Bringing Down America: A Review

BRINGING DOWN AMERICA: An FBI Informant with the Weathermen, by Larry Grathwohl and Frank Reagan, originally published in 1976, is being reintroduced in 2013. Its introduction is written by Dr. Tina Trent. During a dangerously volatile period of domestic terrorism, young anarchists were plotting the upending of America. In the vanguard stood the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers. Implanted in 1969 in the heart of a revolutionary movement, Larry Grathwohl, a 22-year-old Vietnam vet, found himself acting as an FBI informant. Inserted into the Weather Underground organization under deep cover, he became privy to their terror plots as well as the leadership's "reasoning". It is this facet which still resonates today. BRINGING DOWN AMERICA is a gripping tale of plots and subplots, each one aimed at "the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie [and] the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat", as Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Jeff Jones exhorted in their 1974 manifesto, "Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism." The subtext of this gripping memoir is brought to the fore in Chapter 14: "The Cover Is Blown:"

Once in the van we drove around the city... while we were driving Maynard & Green (my FBI handlers) began telling me about the mystery man waiting for me. He was an Arab guerrilla. My meeting was to be in strict confidence. They refused to tell me why he was in the country, how he got in, obviously he was working for the U.S.... The implication was very clear. The FBI understood that the Weathermen were deepening their foreign ties. It was inevitable that Arab terror contacts would be made. Thus, Ali Baba, an Arab informant, was sending a warning to Larry: having him as a "go-between" would mitigate any hesitation to cooperate with the Weathermen, in effect, keeping the FBI one step ahead. Not only that, Ali Baba issued other warnings to Larry: "the Arabs plan to strike at the next Olympic games in 1972 [reviewer's note: and they made good on their threat] and there is talk of doing something at the World's Fair in Spokane in 1974." For the record, El (Al) Fatah was the referenced Arab guerrilla group. Yes, the very same terror outfit spawned by the godfather of suicide terror, "Chairman" Yasir Arafat, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. In tandem, the Weathermen conspired with the KGB and attendant communist regimes. The war being waged against the U.S. by the radical left and Islamist jihadis is premised on the U.S. as the Western spear and Israel as its twin "imperialistic" cousin. It has been playing out for decades, in one form or another. Nothing has changed other than the fact that many escaped justice and are entering their senior years. Despite their advancing age, they are as dangerous as ever -- perhaps more so. Bill Ayers, the foremost leader of the Weathermen "is in his third decade as a national leader in the movement to radicalize the educational training of schoolteachers". His wife, Bernardine Dohrn, a top leader too "is a professor of law at Northwestern and a high-ranking officer in the American Bar Association." Eleanor Raskin (ne Stein) "is a law professor at S.U.N.Y Albany and, astonishingly, a NYS administrative law judge". Jeff Jones "currently heads the New York-based Apollo Alliance, a highly influential coalition of labor leaders and environmentalists, and was responsible for drafting President Obama's 2009 Recovery Act." The list of "respectable" cover, of other "notables" in the Weathermen, is equally impressive. Through a stringently planned operational "stealth jihad", yesteryear's Weathermen have returned, fully primed to carry out their original goal -- the "transformation" of Amerika. Most significantly, they subvert the national interest from a distinctly dangerous vantage point. They are currently ensconced in some of the most powerful positions in academia and political life. The only difference is, this time they are dressed in "capitalist" garb, not only in their clothing choices, but in the wealth they have accumulated, paradoxically, through joining the "establishment". Who said one can't enrich oneself, but at the same time deny the masses/proletariat said wealth potential? Highly dangerous in their bomb-making days, their capacity to cripple America, sans firing actual weaponry is that much greater at this critical juncture in time. Deeply involved in the "transformation" process, as promised by President Obama, many of them working inside the executive branch, while others operate through progressive think tanks, they want nothing more than to distance themselves from their bloody past. Therefore, an omerta has descended from the denizens of the leftist media and their powerful organs. So the timing of this book release couldn't be more prescient. Although the mainstream media will surely attempt to shield the aforementioned from the facts borne out by the record, they are nothing more than "koshered" domestic terrorists. Many westerners believe that history is behind them and therefore has no relevance to their lives. Nothing could be further removed from reality, or more deadly. In this regard, stepping back in time to the late 1960s and into the 1970s couldn't be more imperative or instructive. BRINGING DOWN AMERICA can be ordered as an e-book from Amazon.com or from Bringingdownamerican.com