The SDS connection

Yeah, I know, another one of my rare posts on my blog I rarely update anymore. Either way, I had a thought. I was listening to Vicki McKenna's show here in Madison on WIBA, and she was talking with someone about apparent plans by the Students for a Democratic Society to disrupt the Republican National Convention through annoying little means.

Now, let's clarify something. This is not the SDS from the 1960s, this is the new revitalized SDS that was cobbled together in 2006 because Code Pink wasn't making enough anti-Bush noise. The original SDS fell apart in 1969, so they've been silent for decades. In other words, 2008 will be the first election the SDS will have targeted in almost 40 years. That same year, a number of the most radical members decided to go on with the fight, by any means necessary. They decided to call themselves the Weather Underground, also known as the Weathermen. One of the founders was a man named William Ayers. Maybe you've heard of him? Yeah, that Billy Ayers. The one who a certain presidential candidate holds in high regard, despite the fact that he shows no remorse whatsoever for bombing government buildings during his time with the organization.

So, now we have the revitalized SDS, showing up just in time to try to disrupt the Republican convention. This also happens to be the convention that will seal the deal on the person who will oppose, potentially, Barack Obama for the presidency...the same Barack Obama who looks up to one of the more prominent members of their original organization. A scene like Chicago '68, happening in Minnesota, quite probably would have a positive effect on Obama's campaign.

I know, when I first thought of it, I wanted to smack myself for cooking up conspiracy theories. It's just that, when most of the connections are oft-discussed public knowledge, it gets hard to shake them off as coincidence. I guess that happens when a presidential candidate's contacts include a domestic terrorist, a racial supremacist preacher, and an accused money launderer.