, Phil. That’s what bigots do.
Graveside Smoothies.
awesome.
Since Armstrong is a capitalist now, he won’t mind if someone caps him and suggests as justification that “It was the right thing to do.”
My sentiments also. Add Ayers and the rest of these aging idiots. I happen to be of their generation; I was at Madison in ’63-’64 before it was overtly communist, but if I had known then what I learned later I’m afraid I’d be behind bars for induced lead poisoning.
But first, I think they have a video-taped speech from Mumia Abu-Jamal to go listen to…
Seriously, these people couldn’t give a damn about the victims of their “heroes.” You can always tell a liberal, he’s the one who witnesses a vicious mugging and then afterward runs up to the bleeding victim saying, “Wow, you must have done something really bad to have made him so mad at you.”
On August 23rd, 2010 at 12:37 pm, Regulus said:
Seriously, these people couldn’t give a damn about the victims of their “heroes.” You can always tell a liberal, he’s the one who witnesses a vicious mugging and then afterward runs up to the bleeding victim saying, “Wow, you must have done something really bad to have made him so mad at you.”
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Spot-on. Whether it’s a crime against an individual or an attack on our country, the answer of the Left is always “what did YOU do?”. The victim is always somehow to blame, never the perpetrator.
gee, what’s it take to get shunned nowadays? Moral relativism at it’s epitome!
Ever notice we hear so little about the victims of lefty terror, whether it’s the woman killed in a bank robbery by the SLA or the security guard killed by the pals of Ayers/Dohrn or the poor man killed in this case? Instead we get soft focus profiles of these murderers. Yeah, weren’t those crazy hippie days fun?
I hate to sound like a progressive, but a big reason why these people get a pass from the media isn’t just ideology, but class and race as well. These ’60s radicals were white, upper-middle class kids like most reporters, editors, and producers. The media might romanticize the Black Panthers, but not to the degree that they do the Weather Underground or its ilk. Nor is it quite as sympathetic.
Most of the victims of leftist violence are “regular” people or authority figures like cops, not part of the ruling class. The only one who ever got sympathy was media heiress Patty Hearst, and even she did a few turns as Tanya The Bank Robber.
The dimpled darlings of the heroes of WW2 were far too important to go to that illegal war in asia, so they became bombers, flag burners, criminals fleeing to Canada, and draft dodgers. So now these self same (_*_)s are business owners, Presidents, congresscritters, news media bigshots, and all because they were TOO IMPORTANT TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY AS MERE SOLDIERS. Every time I hear one of these yellow a$$ed punks talk, I want to puke.
I’m not disagreeing, but I really wonder how many of these punks were actually sons and daughters of heroes in WWII. I guess you could say anyone who served during the war was doing their bit for the country, but I don’t think you can classify all of them as heroes. I really don’t have a clue as to the family backgrounds of Ayers, or this guy in Madison, or the Black Panthers, or the SLA, SDS, (continue with 1960′s alphabet soup), etc.
I would love to go there, buy a smoothie from him, take a mouthful and spit it in his face. Well, I would like to do more than that, but I am sure it would get me decades more jail time than he ever did.
Looking back over my life, I really wish that I went to college. I would have liked to obtain a degree from a private institution that does not rely upon state or federal funding, but I just could not afford it.
We are funding our own demise by pouring tax dollars into Universities.
Heck, I’m surprised he’s not a tenured professor somewhere! He must not have been connected to the right Marxist network!
Madison, Wisconsin: 62 square miles surrounded by reality.
Yeah, but I really think reality should invade these pretenders. This is just a small version of San Francisco. Most of Wisconsin doesn’t agree with the leftists that think that this is their playground. I also can’t believe that Texans put up with the commies who occupy Austin. Whassup wif dat?
I sincerely hope someone bombs his juice stand.
LOL
I thought graveside smoothies were like Will Ferrell’s character in the Wedding Crashers where he hits on hot chicks at funerals?
MOM! Meatloaf! F*$#!
The thing you have to understand about the University of Wisconsin system is that it is loaded with corruption and scandal.
It does not surprise me at all that students in the UW-system support terrorism. The students at UW institutions from River Falls to Green Bay are brainwashed with surprising ease. But when you consider that many of them are MN reciprocity students and the clueless youth of the Upper Midwest who think that things like “Minnesota Nice” means brownosing everyone who is not a white male conservative, it really is not that surprising.
I also want to know why the AP didn’t do a video interview with Timothy McVeigh. To me, that’s intolerant and xenophobic on their part.
All in all, its’ just another reason why some parts of America along with Australia, Canada, Japan and Europe will die out as world-leading civilizations.
Not that anyone cares, of course, as we all know that Vietnam protests were not about “peace”. They were about a bunch of frightened hippies whose glorious democrat leaders started a war they didn’t have the guts to finish and when it came time to serve their great government, it meant an enormous personal sacrifice and we all know that liberal hippies will refuse to give anything of themselves for anyone else.