Larry is a little known figure today, but this Vietnam vet offered to infiltrate the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Weather Underground (WU) for the FBI in the late 1960s. What he subsequently found out about the WU was shocking beyond belief:
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Grathwohl ultimately blew the whistle on Ayers and Dohrn and crew in sworn testimony in the 1970s and (further) in his 1976 book, Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen, plus numerous times since. He testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 18, 1974, where he spoke at length, and under oath, about his relationship with (Bill) Ayers and (Bernardine) Dohrn, including how Dohrn personally (in Grathwohl's words) "had to plan, develop, and carry out the bombing of the [park] police station in San Francisco." In that tragic action by the Weather Underground in February 1970, a young San Francisco police officer named Brian V. McConnell was killed.
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Nonetheless, Larry Grathwohl persevered. Before the U.S. Senate, Grathwohl bravely testified to the comrades' willingness to kill innocents. He quoted Bill Ayers' thoughts during a discussion on bombing a Red Barn restaurant: "We can't protect all the innocent people in the world. Some will get killed. Some of us will get killed. We have to accept that."
For the record, Ayers and Dohrn never served a minute of jail time for any of this. They would go on to Ivy League grad programs, tenured positions in academia, books on "social justice," and, of course, giving their political blessing to Barack Obama in a chilling send-off in their Chicago living room in 1995. Today, the husband and wife are self-described "Progressives for Obama." Not a single day in prison. As Ayers later celebrated, "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!"
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Grathwohl recalled a meeting he attended with 25 leaders of the Weather Underground. At this strategy session, he pressed his comrades for some specifics as to how they planned to manage the massive social-political American reengineering project they all desired. Grathwohl recounted their response:------Quote:
I brought up the subject of what's going to happen after we take over the government. You know, [once] we become responsible for administering, you know, 250 million people. And there was no answer. No one had given any thought to economics. How are you going to clothe and feed these people?
The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans, the North Vietnamese, the Chinese, and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.
They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the "counter-revolution." And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education in the [American] Southwest, where we would take all of the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.
I asked, "Well, what is going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they'd have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say "eliminate," I mean kill 25 million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of whom have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
And they were dead serious.
The Weather Underground horde in particular was largely Maoist. Compared to Mao's death toll of 60-70 million, 25 million dead Americans was quite small actually, almost a third less than Mao's giant killing field. So, really, in the communist mind, killing only 25 million American resisters was not so big of a deal.
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