"In 1969, a radical splinter group broke off from SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), convinced that only militant action could end racism, the war in Vietnam and the inequalities they felt inherent in a capitalist society. The Weather Underground engaged in numerous bombings (and failed bombings) that landed them on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Today - in light of a new age of terrorism - former members as well as their critics look back on the ’70s and reflect on what they did and why they did it."

They were just a (big) group of young people who were terrorized by the fact that USA was having a useless war in Vietnam, killing millions of innocent people there. They wanted to bring the war back home. They felt that "living your white life, having your white family, white job in your white neighborhood and trying to ignore the fact your country is in war, THAT is violence". They were violent when needed, but against the country, not against people (after the first phase). They started bombing around the country, its various institutions, by the end of 1960s. When some of the leaders of the Black Panthers (the Black liberation party) were killed by FBI, Weathermen felt they had to go underground. Some timing for what happened. Walking after having seen the movie on the Chicago streets seems absurd. 30 years ago that was happening here? Now the country is back in war somewhere else. Where are the Weathermen of today? Is the political ideology and revolutions dead?

In the documentary they told how FBI treated the Weathermen. Not very nicely. Now FBI's site hosts a 420 pages e-book about the subject. I think it'll be something interesting to read.

The documentary contained a lot of interesting thoughts. One of the Weathermen told how in the 1950s and 60s all the tv shows and movies that were shown in the country, and that contained criminals or any criminal activities, contained police in the end. They were telling the country in continuation how it was impossible to be bad and survive with it. Being underground and acting must have been quite an adrenaline rush to those youngsters.

What is really interesting, the phenomenons like The Weathermen (or Weather Underground) or Black Panthers are completely unknown to the people outside the USA. I believe it has been USA's interest to not let them know. But the past thould be public, so the mistakes of the past can be avoided now.

Maybe some similar action would be needed (or could be going on underground) now as well. (But I don't want to talk about it in public.)